| Objective |
Healthcare systems leadership
Apply my clinical training and my high-tech experience
Develop entrepreneurial opportunities; grow new business
Focus on healthcare information technology (HIT) and the electronic medical record (EMR)
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Skills
and
Expertise |
Registered Nurse, License #790869
Business operations, project management
Experience with a variety of EMRs: Epic, IDX,
Centricity, TeleResults, Practice Partner, others
Technical training development and delivery,
instructional design, trainer mentoring
Web site construction and maintenance
Internet service provider (ISP) and site hosting
Wifi network installation and management
Administration of networks and systems
(Solaris, Linux, HP-UX, AIX, Windows)
Programming (Javascript, PHP, XSLT, Perl, C, shell, SQL, Fortran, Cobol)
Database design (MySQL, Sybase, Oracle, etc.)
Client account management and nurturing
Marketing and sales
International business, fluent Italian
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| Clients |
Apple, Autodesk, Bellsouth, Fireman's Fund,
Genentech, Hewlett Packard, Intuit,
Schwab, Silicon Graphics, Sun, Texas Instruments,
University of California at San Francisco (UCSF),
Wells Fargo, Xilinx, Yahoo!, others.
(Complete list.)
References.
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Selected
Nursing
Projects |
2009-present CEO/Founder of Nurse Tech, Inc.,
a technology startup building
Nurses
Get It Done, an
iPhone-based nursing time management app
2005-2006 and 2010
Nursing patient care
including clinical rotations:
| Site | Unit Type | Hours |
|---|
| St. Mary's Hosp., SF | SNF | 120 |
| Peninsula Hosp. 7th fl. | med-surg | 120 |
| Kaiser, Santa Clara | ICU | 15 |
| Kaiser, Santa Clara | oncology | 120 |
| UCSF Long Hosp. | peds | 135 |
| Peninsula Hosp. | maternity | 135 |
| O'Connor Hosp., SJ | telemetry | 135 |
| Friendship House, SF | community/rehab | 135 |
| VA, Menlo Park | psych | 135 |
| Kaiser, SSF | ED (preceptorship) | 122 |
2006 Internship with a Hospital Director
at Mills-Peninsula Health Services (MPHS), San Mateo, Calif.
I developed a nursing SBAR form
(situation-background-assessment-recommendation)
to support nurses in communications with MDs
and at shift changes.
These have become standard practice at many hospitals.
2005-present Blog on nursing,
informatics and healthcare policy
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| Experience |
2010 Nursing school (obtained BSN) including
clinical rotations
in San Francisco Bay Area hospitals
-- made a real difference in patients' lives (see
clinical journal
and faculty letters of recommendation)
2007-present CEO of Americare Neurosurgery International --
fundraising, equipment donations, and
a medical mission to Hue, Vietnam where we
performed complex craniotomies and other life-saving
procedures, and
trained local medical staff on them
2007 Training Operations Manager at AcademyX; applied training
management experience acquired at my own company
2006 Call It Quits (smoking cessation)
program leader at MPHS (10 hrs/wk, salaried)
-- Our success rate
was 25%, double the industry average.
2004 Started Wifi-Italia
to build and operate Italy's first open-access hotspot.
It increased sales at the world's second-highest-grossing
McDonald's restaurant by 10%.
1978-2000 Operated
Dan Keller Technical Services,
a training/consulting business that offered
thirty web-based courses,
made presentations at technical conferences and trade shows,
developed a proprietary and industry-leading
train-the-trainer system,
and employed
a stable of instructor/contractors,
a programmer and a graphics artist. Annual sales: $.5M.
We delivered world-class training to a Fortune 500
client list
and pioneered the
paperless classroom.
(Here is
the backstory.)
1999 Developed the Web's first XML-based
training catalog
1978-1984 Various projects including
marketing and contract programming in Fortran, Cobol,
Pascal, SQL, and C, for clients large and small
(details)
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Selected
Technology
Projects |
2001 Built the marketing Web site and
wrote the help system for
PopUpCop, the Web's
first browser annoyance and security protector.
1996 Project leader for Dallas-based Platinum Jack,
a pioneering web-based clearinghouse for music performance booking
agencies.
1995 Was project leader for
Palo Alto-based HP Labs' IDEA inventory control Web site;
yielded dramatic cost reductions for HP's research division.
