Dominick leads a team of problem solvers with the aim of helping the company’s business partners and clients solve their problems with cutting-edge technology. Dominick explains his management process for a recent project: decommissioning an outdated decommissioning system.
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My name is Dominick Cirillo, I go by Dom, and I am a manager of software engineering at UnitedHealth Group, Optum. So the overall mission of my role is to lead a team through to help solve problems in our healthcare industry and we have to enable our business partners to solve those problems with technology. And you need folks to deliver that technology and it has to be done wisely, it has to be done efficiently, it has to be done so that we're not wasting resources so that we have those resources to disperse in other parts of the healthcare industry. We have a project that just came to my desk and we're decommissioning one of our older decommissioning systems, right, so stay with me on this, all right. And we're doing that because that decommissioning system from years ago was built on older technology from a vendor's system. We wanted to bring it in-house to UnitedHealth Group so that it's on newer technology, internal to our own systems, a little more efficient and cheaper. And so when a project first comes in, my job is to say what's the scope, what are we going after here and what's our goal? What are we truly trying to achieve? And I think that's kind of what I've been trying, some of the battles that I have to play in my role as a manager of software engineering is continually keeping in mind our goal of what we're trying to achieve. Because you would think okay, yeah, playing with technology, let me just take down this old system, build a new system and I'm going to be successful, but there's more behind the scenes that you don't realize is happening where the ultimate goal is, right, to help us save some more money so that we have resources to disperse in other parts of the healthcare industry. So in terms of what I'm doing, I'm looking at the data that's being used, how it's being used, finding the most and best efficient way to solve for the problem, and using technology where it's needed. I think one's probably gonna take us, it could be like a nine month long project, but I've worked on projects where we've turned around applications in two to three months. So I think all of it depends on the complexities of the requirements, the complexity of your customers of what they're looking for in terms of solutions.
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