Rudolph Cody Williams
Sumter
Summary
Qualified Integration Engineer with robust background in system integration and project management. Successfully led numerous integration projects, ensuring seamless communication between disparate systems. Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex issues and optimize system performance.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Integration Engineer Rhapsody
South Carolina Department of Public Health
08.2024 - Current
- Managed and coordinated HL7 integration projects, ensuring seamless data exchange between healthcare systems
- Created/Assigned/Updated and managed team workflow in ServiceNow
- Integrated disparate data sources into master data repositories using Informatica PowerCenter and Prophecy
- Designed and configured data models, workflows, and business rules within Informatica MDM to streamline data governance processes
- Managed queues and workloads with incoming tickets in service now to keep team moving forward and on track
- Managed and administered Informatica MDM hub environments, including configuration, performance tuning, and troubleshooting
- Generated reports from service now reflecting completed work
- Developed and maintained HL7 interface specifications, mapping, and documentation for interoperability between diverse healthcare applications
- Led MDM projects from inception to completion, ensuring alignment with business objectives and timelines
- Managed stakeholder expectations, communicated project status, and coordinated activities across technical and business teams
- Conducted comprehensive system analysis to design and implement HL7 interfaces, facilitating efficient communication across clinical systems
- Monitored and troubleshooted HL7 message flows, identifying and resolving issues to maintain uninterrupted data exchange
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams, including IT, clinical staff, and vendors, to align integration efforts with organizational goals
- Provided technical support and training to end-users and stakeholders on HL7 standards and integration processes
- Ensured compliance with regulatory requirements and industry standards (HIPAA, HITECH) in all integration activities
- Utilized integration engines (e.g., Mirth, Cloverleaf, Rhapsody) to develop, test, and deploy HL7 interfaces
- Conducted regular audits and performance evaluations of HL7 interfaces to optimize efficiency and reliability
- Managed and documented change requests, version control, and updates to HL7 interfaces in a structured manner
- Participated in strategic planning and decision-making to enhance the organization’s health information exchange capabilities
- Liaised with external healthcare organizations and vendors to facilitate data integration and interoperability projects
- Deep understanding of healthcare data standards, including HL7 v2 messages (ADT, ORU), HL7 CCDA, HL7 FHIR, and IHE ITI transactions (PIX, PDQ, XDS)
- Successfully implemented IHE ITI profiles to improve patient identification and cross-platform data exchange
- Executed complex data mapping projects from HL7 v2 (ADT, ORU) and CCDA to FHIR, ensuring seamless modernization of legacy healthcare systems
- Created detailed source-to-target mapping documents for transformations, specifying logic for patient demographics, encounters, and clinical data
- Resolved mapping challenges, including optional HL7 v2 segments and CCDA data discrepancies, through custom scripts and innovative transformation rules
Senior Cloverleaf Consultant/ Project Coordinator
Association of Public Health Laboratories
01.2024 - 08.2024
- Integration Development: Design, develop, and implement complex healthcare integration solutions using the Cloverleaf Integration Engine
- Message Routing & Transformation: Create and manage message routes, transforming data across HL7, FHIR, X12, and other healthcare standards
- Interface Maintenance: Maintain and optimize existing interfaces, ensuring smooth and efficient data exchanges between healthcare systems
- System Troubleshooting: Diagnose and resolve interface issues quickly, ensuring system reliability and minimizing downtime
- Secure Data Transfer: Configure secure communication points such as SFTP, ensuring compliance with privacy and data security standards
- Worked extensively in the Integration Services Platform (CIS) to accomplish interoperability and message transformation objectives
- Dynamic Routing Solutions: Implement dynamic message routing based on variable-driven workflows to enhance system efficiency
