SUMMARY:

• Experience: 16 years of healthcare domain experience including clinical lab scientist, healthcare business Informatics analyst.
• Laboratory Information System: 15 years of experience using Cerner, and Sunquest laboratory information system (LIMS), Apollo LIMS.
• Experience working with HIPAA,OSHA,CLIA regulations, secure data exchange methods sFTP, PHINMS, PII best practices, healthcare EMR/EHR/Healthcare claims data, and experience in healthcare interoperability especially in EHR, and clinical and lab applications.
• 15 years of experience in working knowledge of clinical workflow, emergency department and inpatient operation workflow.
• Business analysis: Business analysis expertise in healthcare analytics environment.
• Knowledge of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), ability to convert complex business scenarios into business requirements.
• Ability in preparing UML diagrams, experience working in agile development methodology, ability to write user stories, participated in Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions as a clinical lab SME,.
• Experience creating business requirement document, functional requirements specifications documentation, and scope documents.
• Experience creating test plans, test cases, conducting UAT, and Validation testing.
• Applied Statistical Analysis: 3 years experience using Statistical analysis package SAS, and R.
• Data analysis: 1 plus years of experience analyzing financial data using SQL, and creating actionable reports using BI tools - Tableau 8.0 and MS Excel Pivots.
• Data management: Experience with Relational data modeling.
• Experience with ad-hoc SQL queries using joins, database connections and transformation rules to fetch data from SQL Server database systems.
• Research and Analysis: Over 14 years of experience conducting Medical and clinical research literature reviews.
• Experience using Confidential -Epi Info for creating electronic survey questionnaire for qualitative and quantitative data collections.
• Experience conducting validation study to measure effectiveness of tool and for implemented processes.
• Ability to apply the knowledge of research methods and design, and application of research to program development and public health practice including meaningful use, EHR, ELR, and eCR.
• Strong knowledge of standard healthcare vocabulary - LO INC, SNOMED, and ICD 9-10, HL7 messaging standard.
• Experience in Hospital Acquired Infection surveillance (HAI) for CAUTI, CLABSI, and VAP and Infectious diseases surveillance.
• Expertise specializing in requirements gathering, implementation and optimization of systems. Experience managing application (Application management), vendor to vendor testing, and validation testing of health information exchange projects.
• Effectively communicate precise business and program requirements to stakeholders.
• Proficiency using MS Excel, MS Access, MS PowerPoint, MS Project, MS SharePoint, SmartSheet, and MS Visio, Lucid Chart, StarUML.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Computer: MS Word, MS Excel, MS Power Point, MS SharePoint.

Laboratory Information System: MISYS, SUNQUEST, CERNER, Micropath.

Languages: C, SQL, SAS, R

Statistical Analysis software: SAS 9.3, SPSS, R.

Database, Business Intelligence tool: MS SQLServer, Tableau 9.0

Data Modeling Tools: Toad data modeler

Project management tool: MS Project 2010, MS Visio, StarUML.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Informatics Business Analyst Consultant

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Responsibilities:

• Execute and manage public health application (lab Interface application management), deliver clinical lab Informatics expertise for state laboratory, health information technology, manage information exchange initiatives while providing ongoing project management expertise to meet public health goals and objectives of interoperability.
• Liaison between Laboratory Director of Clinical Microbiology, Chemistry & Hematology, and District Staff (i.e. Technology Manager, Program Staff, Laboratory Staff), Division of Information Technology, as well as, non-clinical staff (i.e. Project Manager, Executive Leadership).
• Oversee support of production, development and test environments to include day-to-day monitoring and maintenance, problem investigation and resolution, back creation and maintenance, SQL and Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) optimization and tuning.
• Lead effort to research, analyze and recommend resolutions, upgrades and new technologies surrounding all aspects of LIMS to leadership staff. Coordinated and conducted weekly sprint calls, and status call for project monitoring; issue, and risk management.
• Key developer of lab interface test plan and test cases for vendor to vendor testing, and validation testing of piloting district health lab.
• Manage the lab interface application, validation testing of project, delivering daily support to state and district laboratories, and application development vendors to establish interoperability between laboratory Information systems for electronic data exchange.
• Providing support to needs of over 15 - person subject matter expert stakeholders team comprised of project managers, health information specialist, HL7 specialist/terminologists, Laboratory directors, LIMS vendors.
• Maintained and streamlined project document repository, updated the data/document repository as needed for current and future project needs.
• Facilitated and provided support for secured channel of data exchange using sFTP protocol connection for lab interface project amongst Georgia department state public health laboratory, GA DPH network department, external application development vendor developers, and 15 different district labs.
• Documented and created user requirements, use cases, activity diagrams and data flow diagram using tools ; MS Visio, LucidChart, and MS SharePoint.
• Providing informatics supports to newborne screening state lab department for collaboration efforts taking place with Confidential and Confidential for electronic data exchange.
• Acted as liaison between State department of public health clinical labs and information technology department.
• Participating in tech calls with various stakeholders and providing informatics expertise.
• Providing assistance with the LOINC/SNOMED code mapping for newborne screening clinical lab test orders and test results.

