Belma E Ford

Belma Ford

3609 Dry Brook Road

Apartment E

Charlotte, NC
Home: (704) 596-0960

wlbelfor@yahoo.com

Experience 

3/2008 – Present         Clinical Data Consultant- Supervisor, SafetySurveillor ®

Premier, Inc. – Charlotte, NC

* Participates in requirements gathering, testing, launch and beta release of new web based clinical surveillance tool SafetyAdvisor ®.

* Manages the adoption of industry standards- LOINC, SNOMED, Multum- across 26 hospitals.

* Requirements gathering for mapping and ontology application software.

* Implemented Symedical Server and trained internal users.

* Manages a team that analyzes and maps clinical laboratory and pharmacy data for over 300 hospitals and over 1500 users of a web-based clinical surveillance tool.

* Assist data management and client support team with client requests.

* Manager a team of eight clinical data professionals including medical technologists and pharmacists.

* Collaborate with product developers in initiatives for application development.

* Document requirements for application selection and development.

* Document mapping process and implementation procedures.

* Design and run SQL scripts.  Utilize SQL Server 2008.

* Review HL7 messages to determine parsing rules.

2008- 2010  Clinical Data Consultant, SafetySurveillor®

* Aid in the implementation of new facilities on web based infection prevention alerting tool.

* Perform QA of standardized hospital data.

* Electronically match clinical lab and pharmacy data to proprietary terminology.

* Review and standardize hospital data including lab reports, pharmacy orders, and surgery.

* Maintain proprietary terminology and logic rules.

* Provide Tier III support of web based infection prevention alerting tool.

7/2006 - 3/2008           Resource Microbiology Medical Technologist

Department of Veterans Affairs - Salisbury, NC

* Served as lead technologist in the lab in the absence of the laboratory manager.

*Collaborated with the Infectious Disease physician to monitor communicable diseases within the hospital

* Implemented hospital wide MRSA surveillance program.

* Trained laboratory staff.  Educated laboratory and nursing staff about surveillance procedures.

* Performed inventory control. Communicate and negotiate with vendors regarding contracts.

* Performed all tasks of a medical technologist in microbiology: Isolate and identify bacterial pathogens.  Perform biochemical tests.

8/2003- 6/2005            NSF Graduate Teaching Fellow

University of North Carolina at Charlotte

* Developed lesson plans and assignments for high school computer courses.

* Assisted in curriculum development for information technology department.

* Projects: A web based reservation system for a bed and breakfast.

- Potential guests could check room availability and make reservations online.

- Designed a relational database system and interface using SQL and Perl.

Informatics Software Application to Classify Protein Sequences

A software application that performed pattern matching and analysis to classify protein sequences using biochemical properties of amino acids.

- Implemented the algorithm using Perl, C++, and MatLab neural networks.

- Implemented the algorithm using MatLab neural network toolbox.

- Documented the test conditions of each test run and monitored the results. 

8/2005- 6/2006            Graduate Research Assistant

University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

* Analyzed large data sets using bioinformatics software tools  

* Compiled results from data analysis for researchers

* Project : Software application that will perform statistical analysis of microarray data using SAS and provide an analysis of the significance of the results.  Developed a data analysis application for microarray experiment data.  Responsible for testing and evaluating computer applications that identify associated genes and that provided annotated evidence to support the links.  

1/2002- 10/2003          Medical Technologist II (ASCP)

Carolinas Medical Center B Charlotte, NC

* TB/ Mycology: Third shift lead technologist.  Screened specimens for mycobacterium.

* Special Microbiology: Performed immunology and serology tests. Utilized Sunquest.

* Bacteriology:  Isolated and identified bacterial pathogens using MicroScan system.

Skills              

Programming Languages: SAS, SQL, MySQL, PL/SQL, Perl, C++

Database: Oracle 10g, Oracle Forms, Oracle Reports, MS SQL Server, MS Access

Software: Windows, UNIX, MS Office Suite, Front Page, Visio, WordPerfect

Education

Oracle Database Management with a Specialization in Oracle – December 2008

Central Piedmont Community College, Charlotte, NC

Graduate School of Genomic Science and Technology - 24 semester hours

University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

Master of Science in Computer Science - August 2005

Concentration in Bioinformatics

University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Bachelor of Science in Microbiology - December 1997

Auburn University, AL