Experiences at cerner

Responsible for the management of the relationship of specific corporate technology companies to grow revenues/margins utilizing the following strategies:

Communications
* Develop and deliver internal, external collateral (training documents, marketing plans, sale
program templates, solution description reports)
* Analyze and report on Line of Business reporting/metrics

Sales Support
* Develop strong working relationships with sales, delivery and support teams to ensure that product offerings
are brought to market effectively
* Prepare targeted sales offerings including specials/promotions and solution white space reports
* Manage all aspects of price file database for his/her line of business to ensure accuracy for quoting
purposes

Partner Management
* Manage, coordinate a new partner process (from Business Case to sales launch)
* Assist with partner negotiations in the case of new potential suppliers

Solution Management
* Know key technical highlights about products in your product line
* Develop and administer the CT Parts Database and PriceFile queue

Event Management
* Promote internal solution training events including Illuminations, lunch and learns, TSE clinics, webinars
* Coordinate of Client facing meetings, conferences, demos, Illuminations and e-Seminars...

Access & Core Team - Summer 2007
* Helped lower the TCO for clients through development on a project to enable multiple clients to share the same installation, maintaining privacy & data separation

Cycles & Centers Team - Summer 2006
* Increased efficiency of my team through the development of a number of internal reference plug-ins for the Eclipse platform
* Helped deliver bug fixes and enhancements to clients not on the most recent release through back-porting and merging code changes with an older release
* Enabled better knowledge sharing between team members through the modernization of the internal MediaWiki site

Choose & Book Team - Summer 2005
* Helped improve search results for a client by making enhancements to existing keyword search capabilities
* Assisted in quickly determining the causes of & resolving a live database issue minimizing downtime for the client

ProCure Team - Summer 2004
* Investigated & implemented methods to generate procurement labels...

Coordinating/Designing with design team (solution designers, software architects, engineers and Test Designers) on new projects for health care companies.
Designing high quality software systems using good design patterns in client/server architecture using C++, oracle and DB2 databases.
Planning and executing it, for my team on the new projects and client obligations.
Working with subordinate teams on planning new projects and deliverables.
Troubleshooting complex problems such as infrequent/random crashes on applications due to memory/stack corruptions and threading issues.
Co-ordinate with India engineering team in coding and testing around the clock...

Four cube walls and a calendar hanging on a teammate's outside cube wall.

The Avondale Depot! That's about the only thing within walking distance.

I was referred through a friend who worked here as a software engineer at the time.

Think stereotypical gray cube. Ever seen the movie "Office Space"?

Cerner has a cafeteria on the main campus; however, I usually try to get some leg-stretching time by hitting a local restaurant or going home for lunch (it's only approximately 10 mintues away).

Business Casual most of the time (nice pants and a collared shirt). There are the occasional jean Fridays and of course if you're going to be client-facing, you should wear Business Professional.

The interview process at Cerner is definitely a little longer than I've experienced at most places. Don't get discouraged if you don't hear anything right away.