Hello, I'm Christina
I graduated from Olin College of Engineering with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering in 2020. My interests lie at the intersection of engineering, analytics, and equity. I am passionate about finding creative ways to leverage technical tools to enrich lives and reduce inequalities.
Currently, I am a Technical Solutions Engineer (TS) at Epic Systems, working on the Cogito Analytics application team. In this healthcare IT role, I work closely with hospitals and other clinical organizations in managing their electronic medical record data. I help them to develop reports, dashboards, self-service data exploration tools, and create predictive models to enhance patient care. During my time at Epic, I have closely collaborated with six organizations, including large academic hospitals and specialty care nonprofits.
In addition to direct customer support, I have been involved in several internal groups:
- Cogito Data Analysis Team: Utilizing data gathering and analysis tools such as SQL, Python, and R, I work with a small team to review trends in the usage of our reporting tools across hospital organizations to identify success stories and opportunities for targeted improvement. For the last year I have been one of the group leaders which primarily involves managing sub-team projects, setting timelines, and working with outside stakeholders on new requests. I've also led one of these sub-teams to build a Python-based model to help identify KPI value changes and corresponding usage of investigative tools. More specifically, we've been running a first pass model to identify denial rate change points across hospital organizations (using SQL to collect and aggregate metric data) and then looking at usage data to find any indication that our data investigation tools were used to help enact a change to reduce denials. The goal of this is to both evangelize success stories and share methods for investigating KPIs through our reporting tools.
- Error Log Management Operations Workgroup: I am part of a small, company-wide management group responsible for error logging and review. My role involves SQL reporting and creating a quarterly report for both TS and R&D leads to track trends in errors, development, and issue investigations across application teams.
- Sex, Gender, and Names Workgroup: As the reporting point person, I review reporting and analytics projects to ensure accurate and informed documentation of patient information, including legal sex, gender identity, and preferred names/pronouns.
Outside of work, I expand on my skillset through evening classes from the University of Wisconsin - Madison Computer Science (Courses: CS 300 Programming II, CS 400 Programming III, ,CS 5264 Introduction to Database Systems, and CS 571 User Interface Design) and participation in the 2023 and 2024 QSIDE Data Hackathons.
During my time in college, I worked on a variety of projects, including assistive technology design and underwater robotics (see Summer 2017 Research and Rapid Prototyping). I also completed three semesters of an Affordable Design and Entrepreneurship (ADE) capstone program including:
- Shifting Rhythms ADE team: Contributed to building a project-based educational curriculum for after-school programs in Coahoma County, Mississippi.
- Global Health ADE team: Collaborated with Solar Ear to research and initiate the design of an affordable hearing screening tool for newborns.
In addition to my engineering degree, I created a humanities concentration focusing on social psychology and diversity studies (see more about these classes from my semester in Amsterdam). I continue to incorporate lessons and theories from these studies into my work and actively seek ways to amplify underrepresented voices in my daily life.
Feel free to connect with me on LinkedIn or review my resume here.