TERRY J. VIRDELL

[Strategic Compliance & Architecture]

• Fractional Leadership: Providing senior technical auditing for HealthTech startups, ensuring readiness for HTI-1, USCDI v3, and Series A/B diligence.
• Regulatory Engineering: Bridging the gap between legal mandates and engineering reality. Audit ETL pipelines and FHIR resources to ensure compliance with CMS Interoperability and HIPAA/Privacy rules.

[Technical Execution & Prototyping]

• Rapid Prototyping: Sole architect for AI-driven automation platforms, writing 100% of the codebase using Python, React, and GCP. Utilizing LLMs (Gemini/Claude) to accelerate development cycles.
• Privacy Engineering: Architecting "Zero-Trust" privacy pipelines using automated de-identification logic to protect PHI in cloud environments (AWS/Azure).

[Strategic Leadership & Culture]

• Startup Leadership: Spearheaded the foundational development of QA/Automation as a founding leader. Established the "QA Guild" to drive organizational best practices and mentored junior engineers on SDLC standards.
• KPIs & OKRs: Defined engineering OKRs and managed technical debt, leading cross-functional squads to deliver APIs for major payers (Premera, Providence).
• Remote Leadership: Managed distributed, remote-first engineering teams, fostering a culture of inclusivity and transparency.

[Technical Execution & Automation]

• Cloud-First Architecture: Architected a cloud-based automation framework using Python and Databricks. Bypassed UI layers to validate data ingestion directly in the cloud data lake (AWS/Azure).
• Healthcare Interoperability: Engineered validation strategies for FHIR-compliant ETL pipelines, verifying Member Attribution lists and CMS-9115 compliance using SMART on FHIR and OAuth 2.0.
• Data Privacy: Solved critical HIPAA/Governance challenges by writing Python scripts to generate synthetic, anonymized data sets, ensuring SOC2 compliance without exposing PHI.

[Financial & Operational Oversight]

• Budget Management: Directed a department of 30+ staff and managed operational budgets, achieving a $2.5M cost reduction through strategic vendor consolidation and contract negotiation.
• High Retention: Maintained a 98% staff retention rate by prioritizing mentorship, professional development, and "leading with heart."

[Enterprise Scale & Compliance]

• Scale: Led E2E EHR & EMR testing automation for 50k+ manual testing hours, validating 20M+ unique healthcare records across patient and member domains.
• Defect Prevention: Architected Defect Prevention Governance that secured $13M in annual cost avoidance, ensuring zero critical defects escaped to production over a 10-year period.
• [Organizational Change]
• Digital Transformation: Catalyzed organizational evolution by developing and delivering technical training to 1,300+ staff, elevating IT maturity levels and standardizing ISTQB best practices.
• Accessibility: Pioneered the enterprise policy and steering committee for 508 Compliance, deploying automated tools to ensure accessibility for all users.

[Financial & Operational Governance]

• Budget & Resource Management: Orchestrated fiscal oversight for a $2.4M annual budget, guiding a geographically dispersed (remote/onsite) team of 27 staff.
• Cost Avoidance Strategy: Directed execution of 225+ annual projects, contributing net savings of $13M annually by preemptively identifying critical data and hardware defects before production.

[Enterprise Automation & Scale]

• Automation ROI: Pioneered a cost-saving test automation program, generating over $4.1M annually in savings by implementing advanced automation practices, reproducible test data, and standardized hardware testing.
• Delivery Excellence: Boosted project completion rates on schedule and virtually eliminated major disruptions by standardizing QA protocols as the backbone for all test-managed projects.

[Strategic Leadership & Process Standardization]

• Process Governance: Managed a team of five Business Process Managers (BPMs), supervising the standardization of QA templates and best practices across portfolio-managed projects.
• Industry Thought Leadership: Selected to present internally developed ICD-10 automation solutions at the Epic User Group Meeting (UGM), generating adoption interest from peer health systems including Mayo Clinic and Sutter Health.

[Data Interoperability & Automation Scale]

• Claims Data Integrity (EDI): Led the ICD-10 Lifecycle Testing (End-to-End), validating Epic EMR and 18 satellite billing systems. Ensured compliant transmission of EDI 837 (Claims) and EDI 835 (Remittance) messages.
• Automation ROI: Automated workflows producing over 10,000 test cases, saving 20,000+ manual testing hours and preventing revenue loss.

[Clinical Data Logic & Patient Safety Impact]

• Life-Critical Logic: Developed and validated the first-ever automated near real-time alerting for Sepsis Scoring, MEWS, and CAUTI/CLBSI tracking.
• Interoperability: Consolidated disparate data streams from Meditech and HL7 feeds into Amalga 2.x to standardize these alerts. This logic is now standard in Epic EMR, saving hundreds of lives daily.

[Technical Engineering]

• ETL Validation: Partnered with developers to validate C# code and Amalga ETL/queue/parser output.
• Synthetic Data: Built automated test solutions with derived synthetic data to simulate complex patient scenarios without exposing PHI.