Douglas is an entrepreneurial technologist with extensive experience delivering enterprise-scale products, including product architecture, deployment design, implementation and maintenance. He is a passionate leader with experience building, managing, and motivating teams.

He attended Virginia Tech where he studied Math, Biology, and Chemistry. (I know. We’re impressed too.)  After graduating in 97′ he joined Koz.com, an early social media company. While there, he built the community publishing software. In 1999 Douglas moved on to Coremetrics to work on their Data Acquisitions team. Prior to joining Escalation Point, he held various leadership roles at:

• Epsiiaa Fiserv subsidiary,
• RoadStory USA a hi-tech museum/attraction, and
• Buzzstream a social/media marketing & link building crm

When Douglas isn’t building and motivating technology teams you are likely to find him with a soldering iron in hand or patching up his giant modular synthesizer in his hill country recording studio. He plays guitar in an experimental art punk band called the Tetrahedons and he engineers and masters records for local and international bands.

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There’s been a lot of buzz about health in Austin lately, brought about largely by Senator Kirk Watson’s 10 in 10 initiative. HealthyATX, the Healthcare Special Interest Group for the American Marketing Association, and an Austin chapter of HIMSS, among others are raising awareness for the healthcare industry in our neighborhood, and we’re excited to be such a big part of the growth. Keep it coming!

From the Austin Health 2.0 Blog:

“Some Companies, Some Individuals and a Senator walk into a Bar…

Well, in case you missed it, our inaugural meet-n-greet happy hour was yesterday. And it was a great success!  We lost count of how many people showed up overall, but there were 50+ in attendance over the course of the evening. Thanks to generous support from our sponsor for the night, WCG, we were able to keep the drinks flowing and the conversation going even after the event officially ended.

More than the number of people who showed up to meet and mingle, we were really impressed with the diversity of the crowd and the interesting backgrounds that people brought to the party.”

The EP team is talented, energetic and collaborative. The office environment is fun and challenging.  If you’d fit in and match the description below please contact us.

• Timely delivery of high quality code
• Development of unit tests and integration tests
• Documentation and testing of code, code reviews, functional reviews
• Collaboration with client and project team
• Work closely with product management, interface designers, and other developers

Required Skills / Experience

• Minimum 1 year of commercial Java development for web-based applications
• Minimum 1 year of experience in web server configuration and architecture
• Knowledge and comfort with agile and lean development processes

Preferred Skills / Experience

• RDBMS Exerience; Liquibase, Oracle, Postgres, or Mysql experience are a plus
• JQuery, CSS, and client side technologies
• Experience with Hibernate, Spring, and Lucene
• Experience and comfort integrating with front end web technologies like Vaadin, Wicket, DHTML, GWT, Flex
• Experience with Linux system administration & Amazon EC2

Location & Other Information

• We are located in wonderful Austin, Texas, just south of Downtown and Town Lake
• Very little – if any – travel will be required
• We are looking for full time engineers

The drawMD team is expanding again, with the help of Hologic! The newest product, drawMD OB/GYN, is now available in the app store.

drawMD OB/GYN in the App Store

drawMD breaks down barriers of patient engagement by creating products that doctors use to provide personalized, easily-understandable information about conditions and treatments without costing doctors valuable time.

John Cox, CEO and President of Visible Health, the parent company of drawMD, says “Partners like Hologic are critical to drawMD’s success. Hologic’s sponsorhip allows us to not only reach more physicians, but allows us to provide even more detailed, medically correct stamps to use in images, creating a more thorough consultation experience and improving patient engagement and understanding. “

Using the iPad, OB/GYNs can create interactive visual guides as a way to explain complex issues and possible medical and surgical solutions. They simply select one of the detailed, anatomic images or upload their own and then sketch, stamp, or type directly on the images.  The images and stamps are preloaded into the app and are tailored specifically to each doctor’s preference. OB/GYNs can share the images with the patient with a quick click.  Saved files and emails can also serve as a permanent record of the discussion for office files and Electronic Health Records.

drawMD OBGYN screen shot

About drawMD:

Designed by two surgeons seeking to improve patient understanding of medical problems, drawMD improves the efficiency and clarity of patient consultations. Other drawMD applications include Urology, Anesthesia and Critical Care, Orthopedics, Cardiology, Female Pelvic Surgery and General Surgery. drawMD is the flagship product of Visible

The author provides 30 ideas on low-cost ways to show employees that the company cares. Going through the list, I realized that we at Escalation Point have already implemented several of these ideas, in some cases in our own special way.

