SUMMARY:

Consistent history of improving operational performance, reducing costs, increasing efficiency and cultivating quality. Broad expertise in enterprise architecture (EA, EAP), data architecture, streamlining workflow and facilitating revenue growth. Experienced at building top - performing teams, leading solution engineering, managing offshore resources, and delivering innovative solutions to complex technology issues. Proven ability to improve productivity and customer satisfaction by reducing staff turnover. Excels at aligning the technology roadmap and execution to the business goals of the organization; creating cultural change empowering self-directed teams. Strong background in the healthcare information technology sector and enterprise information management and strategy.

COMPETENCIES:

• Enterprise Application Development
• Cost & Budget Control
• SDLC Management
• Enterprise Architecture Planning
• Enterprise Data Management
• Project & Program Management
• Offshore Resource Allocation
• Process Optimization
• Strategic Planning
• Startup Operations
• Change Management
• Standardization
• Automation
• Team Building
• Problem Solving
• Agile & Scrum Methodologies
• SaaS
• SOA
• Microsoft Technology Stack
• .NET
• Java
• Data Architecture
• Multi-Tenant Data Stores
• Data Warehousing
• SQL Server
• Oracle

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SQL Server, Oracle, MS Office, Visio, C#, C++, SQL, .NET, Agile & Scrum methodologies, PCs, servers, Windows

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Vice President Solutions Engineering

Responsibilities:

• Enabled integration and increased revenue (EST) 15% from existing clients with a technology platform across existing products resulting in the cross selling of solutions
• Lowered expenses (1M+) while maintain client satisfaction; by appropriate resource allocation, architectural alignment and executing a data strategy solving an over budget spend on headcount.
• Improved cross departmental communication and management’s clarity of the body of work with operational meetings and published score cards providing transparency to the enterprise
• Achieved predictable and stable releases with a unified scrum / agile methodology across all solution sets creating process where none was in place.
• Streamlined and simplified the M&A processes around technology by having the PMO team create and execute an “integration plan” for each new acquisition satisfying the need for risk assessments.
• Eliminated additional expenses with SOX governance and changed processes to satisfy yearly audits of capitalized time required by a public organization which was missing

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Vice President of Technology

Responsibilities:

• Architected a master data strategy with cross departmental leadership; building consensus agreement in a highly matrixed organization to enable new product development and legacy solution improvement
• Managed a diverse portfolio of enterprise data-related initiatives through influence
• Created persuasive presentations to provide context and updates for the enterprise data strategy to evangelize the solutions
• Delivered high priority data initiatives by fostering relationships with key stakeholders across the business segments both business and IT, third party consultants and other UHG development teams resulting in less overlapping work and increased velocity.
• Enabled a cohesive actionable use of data/information to further the solutions sets (current) and to bring new products to market as the subject matter expert by integrating the initiatives into a cohesive enterprise data context.

Vice President of Technology

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Enabled recognition of (3M+) per year by implementing a time tracking systems system and establishing processes around capitalization of software which increased profit margins.
• Achieved a projected savings of ($4M) per year by reducing hardware, eliminating duplication of resources, and streamlining regulatory and internal reporting as part of a new Enterprise Data Strategy
• Adjusted and simplified resource allocation by integrating 4 separate development teams resulting in a 10% increase in financial performance with client satisfaction remaining high.
• Achieved major cost savings, improved employee satisfaction and reduced turnover by utilizing multiple offshore development teams empowering engineers to feel more valued by doing less maintenance, reporting and bug fixes.
• Standardized methodologies across the development teams creating predictable on time delivery with increased quality by instituting Scrum and Agile processes resulting in transparency and better resource allocation.
• Improved client satisfaction and sales by integrating solutions into a revenue cycle management (RCM) suite verses the separate solutions, facilitating the desired client workflow.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Senior Manager of Application Development / Lead Data Architect

Responsibilities:

• Played key role in company's growth from $5M to $20M in six years, and assisted with technology group and corporate integrations following acquisition of OSI Net Revenue Systems by Confidential .
• Saved $50,000 per year by migrating from C++ and Oracle to .NET and SQL Server.
• Improved development capabilities by implementing rapid application development processes.
• Led technology re-engineering to create scalable platform and introduce emerging technologies.
• Managed design and deployment of several critical systems to ensure competitive edge in market.
• Produced $2M in annual savings by creating Enterprise Architecture supporting common CDM and HIPPA-compliant merged data set for internal and external reporting products.