TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Broad - based knowledge and experience of the following: HIPAA, HITECH, Data Loss Prevention, PCI/DSS Compliance, Governance, Risk and Compliance, IT Audit, ISO 27002, NIST, Risk Management, Gramm-Leach-Bliley , Risk Assessments, Authentication & Access Control

Networking: LANs, WANs, VPNs, Routers, Firewalls, TCP/IP, System Monitoring, Regulatory Compliance, Internal Control Framework

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Farmington Hills, MI

Senior Compliance, Security and Privacy Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Compose written security and compliance newsletter articles for the Botsford Health System
• Complete audits and risk assessments
• Conduct Compliance and Privacy investigations for Oakwood and Botsford Hospitals
• Use ISO 27002 to conduct risk assessments and gap analysis
• Develop quarterly metrics for internal reporting of compliance and privacy investigations
• Identify and report compliance breaches to ensure health system is HIPPA compliant
• Conduct HIPAA and Privacy assessment and investigation
• Manage compliance and privacy project deliverables
• Assist with drafting and updating compliance, privacy and security policies
• Performed Active Directory Audit

Confidential, Detroit, MI

Data and Financial Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed monthly physician capitation analysis and payment
• Updated monthly lag table reporting and reconciliation
• Maintained provider contract maintenance in the managed care system
• Provided reporting and analytical support to Finance Department as needed
• Extracted data, perform appropriate verification and distribute reports to internal
• Tracked, trends, and report findings to administrative and executive leadership as appropriate.

Confidential, Ann Arbor, MI

Assistant Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Develop data user policies, standards and processes
• Created and maintain temporary database.
• Facilitated meetings for project status updates
• Responsible for maintaining data quality assurance such as: data completeness and quality

Confidential, Ypsilanti, MI

Information Assurance Research Assistant

Responsibilities:

• Identify and map the segment of monitored addresses (i.e., the honeynet) within a larger address space.
• Conducted traffic analysis
• Managed project deliverables
• Developed detailed project plans and schedules

Confidential

Graduate Technology Research Assistant

Responsibilities:

• Monitor current reports of computer viruses to determine when to update virus protection systems.
• Modify computer security files to in corporate new software, correct errors, or change individual access status
• Performed security, analyses and risk/vulnerability assessments
• Coordinate implementation of computer system plan with establishment personnel and outside vendors
• Monitor use of data files and regulate access to safeguard information in computer files.

Confidential, Detroit, MI

Health Care Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed detailed project plans and schedules .
• Communicated results of analysis to management via reports/presentations and assist management in implementing programs that provide solutions.
• Recommended, communicate, and implement solutions to identify problems/root causes of issues.
• Provided expertise and guidance to unit and corporate staff as required

Confidential, Detroit, MI

Quality Management Project Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Worked with clinicians to develop clinical and preventive service guidelines.
• Developed proposals, design of data collection methods, health promotion activities
• Tracked quality measures over time, identify opportunities for improvement, develop and implement solutions.
• Analyzed Confidential, membership and pharmacy claims data
• Provided quality improvement healthcare initiatives for childhood, adolescents and adult immunizations, tobacco cessation, senior health and cancer screenings.

Confidential, Detroit, MI

Data Manager

Responsibilities:

• Maintained reporting and incident escalation requirements from security tools
• Created data security and incident response policies and procedures
• Checkpoint Firewall Administrator
• Ensured execution of the incident response process to the resolution of the incident.
• Performed risk assessments of systems and collaborate with staff and third parties to mitigate findings.
• Developed practical and viable enterprise security strategies which are aligned to the business and MIS objectives.
• Collaborated with MIS staff, third parties, and other IT groups to resolve all security related incidents and security vulnerabilities.
• Established strong working relationships with all members of the MIS team.
• Assisted with development of Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery plans
• Developed and maintained tool for enrollment statistics and evaluation.
• Set up local area network (LAN) system
• Ensured practices and controls are in place to ensure that overall integrity and value reside in the company’s HIPAA compliance model
• Preformed project coordinator duties

Confidential, Detroit, MI

Project Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Maintained identification tool to track medical services for over 35,000 enrollees for enrollment statistics and evaluation
• Formatted and designed enrollment, healthcare cost and utilization data for analyses.
• Managed research projects and was responsible for data management projects, data quality and database structure.
• Facilitates meetings for project status updates
• Assisted with the development and design of databases.
• Ensured that Internal Review Board and Human/Animal Subject Compliance guidelines were appropriate and current.
• Contributed to the planning and budgeting of a collaborative oral health system in the City of Detroit