jon hicks
| Headline: | Engineer |
| Work status: | Full-Time Student |
| Industries: | Health, Information Technology |
| Skills: | AJAX, Databases, English, German, HTML / CSS, Javascript, Languages, Languages and Platforms, Perl, PHP, Python, Software Engineering, SQL |
| Location: | berkeley, california |
| Interested in: | Consulting opportunities, Finding team mates, Providing services to startups, Trading services |
| Schools: | University of California System - Berkeley |
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Solano County Health and Social Services Department |
| Position: | Independent Contractor |
| Time period: | December 2007 - Present |
| Description: | * Primary architect of SharePoint-based knowledge management system for county public health and social service personnel.
* Independently conducted system-wide interviews for needs and usability assessment purposes. * Developed and optimized custom ontology with commensurate search and indexing algorithms to support management past lifetime of contract. |
| Employer: | University of North Carolina Online Portal, UNC General Administration |
| Position: | Independent Contractor |
| Time period: | December 2005 - November 2007 |
| Description: | * Primary designer of database architecture supporting UNC General Administration's online portal for distance education: http://online.northcarolina.edu/
* Assisted in development of modular software toolset in Ajax and PHP to manage, navigate, organize and process content developed by all 16 constituent institutions under oversight of the Associate Vice President for Academic Planning. * Assisted in developing technical budgets and managing statewide stress testing. |
| Employer: | Health Inequalities Program, Duke University |
| Position: | IT Agency Coordinator |
| Time period: | December 2003 - November 2007 |
| Description: | * Worked on federally funded HRSA grant providing technical assistance towards developing IT capacity of collaborative members, including RWCA title II consortia, title III clinics, and title IV non-profit agencies.
* Primary responsibilities included database development and web integration, HIPAA compliance auditing, research evaluation support, and usage analysis. * Facilitated transition from contractor-provided Lotus Notes/Domino-based clinical trials management system to internally developed and administered MySQL/PHP system. |
EDUCATION
| University: | University of California System - Berkeley |
| Time period: | 2009 |
| Degree: | Master of Information Management and Systems |
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Hyoumanity
Hyoumanity’s mission is to efficiently connect patients with complex and difficult diagnoses to the doctors with the expertise and incentive to correctly diagnose them.