- Collaboration & Team Leadership: Collaborate with cross-functional teams, providing technical leadership and guidance to ensure integration success
- Documentation: Develop and maintain thorough technical documentation, including interface designs, workflow processes, and troubleshooting guides
- Client & Vendor Communication: Work with external vendors and internal stakeholders to define integration requirements and resolve technical challenges
- Performance Optimization: Continuously monitor and optimize the performance of integration workflows to ensure high system availability and scalability
FHIR/API Interface Design Specialist/ Team Lead
Accenture Federal Services
06.2018 - 12.2023
- Company Overview: supporting Veteran’s Administration
- Responsible for constructing and maintaining interface routes and communication lines for HL7, FHIR, API and other data transfer setups
- Worked within JIRA/Confluence in an AGILE Sprint Methodology for development and support work items assigned to team
- Servicenow support as ticketing application for open items and work related issues and bugs
- Operate daily in the Cloverleaf IDE and Cloverleaf Development Engine maintaining, developing, and modifying routes through the Rhapsody engine to meet the needs of the organization
- Tasked with using the Web Monitoring system to verify status of routes and identify issues across the 200+ connections to keep data flowing and limit downtime as much as possible
- Developing HL7, FHIR/API, Web Services, FTP/SFTP, and database connections
- Conducted regular maintenance tasks and upgrades to ensure optimal performance and reliability of MDM systems
- Developed training materials and conducted workshops to educate end-users on using Informatica MDM and Prophecy tools effectively
- Led and Constructed processes for major Cerner upgrades for the VA Cerner Project
- This entailed organizing daily meetings, tracking statuses for different stages of the project, and delegating and assisting in development where needed
- Leverage knowledge on the use of filters and what benefits they can provide to an interface setup to remove or redirect unwanted messages
- Develop routes involving Java/JavaScript language based filters as well as develop EDI and XML message formats for the majority of systems we encountered
- Daily work in Azure cloud environment that included downloading and moving large batch files, interpreting which facility the messages came from, modifying the message load and then routing it to the appropriate facility
- These messages varied from intake messages to financial transactions
- Proficient Use of Infor Cloverleaf Software, Java, Python, C+, MS SQL, Visual Basic, ASP.NET, C#, and other programming languages to complete projects for various users within the organization
- Working in .NET Framework 3.5/4.0 and MS MVC framework
- Web Services (REST, SOAP, WSDL), LOINC/SNOWMED, JQuery experience/exposure
- Leveraged SQL for data extraction, validation, and reporting, ensuring accurate data transformation and meaningful insights
- Created SQL queries for reporting patient trends, validating healthcare data integrity, and supporting decision-making in care delivery processes
- Deep understanding of healthcare data standards, including HL7 v2 messages (ADT, ORU), HL7 CCDA, HL7 FHIR, and IHE ITI transactions (PIX, PDQ, XDS)
- Successfully implemented IHE ITI profiles to improve patient identification and cross-platform data exchange
- Executed complex data mapping projects from HL7 v2 (ADT, ORU) and CCDA to FHIR, ensuring seamless modernization of legacy healthcare systems
- Created detailed source-to-target mapping documents for transformations, specifying logic for patient demographics, encounters, and clinical data
- Resolved mapping challenges, including optional HL7 v2 segments and CCDA data discrepancies, through custom scripts and innovative transformation rules
- Supporting Veteran’s Administration
Interface Analyst and Design Team Lead
Prisma Health
02.2014 - 06.2018
- Constructed and maintained interface routes and communication lines for over 200 interface connections within the Rhapsody Engine
- Cloverleaf integration engine used during process of acquiring other hospitals to manage acquisition and the merger of data coming in
- Coordinated integration of EPIC installation and support during new epic implementation
- Built Reports and Supplied Analytical Data for PeopleSoft Reporting Software as needed per hospital demands
- Responsible for maintenance and end-user support for PeopleSoft application
- Worked daily with the Cerner implementation processes and applications like OpenLink, HIM, Registration, FSI setup, Patient Portal, and worked in conjunction to support patient access and messaging
