-: My name is Dominick Cirillo, I go by Dom,
and I am a manager of software engineering
at UnitedHealth Group, Optum.
So the overall mission of my role
is to lead a team through to help
solve problems in our healthcare industry
and we have to enable our business partners
to solve those problems with technology.
And you need folks to deliver that technology
and it has to be done wisely,
it has to be done efficiently,
it has to be done so that we're not wasting resources
so that we have those resources to disperse
in other parts of the healthcare industry.
We have a project that just came to my desk
and we're decommissioning one of our older
decommissioning systems, right,
so stay with me on this, all right.
And we're doing that because that decommissioning
system from years ago was built on older
technology from a vendor's system.
We wanted to bring it in-house to UnitedHealth Group
so that it's on newer technology,
internal to our own systems,
a little more efficient and cheaper.
And so when a project first comes in,
my job is to say what's the scope,
what are we going after here and what's our goal?
What are we truly trying to achieve?
And I think that's kind of what I've been trying,
some of the battles that I have to play in my role
as a manager of software engineering
is continually keeping in mind
our goal of what we're trying to achieve.
Because you would think okay, yeah,
playing with technology,
let me just take down this old system,
build a new system and I'm going to be successful,
but there's more behind the scenes
that you don't realize is happening
where the ultimate goal is, right,
to help us save some more money
so that we have resources to disperse
in other parts of the healthcare industry.
So in terms of what I'm doing,
I'm looking at the data that's being used,
how it's being used,
finding the most and best efficient way
to solve for the problem,
and using technology where it's needed.
I think one's probably gonna take us,
it could be like a nine month long project,
but I've worked on projects where we've turned around
applications in two to three months.
So I think all of it depends on
the complexities of the requirements,
the complexity of your customers
of what they're looking for in terms of solutions.