Brad Weaver
Systems Analyst
Skills Summary
Designed, implemented, tested, and maintained several CCL reports during seven years of Cerner systems experience. Possess strong knowledge of Cerner table schema including clinical event sets, orders, person, location, and more. Proven ability to quickly learn new skills as well as successfully manage multiple projects at one time.
Skills Profile
Cerner Millennium, Discern Rules, Discern Visual Developer and Layout Builder, CCL (Discern Explorer), PL/SQL, SQL, C/VC++, MFC, Visual Basic.
Employment History
March 08 – Feb 08, June 07 – Aug 07 Seattle Children’s Hospital Seattle,WA
CCL Reports Developer / Analyst (consultant)
- Completed over 50 change requests that included new reports, enhancements, performance-tuning, and defect fixes in the areas of Pharmnet, Orders, Pathnet, Surginet, Radnet, Firstnet, Scheduling, and EMAR. Entailed working with end-users to gather specifications, fine-tune the changes, and certify the functionality of the end result.
- Rewrote seven Dietary/Nutrition Services reports reducing the run times from minutes down to seconds, simplified the code, and created new ops jobs for them.
- Created a new EMAR report to display order information for a specific set of respiratory therapy medications whose charting tasks were overdue.
- Created two new Pharmnet reports to display order information based on orderable name or therapeutic class.
- Created a new EMAR report to display the administrations for a patient within a given time range.
- Modified four Pharmacy Label scripts (Intermec) to fix defects and add enhancements.
- Created a new Pharmnet report to display drugs that were dispensed but not administered.
- Modified five Radnet and Pathnet reports to fix defects and performance tune bringing the run time from five minutes down to ten seconds.
- Created a new Pathnet report to display blood component orders that are in an ordered status for more than 24 hours.
- Created a new Pathnet report to display blood collections where the sample size was inadequate.
- Created a new Radnet report to display orders created by the radiology schedulers.
- Created a clone of a Cerner script to display order information when a patient is transferred, admitted or discharged while adding desired enhancements (admission information).
- Created a new Surginet report to display PM Admits scheduled for surgery.
- Created a new Census report to show active encounters by nurse unit.
- Created three new EMAR reports to display administrations for a certain set of medications.
- Modified two Firstnet reports to add enhancements and fix defects.
- Modified two Ops Job reports to remove errors.
- Created a new Pharmnet report to display patients on anticoagulant orders and their most current lab values.
- Created a new Nutrition Services report to show the order workload of technicians.
- Investigated several requests to fix issues via code changes, configuration changes, or end-user training.
October 07 – November 07 Lucille Packard Children’s Hospital Palo Alto,CA
CCL Reports Developer / Analyst (consultant)
- Created or modified five Person Management reports to display admission information.
- Created three Scheduling reports to display information on patients turning 19 years old, physician workload, and outpatient surgical encounters converted to inpatient.
- Created five audit reports to display potentially erroneous data that has been created the system such as missing guarantors, multiple encounters on one FIN, and multiple FINs on one MRN.
January 2002 – May 2007 Cerner Corporation Kansas City, MO
Software Architect / Software Engineer
- Maintained, designed, and created new functionality for a Pharmacy Medication Order Entry application using CCL, VB, and C++.
- Created and maintained five CCL report scripts in the area of Orders Auto Verification.
- Maintained and modified the Dose Range Checking Discern Rule and also created two Discern Rules to display alerts to the user if certain order and clinical event criteria were met.
- Maintained four DRC report scripts used to display alert audits and data build information.
- Maintained a complex Dose Range Checking (DRC) script used to display critical patient safety information to users. Created and maintained seven CCL scripts used by the front-end pharmacy application.
- Created three CCL scripts that inserted, updated, and retrieved data in the Millennium Location model.
Education
1997 – 2001 Northwest Missouri State University Maryville, MO
B.S., Management Information Systems. Cumulative GPA 3.41