1992 Wrote programs for drug discovery data acquisition and reduction
for South San Francisco-based Arris Pharmaceutical,
with Apple Macintosh-based user interfaces and Sun Microsystems
database backends.
1991 Built the Unix server side of the Savant
financial system for Apple Computer in Paris and Cupertino,
providing an advanced tool for currency exchange risk management.
1986 Was a member of the programming team that developed
a distributed rules-based access control system
for Adasoft in Switzerland.
1985 Wrote the Key Employee Incentive
Program database for Sun in Milpitas, one of Sun's earliest
successes migrating business processes from IBM mainframes
to its own servers.
1983 Analyzed the data processing requirements for
the Department of Pathology and proposed solutions to
bottlenecks identified at Toronto Western Hospital,
Toronto, Ontario.
1983 Strategized, tested and documented a
Unix server product line for Colex in Hong Kong.
Though the company failed financially, as
the lowest-cost of its kind the Colex box was a technical coup.
1981 Wrote the medical data capture front end
for the clinical trial of Human Growth Hormone,
Genentech's (South San Francisco) first blockbuster drug.
More projects are described
here.
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| Education |
BSN,
Samuel Merritt University (SMU) School of Nursing,
San Mateo (2010)
American
Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) 10x10,
clinical/health informatics (2009)
Skyline College, San Bruno, undergraduate coursework (2009)
University of San Francisco (USF) School of Nursing,
undergraduate, graduate, and clinical coursework (2004-2006)
City College of San Francisco (CCSF), biosciences (2003-2005)
MS, Medical Information Science,
University of California, San Francisco (1983)
(Description)
BS, Information Sciences,
University of California, Santa Cruz (1978)
(Description)
Dartmouth College, Stanford University, and CCSF: engineering courses
High schools: St. Stephen's, American Overseas,
and Notre Dame International, all in Rome, Italy (1969-1973)
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| Publications |
"Lists for Nurses", an article in AMIA Student Working Group News, Vol 7, No. 1, April 2010.
Call It Quits, MPHS's smoking cessation
program workbook, 2006
Training workbooks:
Hands-On XML,
Living with Unix and SoftBench
(under contract to HP),
Unix Software Tools (under contract to Sun),
Advanced Web Authoring (under contract to SGI),
Using Mosaic,
Using Netscape at HP,
HTML Authoring for the Web,
HTML Part II,
CGI Scripting in Perl,
Techniques of Instruction,
many more
A Continuing Medical Education
Registration System,
8th Annual Conference, Alliance for
Continuing Medical Education, 1983
Encounter Data System, An Interactive
Information System Case Study,
Proceedings American Association for
Medical Systems & Informatics, 1983
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| Awards |
Cum laude, BSN, Samuel Merritt Univ., 2010
Humanitarian Assistance to the
Medical University of Hue, Vietnam, 2008
Best Tutorial, 5th Annual
World Wide Web Conference (WWW5), Paris, 1996
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| Volunteer Work 2004-2011 |
Americare
Neurosurgery International (CEO)
Alumni Association of
UCSF (Secretary/Treasurer)
Graduate
Division Alumni Association (GDAA), UCSF (President)
San Mateo County Tobacco Education Coalition
California Pacific Medical Center, Emergency Department
UCSF Medical Records
UCSF Long Hospital
San Francisco HIV/AIDS/HepC Nightline
Glide Health Services
San Francisco General Hospital, Emergency Department
Tobacco Education Center, UCSF Mt. Zion Hospital
The Non-Catholic Cemetery in Rome (system/network admin.)
St. Stephen's School, Rome, Parents' Association
Regular blood donor
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Certifications, Memberships |
American Nurses Association (ANA)
ANIA-CARING (Amer. Nursing Informatics Ass'n & Capital Area Roundtable on Informatics in NursinG)
Safety Management & Response Techniques (psychiatric nursing) 2010
American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA)
San Francisco Bay Area ACM SIG on
Human-Computer Interaction (BayCHI)
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) 2005-2010
Basic Life Support (BLS) 2012-2013
San Francisco Neighborhood Emergency Response Team (NERT)
Ham radio licensed (call sign KG6OIE)
Scuba diving certified (NAUI)
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