University of North Texas

Texas State University

HSPVA

VP, Engineering at Turnitin

Dallas, Texas, United States

Turnitin’s vision for the future is to serve our customers with modern end-to-end assessment capabilities that help ensure fairness and integrity is the foundation of every assignment and assessment. We have already taken material steps towards this vision with the acquisitions of Gradescope and, more recently, ExamSoft. Together with our partners across the global education community, we will work to advance integrity and outcomes in education and ensure all students are prepared to succeed in work and in life.

Turnitin

VP, Engineering

Responsible for all aspects of architecting, developing, and maintaining ExamSoft products, across all platforms, and providing mentorship to the Engineering team.ExamSoft provides scalable and flexible intelligent assessment solutions that give educators actionable outcomes data and insights to help every student. Its software puts the data back in the hands of faculty and enables institutions to more efficiently and practically administer direct assessments and analyze resulting data to improve curricular design, test design, and accreditation compliance.

ExamSoft

Chief Architect

Responsible for software architecture across Homecare Homebase products.Homecare Homebase provides cloud-based home health software for every aspect of your business, from scheduling, routing and patient notes to intake, approvals, billing and payment.Homecare Homebase is part of the Hearst Health network, which also includes FDB (First Databank), Zynx Health, MCG and MedHOK.

Homecare Homebase

Tyler Technologies is the largest software company in the nation solely focused on providing integrated software and technology services to the public sector. Tyler has seven major offices across the US, seven major solution suites and dozens of products, producing ~845M in annual revenues.Reported to the CTO and led the Tyler Foundation core team responsible for the reference architecture used across all Tyler products.   Responsible for evaluating technologies and creating a technology road map, in the form of a technology radar, and facilitating the contribution and governance processes for the reference architecture.My team worked directly with each product team to understand requirements from product owners, and guided architects, team leads and delivery teams on using the reference architecture.  Worked directly with Microsoft Leads for Microsoft Visual Studio, .NET Core and MSFT API teams.Accomplishments (across Tyler products)• Adoption of a cohesive Tyler Foundation technology stack used across product teams.• Introduction and adoption of Internal Open Source including governance and incubationprocesses.• Architecture and adoption of a federated single sign on identity solution• Introduction and adoption of a modern microservice architecture• Introduction and adoption of a modern Google Material Design user experience• Improved development and delivery practices• Negotiated OEM agreement with elastic search

Tyler Technologies

Senior Architect

The bWell App Suite is a consumer centric engagement portal which enables health and wellness providers to integrate and aggregate best-in-breed digital interventions using APIs and applications. It includes 15 proprietary web-based apps focused on population health management.The mWellthXchange is a profile-driven app marketplace that integrates and aggregates balanced living apps and delivers a unified experience for consumers.Responsible for software architecture, security and HIPAA compliance. These apps used a distributed internet application architecture using REST, OAuth 2.0 and internet application integration.Guided multiple offshore teams to ensure they understood the architecture and reviewed work product to ensure it met architecture, performance, security and compliance requirements.Designed a five zone HA data center architecture to ensure multiple layers of isolation, and allow for different deployment and scaling strategies across public, administration, data integration, service and data storage tiers.The software and data center architecture successfully passed technical and HIPAA due diligence from investors and nationwide insurance companies.

SocialWellth

With the emergence of mobile phone ubiquity and text messaging, healthimo translated Diabetech behavioral change protocols into asthma education and compliance, community wellness and diabetes programs delivered via text messaging. These were fully integrated programs using medical devices, wireless technology, sms messaging, education and provider visits to support behavior change in patients across all demographics. These programs were run with BCBS of Texas, Texas Medicaid and Children's Hospital of Dallas and showed significant clinical outcomes in multiple studies.Responsible for all technical aspects, including server software, text messaging systems, databases, storage, data center configuration, operational monitoring, vendor management, etc.Led the technology side of the HIPAA compliance effort for healthimo, implementing disk encryption on host and guest VMs, end to end TLS (https), secure authentication and authorization protocols, audits and compliance reporting.healthimo products used mobile wireless devices, behavioral change algorithms, and text messaging engagement in settings as diverse as home health care, hospital floors, clinical trials and individual patient care teams. As product manager, I worked to maintain product integrity while collaborating with internal stakeholders, payors, hospitals, doctors, clinicians, patients and care teams.As a company leader, I worked directly in sales and product development with executives at BCBS of TX, BellSouth, Texas Medicaid, Baylor, Einstein Hospital (NY), Texas Children's Hospital, Driscoll Children's Hospital, USDA and the NHS in the UK.

healthimo

CTO, Product Manager

Co-founder and CTO of Diabetech, LP. Diabetech pioneered connecting glucose meters to cell phone technology.  Diabetech built several versions of the GlucoMON wireless device and invented the Automated Diabetes Management System, known as ADMS.  ADMS put the GlucoMON technology into a system that allowed patients to effortlessly share their blood glucose data with their entire care team in real time, no matter where they were.   The technology was later licensed for use in a commercial wireless glucose meter.Responsible for all technical aspects, including the GlucoMON mobile device hardware and software, server software, databases, storage, data center configuration, operational monitoring, vendor management, etc.Led a distributed global team to develop mobile wireless devices and a glucose meter docking station, ensuring HIPAA compliance, security, data integrity and architectural standards were met. I led the technology side of the HIPAA compliance effort for Diabetech and healthimo, implementing disk encryption on host and guest VMs, end to end TLS (https), secure authentication and authorization protocols, audits and compliance reporting.As a company leader, I worked directly in sales and product development with executives at BCBS of TX, BellSouth, Texas Medicaid, Baylor, Einstein Hospital (NY), Texas Children's Hospital, Driscoll Children's Hospital, USDA and the NHS in the UK.

Diabetech

CTO, Co-Founder

Co-founded this boutique technology consultancy and led technology consulting engagements for clients in retail, travel, chemical, customer care and education industries.

DIGITAL(chemists)

Managing Partner

VC Funded startup that matches home-improvement customers with service professionals.  Merged with Sell Furnish and Install, a business unit of Owens Corning

ServiceLane.com

Director of Technology

<a href="http://iSong.com">iSong.com</a> put guitar lessons on the web that synced lesson video and music scores with original artist recordings from Van Halen, SRV, Eric Clapton, B.B. King, and more.  Sold to music publisher Hal Leonard.

Hal Leonard LLC

Co-Director of Technology

I was recruited to help startup the Dallas office.  Viant Inc. was a San Francisco-based Internet consulting firm, founded in April 1996, that became one of the most successful web consulting firms during the early stages of the Internet era.

Viant, Inc.

Technologist, Business Builder and Architect

OpenConnect is a product company integrating mainframe and midrange SNA systems with internet technologies.I oversaw several research projects focusing on integrating CORBA, JavaBean and XML technologies into the OpenConnect Internet products. I eventually managed the Java development teams that created the award winning WebConnect and OpenVista software packages. WebConnect supports thirteen languages, including Kanji, and was one of the first 25 100% Pure Java applications, and was the first application certified by Sun as 100% Pure International. Our team was instrumental in making the Internet products first to market and feature-complete, allowing OpenConnect to become the leading legacy-to-Internet system solutions provider with a 38% market share.

OpenConnect Systems

Manager Internet and Product Development

Performed business process analysis, implemented a three-tier decision support system, and became technical lead and Systems Engineer (SE).  Our team integrated midrange and mainframe computers and photo printing card production systems with a three-tier PC based imaging and workflow system.

Eric Link

Eric Link