I'm a 2-decade healthcare veteran who's been walking hospital halls since I could walk—both my parents are RNs, and I literally grew up in hospital break rooms.
I started at Kaiser at 19, back when doctors still wrote orders by hand. In pharmacy tech school, we were tested on our ability to decipher messy physician handwriting to dispense the correct medication—because illegible handwriting could mean the difference between life and death.
At 20, I was there for Kaiser Permanente Oakland's first Epic go-live. I watched us transition from paper charts and clunky DOS-era systems to modern healthcare IT. Most people in healthtech today only know the "after." I know the "before," the "during," and the "why."
Over 19 years, I've moved through pharmacy (8 years), HIM, and coding (10 years across post-acute, outpatient, and inpatient)—not job hopping, but intentionally learning the system from every angle. I can trace data flow from a patient's first phone call to their DME delivery at home. And I remember when that same data flow was handwritten, faxed, and lost in filing cabinets.
Now I'm ready to take that embodied expertise—the rare kind that spans paper to digital—and build better healthcare systems.
What I Bring:
*19 years inside hospital systems (pharmacy, HIM, coding)
*Deep Epic expertise (since 2006 go-live)
*Understanding of clinical, operational, and technical workflows
*Experience across 5 distinct healthcare roles
*RHIA and CPHIMS certifications
*MS in Health Informatics (Johns Hopkins, in progress)
*Healthcare Compliance Certificate (University of Pittsburgh, in progress)
*Passion for building systems that actually work for the people who use them
What I'm Building:
Products that solve the problems I've lived. Systems that respect clinicians' time. Tools that make healthcare actually work.