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Yale University BS, Computer Science

1988

(reposted from Linkedin) Senior Business Analyst Weill Cornell Medicine

The New York City Clinical Data Research Network (NYC-CDRN), funded by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), seeks to improve and streamline research by sharing clinical data across over 20 NYC health systems, including Columbia University, Montefiore Medical Center, Mount Sinai Health System, New York University Langone Medical Center, New York-Presbyterian, Weill Cornell Medicine, and the Clinical Directors Network.

The Project Operations Team at Weill Cornell Medicine manages the PCORI contract and oversees operations for the NYC-CDRN. I report to and work directly with the IT Healthcare Project Manager, business owners, and technology teams in translating the PCORI deliverables and NYC-CDRN technical vision into a workable plan. I support the Project Operations team in planning, monitoring, execution, and successful completion of technical deliverables in connection with the NYC-CDRN’s PCORI contract.

IT Project Manager Health Republic Insurance of New York March 2014 – November 2015 (1 year 9 months)

Managing mission-critical data-intensive projects for systems that interact with members and other relevant parties. This includes managing scope, time, cost, people, risks and issues. Ensuring that all stakeholders are kept informed properly yet not excessively. One large project was the rewrite of the company's website from scratch.

(Open)2 recommendations Dean Calabrese IT Healthcare Project Manager at Weill Cornell Medicine, Healthcare Policy & Research

Kevin Thomas is a highly skilled, well-credentialed, and seasoned Project Manager with an extensive background in both...View

Karen K Lo, RHIA Associate Director, Healthcare Performance

On a daily basis, Kevin Thomas presents himself in a professional manner with a “can-do” attitude to support the...View

Chief Technology Officer Gunter Media Group January 2013 – March 2014 (1 year 3 months)

Responsible for the development, delivery, and deployment of the firm’s technical products and services. Worked closely with the CEO to determine how technology will be used to help implement the business strategy.

Project Manager New York City Area 2012 – 2013 (1 year)

Completed PMP studies and exam, on time and under budget.
Completed CSM studies and exam, on time and under budget.

VP of Technical Services QUOSA, Inc. 2010 – 2012 (2 years)

Responsible for technical support and customer service for all of QUOSA’s customer-facing products, including both web-based and end-user-hosted applications; Operations and IT; Release Management; and Documentation. Successfully managed projects including several migrations of customer-facing software and data, both to the QUOSA-hosted environment and to customer-hosted environments.

Director, Information Technology Ovid Technologies, Inc. June 2007 – July 2010 (3 years 2 months)

Responsible for development and maintenance of all software for the flagship OvidSP platform. Globally, twelve million doctors, nurses, and medical researchers used OvidSP to find relevant articles in medical journals and passages in books. Librarians trained their users on OvidSP in order to support an ever-larger patron base, without growing library staff.

o Inspired high cohesion, morale, and loyalty; projects were consistently on time, with high quality and full functionality
o Organized off-shore production and engineering groups in India and the Philippines, to provide clear responsibilities and escalation points; result was improved morale in all locations, especially in the US group that was ultimately responsible
o Integrated eleven US-based engineering staff into a cohesive crew, across four states and three time zones
o Executed deep-dive interviews and analysis with key customers and end-users, as part of the Contextual Inquiry product-management methodology
o Culturally drove strong partnerships between IT and PMO, QA, Operations, and Product Management

Ramandeep Walia Manager of Application Development at Wolters Kluwer

I’ve had the pleasure of working for Kevin for the past two and a half years. He is the best boss I have ever had. He is...View

Ron Sidhu Mortgage Technologist with Intex, Bloomberg and Regulatory Expertise

Kevin is an excellent team player and highly confident in his abilities to deliver product to the clientView

Development Manager Ovid Technologies, Inc. February 2000 – June 2007 (7 years 5 months)

Responsible for architecture, design, implementation and maintenance of the flagship customer-facing Ovid search and retrieval software.