1. Flex time

2. Innovation Days – can we get a picture of the team putting together desks for the office?

3. Fully stocked kitchen – One thing that you can say about our fridge is that it is fully stocked. College students everywhere would be impressed with our Tetris-like ability to utilize every square millimeter of space in our dorm fridge. We are in the market for something more spacious…

6. Free lunch (or breakfast) - We are located right at the intersection of tortillas and eggs on South Lamar in Austin. There are a ton of great places to get breakfast tacos around here, including our favorites: Casita Taco and Maria’s Taco Express.  Hardly a week passes without me seeing that familiar brown bag full of foil-wrapped goodness waiting on the counter when I come up the stairs into the office.

8 Parental leave.

9. No dress code - No suit, no sleeves, no sweat!

12. Optional telecommuting.

13. Tech neutrality – Feel free to choose from the MacBook Pro 13″, the MacBook Pro 15″, or the 6-year old Thinkpad running Windows Vista and missing the “S” key. We’re flexible!

15. Work Life Balance – leaving early, doing personal errands during the day. Going for a run at 3 pm with other head staff just because you haven’t in a while. Makes employees feel like it’s ok for them too.

16. Perks for part-time employees – Our part-time folks are treated no differently from our full-timers – they’re just not around as much!

17. Cultural extras – occasional dj spinning, Jill’s Bon Jovi iTunes stations, the comedy routines performed daily in the head staff’s areas… we’ve got it all.

25. Green initiatives – healthy, green food and cleaning products, organic company tshirts, minimal paper use throughout the office, lights off/low/on sensors

In all seriousness, if you are going to spend a third of your time in the work environment why not make it as enjoyable as possible? Our folks have shaped our culture…

drawMD breaks down barriers of patient engagement by creating products that doctors use to provide personalized, easily-understandable information about conditions and treatments without costing doctors valuable time. Download drawMD and improve practice engagement and efficiency today!

drawMD Female Pelvic Surgery is designed to aid a physician in improving patient understanding of proposed surgical procedures, or to help a patient gain better understanding of treatment options from their physician.  Pyhsicians can enter in patient’ email address and send the drawings discussed with a quick click.  Saved files and emails can also serve as a permanent record of the discussion.

drawMD is a suite of applications for the iPad that taps into the power of the mobile touch platform to help explain complex medical issues and possible medical and surgical solutions. Designed by two surgeons seeking to improve patient understanding of medical problems, drawMD utilizes the iPad’s unique interface to allow anyone to sketch, stamp, or type directly on the detailed anatomic images included in the application. Other applications include Urology, Anesthesia and Critical Care, Orthopedics, Cardiology and General Surgery.

Escalation Point has served as the product services partner for UrologyMatch and drawMD, providing product strategy, design, development, and product management services across all technology products.

See drawMD Female Pelvic Surgery in the App Store

Visit drawMD.com

drawMD Reviews:

iMedicalApps – DrawMD is a great tool to help surgeons visually explain procedures

Med City News – 5 Ways Hospitals are Using the iPad 

HealthCommunication.com – drawMD listed in top 50 apps for physicians

EP Senior iOS Developer on JobScore

The ideal candidate will be an iOS guru, with experience architecting and delivering clean, high-quality products.  They will have shipped at least one, if not many, apps into the App Store.  They will love working incredibly closely with product designers, managers, marketers and clients.

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The ideal candidate will have excellent writing and editing skills, be very organized, capable of coordinating with other EP team members and clients to accomplish tasks, and be very passionate about active use and community building through social media outlets.  Since we work mostly with healthcare companies, an interest (or even strong interest) in healthcare issues is a big plus.

The Escalation Point team is talented, energetic and collaborative. The office environment is fun and challenging.  If you’d fit in and match the description below please contact us.

Responsibilities

• Rapidly produce iterative web prototypes, UIs, and features
• Develop reusable UI components
• Adhere to and collaborate on style guides and interaction specifications
• Collaboration with client and project team
• Work closely with product management, interface designers, and other developers

Required Skills / Experience

• Minimum 3 years of commercial user-centric Web Application design and development
• Expert knowledge of CSS, XHTML and modern web design standards
• Strong UI development skills using javascript libraries (JQuery, Prototype, etc..)
• Strong interaction design skills and knowledge of accepted UI patterns
• Ability to rapidly design and refine UI designs
• Comfort with agile and lean development processes
• Self-motivated and capable of delivering an industry standard user experience
• Experience and comfort working directly with customers and end users

Preferred Skills / Experience

• Experience with RIA technologies such as GWT, Sliverlight, Vaadin, Flex, Wicket
• Working knowledge of server-side languages such as Java and PHP (Drupel, Word Press)
• Strong graphic design skills
• Usability testing experience
• Experience with accessibility compliance

Location & Other Information

• We are located in wonderful Austin, Texas, with our office close to downtown and Town Lake
• Very little – if any – travel will be required
• We are looking for full time engineers

About Escalation Point

Escalation Point provides business and product services to software companies or businesses with significant reliance on software products.  We help companies conceive, manage, market, and deliver relevant software products to their customers.

You can apply for this UI developer position online, if interested.