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  • January 12, 2020

    Thoughts on Starting A Business

    Check out this podcast episode with my friend and business partner, David Webb, on starting a business. https://recruitercast.com/s1e2

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  • November 24, 2019

    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…

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  • August 23, 2019

    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…

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  • February 11, 2018

    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…

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  • February 1, 2018

    Technology Leader, Engineer, Husband & Father

    Who am I? I am a leader.  I am a cloud ninja.  I am a public speaker.  I am a scrum master.  I can help your organization tap into the promise of big data.  I can design, develop, implement and control real-time streaming predictive analytics platforms.  I can explain what data science is.  I can…

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  • November 1, 2017

    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…

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  • July 30, 2017

    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…

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  • May 1, 2017

    Nerd Stuff: GitFlow Branching & Continuous Integration

      In this video, I explain how to use JIRA and BitBucket from Atlassian to manage your software development project.

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Hi, my name is Jimmy Hurff.

I am a high agency software engineer, leader and small business owner with 25 years of experience.

I solve wicked hard technology problems using data, AI and engineering across many industries.

You can work with me at my company BrightMove or through a fractional engagement.

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