YIGAL RON
Philadelphia, PA 19147
[Send email to request phone number] 94-1335/ Email: [Send email using form at bottom]
PROFILE:
• Demonstrated expertise in healthcare information technology, clinical content
portals, and embedded laboratory products
• Product manager for large scale, complex technical products
• Demonstrated success in taking software products through full life-cycle
development and launch
• Accomplished software developer and architect
• Brings creativity, leadership and guidance to programming teams – delivering
quality software products
• Provides strategic vision and direction
• Thrives in a fast paced and challenging environment
• Superior interpersonal skills
KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
• Demonstrated delivery of products and portals from concept to launch (Tek-Air,
Elsevier and MultiMed)
• Delivery, marketing, and support of clinical and billing software for home
health care and home infusion agencies
• Co-founder of Stat Systems - created patient tracking and clinical
documentation system for multiple healthcare settings; system used by over 400
clients, and still meets their needs years after its introduction
• Headed team that developed flexible and programmable system for airflow
control - enabling company to configure very large pharmaceutical labs with
minimal hardware customization (Tek-Air Systems)
• Designed and programmed software for parts distributors - formed the basis for
ASTEA International’s product line, launching it into a $60 million company
KEY TECHNOLOGIES: C / C ++ / C#; VB.Net; SQL Server
SOFTWARE PRODUCTS DEVELOPED:
MultiMed HHC
• Developed home health care clinical and billing software product – MultiMed
HHC – for several homecare agencies, providing:
o Back-office operations
o Electronic submission to Medicare and other payers
o Bed-side charting at the patient’s home
• Product is now available on www.multimedsolutions.com
Smartlab Airflow Control – for Tek-Air Systems
• SmartLab Controller embedded firmware for airflow and temperature control in
laboratories and other critical environments
• Windows-based SmartLab Configuration Software to:
o control the operation of the SmartLab controller software
o tune and troubleshoot lab fume hood controllers
o function as gateway to building automation system
The Personal Health Network
• Developed an extensive health portal utilizing health information, news feeds,
personal medical records
• Provided downloadable module for users to install on their PC and interact
with local database, remote database, Web portal
• On-line Pregnancy Planner
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:
2009 – Present: Consultant, Tek-Air Systems, Danbury, CT
Upgrading and expanding the SmartLab product line developed earlier
2002 – 2009: Consultant, Elsevier Health Sciences, Philadelphia, PA
• Product Manager, eCME – OncologySTAT, July 2008 – present
o Launch and end-to-end management of new CME offering on OncologyStat portal
• Product Manager, Expert Consult, 2006 – 2008
o Initiated business case for second generation product for online medical
books
o Obtained management and budget approval, and oversaw product development
through launch
• Product Manager, E-ditions, 2005 – 2008; Project Manager, 2002 - 2004
o Oversaw development in England, India and the U.S. and all aspects of content
loading to this medical book portal until it was replaced by the 2nd generation
book portal – Expert Consult
• Product Manager, Cardiosource, 2004
o Oversaw development in England and the U.S. of this Cardiology portal which
was jointly owned and maintained by Elsevier and the ACC
1993 – 2002: MultiMed Software Developers, Jenkintown, PA
Led design and programming projects for multiple clients. Selected projects:
• The Pain Center of Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA.
o Designed and led development of Intranet collecting outcomes data from
patients and physicians
o Reduced data collection errors
o Increased patient compliance in providing outcomes data
o Reduced center’s cost for outcomes studies
• Tek-Air Systems, Danbury, CT
o Designed complete multi tiered system to control airflow and fume hood exhaust
in pharmaceutical laboratories, including embedded components, PC control unit,
database, and interfaces
o Led team of developers delivering embedded code, PC application, and MSAccess
database
o Supported client through multiple field installations, including new,
multi-building, pharmaceutical research facility
• SmithKline Beecham, Philadelphia, PA
o Developed client’s first CANDA (Computer Assisted New Drug Application) that
exceeded the client’s expectations for budget and delivery time
o Installed system in regulatory agencies in US, England, and Sweden and
provided training and support to those agencies
o Established system enabling client to generate additional CANDA’s on their
own
1985 – 1993: Stat Systems, Philadelphia, PA/ Health Outcomes Management, Inc.,
Minneapolis, MN
Co-Founder of Stat Systems, later acquired by Health Outcomes Management; became
V.P. for Product Development
• Designed and led implementation of client-server system to provide clinical
management of departments in hospitals
• Provided bedside charting using hand-held computers
• Expanded system’s use to nursing homes, home care agencies, and pharmacies
with added capabilities of care planning, drug interactions, and common
instruments such as nursing homes’ MDS and its electronic submission
• Led redesign team moving system to MS-Windows. Responsible for technical
guidance of team, selection of technology, as well as rewriting drug interactions
database
1983 – 1985: ASTEA International, Lansdale, PA
Software Developer. Successfully programmed company’s first product, shifting
its main focus from consulting services into delivering warehouse and
distribution software products
1980 – 1983: Leeds & Northrup Company, North Wales, PA
Programmer
• Member of team that developed complete energy management and control system
for an Australian Power Utility -- led field installation and startup teams in
Melbourne, Australia
• Led team that designed and implemented "Failover" system for power utilities
that ensured uninterrupted continual operation on dual computer systems
EDUCATION: M.Sc., Computer Science, University of Pennsylvania
B.Sc., Mathematics and Computer Science, Hebrew University, Jerusalem,
Israel
MILITARY SERVICE: Major in Israeli Defense Forces armored corps
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