About

From clinical data to documentation systems

I'm a senior technical writer in Saint Petersburg, Florida. I document complex healthcare software, and I build the automation that keeps that documentation current.

How I got here

My career started in clinical data. For six years in the US Air Force Reserve, I was a clinical data manager on an aeromedical evacuation team: the lead electronic health records expert for my section, training 100 personnel and auditing clinical documentation against federal standards.

From there I moved into data analysis and product work in health IT. I built an enterprise knowledge base for a 100-person informatics department at Florida Cancer Specialists, ran sprints as a Scrum Master, wrote integration documentation and state Medicaid proposals at Amida, and managed a development team for a healthcare data product at Wellsync. Along the way I earned a BA in professional writing and an MS in healthcare informatics from the University of South Florida.

Most of these skills exist because something went wrong once.From the README of doc-skills-library

Each of those roles came back to the same problem: people need accurate information to do their jobs, and it goes stale faster than a team can maintain it by hand. At MHK, I work on that problem directly. I write and maintain a 1,900+ article knowledge base, and I build the AI pipelines, agent skills, and MCP servers that review, score, and publish it.

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Career path

Twelve years, one through line

Clinical records, analytics, product, and documentation all turned out to be the same job: getting accurate information to the people who act on it.

  1. 2024 to presentMHKTechnical writer and AI automation lead
  2. 2023 to 2024WellsyncAnalytics product manager
  3. 2023Amida Technology SolutionsData analyst and technical writer
  4. 2021 to 2022Florida Cancer SpecialistsInformatics business analyst and Scrum Master
  5. 2020 to 2021MHKData analyst and technical trainer
  6. 2018 to 2019IntraWorldsBusiness data analyst: documentation, automation, white papers
  7. 2014 to 2020US Air Force ReserveClinical data manager, aeromedical evacuation
Strengths

What I bring to a team

Knowledge base architecture

Structuring and maintaining a 1,900+ article knowledge base: information architecture, single-sourcing, version control, and editorial quality rubrics.

AI documentation tooling

61 Claude Code agent skills and 3 Model Context Protocol servers for automated audits, scoring, and live system variable linting.

Healthcare IT and compliance

Medicaid systems, HIPAA, federal documentation audit standards, and HL7 FHIR and ANSI X12 data exchange.

Product and Agile delivery

Scrum Master for a 12-person team, product management for a 250,000-member data product, and client implementation work.