Dirk Schumacher
Application Management In Healtcare Digitalization
Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolDirk Schumacher is an experienced digital transformation leader focused on healthcare application management, bringing over 30 years of practice and 14 years of hands-on software and IT delivery experience. Based in Nuremberg, he combines consulting, agile project leadership and change management with deep domain knowledge from implementing hospital information systems and Industry 4.0 programs across China and Germany. He has served as CIO of a Shanghai consultancy and led Siemens’ Industry 4.0 initiatives for Greater China, demonstrating comfort at the intersection of strategy, operations and local market execution. Dirk remains technically active as a freelance developer and open-source contributor, notably improving testing and IDE refactoring features in widely used R projects like testthat and RStudio. His background in philosophy, psychology and consulting underpins a human-centered approach to learning organizations, design thinking and product coaching. Colleagues value his rare blend of clinical IT delivery experience, cross-cultural startup exposure and pragmatic engineering contribution.
14 years of coding experience
Master of Arts (MA), Consulting, Master of Arts (MA), Consulting at Georg Simon Ohm Hochschule NürnbergMaster of Arts (M.A.), Philosophy, Psychologie, Soziologie, Master of Arts (M.A.), Philosophy, Psychologie, Soziologie at Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg
German, English
Github Skills (13)
unit-testing10
javas10
refactoring10
gwt10
java10
refactor10
r10
test-automation10
ide9
javascript9
develop9
front-end-development7
shiny6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
rstudio/rstudio
Feb 2014 - Aug 2018
RStudio is an integrated development environment (IDE) for R
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Dirk primarily contributed to the RStudio IDE by adding and modifying features related to code editing and refactoring within the Java-based GWT frontend. They implemented "extract local variable" and "extract function" features, modifying the `TextEditingTarget`, `TextEditingTargetWidget`, and `Source` files. Additionally, the user fixed whitespace issues in Shiny templates, demonstrating familiarity with the underlying R code base of the IDE.
iderrstudio
r-lib/testthat
Mar 2014 - Mar 2014
An R 📦 to make testing 😀
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:10 commits, 2 comments in 7 days
Contributions summary:Dirk primarily contributed to the testing framework of the `testthat` package. Their work involved implementing and refining a BDD (Behavior-Driven Development) testing language, including the `describe` and `it` functions. The user added and updated tests to cover various aspects of the testing framework, ensuring its functionality and usability. The contributions included adding examples, fixing code issues, and providing better documentation for the testing language.
testingrunit-testing
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