JPSys LEADERSHIP
Meet the leaders of J P Systems.
Jackie Mulrooney,
President
Jackie Mulrooney is the President and Founder of J P Systems. With over 40+ years of IT consulting experience, she oversees 7 departments and casts the vision for future programs. JPSys has won 2 awards for being the fastest growing business by the Women's President's Council and the Washington Business Journal.
Galen Mulrooney,
Exec. VP
Mr. Mulrooney is an owner & Executive VP of J P Systems. He is an internationally known HL7 data standards developer and healthcare data architect. He serves as the Chief Technical Officer, overseeing several client projects. Galen was elected to be an HL7 Fellow since 2021. He was the lead modeler for the Federal Health Information Modeling effort for years. He holds an MBA degree.
Donna Freedman,
COO
Ms. Freedman is an expert in Federal Government procurement, program support, the FAR, and contracts. As COO, she oversees all operations, contract, and subcontractors.
Lynne Harbin,
Sr. Program Manager
Ms. Harbin is the Program Manager for our TSS IDIQ program, managing several client projects and overseeing their project managers. She previously worked for the U.S. Dept. of Veteran Affairs (VA) as Chief of Ambulatory Care, Assistant Chief of Health Administration, and then Director of Health Eligibility and Deputy Chief Business Officer for Member Services.
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Janel Downing,
Program Manager
Ms. Downing is on the board of directors at JPSys. As a Program Manager, she oversees three Clinical Terminology projects and deliverables and supports many internal company projects.
Dr. Sulayman Aziz,
M.D. , MPH
Dr. Aziz is a Biostatistician and an Epidemiologist. He is an expert in SAS, SQL, R, Python, and other statistical packages, including Power BI, Tableau, and Arc GIS for geospatial analysis. Also, he provides data management (data collecting, merging, cleaning) and rand analysis support. Dr. Aziz conducts descriptive and inferential statistical analysis (i.e., trend analysis, direct and indirect standardization method for age-adjusted rates), multivariate statistical modeling, logistic regression, and time series analysis.
Dr. Luann Whittenburg,
DNP, RN, PMP, FHIMSS
Dr. Whittenburg consults for JPSys to the VHA as a Business Architect for the Veteran's Health Information Exchange (VHIE) Program. She is an HIMSS Fellow and terminology board member with the International Council of Nurses and a member of the US Health Informatics Technical Advisory Group of the American National Standards Institute, and a US delegate to the International Organization for Standardization on Health Informatics.
Sandi Mitchell,
RPh, MSIS, FASHP
Ms. Mitchell is a Pharmacist who assists clinicians in accessing quality data for better patient care through interoperability. With over thirty years of experience in Healthcare IT, she has been instrumental in leading our Data Quality Projects to their successful completion.
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Lisa Erickson, CIO
Ms. Erickson, our CIO, has a B.S. in Computer Science and is pursuing her MBA. Her career spans 30+ years of technical team leadership, IT enterprise architecture, and systems design for Fortune 500 companies and federal clients. She is a SME in IT interoperability, having architected EHR standards-based messaging systems for state Immunization Registries and the Veterans Administration. Lisa was the Technical Team Lead for state immunization registries and VA Messaging software engineering teams. Lisa is an HL7 2. x SME and 1 of 9 national expert panelist for production of the CDC’s HL7 2.5.1 Immunization Implementation Guide.
Jamie Patterson
Mr. Patterson is a Clinical Terminologist and Healthcare IT Management professional with extensive clinical experience ranging from Laboratory Science to Clinical Terminology to Project Management. Expertise includes clinical content normalization, medical terminology, and healthcare information technology, including over 12 years of experience working with mapping to Standard Development Organizations (SDO) terminologies, including LOINC, SNOMED CT, CPT, and RxNorm.
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Rhea Sward
Ms. Sward is a Health Systems Clinical Specialist Senior with over 7 years of clinical terminology standards experience and 15 years of experience in Electronic Medical Record (EMR) software. Additionally, she possesses multi-specialty clinical experience as a Licensed Practical Nurse. She has provided Multidisciplinary Team Support for 10 domain teams, operating as terminology expert, functional analyst, and Subject Matter Expert (SME) in Meaningful Use 1 & 2 in healthcare systems, managed “BIG BANG” implementations Post Go-Live Support. Ms. Sward is adept at developing training materials, workflows, and best practices.
Claire English
Ms. English is a Health Systems Specialist, Subject Matter Expert with considerable experience in Health Information Exchange from initiation to sustainability. Her core competencies include project management, requirements development, clinical workflows, processes, integration, quality assurance, and testing. She is well-versed in federal health exchange applications, technical and clinical environments, and policies, procedures, and milestones.
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Jay Lyle
Mr. Lyle is a Chief Standards Officer, SME, Clinical Terminologist, and Project Manager who leads. This includes overseeing the creation of value sets in CDC’s PHIN VADs and the linkage of those value sets to the Federal Health Information Model. Mr. Lyle provides project management, business analysis, data modeling, healthcare terminology, and informatics expertise to VHA's Health Terminology standards-related projects. He supports VA Terminology goals at Standards Development Organizations such as HL7 and inter-agency initiatives.
