b'Hooman Katirai, MS (CS), MS (TPP), CSM, PMP\n232 Olive Ave, North York, ON, M2N 4P6\n(416) 722-2323, hooman@alum.MIT.edu\nProfile\nHooman has a strong background in technology complemented with leadership positions in\nregional and provincial healthcare projects. He has served in leadership positions for healthcare\nprojects with budgets ranging from $2 million to $55 million. He is experienced visioning, costing\nand executing projects from inception to launch and is able to provide a structured framework to\nanalyze complex situations into simple strategic imperatives. As a PMP and CSM, Hooman is\ncertified in both agile and traditional project management.\n\nAreas of Expertise\n\xef\x82\xb7\n\xef\x82\xb7\n\xef\x82\xb7\n\xef\x82\xb7\n\xef\x82\xb7\n\xef\x82\xb7\n\xef\x82\xb7\n\nLeadership and innovation\nStrategic thinking\nIT implementations\nProject management\nBusiness analysis and process redesign\nProcurement and RFPs\nPerformance management and scorecards\n\nEducation\n2003-2006\n2003-2006\n2003-2005\n1995-2000\n\nMIT\nMIT\nHarvard\nWaterloo\n\nMS\nMS\nRA\nHonors BASc.\n\nTechnology & Policy\nComputer Science\nMedical Informatics\nComputer Engineering\n\n(Health Informatics Specialty)\n(Health Informatics Specialty)\n\nEmployment\nCourtyard Group, Consultant, 2006-Present\n\xe2\x80\xa2\n\xe2\x80\xa2\n\xe2\x80\xa2\n\nDesignated \xe2\x80\x9cExpert\xe2\x80\x9d in Hospital and Health Information Systems\nAuthored company wide-methodology for implementing hospital and health information systems.\nRegularly ranked within top 10 of 100+ consultants for Corporate Development\n\nSelected projects:\n\xef\x82\xb7\n\nOntario Baseline Diabetes Dataset Initiative (Client: eHealth Ontario) 2008-Present\n\nThe goals of this project are to analyze OHIP billing data to:\n(1) Identify the 900,000 diabetics in Ontario and their Primary Care Providers.\n(2) Provide reports to all 9,000 family physicians in Ontario outlining the patients in their\npractice who require additional labs and procedures to guidelines for diabetes care.\nMy role:\n\xe2\x80\xa2\n\xe2\x80\xa2\n\xe2\x80\xa2\n\nDeveloped strategy, marketing materials, and project plan required to get the necessary\napprovals and stakeholder buy-in\nServed as project control officer and technical specialist\nCreated technology to optically read responses from 9000 family physicians concerning\n900,000 patients\n\n\x0c\xe2\x80\xa6 /2\n\n\xef\x82\xb7\n\nOntario Diabetes Registry\n\n(Client: Ministry of Health and Long Term Care) 2008-Present\n\nThe goal of this project is to:\n\xef\x82\xb7\n\nProvide the 9,000 family physicians in Ontario with a web-based portal to help\nthem identify the gap between the care patients receive and the care recommended by\nevidence based guidelines based on lab (OLIS) and OHIP data.\n\nMy role:\n\xef\x82\xb7\n\xef\x82\xb7\n\xef\x82\xb7\n\xef\x82\xb7\n\xef\x82\xb7\n\xef\x82\xb7\n\xef\x82\xb7\n\xef\x82\xb7\n\xef\x82\xb7\n\nSenior Business Analyst and Procurement Lead\nWrote and defended $55 million budget\nLead author RFEI, RFQ, and RFP functional requirements\nDefined scope of first release of Diabetes Registry\nReviewed and evaluated vendor responses to RFEI\nNegotiated and wrote documentation to release provincial data (OLIS, OHIP, CAPE)\nLed team of 5 business analysts to develop business scenarios used in procurement,\nrequirements and architecture\nValidated requirements with clinicians, and other stakeholders\n\nCardiology Transformation Project (Client: William Osler Health Sciences) 2007-2008\nProject: to transform 3 Cardiology departments at 3 hospitals from:\n\xef\x82\xb7\nPaper to Paperless\n\xef\x82\xb7\nWired to Wireless\n\xef\x82\xb7\nDisconnected silos to a common EMR\nScope\n\xef\x82\xb7\n\xef\x82\xb7\n\xef\x82\xb7\n\xef\x82\xb7\n\xef\x82\xb7\n\nof this project:\n3 hospitals\n8 new medical device modalities\n30 HL7 interfaces\n1 data warehouse connected to 6 information systems\n3 new information systems (for ECG management, PACS and a Cardiology EMR)\n\nMy role:\n\xef\x82\xb7\n\xef\x82\xb7\n\xef\x82\xb7\n\xef\x82\xb7\n\xef\x82\xb7\n\xef\x82\xb7\n\xef\x82\xb7\n\xef\x82\xb7\n\xef\x82\xb7\n\nTechnical lead (led team of 8 business analysts, testers, and HL7 specialists).