SUMMARY:

Healthcare IT professional with background as a Medical Technologist. 35 years of business, technical and product/project management success in all aspects of health care information technology. Skilled at building consensus and synthesizing technology into business solutions. Someone who knows how to get things done.

TECHNOLOGIES:

Technical experience using: MIIS, MUMPS, (CACHE and GTM), COBOL, PL1, BASIC, HL7,SQL

Business Applications: Word, Excel, Visio, Project, Enterprise Project, Access, PowerPoint, Clarity, Salesforce, JIRA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Develop business plan and go to market strategy for Indian based company that wants to bring its EHR product to US market.

Confidential

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Develop and deploy tablet based physician rounding tool accessing Cerner (Siemens) EHR
• Facilitate project team made up of Directors, VP’s, and outsourced developers

Confidential

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Manage multiple projects for state health agency involving web based applications and big data
• Develop and manage Project Plans
• Facilitate team meetings
• Report to executive management
• Contribute to PMO development team

Confidential

Project Manager Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Manage ICD9 - ICD10 remediation and testing at multiple hospitals
• Manage regression testing
• Manage, plan and schedule unit and integrated testing
• Plan and manage payer testing
• Meet regularly with client to monitor project status

Confidential, Ft. Lauderdale, FL

Director of Clinical Products

Responsibilities:

• Product manager for start-up cloud based EHR company
• Led the internal process to define the product strategy, roadmap and priorities
• Act as the EHR product subject matter expert
• Develop, track and prepare proposals

Confidential, Juno Beach, FL

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Closed over $2 million in sales
• Managed cross-functional teams for proposal responses and site visits
• Managed proposal development, production and delivery
• Performed IS needs assessments for multiple acute care and long term care facilities
• Created detailed implementation plans including hardware and software requirements
• Developed and executed successful go-to-market strategy for new EHR product
• Defined product positioning, messaging and market differentiators
• Manage public relations and advertising
• Develop and negotiate contracts with partners and customers

Confidential, Owings Mills, MD

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Successfully managed government sponsored project to develop VistA-Office EHR, a customized version of the Veterans Administration Confidential for use in small physicians’ practices. Responsible for developing and executing strategy, managing multi-million dollar subcontract and dealing with all project stakeholders including physicians and government agencies including the VA and HRSA and vendors
• Projects included strategic IT planning for new hospital opening in Wisconsin.
• Under the direction of the Regional CIO, developed requirements document by interviewing department heads and then assisted in analysis and prioritization of needs with regional executives.

Confidential, Burlington, VT

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Chair of Project Management Steering Committee, which was responsible for developing and implementing project management standards in the IT department. Developed Portfolio Management process designed to minimize resource conflicts and maximize external customer satisfaction.
• Provided methodology oversight for Confidential implementation.
• System administrator for Enterprise Project and Issue Tracking System.
• Managed the effort to evaluate and acquire management systems tools including issue tracking and financial management systems. Founded the IS department library.
• Managed the Strategic Planning and Budgeting process for a 160 person IT department supporting a teaching hospital, with a $30 million annual budget.
• Responsible for defining and documenting IT requirements for a $330 million ambulatory care center addition to the hospital. Involved working with outside consultants to research and develop collateral material for submission to the state as part of Certificate of Need submission.
• Led the successful 14-month implementation of the Avega Decision Support system managing the efforts of a 12-person multi-disciplinary project team. Stakeholders included Director of Decision Support, VP of Finance and CFO.
• Consulted with VP of Medical Informatics to design web-based project that integrated Clinical and Financial Decision Support systems.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Enterprise Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Developed the implementation methodology including detailed project plans for Clinical Care Management System (CCMS) and managed multiple 4-person teams installing the system at HMO’s in Indiana, Baltimore and Puerto Rico.
• Managed a virtual team of 10 for the custom development and installation of enterprise wide Patient Access middleware for a 3-hospital system in Pennsylvania. Management activities were performed remotely using emails and conference calls.
• Managed an 8-person project team to implement the STAR Laboratory Information system at public hospital in Washington, DC.
• Managed a 6-person team implementing the STAR Pharmacy Management system at a downtown Manhattan, NY hospital.
• Mercy Center for Health Care Services, Aurora, IL - a 350-bed community hospital
• Director of Information Services (1996 - 1997) Contract Position
• Management of a 30-person IS department Accomplishments included:
• Stabilized infrastructure resulting in a significant improvement in system availability.
• Reorganized and staffed the department by hiring from within the hospital.
• Evaluated and acquired new and upgraded technology including networks, servers and disk storage
• Restructured Help Desk and developed new Service Level Agreement
• Work with Director level customers to define their IT needs
• Developed and managed the department budget.

Confidential, La Jolla, CA

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Worked with public health agency client to define functional requirements for ambulatory care system.
• Managed evaluation process including RFP development, site visits and final analysis of vendor proposals.
• Developed business/marketing plan for Object Oriented Programming System