Joel Ivey
Retiree at Retired
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoel Ivey is a retired software developer and longtime VA technologist with 14 years formally counted in software roles and decades of institutional experience supporting healthcare infrastructure. He maintained and developed core infrastructure for the Department of Veterans Affairs, working on legacy and modern systems using languages such as MUMPS, Delphi, Java, Perl, C/C++, and C#. Before moving fully into IT leadership and development he conducted biomedical research and earned a Ph.D. in Biochemistry, bringing a rare combination of scientific rigor and systems-level engineering to healthcare IT. As ADP Site Manager he led the deployment of DHCP-based VA systems, demonstrating hands-on operational leadership alongside software development. Based in Seattle, he blends deep institutional knowledge of VA systems with a practical skill set for maintaining mission-critical healthcare infrastructure. An uncommon depth in both bench science and low-level systems programming makes him valuable for projects bridging clinical research and legacy healthcare IT.
14 years of coding experience
36 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Biochemistry, Ph.D., Biochemistry at University of OregonCentennial Union High SchoolB.S., Chemistry, B.S., Chemistry at Oregon State University
Github Skills (5)
unit-testing8
testing8
mumps6
forum5
development-tools2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
joelivey/M-Unit
Oct 2014 - Jul 2017
MUMPS (M) Unit Testing functionality
Contributions:25 commits, 4 PRs, 18 pushes in 2 years 9 months
testingmumpsunitunit-testing
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