Phylis Stromile
Ms. Stromile is a Clinical Terminologist with more than 20+ years of laboratory experience. She holds degrees Associate of Science in Medical Laboratory Technology, a Bachelor of Science in Medical Technology (ASCP) and a Master of Science in Quality System Management. As a part of her master’s degree, she holds Six Sigma certifications as a green and black belt. Phylis’ career spans 20+ as a Medical Technologist generalist in Medical Laboratories. She then focused her career on clinical terminology and spent 15+ years as a Clinical terminologist with experience in LOINC, SNOMED, RXNorm and other mapping specialties. In 2005, Phylis contributed to the initial decentralization for the Veteran’s Affair laboratories to meet the Electronic Health Record initiative.
Massa Hooke
Ms. Hooke is a Senior Health Information Analyst and U.S. Army Veteran with over 10 years of experience in the Healthcare field, bringing highly credible technical leadership to direct multi-functional project teams engaged in full system integration and implementation within healthcare environments. Ms. Hooke is well-versed in business needs, User Acceptance Testing, regulatory requirements, and internal control systems. She is highly successful at leveraging data trends and patterns to promote continuous process improvement and implementation. Ms. Hooke has a Master's in Health Informatics and Health Information Management from the University of Washington.
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Donna Redley
Ms. Redley is a Medical Terminology Analyst Senior who is a patient-focused professional with over three decades of experience in IT SDLC, clinical quality management, case management, and healthcare leadership. She has a graduate degree in nursing, specializing in clinical informatics, strategic planning, and project management. Additionally, Donna performs clinical analysis, working with automated scoring tools, Clinical XML validation. She supports clinical data standardization improving data interoperability between VA, DoD and other private providers. She is highly competent in clinical research procedures, including Data Collection, Abstracting, and Terminology (SNOMED CT, LOINC, RxNorm, ICD-9, ICD-10, and DRG).
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Marie Swall
Ms. Swall is an award-winning Clinical Subject Matter Expert who leads mapping efforts for standards-based clinical data exchange for our VHA client. She is a CDA standards expert and, among many things, maps legacy systems to new EHT systems. Her efforts have made a huge difference in the interoperability of Veteran medical records internally and externally to the VHA.
Angela Baker
Ms. Baker, a U.S. Army Veteran, has held various roles within Veterans Health Information Exchange (VHIE) Program. Currently, she supports the nationwide implementation of VA Direct Secure Messaging as the Technical Project Leader.
Virginia Wotowey
Ms. Wotowey has 27 years of experience in large corporate and startup environments in government and commercial sectors, emphasizing the Healthcare IT industry. She is an expert in project management, Direct Secure Messaging for healthcare data, and Health Information Exchanges management.
Seth DeBartolo
Mr. DeBartolo, U.S. Air Force Veteran, is a technical and business project management professional with outstanding interpersonal skills and has over 17 years’ experience in program development and management, including ultimate responsibility for program success and project management within each program.
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Bradley Bishop
Mr. Bishop has over 20 years of expertise in developing and understanding new IT business solutions. He is a collaborative systems administrator with the ability to help clients understand how IT improvements can directly impact goal attainment. As a leader, he directs a broad range of IT initiatives while participating in the planning and implementing of innovative solutions for data, testing, and system deployment. He holds a Master of Science in Information Technology and is working toward his Doctorate in Information Technology.
Jennifer Peeples
Ms. Peeples is a Medical Terminologist Analyst SME has an extensive background in data analysis, cleansing, mapping for federal and commercial clients. She has over 15 years of experience in successfully standardizing, organizing, and summarizing patient data, as well as designing and implementing clinical terminologies and content including LOINC, SNOMED CT, and CPT. Ms. Peeples is an expert in key components of data interoperability, technical writing, clinical informatics, and data governance.
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Elizabeth Choy
Ms. Choy is a Lead Program Implementation Coordinator with nearly a decade of experience in various roles within the Veterans Health Information Exchange (VHIE) program such as Lead Community Coordinator and Business Analyst. Elizabeth is a Subject Matter Expert in various subjects, including VA Exchange, Joint HIE, VA Direct Messaging and Cerner Millennium. Her strongest skills include tracking project milestones, developing comprehensive project plans, and managing interoperability technology projects.
Dawn Klein
Ms. Klein is a Health Systems Specialist Senior with over a decade of experience in supporting the Veterans Health Information Exchange (VHIE) program. Ms. Klein focuses on consumer health informatics to empower patients to access and use their own health record information. She is the VHIE program office Subject Matter Expert on the Joint HIE patient registry and patient matching workflow processes including supporting requirements development, workflow analysis, and User Acceptance Testing. She performs strategic planning, policy development, and business implementation support for the VHIE program.
Our Mission
Our mission is to improve clinical data usability, quality, and interoperability to support Electronic Health Records (EHR) systems through data architecture, data quality improvement, HL7 standards development, standardized reference clinical terminologies, and data management services.
JPSys ranked in the top 50 of fastest-growing businesses in the United States and Canada.
J P Systems, Inc. ranks 21 out of 50 in the Fifty fastest growing woman owned/ led companies in the US and Canada.
JPSys ranked in the top 75 Fastest-Growing Businesses in Washington, DC by Washington Business Journal
JPSys was 40th out of the top 75 fastest growing businesses of all types in the DMV metro area in 2021. We also were named a Top Tech small business in the DMV by the WBJ.
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Our President Jackie Mulrooney delivered great tips on a 'Women's Leaders in the Workplace' panel discussion for Woman's History Month at Delaware State U.