A major function of my role is providing direction for Application Architecture for both eMedNY and other contracts in the portfolio of the company. During my first year with the company, I lead the effort to lift and shift an application, PTAR, from NYC HRA to NYS Medicaid, which I was subsequently able to successfully persuade the Department of Health to allow us to rewrite. In the rewrite effort, I was able to rebaseline our approach to Application Architecture and moved all development on to Spring Boot, strictly providing data via RESTful Services. The front end was rewritten using AngularJS. All batch processing moved to Spring Batch. Through the project I was also able to drive the adoption of CI/CD in non-prod environments using Jenkins, full automated unit testing using JUnit/Mockito, along with Jasmine/Karma/Protractor for the front end.

After the project wrapped, I took everything reusable and created a fully-featured framework, with supporting starter projects, called Wily. This framework has become the basis for all new web application development both at eMedNY and was even used as the basis to create the FAA UAS National Drone Registration web site. The framework has been kept up-to-date through the various incarnations of both Spring Boot (now on 2.x) and Angular (now on 5.x). I used the Wily Framework to build and develop all applications underneath the CSRA Transcend product line, which now includes Provider Enrollment (which has been precertified for use in national Medicaid systems by CMS), Provider Management, Direct Data Entry, Help Management, and the HIPAA Audit Interface. See my portfolio for more information on all these projects.
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Within my role I needed to ensure on-time delivery of various features across product lines from all of the developers on my team. I conducted regular one-on-one meetings, but practiced the management style of MBWA. With all system enhancements, I provided oversight on design documents and signed off on the designs before they are implemented. Code reviews were also regularly performed to ensure designs were followed and quality code was released into our testing group, and ultimately, production.

Additionally, I lead the DAR process on the selection of a Rules Engine and Workflow Engine for the business. As a result of the process, it was decided that we would build our own lightweight engines, which I was able to rapidly prototype using Spring MVC along with a corresponding database design. The basis of this system was intended to eventually replace our GWT implementation, which proved unwieldy and too slow for the rapid development cycles required by the business.
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In addition to my leadership responsibilities, I designed massive improvements to the core application as well as new subsystems to tackle new lines of business. The multi-tenant application handled hundreds of clients and millions of dollars in Pharmacy, Mail Order and Ancillary transactions.

Upon my employment, the application was built on simple Java Servlet technology with Java-heavy front end JSPs. I migrated the application to a home-grown Struts-like framework (I was not given the go-ahead to implement Spring MVC), with parameterized SQL (replacing in-line SQL), a new connection pool, and a highly interactive front-end based on AJAX/JSON, Javascript, and jQuery.

I was also responsible for the creation of a groundbreaking Ancillary Benefits Management system, a system with which to manage Clinical activity, an end-to-end process to manage conversions to, and prescriptions in, the on-site mail order pharmacy, as well as a state reporting engine (X12 – 837/997), and a homegrown Reporting framework that used a combination of jQuery, AJAX, and FusionCharts for the real-time presentation of complex business data.
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Additionally, I built a variety of small applications to help manage both the staff and work that needed to get done. This including a project/task management system and a time-keeping system. I also was able to build a video conferencing server using Java and the SIP protocol that interfaced with proprietary video phones.
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