Technical Advisors Jason Newell
Technical Advisor
Professional Skills
Awards, Recognition, & Publications
Awards:
Cambia Corporate and Growth Company Leadership Journey
The Open Group Architectural Framework
Symantec Leadership in Excellence Award
Symantec Risk Management
Symantec Global Management and Development
Publications:
Exploring Data Breaches and Protecting Our Digital Identities
The Promise of AI in Healthcare Transformation from Data to Diagnosis
From Wrong Turns to Marathon Success-Conquering the Unexpected Challenges
The Untapped Potential of Software Developers in Improving Patient Outcomes
Unmasking Healthcare Costs-The Urgent Need for Transparency
Harnessing the Power of Microservices in 2024
How AWS Redesigns Legacy-SaaS for Savings and Success
Why Hiring Overqualified Candidates is the Secret Weapon in Today’s Job Market Turmoil
Harnessing the Power of Generative AI for Innovation
Unveiling the Evolution of Why We Work: Impact, Meaning and Healthcare Technology
The Evolution of Software Development: from Specialized Experts to Near-Shore Solutions
Technical Advisor
Jason Newell
With over two decades of experience in technology and engineering leadership, I’ve orchestrated transformative changes and driven innovation across diverse domains. As the Director of Solutions Engineering at Audigy, I spearheaded a comprehensive overhaul of their workflow management, EHR, Ecommerce, Content Management platform while restructuring the engineering team to architect a cost-effective, healthcare-secure, and scalable platform. This initiative not only enhanced operational efficiency but also significantly elevated member experience, resulting in measurable improvements. By meticulously managing vendor relationships, conducting rigorous product evaluations, and fostering near-shore partnerships, I effectively addressed technology gaps and ensured seamless operations.
During my tenure as Vice President of Technology at AMN Healthcare, I led pioneering initiatives that propelled performance metrics by a staggering 200%. Through strategic cloud migration, web optimization, and the development of cutting-edge mobile applications, I ushered in a new era of efficiency and innovation. Moreover, by consolidating SaaS product engineering functions on a global scale, I achieved substantial cost reductions while simultaneously enhancing team performance and operational effectiveness. As a trusted advisor to the CIO, I played a pivotal role in steering the development of a secure Healthcare Workforce Management platform with a $3 billion budget company revenue stream, demonstrating a keen ability to align technology initiatives with overarching business objectives.
My skill set encompasses organizational growth, process optimization, resource management, and fostering strategic partnerships with stakeholders. I have a proven track record of refining software development processes, risk management strategies, and internal/external team management across multiple continents. Passionate about driving strategic initiatives that align with company vision and goals, I am committed to leveraging my expertise to deliver tangible results and propel organizational success.
Positions
Director of Solutions, VP Technology, Data & Engineering Leadership Consultant
Education
Bachelors of Science, Double Major – Computer Science & Political Science – Weber State University & Portland State University
Case Studies
Digital Transformation Initiatives
Problem: Most start-ups move to the growth mode. It usually starts with customers on the plane while the engines need to be replaced while it’s still in the air. Using 3rd parties or “full stack” developers leads to that kind of security, stability, performance and scalability. Sometimes even using less than current architecture or outdated technology common with some 3rd party vendors. The company was operating with outdated legacy systems that limited its ability to adapt to market changes and meet customer expectations.
Solution: As part of a start-up, I advised the CEO and CMO on securing multiple rounds of funding from 5M to 25M with technical due diligence and led initiatives to re-engineer existing applications into fully cloud-based, mobile-ready platforms, with actionable data analytics. Led initiatives to build a new mobile-ready application for mobile devices, adding a designed data warehouse for customer and internal analytics, and migration from Delphi and static interface to AWS, Node.js, Lambda, .NET C#, S3, RDS, MySQL, React, HTML5, and CSS3, all modern technologies.
Web Application Development
Problem: The company faced high operational costs and scalability issues with on-premise data centers while also moving to the cloud without using cloud-native technology, paying 15k a month for a Gb of data.
Solution: Developed and executed a cloud migration strategy, moving critical applications and data storage to a scalable cloud environment, which cut costs by 70% and enhanced business agility. Using relationships with AWS for well-built systems, and certified partners we were able to reduce costs, increase efficiency, and allow for future growth beyond the lift-n-shift strategy.
Cross-Functional IT Team Leadership
Problem: The company faced high operational costs and scalability issues with on-premise data centers.
Solution: Developed and executed a cloud migration strategy, moving critical applications and data storage to a scalable cloud environment, which cut costs by 70% and enhanced business agility.
Technology Forecasting and Strategy
Problem: The company faced high operational costs and scalability issues with on-premises data centers.
Solution: Developed and executed a cloud migration strategy, moving critical applications and data storage to a scalable cloud environment, which cut costs by 70% and enhanced business agility.
Cloud-native Technologies
Problem: The existing IT infrastructure was rigid and costly, hampering scalability and innovation costing as much as a data center while only pursuing a lift n’ shift strategy that doesn’t actually reduce costs or increase inefficiency.
