Project Manager

About Blue Water Thinking

Guided by our principles of value generation, continuous innovation, customer-centricity, and vested collaboration, Blue Water Thinking proudly supports our Federal clients in achieving their Agency goals.

Founded by a decorated twenty-eight year Veteran of the United States Army, Blue Water Thinking understands and supports the mission of our Nation's war fighters, Veterans, their families and caretakers. 

Leveraging our executive team's military experience and private and public sector consulting expertise, Blue Water Thinking takes an integrated "one-team" approach and brings to bear best-fit solutions,  thought leadership, and grit to meet our client's transformational needs.

Fueled by our values of integrity, respect, professionalism, stewardship and customer service, the Blue Water Thinking team understands the power of the human connection, collaboration, humility and loyalty to one another, our clients and industry partners.

Lastly, our formula for success is simple:  Build something good, take care of our people, keep our clients satisfied, nurture our work ethic and reputation, build long-lasting partnerships, enjoy what we do and give back as much as possible.

Job Description:

The Interoperability Project Manager supports healthcare technology management (HTM) interface work associated with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Federal Electronic Health Record Modernization (FEHRM) program. This role coordinates simultaneous interface workstreams across multiple VA medical centers. The Project Manager works directly with national, regional, and site-level Biomedical Engineering and clinical teams, technical teams, Oracle Health, third-party vendors, and program management offices across the VA enterprise.

Successful candidates bring recent, practical experience with healthcare interfaces, medical device integration, HTM operations, or healthcare technology deployment, along with strong project coordination skills. They can participate in a technical discussion, recognize an open issue, ask questions to understand its workflow and milestone impacts, and communicate those impacts clearly to leadership.

*Travel associated with this role will consist of being away for about a week every 2 months*

Responsibilities:

• Ability to coordinate interface planning, schedules, dependencies, testing, issue resolution, and deployment milestones across technical, vendor, and VA site teams in a large-scale program with multiple concurrent hospital systems.
• Participate actively in interface and workflow discussions with Oracle Health, facility teams, and technical specialists. Ask focused questions to clarify requirements, ownership, open issues, and next steps.
• Recognize when a technical or workflow issue may affect testing, deployment readiness, or another project milestone; document the impact and escalate concerns at the appropriate time.