Business Analyst Informatics

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Participate in defining expected ARLN reporting ability and frequency (e.g. monthly via AIMS to the ARLN web portal) and work with database modeling experts in defining the requirements of the ARLN AIMS hosted data portal.
• Participate in tasks; - project coordination, gap analysis, database extraction, routing, and AIMS boarding to meet Confidential program data needs and expectations.
• Participate in team calls, help the team identifying and gathering key data elements of epidemiological and clinical significance that can further extract that production level data into a standard HL7 Electronic Laboratory Reporting (ELR) 2.5.1 message structure.
• Applied Unified Modeling Language (UML) methodologies to design Data flow diagram, Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Workflow Process Diagram.
• Create Functional requirements specification for ARLN project and ELRTA project.

Business Analyst Informatics

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Conduct research and maintains current clinical lab test specifications and eCR trigger codes, meaningful stage 2 and stage 3 guidelines for strategic business needs.
• Conduct evaluation study of trigger code content that would be used in electronic case reporting.
• For Study used Cerner Millennium (EHR for patient data fetching, and Cerner Core for fetching clinical trigger codes such as LO INC, SNOMED, and ICD-9.
• Performed LO INC data analysis using ‘R’, created framework using ‘R’ statistical computing language and SQL queries for data mining and analysis of trigger codes.( LO INC, SNOMED)
• Built business processes, context diagrams, and task flow diagrams to represent data exchange among entities involved in electronic case reporting.
• Contribute to the development of standardized, machine-computable reporting specifications for National Notifiable Conditions (NNCs) that align with clinical laboratory practice.
• Develop standardized, machine-computable laboratory criteria based on CSTE position statements for Notifiable Conditions.
• Identify discrepancies between clinical laboratory practice and CSTE Reporting Specifications for notifiable conditions.
• Define recommendations for reporting criteria that align with clinical laboratory practice while meeting public health needs for reporting.
• As a clinical lab Subject Matter Expert (SME), provided laboratory expertise to RCKMS -public health informatics project.
• Participated and contributed in daily Scrums, Sprint meeting and Sprint review meetings.
• Attend and participate in vetting group call for national notifiable condition for RCKMS project.
• Facilitating collaboration between end users and subject matter experts or technical staff of varying technical aptitudes.
• Conduct research and analysis of clinical laboratory test criteria and prepared the laboratory review feedback documentation.
• Provide clinical lab expertise to content development staff and co-workers, clients via web, phone, email and in-person.
• Created value sets associated to clinical lab criteria for NNCs using Informatics standards- LO INC, SNOMED.

Clinical Laboratory Scientist (Microbiology)

Confidential, Cumming, GA

Responsibilities:

• As a Medical Technologist worked on Sunquest/Cerner LIMS for task related to laboratory test ordering, lab test reporting, lab report generation, lab order tracking, patient reports look up and computerized provider order entry (CPOE).
• Performed clinical data analysis and quality control in microbiology area using statistics measures and CLIA guidelines. Provided objective data to enable diagnosis and treatment of patients.
• Performed readings and interpretations of cultures set up, identified pathogens, conducted and analyzed susceptibility for pathogen isolated from microbiology cultures form different kinds of specimens.
• Participated in surveillance reporting of notifiable diseases, foodborne infections, sentinel event reporting,

Clinical Laboratory Scientist (Microbiology)

Confidential, Marietta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Performed readings and interpretations of bacterial, fungal, and Acid Fast Bacilli cultures set up, identified pathogens, conducted and analyzed susceptibility for pathogen isolated from microbiology cultures form different kinds of specimens.
• Participated in surveillance reporting of notifiable diseases, foodborne infections, sentinel event reporting,

Medical Technologist (Generalist)

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Responsibilities:

• As a Medical Technologist worked on Cerner Laboratory Information System (LIS) for task related to laboratory test ordering, lab test reporting, lab report generation, lab order tracking, patient reports look up and computerized provider order entry (CPOE).
• Performed clinical diagnosis in area of clinical chemistry, and Hematology using automated Analyzers.

Research Associate

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Conducted study on sperm proteins using molecular biology techniques.
• Articulated IT operations in corporation in to project planning, articulated the business case and requirements needed for a public health information system, Analyze user and other stakeholder information, knowledge, and data needs to translate into a plan for development and deployment of a technology.
• Derived the requirements and clarity of the public health process to translate the need into an effective technology solution and drive appropriate planning and management.
• Implement workflow analysis, business process analysis and redesign, along with other techniques and methodologies to capture and translate the needs of a public health program into system requirements specific to the derivation and technology planning and lifecycle management.
• Integrate public health system requirements into information systems development, procurement, and implementation planning and project management.