James Downie
Managing Director at Cove Solutions
Greater Sydney Area Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Downie is a health systems leader with eight years of executive experience guiding funding, costing and analytics across Australia’s public and private health and aged care sectors. As former CEO of the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority he led national reforms including a world-leading Safety and Quality funding model and expansion into aged care pricing and prosthesis reform. He now runs Cove Solutions, advising clients on complex interjurisdictional funding arrangements and pragmatic implementation of activity‑based funding. His background blends technical rigor from engineering and production roles with MBA-trained strategy and finance acumen, enabling him to translate policy into operational systems. James is comfortable navigating government, hospital and commercial stakeholders to deliver measurable system change. An early career in metallurgical engineering and mine operations underpins a practical, data-driven approach to large program delivery that many policy-first leaders lack.
8 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
MBA Exchange Student, MBA Exchange Student at HEC School of ManagementCompany Directors Course, Company Directors Course at Australian Institute of Company DirectorsBachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Metallurgical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Metallurgical Engineering at University of New South WalesMBA, Strategy/Finance, MBA, Strategy/Finance at Melbourne Business SchoolCopland College
Github Skills (47)
end-to-end-encryption10
collaborative-editing10
javascript9
collaboration9
encryption9
nextcloud8
owncloud8
file-sharing8
php8
community-management7
self-hosting7
federation7
usability7
onlyoffice7
docker7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
jdownie/dbrel
Jun 2018 - Jun 2022
Database Patch Release Tool
Contributions:36 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years
patchsqlrelease-tooldatabase
jdownie/hsbne.github.com
Dec 2021 - Aug 2023
The official HSBNE Website
Contributions:9 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 8 months
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