Shahid Shah

Current

Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at simplifyMD
Chief Architect at Budget Formulation & Execution Line of Business (BFELoB)
Enterprise Architecture Consultant at Executive Office of the President

Technology Lecturer and Trainer at U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
President & CEO at Netspective Communications LLC

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Past

Virtual Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Cardinal Health
SVP Healthcare Technology Strategy at Comsys
Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Physia Corporation

Lead Software Architect (Contractor) at Northrop Grumman (formerly TRW)
Computer Scientist (Software Engineer) at Naval Surface Warfare Center (U.S. Navy)

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Education

University of Maryland University College
Pennsylvania State University

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Industry

Computer Software

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Shahid Shah’s Summary

With an educational background in both Computer Science (B.S.) and Business Management (M.S), my specialty is bridging the sometimes large gap between technical resources, business managers, and CXO's. I have over 10 years of Executive Management expertise (as a CEO, CTO) with strong leadership, entrepreneurial and managerial skills including proven success in identifying and securing new business opportunities and converting potential customers into long-term business clients.

I have attracted, motivated, and retained teams of first-class technical and executive staff in large scale and regulated (FDA, DOD) environments as well as several startups. This included managing outsourcing contractors and overseas/remote development teams.

Although I'm well versed in many domains, my most significant domain-specific experience is in healthcare and medical informatics where I have spent almost 10 years in the architecture, design, and development of complex healthcare systems.

My technology skills include proficiency in C/C++, Java, .NET, C#, J2EE. I have also filed a patent for one of my software inventions. A copy of my complete resume may be viewed at http://shahid.shah.org/resume.

In May 2006 I was awarded a patent for reusable software (U.S. Patent 7039898 -- " Computer system for performing reusable software application development from a set of declarative executable specifications"). It describes a method I invented for performing architecture, design, and implementation of sophisticated business software using a specifications language.

I have served as Chairman, IEEE Computer Sociey, Northern Virginia Chapter and as co-Founder and leader of the Mid Atlantic Chapter of the International Association of Software Architects. I also serve in an advisory capacity to The Larta Institute for business development in early stage ventures and as a featured lecturer at the U.S. Patent Academy.

Shahid Shah’s Specialties:

Strong leadership, entrepreneurial and technical management skills. Over ten years of software project and commercial product management expertise. Over fifteen years of software development expertise in almost two dozen languages, platforms, and database systems. Signficant healthcare and medical informatics systems architecture and development experience.

Shahid Shah’s Experience

Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

simplifyMD

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

May 2007 — Present (1 year 3 months)

Co-founded and serve as CTO of this dynamic healthcare startup that creates deceptively simple software for small to medium sized medical offices. The software is designed to do practical, inexpensive, and easy to use patient-centric document management.
Chief Architect

Budget Formulation & Execution Line of Business (BFELoB)

(Government Agency; 51-200 employees; Government Administration industry)

December 2005 — Present (2 years 8 months)

Serve as the Chief Architect of the eGov Federal Budget Formulation & Execution Line of Business (BFELoB).
Enterprise Architecture Consultant

Executive Office of the President

(Computer Software industry)

2004 — Present (4 years)
Technology Lecturer and Trainer

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Government Administration industry)

May 2002 — Present (6 years 3 months)

Lecture and train new Patent Academy members on various technical topics such as software development, network management, and network technologies.
President & CEO

Netspective Communications LLC

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

February 2001 — Present (7 years 6 months)

Founder of enterprise architecture, information technology professional services, and custom software development firm. Recent assignments included:

- Enterprise Architecture Consultants to Office of Management & Budget (OMB). Helped define and design technology strategy and build custom applications such as Homeland Security Data Collection (HSDB) and PARTweb.

- Enterprise Architecture Consultants to Executive Office of the President (EOP, White House).

- Systems Architecture Consultants to CardinalHealth. Designed and built SupplyCentral, a medical supply master B2B hub that linked suppliers to providers.

