Jay Kalbach
Spring City,PA
Summary
Dynamic Director oversees every facet of production with strong project management and decision-making skills. Brings comprehensive knowledge of Agile Kanban and other software development methodology to drive better quality and higher predictable outcomes. Skilled at coordinating production plans and personnel resources to complete work under tight deadlines.
Overview
26
26
years of professional experience
Work History
Director HealtheIntent Development
Oracle Health
10.2019 - Current
- Built 30 member team to deliver net new HealtheIntent solution with partner team for clinical outreach
- Developed and implemented large scale implementation plans to coordinate releases across 10 teams to meet roadmap commitments for partner.
- Responsible for partner relationship as technical liaison to collaborate with teams, understand requirements and work to prioritize changes throughout the organization.
- Direct planning and execution responsibilities of HealtheIntent software releases across a global organization. Own prioritization of solutions, planning for global staffing, execution strategies to meet desired business needs.
- Responsible for the SDLC of HCC Diagnosis Insights application team supporting over 70 clients across the country.
- Led initiatives to reduce operational costs for team by 30% in six month time frame.
- Successfully delivered critical HCC projects through collaboration and incremental deployments of the workflows in order to meet client needs.
- Collaborated with senior leadership across the Cerner enterprise to coordinate and plan the rollout of new product workflow on HealtheIntent Platform to twelve clients within the first year of launch.
- Coach teams using Agile principals resulting creating self-empowered teams that deliver high quality solutions.
- Developed high-performing teams by providing mentorship, guidance, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Enhanced team collaboration through regular communication, goal setting, and performance evaluations.
Director Clinical Solutions
Cerner
04.2017 - 10.2019
- Member of Program Core Team responsible for logistical management of the Soarian Clinical program across over 400 employees in four sites worldwide.
- Responsible for technical strategy leading the adoption of new third party software into the Soarian Clinical solutions.
- Collaborated closely with stakeholders across Cerner on how technical enhancements will be introduced and deployed with the Soarian Clinical Solution.
- Led cross continent development team strategy for HTML5 adoption in Soarian Clinicals applications
- Manage technical enhancement backlog, responsible for prioritization and execution of new capabilities into the clinicals solution.
MANAGER LEAD Engineeering Manager
Cerner
02.2015 - 04.2017
- Managed over 52 software engineers. Provided guidance, training, and mentoring to team members. Established SW coding standards, design standard for software engineering division.
- Responsible for technical and functional development teams within Soarian Clinical with 52 global employees and seven managers in my span of control.
- Drove multi-site project with over 52 employees to a successful delivery
- Worked cross continent issues while building strong teamwork across development teams
- Enhanced customer satisfaction by resolving disputes promptly, maintaining open lines of communication, and ensuring high-quality service delivery.
Sr. Manager, Engineering
Siemens Medical solutions
10.2007 - 02.2015
- Responsible for managing several different Module teams (Document Management, Critical Care, Nursing, Dashboard)
- Project management of several simultaneous projects throughout the solution life cycle
- Worked closely with team members to align career goals with business objectives
- Lead several critical clients support issues communicating issue status and setting client expectations throughout the resolution of the issue
- Helped lead the adoption of Kanban process within the Siemens Development organization across solutions
- Communicated and collaborated with organizations outside of development for rollout of new features
- Managed travel budget for organization for 18 months improving the reconciliation process for transparency and alignment.
Staff software Engineer
SIEMENS MEDICAL SOLUTIONS (formerly Shared Medical SOLUTIONS)
03.1998 - 10.2007
- During this time, I was promoted from level one software engineer to level four software engineer
- Responsible for the output management component that was built and deployed in the Soarian suite of applications
- Analyzed, designed, coded and tested several enhancements in C++, Java, HTML, and Javascript
- Designed and maintained databases changes for enhancements in SQL Server
- Was acting Scrum Master for the team for 2 years driving agile adoption on team
- Worked closely with support and clients to troubleshoot and resolve critical escalated issues.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Information Science
Hartwick College
05.1997
Skills
- Strategic Planning
- Verbal and written communication
- People Management
- Operations Management
- Project Management
- Team Management
- Project Coordination
- Program Management
- Hiring and Retention
Leadership Experience
- Leadership as a Program Director for a cross global project/initiatives of over 400 associates.
- Team management across several software development teams
- Building successful teams in the United States and across the globe
- Led global teams through complex software development projects with on-time deliveries and creative software solutions; achieving desired business outcomes. These outcomes included multiple large projects to meet Meaningful Use regulations defined by the government
- First to implement separate agile development processes, Scrum and Kanban, as a prototype that resulted in the entire organization of over 500 resources adopting Scrum, then Kanban
- Led a team of approximately 30 scrum masters to adopt best Kanban practices with a goal of improved engagement, software quality and predictably of outcomes. The results were standardized reporting, a 10% improvement on flow efficiency/productivity, and a greater than 30% reduction in issues per new feature discovered at our clients
- Use metrics to answer key questions on work force productivity for purposes of measuring outcomes and guiding future state decisions
- Implemented innovative software solutions using Cloud Technologies and Agile Development methodologies
- Leveraged a data driven approach to improve team operation efficiency that lead to a reduction in overall incoming issues by 30%.
Timeline
Director HealtheIntent Development
Oracle Health
10.2019 - Current
Director Clinical Solutions
Cerner
04.2017 - 10.2019
MANAGER LEAD Engineeering Manager
Cerner
02.2015 - 04.2017
Sr. Manager, Engineering
Siemens Medical solutions
10.2007 - 02.2015
Staff software Engineer
SIEMENS MEDICAL SOLUTIONS (formerly Shared Medical SOLUTIONS)
03.1998 - 10.2007
Bachelor of Science - Information Science
Hartwick College