\nDeveloped high-level architecture and requirements for 30 HL7 Interfaces\nWrote Master Patient Index (MPI) criteria used to unify records at 3 hospitals.\nDeveloped data warehouse to connect 6 information systems\nDeveloped performance management reports\nAutomated tests saving more than 2000 man-hours\nDaily clinician engagement and organization of clinical working groups\nDaily management of 3 vendors\n\nCritical Care Information System (Client: University Health Network) 2006-2007\n\xef\x82\xb7\n\xef\x82\xb7\n\xef\x82\xb7\n\xef\x82\xb7\n\xef\x82\xb7\n\nTechnical lead of a $16 million dollar provincial project used by 100+ hospitals\nLed team of 8 people including business analysts, testers, HL7 and network specialists\nProject managed 21 hospitals\nCoordinated user acceptance testing at 7 hospitals\nDaily vendor management including negotiation of fixes/releases, acceptance criteria and\nsecurity testing contract with KPMG.\n\nResume \xe2\x80\x93 Hooman Katirai, MS (TPP), MS (CS), CSM, PMP\n\n\x0c\xe2\x80\xa6 /3\n\nPharmAchieve, Founder and CEO, 2009-Present\n\xe2\x80\xa2\n\xe2\x80\xa2\n\xe2\x80\xa2\n\xe2\x80\xa2\n\xe2\x80\xa2\n\nCo-founded organization to train foreign pharmacists to pass oral licensing examinations\nHired 17 employees including professional actors to serve as \xe2\x80\x9cstandardized patients\xe2\x80\x9d and\npharmacists to serve as assessors\nEdited more than 100 case scenarios that students must practice\nAcquired Yonge Street location\nAchieved stellar satisfaction ratings\n\nHarvard Medical School, Decision Systems Group, 2004-2006\n\xe2\x80\xa2\n\nDeveloped toolkit used to anonymize more than 1 million patient records at Beth Israel\nHospital, Boston (thus exempting them from HIPAA privacy requirements and freeing the\nrecords for medical research)\nThe graduate thesis resulting from this work, \xe2\x80\x9cA Theory and Toolkit for the Mathematics of\nPrivacy\xe2\x80\x9d won 1st Runner up for MIT\xe2\x80\x99s Best Technology & Policy Thesis Prize\n\n\xef\x82\xb7\n\nDeveloped predictive healthcare models and predicted future year costs\n\nHarvard Medical School, INDIVO Health Record Project at Children\xe2\x80\x99s Hospital Boston, 2004-2006\n\xe2\x80\xa2\n\nTrained personnel in PMO methodology used to manage $30 million in projects\n\n\xe2\x80\xa2\n\nDeveloped strategies and technologies used to integrate medical records of Harvardaffiliated hospitals into a common multi-institution record that:\n\xe2\x80\xa2\n\xe2\x80\xa2\n\xe2\x80\xa2\n\nMaintains records based on the latest HL7 standards \xe2\x80\x93 without requiring the\nparticipating hospitals to internally adopt those standards\nAllows records to be upgraded to new standards that may emerge at low cost\nSupport records that are both human readable (via the web) and computer\nunderstandable (for data mining)\n\nThese ideas are summarized in the following paper:\nKatirai, H, and Sax, U. (PhD), Unlocking the Value of Clinical Information: What you need to\ndo now to enjoy benefits in the future, in Knowledge Management for Medicine 2005.