Tony Nahra CV

Career Objectives

Technically skilled and accomplished IT Professional looking for a rewarding and challenging position extending my experience into new horizons.
Programming, software, Math and technology were my hobbies before they became my profession which explains the wide spectrum of technologies that I am familiar with.
Most of my professional life has been in the financial and medical fields and my work is deployed on hundreds of websites educating millions of users around the world.
Technology and systems are my passion and my specialties are databases, statistical analysis, data warehousing and reporting.

Summary

Twenty five years of professional experience as senior designer/developer/manager
Expert in software design and development
Strong mathematical, statistical and reporting
Excellent team player as I coordinated projects across continents
Proven record of ethics, motivation and enthusiasm towards technology
Assessing needs, evaluating products and coordinating deployments
Documenting procedures and training roadmap
Reporting and presenting for executive decisions
Strong presentation and organizational skills
Career oriented, hard working and ability to handle multiple tasks
Up-to-date with emerging technologies and trends
Fluent in both English and French languages

Technical Skills

Epic systems: EpicCare Inpatient Clinical Documentation, Data Courier Mover
Database design: MS-SQL, mySQL, Oracle 23ai
Advanced SQL Stored Procedures, Pivot and Analytic functions See samples
Power BI: DAX fx, Time intelligence, Aggregation, Slicing ...
Data Warehouse: ETL, OLAP, Reporting and Visualization
Rapid Development: Oracle APEX
Client-side: JSON, XML, JavaScript, jQuery, Ajax, VB6 and HTML5
Server-side: PHP, Node.js, ASP, WebServices
Reporting: Python, Pandas, NumPy See samples
Agile Scrum using Atlassian Jira
MS Office VBA, advanced automation and programming in Excel
Amazon AWS, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, MS-Azure
Security meeting healthcare and financial regulations: RSA, MD5, SSL
Google App Services (GAS)

Other Skills

Financial theories: TVM, asset allocations, risk/return
Statistical analysis: large sets aggregation, regression, scenarios, OLAP
Hardware: Arduino, Raspberry pi, RFID, barcode, electronics
Chess: volunteer trainer

Education

B.E. in Electrical Eng., Major in Computers : American University of Beirut, 1988
English and French: speak, read and write fluently.

Certification

Epic Systems: EpicCare Inpatient Clinical Documentation
Epic Systems: Data Courier Mover
Microsoft: Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate
Oracle: Cloud Infrastructure Foundation
Oracle: Data Science certified professional
Oracle: 23ai vector search professional
Oracle: APEX cloud developer certified professional
Microsoft: Power BI by Microsoft Press
Atlassian: Agile Project Management Professional
NASBA: ITIL Problem Management Techniques

Full Certificates list

Conferences

HIMSS 2011 - Healthcare IT & management systems
Cerner technical conference 2015
Adobe MAX 2009 - ActionScript, Flex, Adobe Air
XML One 2000 - XML / XSL / XPATH
Microsoft PDC: 1995, 1997, 1998

Employment

Application Developer : June 2023 - present

University of Iowa Health Care, CCA division
HSSB, 3281 Ridgeway Dr, Coralville, IA 52241

Technical duties

Epic Secure Chat & Hello World development
MessageMedia SMS reporting, admin and automation
MS-Teams governance group and support
Voalte administration and reporting

Senior Analyst Programmer : July 2001 - June 2023

Patient Education Institute, Coralville, IA 52241, U.S.A. ( www.patient-education.com )
PEI publishes medical tutorials in multimedia format for healthcare companies.