o Improved team cohesion among the seven software engineers
o Delivered projects consistently on time and with high quality; result was less rework and faster approval by QA
o Built especially solid relationships with PMO, QA, Operations, and Product Management
o Mentored technical staff in algorithm choice, design, and implementation
o Led the technical integration for Wolters Kluwer’s acquisition of Ovid
o Led the technical integration for Ovid’s acquisition of its top competitor, SilverPlatter; integrated the search engines and search languages
o Drove the design and implementation of Books@Ovid; result was a ground-breaking, industry-leading book interface

Nick Ramond Software Development Professional

Kevin is one of the people I miss most from my days at Ovid. He is an outstanding programmer and manager, but what I found so unique about Kevin was his patience and willingness to explain very technically complex issues to people who did not share...View

Senior Software Engineer Ovid Technologies, Inc. May 1994 – January 2000 (5 years 9 months)

Worked with a team of software engineers to architect, design, implement and maintain the flagship customer-facing Ovid system.

o Led the company-critical development and maintenance of client/server software, implementing the Z39.50 standard for full-text search and retrieval
o Implemented hundreds of features and thousands of bug fixes across all of Ovid’s customer-facing products; result was improved customer satisfaction and revenue growth

Joe Paulsen Consulting Programmer/Analyst at Bank of America

Kevin is a highly motivated and knowledgeable Software Engineer who understands the need for "Customer First" in terms of development and issue resolution. He s simply one of the best people I have ever worked with and I recommend him HIGHLY. If...View

Prinicpal II System Developer Goldman Sachs 1992 – 1994 (2 years)

Managed a team that architected, designed, and implemented a UNIX/Windows/RDBMS/LAN-based system to manage the deployments and ongoing changes in the firm’s telecom infrastructure. Saved $1.2 million per year in mainframe costs.

Software Engineer Goldman Sachs 1989 – 1992 (3 years)

Designed and implemented system programs that supported Windows 3.x workstations used to retrieve market data and trade securities on the major stock exchanges in the U.S. and internationally. Key contributor to home-grown software that automatically detected and fixed software and configuration errors, and that facilitated audits of the hardware and software in these workstations. Result was that maintaining these systems required no local staff and few late night calls, despite being deployed in almost every time zone in the world.

Independent Consultant - Software Engineer DocuFind Corp 1982 – 1989 (7 years)

Architected, designed, implemented and maintained DocuFind, a large and complex system for abstracting and indexing documents for law firms. This included writing code for document display and navigation, managing session state, bulk data load, manual data entry, integrating two third-party search engines, and much more. Also set up nightly automated builds, wrote scripts to perform automated QA, delivered customer training and deployments, and wrote the documentation. After several years of doing all of this solo, successfully integrated two additional software engineers.

Senior Software Engineer Datability Software Systems, Inc. 1981 – 1982 (1 year)

Architected and designed a database management system, and debugged a communications interface.

Senior System Programmer Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. of New York 1979 – 1981 (2 years)

Managed software and hardware for two DEC mainframes used for financial research. Found and supervised fixes for problems in software, hardware, and communications.

My beloved partner, Kevin Monroe Thomas died on October 27, 2016 at Maimonides Hospital. We have been together for four and a half incredibly happy years. He was my bashert, the man I had waited a lifetime for. We loved each other very much.

Despite excellent care from the hospital, deep love from me, his family and dear friends, the onset of a massive infection sent him into sepsis from which he never recovered. Kevin was a loving son of Carol and Laura Thomas, father to Stephen and Lissie, brother of Paul and late sister Marla. Kevin loved singing with Park Slope singers, was the director of a Meet-Up Divorce support group, dedicated board member of the Parris Foundation and his coop.

In June, 2016 he became Senior Business Analyst at Weil Cornell Medicine.  He was also a professional deejay and photographer who took enormous pleasure in sharing his talents with those he loved and believed in.

Kevin was an extraordinarily ethical and generous man—a mensch--with a strong belief in fairness and social justice. He was an incredible intellect who exemplified the power and beauty of logical reasoning, mathematics, programming and problem-solving. And did he love music!

In lieu of flowers, donations can be sent to The Parris Foundation which is a Harlem-based community program promoting educational opportunities and fostering awareness in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM): S.T.E.M.ulating minds and magnifying dreams through scholarship and community outreach.