Curtis Brinkman

Work Experiences

Chicago, IL

Senior Integration Data Analyst

11/9/2020 - Present

Working as part of the Clinical Data Connectivity team to execute and integrate data flows between the Tempus software system and the customer's current hospital IT systems and workflows.
Taking aggregate data from many different sources to build the largest library of oncology clinical and genetic data in the world.
Working with clinical data experts, engineers, data scientists, and informatics analysts to ensure the quality of our data for analysis downstream and alignment with customer-specific data specification pipelines.
Leading efforts to build an extensive toolkit for scaling the aggregation and normalization of customer data connections.
Automating quality assurance to ensure that data adheres to a common set of standards and customer-specific data approved data schemas.
Identifying improvements to data processing infrastructure and workflow, helping to provide continuous improvements in the architecture, process, and algorithms used to ingest and monitor data feeds.
Supporting the successful execution of implementation project scope, timeline, objectives, and create a shared vision for the project execution as it relates to data deliveries, formats, schema, and structures.
Working with hospital data teams to execute integrations, including validation, testing, and data profiling.

Cleveland, OH

Lead Systems Analyst

09/11/2020 - 11/6/2020

I have developed web applications that facilitated the daily workflow for many different specialized teams.
ETL and data architecture solutions from Clarity, Teradata, and SQL Server to streamline and improve clinical workflows.
Built data visualization and monitoring tools for operational and financial reporting.
Managed product lifecycle of all web application solutions for the cancer institute infromatics department.
Lead developer responsible for managing and mentoring the development team and internal communications.
Facilitate meetings to communicate progress, challenges, and strategy.
I designed a performance management tool used by cancer center leadership to manage and measure KPI's like patient access, value-based care, and financial metrics.
Responsible for service reliability, critical bug fixes, and new functionality to support the growing technological needs of world-class patient care.

Clevleand, OH

Systems Analyst II

1/12/2019 - 9/10/2020

Developed a financial navigation tool to manage co-pay and medication coverage programs to reduce financial distress for our patient populations.
Provided operational analytics from Epic and other data sources to drive business decisions for cancer center leadership.
Designed a tool to facilitate patient authorizations and eSignatures for the release of medical information from external providers.
Extracted thousands of clinical trials to migrate to a centralized database. Transforming the data to meet API endpoint specifications using .Net, C#, and JavaScript.

Cleveland, OH

Web Developer Programmer

4/03/2014 - 12/20/2018

Designed and developed a clinical workflow tool to facilitate the data collection, consenting, and accrual of patients onto the STRIVE study, a prospective research trial to test the efficacy of a blood test for early cancer detection, by GRAIL.
- Accrued over 170 patients in the first month after launch.
Developed an intranet microblogging newsfeed communication tool similar to twitter using ASP.net Web Forms, C#, jQuery, Ajax.

Clevleand, OH

Web and Database Administrator

4/13/2012 - 4/02/2014

Developed and maintained a clinical trial database using SQL, C# ASP.NET.
Developed reports for our schedulers to facilitate daily huddles, this provided insights that allowed the team to meet their performance metrics.
Developed and maintained the institutes' intranet and internal communications.

Dayton, OH

Jr. Web Developer

10/01/2010 - 4/12/2012

Developed our “Agency in A Box” platform which allowed health insurance agencies to track the performance and sales of its agents in a competitive and innovative way.
Converted our platform to utilize JSON files instead of making direct hits to the database. This reduced the load on our server at peak hours every day, improving performance significantly.
Developed an email marketing tool in PHP which allowed clients to design email marketing campaigns.

Bowling Green, OH

Franchise Manager

02/20/2006 - 4/30/2009

Managed a house painting business producing $150k over the course of three months.
Responsible for hiring, training, budgeting, providing estimates, scheduling, cold calling, marketing, and web development.
Painted three houses in Tampa, Florida for charity over spring break.

Education

Bachelors Information Technology Engineering

The University of Toledo

2007 - 2010

CSET Adv Web Site Design (3100)
CSET Client-Server Computing (3200)
ENGT Technical Project Management (2500)
CSET Adv Programming (3150)
CSET Database-Driven Web Sites (3300)
CSET Server-Side Programming (4100)
CSET Client-Side Scripting (3250)
CSET Unix System Administration (3400)
INFS Sm Business Database Systems (3770)
CSET Web Server Administration (4150)
CSET Network Security Fundamentals (4850)
BUAD Information Technology Managem (3050)
CSET Comparative Progm Languages (4250)
CSET Computer Netwrks and Data Comm (4750)
ENGT Senior Technology Capstone (4050)
MATH Calculus-Business with App II (1270)
ENGT Appld Stats and Desn-Expermnts (3010)
INFS Bus Sys Anlys-Design with ERP (4510)
BUAD Prin of Manuf-Service Systems (3020)

Associates Computer Networking Administration

The University of Toledo

2004 - 2006

CSET Gui Programming & Visual Basic (1200)
EET Digital Logic Fundamentals (2210)
CSET Small Computer Systems (2100)
ENGT Fundamentals Of Electricity (3050)
ACTG Prin Of Financial Accounting (1040)
BMGT Workplace Comm & Presentations (1500)
CNET Hardware Architecture & Mgmt (2150)
CNET Network Technologies (2200)
CNET Network Operating Systems I (2100)
CNET Network Services (2410)
CNET Network Operating Systems II (2300)
CNET Network Operating Sys Support (2400)
CNET Enterprise Network Services (2420)

Professional Skills

Top Skills

75%

Data Analysis

Advanced

I enjoy bringing data together to tell a story that helps drive business decisions. I can build relational databases from scratch, visualizations, automation, ETL, and communicate findings.

68%

Web Development

Intermediate

Able to complete development tasks as requested. Very comfortable building out front end user interfaces and also back end processes and architecture. I can work on the entire development stack end to end.

83%

Product Management

Advanced

Experienced in leading product development, providing business justification, sprint planning, and grooming from an engineering perspective.

Activly Learning

Amazon Web Services Python Redshift Jupyter Notebooks Spark Google Cloud Platform

Other Skills

ASP.NET Core ASP.NET MVC C# ASP.NET Web Forms Tableau jQuery SQL Server Web API Scheduled Tasks ETL Development SSIS Packages Data Modeling Ajax Node.js Photoshop Teradata Authentication Entity Framework Prototyping Process Mapping Google Analytics Graphic Design Email Marketing HTML CSS Responsive Design Photography Vidography

Thank You

I owe everything to my wife, family, friends, and colleagues. Thank you for believing in me. Your brilliant minds and passion is what inspires me every day. Cheers!

Email curtbrinkman@gmail.com or call me at 937.638.1328