Technical duties

Designed and developed a tutorial player with voice narration, questions, feedback, glossary, scoring features and multilingual capabilities to improve learning outcomes and increase user engagement
Database Driven LMS with completion records, response analysis and usage reporting
Worked with major healthcare institutions: NLM, Kaiser Permanente, Cleveland Clinic, HCA and others
Managed projects across continents and in different languages
Generated training material and plans

Managerial duties

Management objectives, policies, and procedures
Analyze operational requirements, subcontracting, outsourcing and work load distribution
Interview, hire and compensate technical employees
Setup and implement training material for employees and customers
Manage the Technology team, including Development, QA, and Training
After sales service and support
Product roadmap, priorities and market requirements
Operational expenses, training and legal contracts
Evaluate, negotiate and manage contracts. Identify critical success factors for large deal transactions

IT Education consultant : February 1994 - June 2001

Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, Abu Dhabi, U.A.E. ( www.ADIA.ae )
ADIA manages the wealth of Abu Dhabi which exceeds 750 Billion USD

Assisted financial analysts in implementing investment strategies
Setup training roadmap and guides to enhance learning
Simulation, back-testing, numerical analysis on large sets of data
Statistical analysis, regression and testing investment strategies
Data reporting, charting, slicing ( OLAP & data mining )
Excel VBA plugins to automate data extraction from SQL server
Text parsing and data extraction to import into financial databases
Linked Reuters and Bloomberg terminals to Excel for consolidated analysis

Projects

Interactive tutorial engine/player

I designed and developed a flexible and powerful tutorial player with voice narration, questions, feedback, glossary, scoring features and multilingual.
This engine could run in continuous video or in self paced mode.
Capable of running flash or HTML5 content

Reads an XML manifest and executes its flow control
Voice narration, questions, feedback, glossary and more
Multilingual and does not require font files on clients
Section 508 ( for users with disability or screen readers )
SCORM compliant and communicates with LMS back end
Integrated with CERNER's Millenuim EMR
Major clients : Kaiser Permanente, National Library of Medecine
Projects screenshots

Tutorial builder and tools

With the great success of the tutorial system above, we received many inquiries to use the engine for international languages.
Easy for any user to import a powerpoint presentation with foreign content and create a working tutorial without the need to add foreign language fonts.
Online tools to import and generate a tutorial

Converts a powerpoint file into an XML manifest
Creates vector graphics for high quality output
Later, I created an HTML5 version to run on mobile devices
No need for foreign language font files
Generates HTML5 version on the fly
Major clients : Africa, Middle-East
Projects screenshots

LMS to license tutorials and manage version updates

I developed a sophisticated Learning Management System for clients to subscribe and manage their versioning update logic.
This LMS system became very popular that many clients licensed it for their own tutorials.
Honeywell oxyfume licensed the system and a major police training institute

Publishes content for clients and their subscribers
Keeps track of usage, load, statistics and reporting
Generates PDF brochures with customer's banner and customization
Documents completion and responses to questions
Generates certificates or proof of completion
Projects screenshots

Webservices for webportal integration

A number of universities, hospitals and webportals use the company's textual content in structured XML with full integration into their websites through a set of webservices that I designed and developed.
Many clients take our raw structured content and format it to make it look like their webportal's theme. The system is fully automated and customizable.
Many hospitals and webportals in the Middle-East use this webservice

XML structured tutorials with sections, glossaries, questions and metadata

Tablet apps for offline with backend account management

After being a leader in offline kiosk for years, the ascent of iPad and Android tablets was a great opportunity for offline content delivery where clients subscribe to content on tablets to use them on hospitals' bedside, waiting rooms, admissions and similar.
Tablets communicate with a centralized server to download their libraries of interest and manage their accounts.

Tablets used for offline content
Content libraries with menus stored locally
Easy setup using keys for authentication and libraries
Projects screenshots

References

George Ghanotakis, PhD
President
Institut Philos, Montreal, Canada
Phone: (514)-893 5624
Bryan Mills
Marketing Manager
Procter and Gamble, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
Phone: (319)-351 5220 x 105
Asad Zafar
Product Development Manager
Patient Education Institute, Iowa, USA
Phone: (319)-471 2270

Other Interests

Fourier Transforms, FFT algorithm and Signal processing analysis
Physics, Quantum physics, QSKIT
Algorithms, Data Structures, Optimization and Simulation
Linear algebra, control systems, PID controllers
Gemini, AI, Machine Learning, LSTM, RNN ...
Chess, DeepBlue, Deepmind and other engines
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Tony Nahra : CV

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