SUMMARY

• Strategic, business focused, dynamic consultant with over ten years of healthcare experience. Successful analytics project leader and team builder. Adept business analyst, with extensive experience clarifying business requirements in order to align them with technical requirements.
• Aptitude at navigating organizational politics and working seamlessly with staff of all functional areas and levels, from members of an IT department to doctors to executives.
• Distinctive blend of technical and business savvy opens doors to seamlessly move from role to role, providing wide - ranging coverage. Intellectually and competitively equipped to excel in fast-paced environments across multiple projects simultaneously.
• Up to date technical skills in many areas, especially data management, data analytics and reporting
• Easily learn new content/skills, whether technical or business
• Use data to analyze and answer business questions at tactical and strategic levels, i.e., use data technologies to help companies learn from their data and use it in new ways to achieve business objectives and facilitate operational improvements
• Teach/mentor team members in developing new skills and guide them through projects in a way that both successfully completes a project and allows team members to grow professionally
• Currently expanding knowledge of data by pursuing a M.S., Data Science, from Johns Hopkins University

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Skills and Knowledge: Project Management | Data Analytics | Team Leadership and Management | Big Data Solutions | Business Analysis | Data Quality | Data Profiling | Data Governance | Data Security | Metadata Management | Data Archival | Thought Leader | Training and Mentoring | Active Listener, Communicator, Collaborator | Strategic Partner | Data Conversion | Quality Assurance | Regulatory Compliance | Data Architecture | Data Science | Healthcare IT | Consulting | Data Management | Data Mining | Data Modeling | Data Warehousing | Database Administration | Report Writing | Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) | Business Intelligence | Data Visualization | Statistics | Healthcare Quality Measures | Advanced Alternative Payment Models (APMs) | Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) | Problem Solving | Troubleshooting | Process Analysis | Systems Analysis | Solid Math Skills | Software Development | Full Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) | Agile | Machine Learning | Artificial Intelligence

Languages and Technologies: SQL | R | Python | Java | HTML/XHTML | Visual Basic | XML, XLS, XML Schemas | Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) | JDBC | JavaScript | C++ | CSS | Shell Scripting | SAS

Software and Platforms: Microsoft SQL Server | Tableau | BusinessObjects | Oracle | Netezza | Apache Hadoop | Red Hat | SQL *Plus | MySQL | ETL Tools (SQL Server DTS, SSIS, DataStage, more) | Microsoft Office Suite (Office, Excel, Access, PowerPoint) | SharePoint Server | Quest Toad Database Tools | Visual Studio | Visio | JIRA | ERWin Data Modeler | Windows | UNIX/Linus | Cerner Millennium | Meditech | EPIC (including Clarity, Cogito and Caboodle)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Project manager

Responsibilities:

• Performed business and data analysis on major healthcare system’s separate ERP systems spread across multiple hospitals in preparation for ERP data warehouse creation
• Designed and created ERP data warehouse ETL system in order to move data into the data warehouse
• Create and maintain data models and metadata policies and procedures for functional design
• Designed and created ERP data warehouse reporting system using SQL and Tableau, allowing quicker budget and staff reporting. The reports were more accurate and saved the IT department days of work each month.
• Provided technical guidance and input during all phases of product development
• Wrote technical documentation
• Managed technical staff during the implementation of the ERP data warehouse

Confidential

Senior Quality Assurance Measure Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed technical and data analysis on healthcare quality measures to define and document requirements for data analytics software product development
• Created executive level content and presented content to various clients
• Worked with senior management in order to ensure the analytics product being developed was consistent with the stated mission, strategy and business objectives
• Analyzed ever changing, complex government healthcare programs, including the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) and the Medicare EHR Incentive Program (Meaningful Use) Program to ensure software products complied with all relevant program and data requirements
• Used SQL and available data analysis tools to test software product’s healthcare quality measure calculations and ensure data standards were met
• Provided business and technical guidance and input during all phases of product development
• Assisted clients with ETL requirements, development and testing

Senior Healthcare IT Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Data analytics team manager and program manager on Tenet Value Realization Business Intelligence team
• Used data analysis and project management skills to ensure that all required government program requirements were met, allowing Confidential to receive millions of dollars in reimbursements and avoid penalties
• Developed documentation and provided training for the requirements of all applicable government programs to various client stakeholders, including doctors, nurses and executives at all Tenet hospitals
• Used SQL and data analysis skills to assist with any government audits to ensure Confidential passed all audits and avoided penalties
• Assessed data and analytics requirements, designed the analytics and reporting architecture and managed implementation of new requirements based on government requirements and business expectations
• Reviewed system information and data and trained staff during all mergers and acquisitions (M&As) to ensure the new hospitals would be able to meet all government program requirements and business expectations
• Mentored team and led team training efforts
• Utilized SQL and available data analysis tools to perform software testing and ensure each hospital’s selected quality measures were being calculated correctly
• Maintained deep knowledge of healthcare quality measures and required data to ensure that all quality programs were properly implemented
• Worked with Cerner Millennium, Meditech and Epic systems

Healthcare IT Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed Tenet business requirements, processes and regulatory requirements to help design data warehouse schema and define ETL processes for the Confidential Meaningful Use Enterprise Data Warehouse (MU EDW)
• Played a crucial role in the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) Meaningful Use Certification of the MU EDW
• Assisted in the creation of test data per ONC specifications, created and implemented test plans and created requirements documents for ONC Certification
• Created a certification guide that stepped thru all steps of the certification process and was successfully used during the ONC certification test
• Maintained documentation of client data mapping