- Chief Systems Architect at American Red Cross. Served as Systems Architect for National Biomedical Computer System (NBCS) medical device platform.

Responsible for all aspects of business development, sales, marketing, product development, and customer service.
Virtual Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

Cardinal Health

(Public Company; Computer Software industry)

2006 — 2007 (1 year)

Performed duties as the Chief Technology Officer (consultant), reporting directly to the President of the multi-billion dollar Clinical Technologies & Services (CTS) division of Cardinal Health.
SVP Healthcare Technology Strategy

Comsys

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; CITP; Information Technology and Services industry)

September 2002 — May 2004 (1 year 9 months)

Helped develop technology strategy for a new healthcare products and services division of COMSYS after the purchase of Physia intellectual property assets.
Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

Physia Corporation

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

March 1999 — January 2001 (1 year 11 months)

Co-founded this healthcare-focused Internet ASP startup and reported to Chief Executive Officer; created, grew, and led the team that built and deployed a high-volume healthcare transaction processing site.

Developed and managed large-scale complex software applications with integrated hand-held (mobile, Palm, PocketPC) and e-mail functionality. Managed the Intellectual Property associated with all software applications.

Developed a unique, highly-personalized, dbms-agnostic integrated OLTP and data warehouse for the healthcare community that could manage millions of patient records for any healthcare participant (clinics, hospitals, insurance companies).

Translated business needs into technical specifications and technical needs into business specifications, managed project plans, and created realistic project schedules on "Internet-time".
Lead Software Architect (Contractor)

Northrop Grumman (formerly TRW)

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

March 1995 — February 1999 (4 years)

Led the technical team responsible for the development of the American Red Cross National Biomedical Computer Systems (NBCS) Releases 1.0 and 1.1. The Red Cross NBCS system is the largest automated blood collection and distribution system in the world, responsible for delivery of over 50% of the blood supply in the United States. NBCS is deployed over a heterogeneous, distributed client/server environment with IBM AIX and Microsoft NT servers, and host-based and Microsoft Windows clients. Responsible for team leadership, software specifications, software development (ANSI C/C++ and UNIX Shell scripts), design reviews, code reviews, code management, scheduling, interviewing, and hiring.

Led the technical team responsible for the development and deployment of several client/server components of NBCS Release 1.1. These include medium-size applications that perform centralized reporting services (using Web/CGI applications, Crystal Reports and Delphi) and telerecruiting (using the web).
Computer Scientist (Software Engineer)

Naval Surface Warfare Center (U.S. Navy)

(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Defense & Space industry)

July 1990 — December 1994 (4 years 6 months)

Developed C++ software on a team project. C++ application was for ground-based UNIX workstations to perform simulation and testing of ship-based computer software and hardware.

Developed MS-Windows and OSF Motif software tools in C++ and Borland Pascal to perform reverse engineering and analysis of over fifty megabytes of code and data used on AEGIS-class cruisers and destroyers. Required complete database analysis and design specifications, communication with end-users, downsizing to client/server paradigm, programming the software, and documentation.

Enhanced programs in FORTRAN and C to support underwater (submarine) vessel simulation projects.

Worked on MARS project for support of low-level networking to enhance war games and hi-res 3D graphics for fleet combat simulation programs.

Wrote and had published technical reports and highlights. Served as chairman of the OOP subcommittee of the Navy Next Generation Computer Resources group.

Shahid Shah’s Education

University of Maryland University College

M.S., Technology Management, 1996 — 1998
Pennsylvania State University

B.S., Computer Science

Additional Information

Shahid Shah’s Websites:

Shahid Shah’s Interests:

Lecturing, teaching, training about technology strategy.

Shahid Shah’s Groups:

Chairman of the IEEE Computer Society in Northern Virginia (3 years)
co-Founder, International Association of Software Architects (IASA) DC Chapter, Southeast Venture Conference, Healthcare IT Blogosphere (HITSphere)