Summary

Project Consultant/Program Manager

Energetic, collaborative, results-driven, service-focused technology and public health project leader with 10 years of experience developing and executing strategies in alignment with business objectives. Demonstrated ability to effectively lead large-scale strategic initiatives and work in highly matrixed environment internationally. Skilled negotiator, communicator, trusted partner and consensus builder. Proven conceptual analytical and evaluative skills and ability to conduct independent research and analysis. Identify issues, formulate options, make conclusions, and recommendations.

Professional Experience

Confidential

Project Manager- Meaningful Use Attestation and Readiness MARS

• Remotely manage several clients around the country with application upgrades and the MU attestation process.
• Analyze client Meaningful Use reports and identify any configuration or workflow issues that hinder client ability to successfully attest.
• Present solutions to any attestation blocking issues for stage 1 and 2.
• Ensure that clients are able to attest at a 90 success rate.

Confidential

EHR Analyst

• Provided consultant services to Ellis Medicine Hospital to build and improve ancillary business processes by leveraging existing IT capabilities and public health knowledge and experience. Built new ancillary sites within Allscripts EHR V11.2.3 using MS Project, MS Visio, and other PM templates as resources. Stayed abreast of business strategy, goals, objectives and operational performance.
• Managed full roll out life cycle of Primary Care and specialties sites, this included assessing, designing, building and testing.
• Performed Business Analyst activities related to implementations.
• Delivered recommendations, implemented new out patient departments, maintain and support the Allscripts application.
• Conducted Gap analysis for quality of care measures for Meaningful Use stage 1 and 2, Patient Centered Medical Home PCMH , and Clinical Quality Solutions CQS reports.
• Built notes for specialty practices for sites including Bariatrics, and Osteopathic medicine practices.
• Conducted workflow evaluation for gap analysis prior to upgrade.

Confidential

Enrollment and Eligibility Specialist for NYS of Health Exchange

• Responsible for determining the accuracy of in-process and processed applications and taking appropriate action as needed to make corrections for the New York Health Benefits Exchange.
• Researched case identity from account records and linked documents to account records.
• Provided expertise and substantive knowledge of various rules and regulations governing Medicaid programs.
• Interpreted and applied frequent changes in program regulations to expedite applications.

Confidential

Program Coordinator

• Interoperability/Integration, Vaccine Ordering, and Billing under CDC Prevention and Public Health Fund PPHF grant
• Provided consultant service to DOH for the Management and operational responsibility across sectors for enhancement of NYSIIS software and infrastructure to meet the latest interoperability technology requirements HL7 version 2.5.1, connection to HIE by collaborating with the 50 NYS software vendor consortium on data exchange requirements.
• Managed the enhancement of NYSIIS software and infrastructure to meet the latest interoperability technology requirements HL7 version 2.5.1, connection to HIE by collaborating with the 50 NYS software vendor consortium on data exchange requirements.
• Increased the total number of providers reporting electronically to NYSIIS using HL7 by 50 .
• Delegated testing of Immunization Bidirectional Information Exchange IBIE for the NYSIIS team.
• Updated the NYSIIS vaccine-ordering module to current CDC VTrckS specifications.
• Managed enhancement of the NYSIIS vaccine inventory module functionality to support comprehensive inventory management and reflective data control for provider practices using EHRs. This implementation enabled approximately 75 of 3,200 practices in NYS to move from a manual to an electronic ordering system.
• Collaborate with division leadership and ITS on management and implementation of the Universal Public Health Node.

Confidential

Program Manager

• Program Manager for the Division of TB Elimination. Managed grant applications and program collaborations for new clinical trials. As the program manager, I lead the teams across business sectors that identified, analyzed, and re-designed core business processes with the aim of achieving the specified improvements in critical performance measures such as cost, quality, service, and speed. Established and maintained strong diplomatic relationships for both foreign and domestic senior officials.
• Led an initiative to restructure the organization's operational standards for quality and clinical trial standards.
• Established PMI based methodologies for the management of business unit processes.
• Represented the Division of TB elimination DTBE , on grant applications and program collaborations for new clinical trials.
• Responsible for the financial management of a multimillion-dollar trial as well as all other program needs in compliance with Federal Acquisition Regulations FAR .
• Responsible for contracting independent agents to undertake specific tasks including audits and staff training.
• Represented the program in funding and operational negotiations for the PEPFAR Botswana Country Operational Plan COP .
• Reduced operational program expenditures by approximately 55 based on information obtained from quality reports.
• Secured approximately 45 additional funding for two consecutive years by negotiating new trial collaborations.
• Responsible for synthesizing large amounts of data and translating to various audiences and a wide range of professional cadres.

Confidential

Project Manager

Confidential

• Performed high level assessments of enterprise EHR initiatives, organization mission, and strategic goals. After assessments of clinical projects, our team focused on business processes to determine next steps in the re-engineering process. As analyst and project manager, I led the team that identified the technical IT and clinical integration needs for EHR implementations
• Developed HL7 integration specifications documents in Visio and conducted gap analysis of new EHR implementations including Soarian Clinicals, iSite PACS Radiology, MedPoint Barcode Medication Administration, OBIX OBGYN, QuadraMed and several other EHRs.
• Defined project objectives, requirements and assumptions to structure effective integration and presented to the EHR/HIE, IT and physician steering committees
• Led risk management within projects ensuring risks have appropriate mitigation and contingency plans of full life cycle implementations.
• Delegated project activities to various analysts and groups.

Project Manager

Confidential

• Created and managed project plans to assure on-time delivery of design, coding, quality assurance and maintenance for manufacturing software supply chain management software development . Implemented and managed enterprise project management software and portfolio management techniques, including what-if scenarios and the design/quality assurance/rework comparisons to determine product direction, product viability and collaborated with product managers to anticipate and resolve issues arising from changing priorities and resource allocation.
• Developed and implemented reporting tools and procedures, which evaluated schedule adherence.
• Documented, managed and communicated project scope, and requirements management.
• Developed and documented unit testing strategies for accomplishing specific project objectives.
• Facilitated and lead effective project meetings, managed change and conflict developed resources estimated to manage workload and productivity
• Applied updates and patches to clinical system servers, performed maintenance of clinical applications, implemented quality assurance systems for nurse acuity tracking, hospital wireless technology, and IT inventory tracking system.
• Monitored and worked OPENLink Interface engine and associated errors as required.

Confidential

• Facilitated a patient centered approach to medical care by working with interdisciplinary team of providers and clinicians.
• Submitted quarterly NYS AIDS institute on metrics, assessments, service plans, and encounters.