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

Successful candidates bring recent, practical experience with medical devices, facility HTM operations, or healthcare technology implementation, along with strong project coordination skills. They can follow a technical discussion, identify an unresolved issue, ask questions to understand its impact, and turn that information into a clear status update or escalation for leadership.

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

Responsibilities

Ability to coordinate HTM deployment schedules, site dependencies, equipment and interface readiness, testing activities, and go-live preparation across multiple VA facilities.
Track project milestones, risks, decisions, and action items; identify how unresolved issues may affect in-flight work or deployment readiness.
Work with facility HTM, clinical teams, Oracle Health, vendors, and program stakeholders to clarify ownership, deliverables, and milestone status.
Participate actively in technical and operational discussions. Ask focused follow-up questions when information is incomplete or conflicting, and track issues through resolution.
Escalate concerns with a clear explanation of the issue, its potential impact, the decision needed, and the next steps.
Prepare status reports, executive summaries, briefings, and meeting documentation that accurately capture decisions, owners, and follow-up actions.
Support planning and coordination through readiness, testing, deployment, and post-deployment follow-up.
Work within applicable VHA processes, federal requirements, and healthcare technology practices

Required Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education and at least 5 years relevant professional experience.
Recent, practical experience in a hospital HTM department, medical device or imaging company, healthcare technology deployment, or a comparable field-based environment.
Experience coordinating projects or complex work across technical, clinical, vendor, and leadership stakeholders.
Working familiarity with medical devices and facility HTM activities sufficient to understand the work being tracked and recognize readiness concerns.
Ability to identify the project implications of technical issues and communicate them clearly to technical teams and leadership.