November 2004 - May 2015

 
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Manager

Regional Health System, 400+ Beds

ICD-10 Technology Lead, 4 Months

  • Reviewed inventory of technology used across multiple hospitals and outpatient facilities to determine system versions and ICD-10 compliance

  • Coordinated quality assurance scope, activities, and delivery timelines with testing managers and team

  • Developed timelines and project plans to ensure compliance with ICD-10 standards across IT platforms by the government mandated deadline reporting directly to client’s senior leadership

Large Regional Health System, 4000+ Beds

ICD-10 Quality Assurance Lead, 13 Months

  • Surveyed and analyzed current application state and identified gaps around ICD-10 remediation

  • Developed testing approach and strategy to remediate 150+ applications across 13+ facilities by compliance deadline

  • Managed day-to-day activities of 25+ resources across multiple work threads

  • Worked directly with senior leadership to mitigate project risks and adjust work plans as necessary

Meaningful Use Legislative Analyst

Team Lead, 14 Months

  • Performed analysis of Meaningful Use Stage 2 legislation and created internal documents summarizing key impacts

  • Hosted Meaningful Use Q&A sessions with internal practitioners to brief them on latest legislative updates

  • Served as the single point of contact for all Meaningful Use research and activities

  • Published Meaningful Use Whitepapers

Large Academic Medical Center, 700+ Beds

Quality Assurance Team Lead, 7 Months

  • Defined testing requirements and overall scope of testing for Epic Revenue Cycle implementation

  • Tracked and reported on testing activities to senior leadership

  • Managed day-to-day activities for a team of 5 resources

Regional Health System, +500 Beds

Health Information Exchange Integration Lead, 4 Months

  • Led workgroups to define future state data flows and requirements

  • Worked with vendor partners to develop overall integration model with data warehouses and analytics engines

  • Communicated with state reporting agencies to define regulatory data and reporting requirements

Large Academic Medical Center, +900 Beds

Quality Assurance Lead, 8 Months

  • Worked with executive leadership to establish comprehensive quality reviews of new clinical information system

  • Led team of resources to effectively coordinate and deliver on testing and quality assurance activities

  • Provided day-to-day oversight, direction, and management to core team of resources

  • Reported directly to senior project and client leadership

Large Multi-State Catholic Health System, +9M Members

Project Management Lead, 24 Months

  • Worked with executive leadership to define scope of work, functionality to be implemented, and approximate resource requirements throughout the entire project lifecycle

  • Developed detailed timelines and milestones between end users, technical resources, trainers, testing resources, and external vendors with associated buy-in from all parties

  • Provided day-to-day oversight on 30+ resources across multiple teams with a multi-million dollar budget with weekly reviews of overall project progress

Large Multi-State Health Plan, +9M Members

Testing Analyst, 5 Months

  • Worked with business leadership to define user acceptance and business readiness testing criteria and focus areas

  • Created a high level framework for user acceptance testing finding potential synergies between other testing efforts

  • Contributed to project test plan and execution timeline development

Regional Health Plan, +250,000 Members

Implementation Strategy Consultant, 4 Months

  • Participated in and led requirements gathering sessions in preparation of issuing a request for proposal

  • Assisted in development of overall vendor scoring framework and advised and assisted in the scoring of vendor responses

  • Provided feedback around system implementation strategy, potential project timelines, and staffing requirements

  • Developed a flexible detailed project cost forecasting models based around implementation strategy allowing for flexible staffing mixes including contractors, off-shore resources, consultants, and staff

Large Multi-State Health Plan, +1M Members

Project Manager / Solutions Design Consultant, 12 Months

  • Defined scope of work for 2007 Medicare Modernization Act related work working closely with regulatory departments and business users to ensure proper government compliance

  • Created detailed project plan, resource requirements, and budget and cost estimates incorporating feedback from analyst, development, and testing team leads

  • Facilitated meetings between analysts, business users, and regulatory departments and reviewed and signed off on all requirements detail, functional definitions, detailed programming specifications, and testing plans

  • Conducted weekly meetings gathering status and reporting up to regional and national oversight committees throughout the entire project lifecycle

Large Multi-State Health Plan, +1M Members

Solutions Design Consultant / Functional Analyst, 12 Months

  • Designed interfaces related to 2006 Medicare Modernization Act with input from vendors, government subcontractors, regional business users, and developers. Interfaces included membership enrollment and submission to CMS, and pharmacy benefit manager related interfaces handling claims and enrollment

  • Designed regional membership interface between existing legacy membership systems and new Epic system creating an innovative solution that met business needs, regulatory compliance, and that was feasible under technical constraints of the Epic system.

 
 
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