Sparksoft Corporation Announces the Promotion of John Cavey to Chief Data Officer

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Columbia, MD, January 30, 2024 - Sparksoft Corporation is excited to announce that John Cavey has been appointed as our inaugural Chief Data Officer. With over 35 years of IT leadership experience, John has served more than 30 years in progressive data roles across various industries, including government, telecommunications, law enforcement, manufacturing, and credit card processing. As a federal contractor, John has supported the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for over two decades as technical lead or program manager on several enterprise Health IT data centric contracts such as Medicaid Statistical Information System (MSIS), National Medicare Utilization Database (NMUD), Medicare Advantage Prescription Drug System (MARx)/Managed Care Section (MCS), Medicare Beneficiary Database (MBD), Drug Data Processing System (DDPS), Enrollment Database (EDB), Integrated Data Repository (IDR), End-stage Renal Disease System (EQRS), Multidimensional Insurance Data Analytics System (MIDAS), and Medicare Payment Shared Systems. For the past 2 years as a Senior Solutions Architect, John focused on growing Sparksoft’s data science portfolio, including leading the capture for the strategic CMS Data Analytics Supporting Healthcare (DASH) BPA, supporting the CMS Master Data Management and Enterprise Data Lake (MDM/EDL) contract award, and expanding our footprint into adjacent Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) markets at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Institutes of Health (NIH), and Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

As the Chief Data Officer, John will lead a comprehensive strategy to promote data-driven decision-making and reinforce Sparksoft's data management and governance practices utilizing the high velocity and variety of current data sources and emerging technologies. John will oversee Sparksoft’s data-centric Communities of Practices (CoP), including Data Management and Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML), that focus on addressing complex HHS challenges such as health equity, dipartites in underrepresented populations, social determinants of health, healthcare interoperability, and AI bias and ethics. These communities will serve as hubs for sharing best practices, addressing customer mission and policy pain points, and collectively advancing our capabilities in the ever-evolving landscape of using data to inform decision making for Sparksoft’s core business domains in Medicare, Medicaid, ACA Marketplace, Military Health, and Life Sciences, including epidemiology, biostatistics, health informatics, clinical quality, and medical research market segments.

About Sparksoft Corporation

Sparksoft is a Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) Services and Development Maturity Level 3, ISO 9001:2015, ISO 20000-1:2018, ISO 27001:2013, and Federal Wide Assurance for the Protection of Human Subjects certified consulting organization with a proven record of successfully delivering modern digital health solutions for more than a dozen Federal, State, and Commercial customers. As evidenced by our 20+ active prime contracts and subcontracts, and further supported by our excellent Contractor Performance Assessment Reports (CPARs), Sparksoft is a highly mature and capable partner trusted by the government and industry. We bring to bear the essential institutional knowledge, contract vehicles, certifications, experienced personnel, and process maturity to deliver the requirements in compliance with Federal regulations, industry best practices, and agency governance needs.

Through our focused mission “to ignite innovation, inspire transformation, and implement digital solutions for a healthier nation” we specialize in DevOps Delivery, Data Science, Contact Center Operations, and Test Automation. Since 2004, our exceptionally skilled people, proven leadership, and optimized processes all work together to relentlessly push for more efficient solutions for our HHS, Military Health, and Life Sciences clients. We have developed a support structure of Innovation Centers designed to collect our enterprise-wide lessons learned and identify project-specific opportunities for improvement. SparkLabs, where our Research & Development teams explore ideas and turn them into real-world solutions is an important impetus in our drive for innovation. We continually pull from our experience and combine this with forward-thinking technology from our certified partners like Red Hat, Microsoft, AWS, Okta, Google, Databricks, and ServiceNow to conceptualize novel and effective solutions such as our SparkLoader® RPA data pipeline, SparkGrid® Snowflake GUI, MockSpider® virtual sandbox, ScriptHive® for TDD/BDD automation, SparkMarker® website acceptance testing, and 508bee® for accessibility validation.

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