Project Team
Jeff Duke, Project Manager – Electronic Medical Record System (EMRS) and Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) project manager for the University of Georgia for the past five years, Jeff has actively been involved with the products for seven years. His strong leadership has allowed the college to implement new modules, support process adoption, develop interfaces to external application components, and integrate business units into the EMRS / LIMS product solution. He has also served on the EMRS / LIMS executive committee for the past 3 years. Jeff’s success is based on the functional expertise he has gained working in a variety of veterinary and laboratory management environments. Paired with keen technical insights, he is able to bridge the gap that often exists between the business and usability requirements of end users and the technical and support needs of the information technology professional.
EMRS / LIMS Project Manager Role for UGA since 2005, and has worked with the EMRS / LIMS since 2003. He has also served as president of the EMRS / LIMS User Group for the past three years. He has been instrumental supporting the EMRS / LIMS for the Diagnostic Laboratory and Teaching Hospital so they may implement new business processes and functionality into the EMRS / LIMS. Jeff has also migrated the University of Georgia’s Tifton, Georgia based Diagnostic Laboratory and other sub-labs into the EMRS / LIMS.
Stuart Kimbell, Application Developer – Stuart has been a developer of web applications utilizing open source tools for over ten years. Java has been his primary programming language. Throughout his career, Stuart has been a part of developing and deploying over ten web applications supporting the University of Georgia.
Stuart has worked at UGA for all of his 15-year professional career. He began his career working for UGA’s Enterprise Information Technology Services (EITS) in a department known as Administrative Information Systems (AIS). It was at AIS that Stuart was a part of several large production web applications. During his six years at AIS he was a vital player in developing web applications supporting UGA’s payroll system (ePayroll), accounts payable (eCheck Request) and accounting (Personnel Activity Reports – ePAR). Stuart was the lead developer on the University’s Emergency Alert System known as UGAalert; overseeing this project from its initial design to campus deployment.
In 2007, Stuart was hired by the University of Georgia Center for Continuing Education to develop a number of web applications supporting the University’s conference center and hotel. At the Georgia Center, he developed and deployed six production web applications in his nearly 4 years of employment. The applications he developed included a new hotel reservation website, conference registration website, and Independent and Distance Learning course registration application.
Krishna Gollapudi, Application Developer – With a master’s degree in Computer Science and seven years of experience in developing software applications, Krishna has participated in all programming cycles at a variety of companies. One such example is UGA’s student portal (my.uga.edu), which he designed, developed, and tested while rapidly advancing through his department.
Although he was an electronics and communications major during his undergrad, a job offer from Syntel Inc. while he was a freshman made him realize that Information Technology would be the field in which he would make his greatest achievements.
Krishna’s Master’s degree came with training in diverse fields of computer science, ranging from theoretical problems solved using Algorithms and Time Calculation to developing Enterprise successful applications using the latest trends of software technologies like Cloud computing and Artificial Intelligence.
The headline of Krishna’s thesis was Cloud computing. He developed the SemCloud framework to compose applications on the cloud using a new annotation schema named SAWADL (Semantically Annotated Web Application Description Language). Krishna’s goal is to eventually be a lead software architect managing a wonderful team capable of amazing feats.
Jevon Maynard, Application Developer –
Coty Rothery, Application Developer –
Rick Eggleston, Business/Application Analyst - With a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture from Kansas State University and additional study in mechanical engineering, business administration and accounting, Rick has a diverse education background which has always had a significant focus on technology. After working as a landscape architect and being mostly self-taught in software development, he entered the field as a consultant and developer then progressed into software design and project management.
With more than 15 years of experience as a consultant in software development, Rick has worked in a variety of industries including timeshare management, employee background verification and information management, employer health services and management, health insurance, and credit reporting. In these positions, he was responsible for building and supporting applications for employee background verification, property management and accounting, web portals for BCBS and Experian, electronic medical records management (EMR), and billing and collections. His roles in software development specifically have included developer, technical manager, project manager, and business analyst.
Rick joined the VetView team in October 2013, with insight into the world of veterinary medicine from his twin brother Dr. Randy Eggleston who is an Clinical Professor at the College of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Large Animal Medicine.
Since moving to Athens in 2013, Rick has become an avid cyclist, riding many long-distance rides of up to 100 miles per day, for two days in a row.
Apart from technology, Rick’s interests include reading, camping, mountain biking, road cycling, photography, woodworking, and the art of baking bread. He also worked as a firefighter and emergency medical technician for many years while in high school and college.
Rainey Lynch, Support Agent/ Client Liaison - Rainey graduated from the University of Georgia in 2006 with a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and shortly thereafter realized that though reading books would be a lifelong passion, her organization and documentation strengths made Office Management and Administration a perfect workplace fit.
With 10 years of experience in data entry and bookkeeping, Rainey began her journey as a UGA employee in 2010, working in the Accounting Department for the College of Veterinary Medicine’s Teaching Hospital. There she improved the efficiency of her assigned position so well that she was able to take on the additional task of being an administrator for the hospital’s internal Wiki. One of the primary duties associated with the administrator’s role was to write end-user documentation for the UVIS system and to provide support for UVIS users in the hospital.
After a brief hiatus from Administration, wherein Rainey worked in management for Terrapin Beer Company, Rainey joined the VetView team in October 2013. Though this position represents Rainey’s first foray into software development, her previous use and study of UVIS vet hospital software combined with extensive experience in customer service will lend a unique insight to the training and documentation associated with VetView.
When not working, Rainey enjoys reading and writing, facilitates a community book club for young readers, assists a local artist with pet portraiture, and manages an Etsy store for folk crafts.
Product User Group
The Product User Group is a customer-based group that:
- Provides a community forum for the redesign process and for the design of new functional components
- Sets the priorities of the project issues and enhancements
- Participates in a community forum for questions and answers
- Shares experiences
- Serves as a resource for feature adoption and setup
Steering Committee
The Steering Committee is an administrative and accountability reporting entity that oversees:
- Hiring new staff
- Office space setup and maintenance
- Fiscal reporting
Steering Committee members:
- Dr. Gary Baxter – Committee Chair and Director for The UGA Veterinary Teaching Hospital
- Ron Stewart – Administrator, The UGA Veterinary Teaching Hospital
- Dr. Keith Harris – Department Head, Department of Veterinary Pathology, which includes the Georgia Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratories
- Matt Blankenship – Director of Information Technology Services, UGA College of Veterinary Medicine