1. SAVING THE MARGINALIZED
WITH ANALYTIC SUPERPOWERS.
Illumino Battles Frackture

2. In Datapolis, a subtle, insidious sickness is spreading;
a sickness that is completely curable simply by
having access to the necessary medicine that would
restore them to good health.
People are imperiled by the sinister villain, Frackture, who intends to bring
the city to its knees through a nefarious plot. Knowing he cannot prevent
the medicine from going out to the people requiring it, he chooses instead to
make it impossible to find the people who need it. By stealing into the highly
sophisticated worldwide network of societal information, he hides the citizens’
data, shatters it into indecipherable bits and scatters it into completely disparate
locations throughout the vast labyrinth of databases. Finding and piecing together
the information takes precious weeks and months, preventing access to medical
care for those who need it most.

3. The Datapolis Council of Elders is frantic. Realizing that critical information
is disappearing, they call on a brilliant young man trained in actuarial
induction, information management, dynamic scripting and processing,
random population sampling, non-linear regression and predictive
modeling. Dedicated to helping his fellow citizens, he commits himself to
the task of creating an enterprise data warehouse, gathering together all
the necessary data to speed healthcare out to the needy and using in-
,
database analytics to project the long-term impact.
Dr. Insight and The Center of Excellence immediately perceive they are witnessing
the emergence of a new Analytic hero. The young man is secretly recruited and in
,
a ceremony worthy of a noble knight, is sent forth as Illumino; the first Hero of
THE CENTER OF EXCELLENCE.

4. In response, Frackture steps up his attacks and fragments more and more
valuable, life-saving data, burying it ever deeper within the system. The
citizens of Datapolis gather around the Council of Elders and look on
with anticipation as Illumino scours the immense information network.
Using his mastery of enterprise information management, speed and
agility he organizes and analyzes billions of tiny pieces of seemingly
,
unconnected and splintered information. With blazing speed the names
,
of the marginalized citizens of Datapolis appear on the displays around
the Council of Elders. Cheers erupt and with precision timing, medicine is
,
dispatched reaching the desperate victims not a moment too soon.
,
That evening as the sun sets on the proud city of Datapolis, families and friends
gather around each other, talking excitedly about the events of the last few
weeks. As they head for their homes, they will rest securely tonight knowing
their loved ones are healed because of the amazing, life-changing work of
Illumino, Dr. Insight and The Center of Excellence.

5. QUICK STATS

6. ALTER EGO
Rick Andrews | Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Rick Andrews has been a programmer/analyst for nearly twenty years and has worked in the
healthcare industry since the turn of the century. He has experience in a variety of roles such
as information systems specialist, health insurance specialist, senior data analyst, engineering
analyst, systems designer, team leader, and mentor. He works in an array of computing
environments such as mainframe, UNIX, and Windows® and his strongest technical skills are
SAS® programming and the Structure Query Language (SQL).
Rick works in the Office of the Actuary for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
(CMS), and along with his wife Kim, is the organizer of the CMS SAS User Group. He has
trained hundreds of users over the years and meets on a monthly basis to continuously train
others, which helps to keep CMS economists, statisticians, actuaries and health specialists
on the cutting edge of their fields. His step-daughter, Sophia, has already learned DATA STEP
terminology at seven years of age. Ethan, age two, just wants to go outside.
The opinions Rick shares are his own. He does not make endorsements on behalf of CMS or the
Department of Health and Human Services concerning the use of products and services.