VirtaMed AG – Head of Data Services
2017 – 2020
Work Description:
When MedTech companies acquired whole fleets of simulators they wanted to keep track of and manage on the fly. VirtaMed also expanded into new territories and established competitive markets. For this reason, digital services, such as cloud and IoT technologies needed to be established. In this phase I was entrusted with the development lead of VirtaMed’s data services, aiming to interconnect the simulators globally, manage updates remotely, store training results in centralized data bases in strict compliance with data protection regulations.
TASKS:
- Evaluating near-shoring options: Searching and evaluating multiple off-shore partners within the European union based on various criteria (Education, closeness, skills, etc.)
- Project management: Defining overall goals, coordinating development across teams, marketing materials, sales organizations as well as planning the roll-out phase to a variety of different customers.
- Unification of the deployment pipeline: Unifying the code-base and automation processes for a streamlined deployment and update process across all products.
- Embed all standard products: Interact with all product teams to embed the cloud synchronization code and comply to specifications and regulations as well as data migration. Effectively all of VirtaMed’s standard products can now communicate with the cloud.
- Data analytics: Creating comprehensive data reports and dashboards of data produced on systems for development, support and usage data analytics, giving a high level statistical view of system usage and the ability to drill down into individual learning improvements.
- Legal requirements: Setting up a GDPR compliant disclaimer and enforced adherence within the development cycle, setting the company up for the new regulations around user data storage and security.
- Digitalization in company context: Collaborating with production, support, and sales to use comparable data structures.