\nAvailable online at: http://www.mit.edu/~hooman/papers/katirai_kmm2005.pdf\n\xe2\x80\xa2\n\nDeveloped a patient-centered system for Harvard hospitals that allows patient to control\naccess to their medical records via (1) a 1-800 number (2) the web or (3) or a cell phone\n\n\xe2\x80\xa2\n\nReceived offer for a \xe2\x80\x9cHead of Information Technology\xe2\x80\x9d position at the Harvard Center for\nBiomedical Informatics (CBI)\n\nMicrosoft, Product Manager, Redmond, WA 2006\n\xe2\x80\xa2\n\xe2\x80\xa2\n\n\xe2\x80\xa2\n\nInternship as Product Manager in Visual Basic.NET group resulting in full time offer\nAuthored 80+ Page Value Proposition and Vision Document for Microsoft\xe2\x80\x99s Visual Studio\nline. Work included customer personas, a competitive analysis, positioning\nframeworks (for media interviews and branding), a value proposition for 8 products in their\nproduct line and market share, growth projections, and future opportunities.\nCreated strategy for upgrading small VARs (the 2nd largest segment of previously untapped\ncustomers) to the .NET platform.\n\nResume \xe2\x80\x93 Hooman Katirai, MS (TPP), MS (CS), CSM, PMP\n\n\x0c\xe2\x80\xa6 /4\n\n\xe2\x80\xa2\n\xe2\x80\xa2\n\xe2\x80\xa2\n\nDesigned performance incentives for sales channels.\nSolicited support from other departments by focusing on how the strategy would benefit\nthem in areas where they were measured and paid.\nWrote Visual Basic user survey (costing $80,0000) conducted once every 2 years to guide\nproduct development and to measure competitive threats and user satisfaction\n\nVeristage, Senior Consultant, 2000-2001\n\xe2\x80\xa2\n\xe2\x80\xa2\n\xe2\x80\xa2\n\nConsultant in a software and professional service consultancy specializing in predictive\nmodels, business intelligence and software that can learn by example\nProduct manager of the Categorica suite of automatic text categorization software\nProject manager of automated foreign exchange trading software\n\nZero-Knowledge Systems, Enterprise Product Manager, 2000-2001\n\xe2\x80\xa2\n\nProduct manager chiefly responsible for technology vision behind a 300-person company\xe2\x80\x99s\nproduct used by large finance and online advertising companies.\n\n\xe2\x80\xa2\n\nDesigned service that reformed and repositioned the privacy practices of large companies.\nThe first customer was DoubleClick (the world\xe2\x80\x99s largest online advertising firm at the time).\n\n\xe2\x80\xa2\n\nTravelled to 5 cities to engage influential analysts, privacy activists, large accounting firms\nand academics likely to be interviewed by the media prior to a product launch.\n\n\xe2\x80\xa2\n\nRepresented company at technical standards bodies including OASIS and CPExchange.\n\nAdditional Technology Experience\n\xe2\x80\xa2\n\nPublished one of the first papers outlining how machine learning can be used to filter junk email. This paper is cited in 2 US patents (from IBM and AOL) and 44 publications:\nKatirai, H., Filtering Junk E-mail: A Comparison between Genetic Programming and Naive\nBayes, 1999, available online: http://www.mit.edu/~hooman/papers/katirai99filtering.pdf\n\nInternships (1995-2000):\n\xe2\x80\xa2\n\xe2\x80\xa2\n\xe2\x80\xa2\n\xe2\x80\xa2\n\nNortel Networks\nTexas Instruments\nWebSENSE,\nCarnegie Mellon University\n\nBackbone Network Specialist\nWindows Developer\nArtificial Intelligence Developer\nResearch Scholar, Business Intelligence\n\nCertifications\n\n\xe2\x80\xa2\n\xe2\x80\xa2\n\xe2\x80\xa2\n\nProject Management Professional (PMP), Project Management Institute\nCertified Scrum Master (CSM), Agile Alliance\nITIL Foundation Certificate (Expected Completion Date: Aug 2009)\n\nMemberships\n\n\xe2\x80\xa2\n\nMember, Project Management Institute and the following SIGs:\n\xe2\x80\xa2 Healthcare SIG\n\xe2\x80\xa2 Information Systems (PMI-ISSIG)\n\xe2\x80\xa2 Southern Ontario Chapter\n\n\xe2\x80\xa2\n\xe2\x80\xa2\n\nMember, COACH: Canada\xe2\x80\x99s Informatics Association\nMember, Boston Product Managers Association (BPMA) f\n\nResume \xe2\x80\x93 Hooman Katirai, MS (TPP), MS (CS), CSM, PMP'