Bytemarks

That is probably the most frequently asked question I get these days. Simply put I am a technical liaison between the HMSA business units and the IS dept. Cool huh. Well, the devil is in the details and believe me there are a lot of details but for the most part that is what I do. Technology, whether it’s the Internet, telecom, enterprise IT systems or networking has a level of complexity that tends to grow over time. People don’t want to deal with these complexities so guys like me are needed to explain it in bullet points, break it down and keep it moving. I was trying to explain how IT was needed to handle all this claim processing to my dad and his comment was, “Don’t they have a clerk to do that?” Maybe I failed in my attempt to explain but nevertheless, the fun part about it is staying on the bleeding edge with some of the new technologies and initiatives. We’ll be rolling out a new hand held wireless device for employees which means new gadgets and there are social media initiatives in the brew. I’m also working on a z/OS mainframe upgrade which I am sure only a rare few of you even care about.

Now the second most frequent question I get is: Did HMSA raise the rates just to hire you? Ha, yea, right! The right answer is here. I’ll leave this it to the regulators and accountants. I’ll stick to technology, it’s simpler.