Kevin Hutchison

Kevin’s road to a successful technology career began at IBM. The son of a 30-year IBM veteran, he won a T.J. Watson, Jr. scholarship to college and spent his summers working at the corporation’s Pittsburgh office.

At Fiserv, his next employer, he developed IT solutions for large banking systems, including those used by Bank of America, Nation’s Bank, and PNC. As a vice president at CoManage, he directed a software team that worked to improve network quality by detecting and analyzing errors in telecommunication systems. Clients included AT&T Wireless, Sprint, and British Telecom. Kevin’s efforts helped CoManage win a variety of industry awards, including the 2003 OSS World Best New OSS Product Award, the 2003 Communication Solutions Product of the Year, and the 2003 Internet Telephony Product of the Year.

Kevin soon decided to apply his experience in telecom quality management to the challenge of health surveillance technology. Working at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Kevin collaborated with UPMC to lead a team that turned the academic concept of syndromic surveillance into a real-world application. That application was the genesis of Health Monitoring Systems, launched in 2006 by Kevin and Steve DeFrancesco.