I build AI tools for clinicians, grounded in eight years at the bedside.
I'm a critical care nurse and a Stanford-trained clinical informaticist. I spent eight years learning where hospital technology helps and where it gets in the way. Now I build the tools I wished I had at the bedside: redesigned Epic workflows, an AI policy agent nurses use mid-shift, and a scheduling platform I co-built.
Alec Womboldt, MS, RN, CCRN, TCRN
The Path
From Midwest bedside to Silicon Valley.
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2012 Manchester University
BS, Biology & Chemistry, minor in Sociology
NCAA cross country and track athlete. First degree, and the start of a pattern: endurance sports and human systems.
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2017 Lansing Community College
AS, Nursing
The pivot to nursing, then straight into acute care.
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2018 Corewell Health · Grand Rapids, MI
ICU Registered Nurse
Surgical and neurosciences ICUs: burns, trauma, and neuro populations. Where I learned how care teams really work.
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2020 EMU then to Stanford Health Care
BSN summa cum laude → Stanford
Finished the BSN with highest honors and moved west to Stanford's critical care region including the Surgical ICU and COVID ICU.
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2025 FullCircle
Co-Builder
Co-built an AI nurse scheduling platform and led product, go-to-market, and California regulatory strategy.
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2026 Stanford University
MS, Clinical Informatics Management + StaffQuery
Graduated from Stanford's CIM program and shipped StaffQuery, an LLM policy agent used by frontline nurses.
Experience
Where clinical practice met informatics.
Registered Nurse · Surgical ICU · Nursing Informatics
- Helped lead nurse charting redesign as an Epic Optimization Champion during a six-month nursing informatics internship, rebuilding inpatient documentation workflows so nurses spend less time clicking and more time with patients.
- Built and deployed StaffQuery, a generative AI policy agent that answers contract and policy questions in seconds. I shipped it myself on Vercel, with Claude and Gemini under the hood, before I had ever written production software.
- Chaired a unit improvement committee from idea through implementation, precepted new nurses, and floated across high acuity critical care units.
- Co-developed UNITTE, an interdisciplinary shadowing program we presented at the National Teaching Institute, a national nursing conference.
Registered Nurse · Surgical & Neurosciences ICUs
- Started as a new graduate RN in the ICU and built the foundation for exceptional assessment skills and patient care.
- Cared for complex burn, trauma, and neuro patients. Those years taught me how care teams actually work, and that understanding anchors everything I build now.
Projects
Built from problems I lived at the bedside.
FullCircle
Fair to nurses, defensible for managers, citation backed for both.
FullCircle is one product with two surfaces: a scheduling platform and a contract and policy assistant, both grounded in the same corpus of union contract and staffing policy documents. The schedule and the answers agree with each other because they read from the same source.
Roster upload by CSV, availability collection, constraint aware monthly schedule generation, live coverage and gap tracking, time off and swap handling, and publishing.
Sign in to view your schedule, submit availability, and request time off or swaps. A mobile first assistant answers contract and policy questions in plain language, with citations to document and page.
The hard technical problem: where a hospital policy conflicts with the union contract, the contract takes precedence. That precedence rule has to be encoded in how the system retrieves and answers, not left for the model to guess.
The assistant is deployed and in use at the point of care. I built the platform end to end while teaching myself to code, and paired it with a go-to-market strategy, California regulatory mapping under AB 394 and SB 596, and presentations to Stanford faculty, clinical partners, and nursing leadership.
How it works under the hood
UNITTE
Care teams work better when they understand each other's jobs, but most clinicians never see a shift through a colleague's eyes. UNITTE is a structured shadowing program that changes that.
Co-developed at Stanford and presented at the National Teaching Institute, a national critical care nursing conference.
Awards & Recognition
Academic and professional distinctions.
Education & Certifications
Formal training behind the practice.
- Registered Nurse (RN), California
- Critical Care Registered Nurse (CCRN)
- Trauma Certified Registered Nurse (TCRN)
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)
- Basic Life Support (BLS)
Where I'm Headed
The next chapter.
I'm aiming where clinical depth meets AI product work. Clinicians lose hours to tools designed without them. I lived that problem for eight years, and Stanford gave me the training to fix it. Depending on the team, that work takes a few shapes:
- Clinical Product Manager / Product Specialist: helping design, test, and refine AI agent workflows that interact with vitals, medication titrations, and clinical alerts.
- Clinical Informatics & Implementation Lead: managing technical rollouts, Epic integrations, and protocol configurations for newly signed health systems.
- Clinical AI Safety & Operations Specialist: evaluating automated AI model output against evidence based guidelines and ensuring safety guardrails hold true across patient interactions.
I'm also open to health system informatics leadership where the same product mindset applies. If you're building in this space, I'd like to talk.
About Me
The person behind the credentials.
I came to nursing the long way. My first degree was in biology and chemistry with a sociology minor, and NCAA cross country and track along the way. I didn't really understand what nurses did until I worked with them. Then I realized they carry a huge part of care delivery and are essentially healthcare's operations champions. Nursing school in Michigan, night shifts in trauma and neuro ICUs, and eventually a move west to Palo Alto.
The thread has always been thinking critically, learning, and fixing systems. I precepted new ICU nurses, chaired unit committees, and built shadowing programs. Along the way I learned that most challenges sort into buckets of people, process, or technology, and putting a problem in the right bucket is often how you find its root cause. The distance runner mindset never left either. I've finished the Boston Marathon three times (2018, 2023, and 2024), and I'm at my best on long, patient problems that reward showing up every day.
This site is one of those problems. I built it the same way I built FullCircle, by shipping, with AI as my pair programmer.
Let's Build Something Clinicians Actually Use
Open to conversations about health AI product roles, clinical informatics, and advisory work.
Alec WomboldtMS, RN, CCRN, TCRN
- aswomboldt@gmail.com
- Phone
- 517.285.9193
- alec-womboldt
- Based in
- Palo Alto, CA