Overview

• Implementation specialist to link the VA VistA system to Cerner PathNet.
• Lead for General Lab portion of Implementation project
• Site assessment, report, post assessment activities
• Visio workflow analysis
• Team member and Lead across multiple Time Zones
• Pre-configuration, Preparatory and Cutover tasks
• Knowledge of and experience with Software Lifecycle Management
• Set up training schedule, appointments, VANTS line and LIVE Meetings
• Alias VA data to COTS product
• Extensive experience as a SME/Medical/Clinical Consultant
• 9 years in Medical research skills, standardizing medical data, assigning concepts to data, Data Warehousing, Data testing and error investigation
• More than 15 years' experience in the Department of Defense AHLTA and VA VISTA Military Healthcare Systems MHS .
• Extensive professional experience in utilizing Composite Health Care Systems CHCS
• Proven data expertise in performing tasks related to the global data repository AHLTA
• Expert, Medical concepts in DoD Medical data conversion
• Experienced CPOE Computerized physician order entry Clinical Analyst in AHLTA and VA government systems
• Experience with Oracle database tools.
• Extensive knowledge in application of data analysis, database administration, and data evaluation.
• Successfully performed tasks involving elicitation, specification, verification, validation of requirements, and testing.
• Proven track record in maintaining data integrity through Quality Assurance testing.
• Instrumental role as a systems analyst contributing to the discovery, and development of system requirements in a team environment.
• Member of American Registry of Medical Technologists ASCP .
• Professional Liaison, between government military client sites and subcontractors
• TMDI Theater Medical Data Integration project provides clinical informatics guidance and mapping expertise.
• Clinical consultant, Laboratory COTS Integration
• Lab Manager and LIS
• Chief Technologist, responsible for all patient data reported out
• QC of Laboratory Analyzers
• Quality Control testing CAP
• Experience in LOINC and Regenstrief tools
• Author of the procedure manuals and control guidelines required in the Lab
• Implement DHCP and the interface testing environment.
• Security Clearance Level:ADPIII, 12/2003, SAC 12/15/11 and NACLC 7/16/03. MBI in schedule with OPM 05/17/2012

Areas of Experience

• Training and sustainment
• Customer Service
• Team Lead
• Attention to detail
• Excel
• Access
• ClearQuest
• Data Mining
• DHCP, VistA, AHLTA, CPRS
• Cerner PathNet
• Data Analysis
• Data Warehousing
• Clinical Experience
• PowerPoint
• Outlook
• Microsoft Office
• Clinical Research
• Databases
• SharePoint
• Remedy
• PVCS Tracking Tool

Professional Experience

Implementation Specialist

Confidential

• Lead for General Lab to link and implement the VA VistA system to Cerner PathNet. Site assessment, Pre-configuration, preparatory, pre-cutover tasks. Link Vista data files to Cerner Lab data files. Testing and support as needed. Conducted meetings and worked remotely with the site and other stakeholders. Worked along with national team to standardize data for VA. Maintain sustainment and support.

Systems Analyst

Confidential

• Medical research skills, standardize data, assign concepts to data.
• Resolve complex mapping issues.
• Data testing, from CHCS to AHLTA.
• Expert, Medical concepts in DoD Medical data.
• Consultant, with over 100 clinical DoD laboratories and process their requests for new system data and data changes, clinical data analysis, display design, processing, documenting, and testing of laboratory and other clinical data to 101 DoD AHLTA sites. Identify and resolve discrepancies with site's representatives clients for all sites, submit reconciled files to subcontractor for continued processing and testing of reconciled files in the subsequent processes.
• Liaison, between DoD military client sites and subcontractors on mapping issues and questions.
• Sustainment of DoD Clinical Laboratory hospital military sites
• TMDI project, provides clinical informatics guidance and mapping expertise.
• Coordinates work requirements with team members for optimum efficiency and client satisfaction.
• Assist other team members in areas of clinical expertise to finalize assignments and meet deadlines for overall team goals.
• Clinical consultant for potential impact from overlapping projects such as CHDR and Laboratory COTS Integration.

Systems Analyst/Consultant

Confidential

• Data Cleansing and Review on Laboratory and other files.
• Data mapping verification testing, analyzing Medical site data for the site's data based on a standard.
• Analyzes site data for discrepancies in spelling, NDC, concepts, measurement and specimen data.
• Creates displays for data that is enterprise wide.
• Excel and Access are used extensively to check data and configure new data.
• Verifying and mapping of the site's data is verified by ordering tests in CHCS and resulting in CHCS II.
• Prioritizing and multitasking are essential to the job to ensure deadlines met and CMMI processes are implemented
• ADPIII Security Clearance Level.

Microbiologist

Confidential

• Evaluation of samples taken from buildings and residences for possible bacterial and fungal growth.
• Identification of organisms and fungus.
• Provides backup and consultation for the team of environmentalists and chemists.