- Operated daily in the Cloverleaf and Rhapsody IDE which included maintaining, developing, and modifying routes through the Rhapsody engine to meet the needs of the organization
- Was tasked with using the Web Monitoring system to verify status of routes and identify issues across the 200+ connections to keep data flowing and limit downtime as much as possible
- Developed bi-directional and unidirectional interfaces within the Rhapsody IDE to generate the connection between the two systems
- Developed HL7, FHIR/API, Web Services, FTP/SFTP, and database connections
- Developed routes involving Java/JavaScript language based filters as well as develop EDI and XML message formats for the majority of systems they encountered
- Led conversion from Meditech to Cerner for mid-level hospital system and led Cerner upgrade 6 months later to include all ambulatory offices and hospital outpatient facilities
- Gained and leveraged a wide knowledge base of the interface needs based on experience working across numerous healthcare departments including, radiology, lab, revenue cycle, patient practice, clinical floor documentation, dietary, pharmacy, and IT networking products
- Used Lyniate Rhapsody Software, Java, Python, C+, MS SQL, Web Services (REST, SOAP, WSDL), Visual Basic, ASP.NET, MVC, C# and other programming languages including to complete projects for various users within the organization
- Worked in .NET Framework 3.5/4.0 and MS MVC framework
- Managed connections in Cerner OpenLink, OpenEngine, and OpenPort
- Leveraged SQL for data extraction, validation, and reporting, ensuring accurate data transformation and meaningful insights
- Created SQL queries for reporting patient trends, validating healthcare data integrity, and supporting decision-making in care delivery processes
Cloverleaf Interface Engineer
Clarendon Memorial Hospital
02.2012 - 02.2014
- Maintained current interface routes and coordinated new interface builds within the Cloverleaf and Rhapsody Environments to meet the needs of the organization
- Helped begin the migration process from Cloverleaf and the Meditech Interface System (MIS) to the Rhapsody software solution
- Coordinated and led custom software builds and implementations to meet the needs of the organization
- Built and maintained routes in the Rhapsody IDE as needed to meet the needs of the organization
- Was tasked with using the Web Monitoring system to verify status of routes and identify issues across the 200+ connections to keep data flowing and limit downtime as much as possible
- Operated within the EDI tools systems to meet the needs of the systems being implemented
- Began the process of developing filters and mappers to allow messages to be filtered/parsed as needed to meet the needs of the outbound system
- Developed a deeper understanding of the use of different communication points and provided knowledge share with other team members to educate on the Rhapsody engine and how it would be used moving forward
- Developed custom software programs using Visual Basic, SQL, C+, Python, and others to help accomplish organizations and departmental goals
- Worked with Web Services (REST, SOAP, WSDL)
Education
Master of Science - Information Technology
University of Phoenix
Tempe, AZ05-2021
Skills
- Application integration
- Security protocols
- Business analysis
- Network engineering
- Data mapping
- Requirements gathering
- Software development
- System administration
- API development
- Solution design
- Scrum framework
- Enterprise architecture
- DevOps principles
Certification
Rhapsody Associate
Rhapsody Professional
Cloverleaf Administrator Certification
Informatica Certified Specialist - Developer
Java SE Certified
Network+ Certified
Project Management Professional(PMP)
Amazon Cloud Architecting
Amazon Certified solutions Architect
CompTIA Security+ Certified
Certified Information Systems Auditor
Certified Information Security Professional
Certified Information Systems Security
Timeline
Senior Integration Engineer Rhapsody
South Carolina Department of Public Health
08.2024 - Current
Senior Cloverleaf Consultant/ Project Coordinator
Association of Public Health Laboratories
01.2024 - 08.2024
FHIR/API Interface Design Specialist/ Team Lead
Accenture Federal Services
06.2018 - 12.2023
Interface Analyst and Design Team Lead
Prisma Health
02.2014 - 06.2018
Cloverleaf Interface Engineer
Clarendon Memorial Hospital
02.2012 - 02.2014
Master of Science - Information Technology
University of Phoenix
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