Solution: Transitioned to a cloud-native architecture, utilizing native cloud architecture and services from cloud providers, like Kubernetes and serverless computing, which improved scalability, reduced costs by 70%, and accelerated time-to-market for new features.
Technology Vendor Management
Problem: The company faced high operational costs and scalability issues with build vs. buy due to the evolution of growth company technology.
Solution: Developed and executed a cloud migration strategy, moved critical applications and data storage to a scalable cloud environment, and an application design to leverage cloud technology cutting costs more than 50% annually. Evaluated and negotiated cost-efficient PaaS platform to consolidate, and add orchestration, proactive monitoring, and support for data interchange. Evaluate best data warehouse solutions, designed and implemented scalable, real-time analytics using hosted PowerBI and Snowflake producing first-ever trust and actionable outcomes.
Software Migration / Rewrite
Problem: Legacy software was not compatible with modern operating environments, leading to increased security vulnerabilities and maintenance costs.
Solution: Led a project to rewrite and migrate legacy applications to modern, secure frameworks, reducing operational risks and maintenance costs by 70%.
Healthcare IT Innovations
Problem: Healthcare costs are rising, disparities in treatment plans and patient outcomes required options to improve outcomes, reduce costs, and determine best treatment plans with equal or better outcomes.
Solution: Led an effort to collect data across the payer/provider to an enterprise data warehouse, data integration, and analytics solution allow comparisons and unique analysis never seen before leading to the opportunity to help treatment plans, create reduced costs through treatments anticipated and provide. This cradle-to-grave aggregation of data allowed for a unified data system to create a centralized ability for reporting and analytics. This set the stage for our current era of machine learning and AI.
IT Talent Management and Upskilling
Problem: The company faced high operational costs and scalability issues with on-premise data centers.
Solution: Developed and executed a cloud migration strategy, moving critical applications and data storage to a scalable cloud environment, which cut costs by 70% and enhanced business agility while adding burst capacity using near-short staffing.
Cloud Migration and Strategy
Problem: The company faced high operational costs and scalability issues with a stalled cloud migration with only a lift and shift.
Solution: Led hands-on technically architecting and leading an engineering team to use modern service-oriented architecture, security to develop a cost-effective, and scalable platform in AWS. Up-leveled team and added near-shore expertise to redevelop and consolidate using cloud-native technology; S3, RDS, mySQL, Serverless, Lambda, and Python. The results led to a secure, scalable and reduction in monthly ops cost 15k to 7k and developed strategic partnership with AWS for well-built system.
Business Intelligence and Analytics
Problem: Decision-making was slow and often inaccurate due to reliance on disjointed data sources and manual analysis resulting in increased operational cost for marketing, patients, and overall operational cost.
Solution: Implemented a centralized business intelligence and analytics platform, enabling real-time data access and insights, which improved decision-making speed and accuracy.
Professional Experience
Audigy, Vancouver, WA, 06/2022 – 09/2023
Director of Solutions Engineering (Interim)
Hands-on technically architecting and leading an engineering team to use modern service-oriented architecture, security to develop a cost-effective, scalable platform in AWS. Implemented a new data interchange architecture using snaplogic for real-time data with snowflake cloud-native architecture.
Oversaw and contributed to the data and system strategy and architecture for a new enterprise data warehouse to provide deeper actionable patient insights.
Performed evaluation of technology to ensure HIPAA compliance in <1 year for product owner and system design techniques.
Managed vendors and evaluated competitive products to up-level team capabilities and fill technology gaps. Let to a 30% increase in capacity for the cost of one developer with near-shore burst capacity.
Stumptown Contracting, Portland, OR, 04/2019 – 06/2022
Data and Engineering Leadership Consultant
Provided hands-on guidance and direction to start-ups and growth transformations across various industries, including data analytics, marketing, and healthcare.
Mentored senior leaders and served as an interim technology and engineering leader, crafting meaningful and informative board decks and roadmaps, while driving change management on technology teams and organizational growth.
Implemented agile methodologies like Scrum, Kanban, and Lean, leading teams in critical product development and 2-week release cycles leading to desired KPIs and visibility.
AMN Healthcare, Portland, OR, 11/2017 – 04/2019
Vice President, Technology
Presented and successfully delivered competitive capabilities with cloud migration, increased performance by 200%, and developed new mobile applications and reporting platforms.
Restructured all SaaS product engineering functions, reducing technology and resource redundancy across 3 geographic teams originally comprising >200 engineers, and established a leadership mentor program to remove silos and improve collaboration.
Oversaw the design, development and delivery of new mobile application designed for England’s unique healthcare system and GDPR compliance.
Led the creation of a new data warehouse to provide metrics in locums and nursing performance and outcomes improving hiring selections and ensuring staff for uninterrupted patient care.
Led SOC and HIPAA compliance remediation changing a failing grade to an A.
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