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1. Maintains and enhances existing software, web-based applications, databases, reports, and computer systems to ensure optimal utilization and throughput.
2. Interacts with researchers and physician scientists to gather requirements, validate design and maintain relationships.
3. Prepares technical documents by designing tables and other objects within the database to generate usable views and reports for customers and creates backup documentation of systems and servers.
4. Ensures operating systems, languages, utility programs, information retrieval and support systems, and other general software packages are current and reliable for departmental and mission critical servers.
5. Performs advanced systems diagnosis and troubleshooting to ensure enterprise-wide systems are available and generates system utilization studies and makes adjustments to operating systems for optimization and recommends hardware and software changes as required.
6. Provide regular feedback regarding technology issues and advice on new developments in hardware and software and the implementation thereof, working with UNMC IT personnel, Nebraska Medicine IT and Laboratory Information Systems (LIS) personnel to ensure that information systems are functioning properly internally.
7. Manages problem log to ensure issues are handled appropriately to satisfactory resolution, documenting issues/conversations in appropriate format. Troubleshoots problems with clients. Provide communication to leadership of issues and problem resolution.

1. Serves as senior developer for software development of applications and databases, implementation, and planning relative to future technologies within the cores, the Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, and UNMC research initiatives.
2. Assesses needs and plans for the on-going technical development of the software, systems, and applications. Adheres to project plans to meet time estimates for software and web development. Provides input on build or buy decisions of software in alignment with business objectives.
3. Designs, assists development, and implements software, applications, databases, reports, and computer systems.
4. Designs, assists development, and implements technical architecture supportive of software and supporting applications.
5. Researches new technologies and brings forth ideas for consideration by department management. Evaluates system hardware and software packages to determine installation requirements.
6. Actively participates in committees that affect daily operations of the department and attends meetings necessary to assure the ongoing success of IT projects within Nebraska Public Health Laboratories, the UNMC Department of Pathology and Microbiology and UNMC research objectives.

1. Manages day-to-day activities in the collection of biomedical data from many sources and integration of this data into new forms to facilitate research, providing a sound infrastructure to help investigators share data in a secure manner, analyze their data using advanced computational tools. Enhances the departmental cores’ infrastructure for tracking and workflow to ensure operational efficiency and alignment with national initiatives.
2. Working with the chair, core medical directors, and assistant director of public services laboratories and translational research, lead information management and operational process improvement projects to ensure IT deliverables and activities are prioritized and successfully implemented to meet the cores’ business needs and research protocols consistent with overall project strategic objectives. 
3. Plans, manages, monitors and implements multiple information management and/or operational process improvement projects using standard project management methodology and determined process principles. Identify and scope potential information management and/or operational improvement projects. 
4. Demonstrates strong leadership competencies and application of skills that exhibit effective decision-making, strong emotional-intelligence, and the establishment of trusting relationships that positively influence the successful implementation of projects. Successfully work within a framework of ambiguity to collectivize all required stakeholder requirements and buy-in for effective decision-making in a way that maximizes end-user satisfaction with the product or service being implemented. 
5. Provides channel of communication for project status and issues through the collection and reporting of information during all stages of the project life cycle. Maintains a high level of interaction with all stakeholders to effectively identify key areas of opportunity to integrate thought processes, work processes, and eliminate duplication and waste where possible to achieve positive project outcomes. 
6. Develops and prepares training materials related to new systems and documentation to provide education as to system features and capabilities. Provides training to faculty, research technical staff, and trainees that include graduate students, residents, fellows, and postdocs. 

This position will be working with or leading an interdisciplinary team of investigators and research personnel in research related to informatics, so a record of leadership, project management, and collaboration including the ability to work effectively with administrators, faculty, staff, residents/fellows, and students will be needed.

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Decisions made by this position can affect the reputation of the IBB and those of the researchers that it serves.

This position will be directed by IBB leadership, including its assistant director, medical director, and department chair. This position will have a high level of autonomy and work and project management will be reviewed on a monthly basis.

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