Jack Murong

About Jack Murong

Whether in surgery, diagnostics, or human-machine collaboration, the core issue has never been how advanced the technology is, but whether it makes people safer, healthier, and more capable.The true value of technology lies not in its novelty, but in its ability to expand the boundaries of human potential by reducing suffering, enhancing precision, and enabling more people to access high-quality healthcare and capabilities.The technologies we create ultimately serve not just the market, but all of humanity.

Experience

1. Vice President of R & d - Diagnostic Radiology Imaging, Disease Management & Healthcare Analytics

   Philips

   Dec 2021 — Present

   Lead the research and development, technical decision-making, delivery, collaboration, and field support for an innovative medical technology product portfolio. This portfolio spans 10 product lines and over 30 products, generating annual revenue exceeding $900 million. Prioritizing patient safety and quality, it is dedicated to improving the lives of more than 200 million people annually. Supported and empowered over customers across radiology, mammography, cardiology, oncology, genomics, pathology, and informatics markets.As a servant leader, managed an R&D budget exceeding $90 million, guiding, developing, and overcoming obstacles for a global team of over 700 software and hardware engineers, architects, real-time engineers, data security specialists, regulatory and compliance experts, data scientists, cloud operations/site reliability engineers, and MDs/clinical experts. Served as a bridge for collaborative relationships and escalated communications with hospital CIOs, IT directors, and chief physicians throughout sales, deployment, and day-to-day operations and support. Integrated two acquisitions into business and engineering workflows.Oversaw the creation and initial delivery of a new cloud-delivered Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform and its associated medical diagnostic capabilities and products, such as AI-based diagnostic image analysis and interventional cardiology informatics. These applications are Java/React/JavaScript/Ruby-based medical informatics products; Developed using rapid release cycles, agile methodologies, and test-driven approaches; comprised of API-driven modular microservices; leveraged modern DevOps/DevSecOps, CI/CD, and CloudOps/SRE tools and practices, including Prometheus/ELK/Thanos/Grafana for observability and logging, Elasticsearch-based database performance optimization, and Kafka event stream management.

Education

• The University of Texas at Austin

  Master's degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering