KevinFoster
Senior Software Engineer
May 2025 - CurrentSenior Software Engineer at a healthcare auditing company, responsible for designing, modernizing, and maintaining software solutions that support clinical documentation integrity and healthcare compliance. Lead efforts in migrating applications to cloud platforms, securing and stabilizing legacy systems, and developing new tools to streamline healthcare data processing. Collaborate cross-functionally with auditors, analysts, and IT teams to deliver reliable, compliant, and scalable solutions in a regulated industry.
Office of the CTO
June 2024 - March 2025Collaborated closely with cross-departmental leaders to drive strategic operational projects, ensuring technology initiatives align seamlessly with overarching business objectives and executive vision. Provided high-level strategic support to the C-suite, translating executive priorities into actionable technology solutions and fostering cross-functional collaboration to enhance organizational effectiveness.
Director, Application Development
June 2024 - March 2025Provided technical leadership and strategic oversight for multiple engineering teams, ensuring the successful and timely delivery of software solutions through effective stakeholder collaboration, priority management, and resource allocation. Drove innovation by aligning application development with business objectives and industry best practices.
Application Development Manager
June 2019 - June 2024Led and mentored application development teams, ensuring alignment of development projects with business objectives and delivering high-quality software solutions. Provided technical leadership and strategic guidance to enhance team capabilities, foster collaboration, and drive continuous improvement across development processes. Developed and launched a digital front-door app, achieving 300K user adoption.
Developer
July 2010 - June 2019Played a pivotal role in the design, development, and enhancement of NextGen Enterprise applications, leveraging both clinical and IT expertise to deliver high-quality software solutions. Responsible for end-to-end development processes, quality assurance, and continuous improvement of patient user interface templates, ensuring alignment with clinical workflows and business objectives.
Product Developer
December 2009 - May 2010Sole developer responsible for designing, developing, and deploying web applications that integrated seamlessly with existing customer software services, enhancing healthcare communication and administrative processes. Delivered enterprise-level solutions that improved patient-provider interactions and streamlined administrative oversight.
Software Developer
February 2007 - December 2009Developed and maintained NextGen templates and Crystal Reports, enhanced system functionality through SQL stored procedures, performed software upgrades and migrations, and managed client communications regarding software changes. Played a key role in improving system performance, client satisfaction, and operational efficiency.
Technical Support
June 2006 - February 2007Provided Level 1 technical support for enterprise computer systems and networks, ensuring system reliability and customer satisfaction. Installed, configured, and troubleshooted hardware and software issues, serving as a critical support resource for clients.
Computer Engineering
September 2001 - June 2006Completed extensive coursework in computer science and embedded systems, gaining hands-on experience in systems programming, software development, and hardware integration. Participated in advanced projects that combined software and hardware solutions for real-world applications.
Skills
HTML / SCSS / CSS / Styled Components / Javascript / ReactJS / NextJS
React Native / Android / iOS / Mobile / Ruby on Rails
RoR / C# / WPF / .NET
Node / Ruby / Python / NextJS / REST APIs
SOAP APIs / Postgres / MySQL / SQL / SSRS
SSIS
Microsoft Azure / Azure Devops / Microsoft Cloud Services / Google Cloud / Continuous Deployment
Continuous Integration / (CI/CD) / Git / SVN / Agile Methodologies
Scrum / Lean
NextGen EHR / NextGen EPM / NextGen ICS / Template Editor / Rosetta
Mirth Connect / NextGen Share / Surescripts / Interoperability
Manager / Director / Leader / Innovation / Platform
Engineer / Engineering / Hiring / Retention / Mentor
Prioritization / Cross-collaboration
SQL Server Management Studio / Visual Studio Code / Visual Studio / TortoiseGit / TortoiseSVN
Microsoft Office Suite / Word / Excel / Outlook / PowerPoint
MSTeams / Slack / Jira / Bitbucket / Confluence
Crystal Reports
Sample Projects
This Resume
A purposeful project with the goal of creating an easily maintainable, yet highly adaptable categorization of my overall corporate experience...
Format all resume data in a structured manner consistent with JSON Resume schema
Provide direct links to it from my personal portfolio website
Seamlessly integrate the JSON data into a fully autonomous system, allowing changes to tracked in source control, processed by a CI/CD pipeline, deployed to all necessary backend systems.
Craft the content with the assistance of AI technology (ChatGPT) to enhance clarity and impact.
iNag
A tongue in cheek named program that was designed as an announcement gateway into the electronic health record system.
The primary goal of the application was to act as an additional communication tool between end users and administrative staff to ensure acknowledgement of announcements.
The tool allowed administrators or operational leaders to present users with relevant information in PDF format, and then track each users' receipt.
Crystal Report Delivery
This application allows delivery of Crystal Reports by either Email or File export either directly, or scheduled through NextGen's Background Business Processor.
Enable the means to securely send Crystal Reports without exposing credentials by either processing by delegation or through encrypted credentials.
Configure report delivery details by report through a human readable XML Schema.
Enable built in error log review, or emitting to notification systems.
Wordle Clone
This is a clone of the viral puzzle game, created by Josh Wardle, and now published daily by the New York Times.
Use a predefined wordlist, randomly select a valid and guessable puzzle for the user to solve.
Provide hints to the user after each guess based on character location and correctness.
Celebrate a successful puzzle solution.
Client Information Form
An enterprise resource planning utility for tracking all B2B contracts and service agreement details.
Facilitated the conversion from a paper tracked process to a fully electronic system.
Systematically ingested legacy paper forms using OCR and image scanning to migrate into the electronic system.
Enabled revision tracking for individual business form changes with a managed approval system.
Embedded form functionality in the enterprise medical health record system allowing for automating payment adjustments and restricting services to allowables in the B2B agreement.