Note: These are some of my personal views on how to get to the cloud (economically). It’s not intended to be an indictment of the cloud. In fact, the cloud is amazing. But with great power comes great responsibility. AWS, Azure and GCP have transformed the way in which technology services are consumed. I’d like…
I Hope My Kids Lose In Sports, and I Know You Don’t Care.
Over the weekend, I witnessed what I think is the worst our society has to offer. The parents on both sides of the game failed their children. We reinforced all that is bad in sports through a display of poor sportsmanship, bad parenting, lack of civility, disregard for honor and a lack of compassion. On…
90 Day Journey to the Cloud
Between March and June 2019, while in the role of Data & Analytics Platform Leader, I led an effort to migrate one of McKesson’s large enterprise data warehouses to the cloud. In August 2019, I delivered this presentation to a group of approximately 100 technologists in the Phoenix metroplex around the 90 Day Journey to…
Microservices, Fast Data and Healthcare
This is a project is for technical demonstration purposes only. For more information on WTKM, please visit the website or check out the GitHub repo. Overview WTKM is a set of ideas, tools, architectures and techniques for performing analytics on healthcare data sets. WTKM attempts to answer important healthcare questions, like will you survive your…
DriveScale SCI and Clearsense Overview at Strata Big Data Conference
https://vimeo.com/238845420 While CTO as Clearsense, I deployed the DriveScale SCI solution into our own cloud. Clearsense is a smart data organization based in Jacksonville, Florida that is re-imagining and simplifying data analytics to help healthcare organizations realize measurable value from their data. Our world-class team combines extensive data science expertise with clinical and operational heritage to…
Using Hortonworks HDP and HDF at Clearsense
Check out this article and the associated videos where I discuss using Hortonworks at Clearsense. DRIVING THE FUTURE OF HEALTHCARE WITH THE POWER OF OPEN SOURCE Clearsense is seeing great results with its initial algorithms for code blue (cardiac arrest) and sepsis prediction. The team is looking forward to developing solutions around reducing costs for…