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Systems Architect
The University of Iowa Iowa HealthCare
Department of Physics & Astronomy HealthCare Information Systems
517 Van Allen Hall 3281 Ridgeway Drive, Suite LL3
Iowa City IA 52242-1479 Coralville IA 52241
Phone number: 319-384-7016
E-mail address: rick-dyson@uiowa.edu
URL: http://space.physics.uiowa.edu/people/Rick_Dyson/
After graduting high school from DeSoto High in DeSoto, KS (located between Kansas City and Lawrence) I attended the University of Kansas in Lawrence for five years.
I graduated in June 1983 with both a B.S. in Astronomy and Computer Science.
Before coming to the University of Iowa's Graduate Physics and Astronomy program, I spent a year
living and working at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica for an entire Polar Day. I worked as an Upper
Atmospheric Scientist along with my team mate, David Clements, maintaining and running the 13
experiments that were part of that discipline during the
1984 season. I lived there
from 7 November 1983 until about 7 November 1984. (The lowest ambient air temp was -104° F,
everyone always asks!) I took lots of auroral and astronomical photographs while I was there and
here are two that came out pretty nice.
I completed my Master's Degree working with Dr. Louis A. Frank in May 1990. I continued with Ph.D. research projects but eventually accepted a full time Programmer Analyst position in Frank's Particles and Imaging Research group in 1993. I was later promoted to a Systems Analyst and maintain all the computing systems for the group and lots of the application software. To this day, I still support the research group's servers and data analysis even into their retirement.
I am now only working part-time for the Particles and Imaging Group as their IT support. My full-time (Day!) job is with the University of Iowa HealthCare Information Systems Department (UIHC/HCIS). In particular, the Laboratory Systems Administration Team Lead where I was the Senior Systems Administrator managing the OpenVMS Cluster hosting the Cerner HNAC PathNet LIS until it evolved into an archival system on a Charon Alpha emulator for OpenVMS. I am now a Systems Architect in the Technical Operations Division, Platform Technology and Systems Administration group. My team now supports all Pathology and Lab-based IT systems at UIHC as well as all Laboratories at the numerous UIHC Community and Urgent Care Clinics all around the state of Iowa. We also support 9 independent hospitals where UIHC provides the full Electronic Health Record (EHR) for their patients, including all laboratory instrumentation interfaces.
Software I Used to Support for OpenVMS
