Creative software development leader with a proven record of designing, developing and delivering products that achieve significant business results
VP of Engineering @ Etiometry (www.etiometry.com) is a healthcare information technology company creating predictive patient care analytics to improve the quality of care in the intensive care unit. From February 2014 to Present (1 year 10 months) Chief Technology Officer @ Healthcare data analytics company providing an information system for accountable care organizations and other providers with risk-based contracts. The system integrates data from many sources including claims and medical records, performs complex calculations, and provides a web-based set of tools for visualizing and analyzing results. The system also has a workflow system for performing population health activities.
• Led the migration from a client-server to a cloud-based architecture
• Developed the automation and data aggregation engines
• Developed the browser-based client and administrative consoles
• Selected tools and technologies
• Negotiated the contract for private cloud hosting
Tools and technologies used include: Java Servlet, Tomcat, Spring injection, Google Web Toolkit, JSON, BIRT, JUnit, Data Acccess Objects and MS SQL Server From April 2011 to February 2014 (2 years 11 months) Chief Architect / Senior Development Manager @ Healthcare software start-up that grew from inception in 2000 to revenues of $50MM and a market value of $400MM at acquisition in 2008. The product uses speech recognition technology to achieve 120% improvement in medical transcriptionist productivity. An independent healthcare software ratings agency (KLAS) ranked the product #1 in its category for seven consecutive years based on customer surveys. The system scaled to a run rate of more than 2.3 billion lines of transcription per year and saved customers more than $130MM in transcription costs.
As the Chief Architect for this product and member of the founding team,
• Focused on data flow, workflow, billing, and the console for system administration
• Served as database administrator, product manager, project leader, and sales engineer.
Post-acquisition, I managed a team of 3 managers and 20 engineers split between Burlington MA, Montreal and Bangalore. The system continued to scale and when I left was deployed at 170+ customers. My team was responsible for product development, database engineering and installers. In 2009, I was awarded Nuance Chairman’s Club membership for individual performance.
Tools and technologies used include: Java, Apache, MS SQL Server, JSP, Swing, RMI, JMF, JNI, JDBC, HTML, JavaScript, Ajax, XML, Ant, VMWare, and UML From February 2000 to February 2011 (11 years 1 month) System Architect @ Start-up providing electronic medical record software. As a System Architect and developer, I designed and implemented a workflow subsystem that integrated with and complemented CareTools’ clinical record product. This “Activity Manager” allowed users to track and perform data-centric work and to route pieces of work through their organization in a very flexible and configurable manner From 1997 to February 2000 (3 years) Principal @ Consulting company helping Fortune 500 companies resolve interrelated issues of strategy, organizational structure, and information systems. As a specialist in technology issues I worked with business re-engineers to understand and frame-up the business value of proposed systems projects. I then served as technical lead on teams that designed, developed and implemented those solutions. Projects included development of a 401K system for a financial services client, an interactive Factory Scheduler for a manufacturing operation, and a Sales Information System for a wholesaler and distributor. From January 1989 to August 1997 (8 years 8 months) Software Engineer I, II, III and Principal @ Project leader for the group that developed Wang's Multi-Lingual Spelling and Grammar Checker, On-Line Thesaurus and Dictionary, Bilingual Dictionaries, Hyphenation, Table of Contents, Index Generator and other word processing applications. From 1982 to 1989 (7 years)
Ph.D. @ Brown UniversityB.A. @ Dartmouth College From 1973 to 1977 Central Catholic High School Jim Boucher is skilled in: Java, Software Engineering, SaaS, Software Development, Microsoft SQL Server, GWT, Data Mining, Data Warehousing, Database Design, Tomcat, XML, JSON, JUnit, Product Management, T-SQL, Management, Healthcare Information Technology, Agile Methodologies