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My career began with American Express Healthcare.
I went to work for American Express Health care systems in 1992 right
out of CPT (Computer Programmer Training). My first assignment was
to move to
St. Louis,
MO
for six months to learn a programming language call "CYBOS” which
was a derivative of the programming language “
FORTH
". I learned this language so I could make year 2000 code
updates, government required updates, software bugs fixes, and do
maintenance programming for a product known as IHS. I worked
primarily as a billing system maintenance programmer but also worked on
the IHS ADT system.
While I was in St. Louis, MO. American Express
Healthcare split off from the parent company American Express to form a
new company called First Data. The work I was doing did not
change, just the name of the company. I moved back to NC in April
of 1992 and began working on the IHS system as a
programmer/analyst.
I worked about eighteen months and was transferred
with a small group of people to a product called PCM. This
was a COBOL based hospital application that ran on Tandem hardware.
I worked on year 2000 code updates, government required updates,
software bugs fixes, and maintenance programming for the PCM pharmacy
application.
I stayed with the PCM product until 1995.
First Data merged with HBOC. I
then quit HBOC and went to work for Food Lion as a COBOL programmer/analyst.
This job change was so I could work closer to home. I was
commuting about 45 miles to work one way. I only stayed at Food
Lion about a year and then went to work at
Lexington
Memorial
Hospital
as an interface programmer/analyst.
I stayed at the hospital for about a year and
decided that I liked working for HBOC and went back in 1997.
My hire date was adjusted back to 1992 so that is why my time
with McKesson is on my resume as 15 years but I had two different jobs
during the same time period. I just wanted to make that clear
because it looks confusing on my resume. The company was called
McKesson-HBOC when I went back the second time but eventually the HBOC part of the name
was dropped and the company became known as just McKesson.
I have moved around a little within McKesson
to try round out my skill set. I continuously reinvent
myself. I worked on the STAR product as
a custom interface programmer. I felt that the coding language was
interesting but archaic. Most of the application was over twenty
years old. Every part of the STAR application is written in MUMPS,
even the database. I did not feel that MUMPS programming skills
would be very transferable outside of McKesson and I wanted to get into
more current technology.
I transferred from the
McKesson Charlotte,
NC
office to the Louisville,
CO
office in 2000 to work with the Horizon Clinicals product suite.
This was a good move because it allowed me to work with a great group of
people and learn a lot of new skills. I started in support as a
systems support engineer. I worked with UNIX, Linux, Oracle, and a
host of other things. I was promoted to supervisor for the systems
team after about two years. I was the supervisor in the Systems
team for about a year. I hold the Services Strategies support
manager certification. I was offered a promotion to move to services so
I took a job as Senior Technical Implementation
Engineer (TIE) for HED/Adminrx in 2005.
In August of 2009 I left Horizon Clinicals services
organization and went to work for the Remote Hosting / Managed services
organization part of McKesson. I am currently
employed by McKesson as a Senior Technical Implementation Engineer
(TIE). I serve as the technica lead for the complete
remote hosting projects including all hardware, software, technical issues
and events. Remote hosting is a new business unit for McKesson where the
hardware and software are remotely hosted in a McKesson data center. As the
technical lead on these projects I work with multiple technologies layers
such as UNIX, Linux, Windows, Oracle RAC, SAN, VMware, Citrix, Networking,
and remote access issues. Remote hosting projects consist of multiple
McKesson applications and hardware platforms.
I have now worked in development, support,
and services for McKesson. I have what I consider to be a very
good big picture understanding of hospital information systems.
I work from home and only travel a few times a year. My job
consists of installing overseeing all the technical aspects of a
McKesson Remote Hosting project from start to finish.
It sounds simple but I touch nearly every aspect of the entire hospital
information system. It is a
very interesting job and allows me to work with multiple complex
layers of technology. I really like my current job and the guys I
work with.
Working with McKesson has been an a great learning
experience because technology is always changing. I have been
given the
opportunity to do a wide variety of technical jobs. To date
I have enjoyed working in the Remote Hosting / Managed Services organization more than any other
job that I have had at McKesson over the last 15 years.
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