Get to know seven new coworkers through their answers to goofy questions. Keep reading even further to for a special UPMCE Fun Facts Throwback about a longtime colleague!
Stephen (Steve, StevieD) D’ambrosio, Associate Product Manager – Pharmacy Applications
Do you have any kids? Any pets? I have a 5-month-old daughter named Tessa. I’m not allowed any pets until I get a barn.
What’s your least favorite word? I really don’t care for the phrase “It is what it is.” Is it? Further, in my previous position, the word “liaison” was part of the regular terminology. I misspelled it for months and I often found the word misspelled in the database.
Where in the universe would you like to visit someday? Pluto. I’ll take some firsthand measurements to help figure out if it’s a planet.
What’s in your perfect meal? It might be controversial, but I love peanut butter.
Free space: Share any fun fact! I love motorcycles and dirt bikes. I started riding when I was 4 years old. Also, I spent two years working in pharmacies in Hawaii for McKesson. There are a lot of geckos in the Hawaiian pharmacies and I’m told they’re preferable to the cockroaches.
William (Will) Boneham, Customer Care Coordinator – Vincent Payment Solutions
How did you get into the industry? I originally was a sales manager in car sales before I decided to get into health administration and was a team lead and clinic manager. This is a progression of my career path.
Do you have any kids? Any pets? No kids but do have two dogs, Koda (big white and fluffy) and Etta James (brown short haired). Both are very lovable.
Do you have an unusual talent or hobby? I play poker at a fairly high level and have placed in professional tournaments and won a couple of side tournaments in professional tours.
What’s in your perfect meal? Fancy steakhouse – a large Porterhouse, asparagus, creamed spinach, and some kind of starch. Also love crab leg buckets.
If any musician or band could give you a personal concert, who would it be? Pink Floyd would be great.
Amber Greene, Marketing & Communications Manager
Are you a Pittsburgh local or did you grow up elsewhere? Born and raised in Pittsburgh.
What’s your least favorite word? No! It usually goes in one ear and out the other.
Where in the universe would you like to visit someday? Anywhere that has a beach. But if I had to choose one place it would be Bora Bora.
What’s in your perfect meal? Delmonico steak, mashed potatoes, Caesar salad … and a slice of pizza.
If any musician or band could give you a personal concert, who would it be? Hands down, Mariah Carey!
Free space: Share any fun fact! I own a bakery at The Waterfront in Homestead called Cakery Square. Our primary focus is to empower and provide jobs to underprivileged youth within the community. The bonus is that we sell delicious desserts, specialty loose leaf tea, gelato, as well as offer cake decorating classes for kids and adults. Stop by and visit sometime.
Christine Chong, Senior Product Analyst – Vincent
Are you a Pittsburgh local or did you grow up elsewhere? I grew up in Charleston, S.C. Once I moved to the City of Bridges, I gained a new appreciation for the Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge which is one of the longest cable stayed bridges in North America.
What’s your least favorite word? Quiet. As a holdover from my EMS days, I superstitiously avoid saying the Q word.
What’s in your perfect meal? Mac and Cheese! Working in an office so close to Panera’s mac and cheese is dangerous ^_^.
Which is better: board games or video games? Board Games! More specifically Connect 4.
Joe Kuhel, Software Engineer, Tech Lead – hcOS
Do you have any kids? Any pets? I’m happily married to my wife, Jen, for 14 years now. I have two kids, Joey and Julia, who are 12 and 9. And we also recently got a puppy that we are in the process of training.
Do you have an unusual talent or hobby? I like to fly fish. I also have been tying flies for fishing since I was a kid.
Are you a Pittsburgh local or did you grow up elsewhere? I’ve lived near Pittsburgh nearly my whole life but was born near Denver, Colorado.
Which is better; board games or video games? I certainly like both but lately I’ve been leaning toward liking board games more.
Matt Sebolt, Systems Analyst
How did you get into the industry? I was originally attending college for my MIS degree at IUP.
Are you a Pittsburgh local or did you grow up elsewhere? I am a Pittsburgh local. I was born and raised in a small town south of Pittsburgh called Finleyville.
Do you have any kids? Any pets? I have a 2-year-old daughter who has changed my life forever.
Do you have an unusual talent or hobby? My unusual talent is being a man that knows how to outcook almost anyone around him.
Divya Bollineni, Data Analyst – Data Engineering
How did you get into the industry? Went to college for Computer Science and Engineering.
Are you a Pittsburgh local or did you grow up elsewhere? Moved to Pittsburgh from India in 2008.
Do you have any kids? Any pets? Have a 6-year-old son.
Do you have an unusual talent or hobby? Oil painting on canvas.
Where in the universe would you like to visit someday? Mars … one step at a time.
Which is better: board games or video games? Definitely board games.
Throwback!
Bill Costantini, Subject Matter Expert – Data Engineering Team
How did you get into the industry? It’s a long story. I started as a RN at Presbyterian in 1988 after graduating from Nursing School. I began work in Liver Transplant ICU and stayed there for 10 years. During that time, I also worked on my skills in computers and programming. While in Nursing School, I wrote and sold a program to a Trucking company to manage their trip leasing. While working as a Nurse I started a small computer business with another RN. We sold PC’s, did upgrades and troubleshooting. That later grew into a printing business doing Weddings. With all that going on, in 1998 I was approached to join the Clinical Team for the Cerner implementation. I had worked on the Emtek deployment to the ICU’s before. After moving to the UPMC Cerner team, and working on building out the Cerner application, I was asked to take on managing the technical team for Cerner. I did that from 2000 to 2013, then came to UPMCE as a Dev Manager, and several other roles over time. So, it was a slow start into IS followed by jumping into it with both feet and then some.
How long have you been working at UPMCE? June this year made it 5 years. I have been with UPMC for 30 years overall.
What’s changed the most since you started here? Use and dependency on Computers has been the biggest change in 30 years at UPMC. At UPMCE, I would say that it is the constantly flowing and change to match up to the market and industry trends that have increased in speed over the last 5 years.
What’s your favorite part about working here? Lots of things. After working in the ICU for 10 years, then 15 years in managing Cerner and the IOC, it’s kind of refreshing to be able to work on things that are creative and developing without also worrying about someone bleeding out, or the systems crashing and the entire health systems patient care is impacted at the same time. It’s also great to see things that we do benefit UPMC patient care whether directly (bedside) or indirectly (back office) that innovate care and address the common problems in healthcare overall.
Do you have an unusual talent or hobby? While working on Cerner and in ISD I got into Disaster Recovery and Systems Management and have taught/presented on it at University of Pittsburgh, Duquesne University, Pitt Bioinformatics, and Oracle Open World over the years.
Share any fun fact? I am a Trekkie as well as a Star Wars fan (I saw Star Wars EP4 when it first came out 114 times in the theater in its first run), but am also a major Whovian Fan and have done podcasts and web stuff on it, and spent 2 weeks in New Castle Upon Tyne in the UK working on UPMC’s International team deploying Cerner there, and got to soak up all the Whovian atmosphere there.
