Richard Ettema
Lead Consultant at AEGIS.net, Inc.
Cape May Court House, New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Ettema is a seasoned lead consultant and enterprise architect with over two decades designing and delivering web and client/server systems across healthcare, insurance, telecom, order-entry, and financial domains. At AEGIS.net he combines hands-on development (Java/J2EE, PowerBuilder) with technical leadership and project management to modernize mission-critical applications and guide cross-functional teams. He has deep expertise in relational data modeling and legacy-to-enterprise modernization, honed through prior roles as a certified PowerBuilder and Sybase instructor. Richard contributes to high-profile open standards work, including back-end improvements to the HL7 FHIR specification’s TestScript and search documentation, showing a commitment to interoperability in healthcare IT. Based in New Jersey, he pairs practical engineering with teaching experience, often translating complex requirements into maintainable architectures and developer-ready guidance. Collectedly, his career blends longevity in enterprise systems with a knack for making legacy technologies productive in contemporary ecosystems.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, General Chemistry, BS, Computer Science, General Chemistry at Calvin University
Github Skills (3)
smart-on-fhir10
hl7-fhir10
documentation9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
HL7/fhir
Oct 2018 - Jan 2023
Official source for the HL7 FHIR Specification
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:109 commits, 46 PRs, 91 pushes in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Richard contributed to the HL7 FHIR specification, focusing on the TestScript and related aspects. The contributions include adding descriptions, modifying code differences, and merging branches related to test scripts. Additionally, the user made updates to the search functionality and documentation, which demonstrate their focus on improving the FHIR documentation.
hl7-fhirhl7fhirspecificationtla
rettema/fhir
Apr 2024 - Apr 2025
Official source for the HL7 FHIR Specification
Contributions:26 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year
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