SUMMARY

• Multifaceted technical career with a track record of successful project management and proven achievements. Demonstrated ability to build and lead strong teams of technical professionals.
• Highly skilled Project Manager with a solid history of success and the demonstrated ability to work across functions and levels to deliver full lifecycle IT systems implementation projects, business and marketing development, and systems analysis. Motivational manager and coach with strong communication skills and natural leadership style. Manage multinational staff in all project phases, training, and implementation, combining technical and business management expertise with ability to achieve consensus. Experienced working with government Title IV-A programs, liaising with state project managers, senior sponsors, and project staff. Core Competencies:

Professional Experience

Confidential

Project Manager

• At State of Nebraska's Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Project Management office, define, create and maintain project plans for the state's Medicaid and Affordable Care Act ACA initiatives. Supervising 15-member team of internal staff members, contractors and vendors. Use web-based Clarity Project Management and MS Project software's to create, manage and track multiple project plans. Oversee associated budgets and accounts in compliance with project plans. Work with SharePoint developer to maintain and update Medicaid Management Information System MMIS site with project documentation which supports the MMIS documentation and workflow processes. Lead strategy, planning, and business process reengineering, including requirements gathering sessions. Coordinate and facilitate project meetings with agendas including weekly, Steering Committee and Executive status. Produce status reports and financial data for MMIS APD project expenditures. Selected Achievements Projects:
• Affordable Care Act Eligibility Project, Project Manager 11/2011 Present : Provide project management duties to support implementation of Affordable Care Act ACA initiatives in Nebraska. Reports directly to Chief Information Officer of Health and Human Services and other leadership teams for planning, designing, and implementing the systems services and technical environment needed to transition to the MAGI based eligibility determination for those groups effected, integrate MAGI determinations with the Exchange environment and support MAGI Medicaid Determination Eligibility Enrollment coordination and reconciliation provisions under the ACA. Additionally, will assess the impact to IT operations and plan an effective approach to deliver the IT capabilities needed after implementation of the system solution.
• Nebraska National Correct Coding Initiative NCCI Project, Project Manager 12/2010 10/2011 : Delivered project on-time and under budget to bring the Nebraska Medicaid Management Information System MMIS into compliance with the recent federal mandate requiring implementation of NCCI as part of the Affordable Care Act ACA . Purpose of 800,000 project is to reduce part B paid claims error rate, promote correct coding, prevent coding errors, prevent code manipulation and reduce inappropriate payments assisting in cost avoidance measures.

Confidential

Principal Consultant

• Manage and develop projects, to include supervising 40-member team of internal staff members and contractors. Oversee associated budgets and accounts in compliance with project plans, deliver firm fixed price contracts, Drive revenue generation, forge new client relationships / contracts, and optimize company awareness and public relations. Lead strategy, planning, and business process reengineering, including joint application development JAD sessions. Recruit, train, and retain high-performance teams. Realize client objectives by gathering requirements, leading teams, coordinating with vendors / suppliers, complying with scope / estimates, managing conversions / migrations, and implementing information systems / infrastructure. Allocate resources effectively delegating tasks based on staff strengths. Conduct client meetings and identify / secure new business opportunities. Produce status reports and data for invoicing. Contribute to development of comprehensive, end-to-end transition plans for critical projects. Manage problem reporting database and mediate issues within multinational workforce to facilitate clear communications and closure. Selected Achievements Projects:
• Credited with increasing revenue by 5 in 1 year and increased market presence by securing contracts with divisions within the Department of Social Services as well as realizing highest levels of customer satisfaction and retention.
• Secured 2M in new contracts from the State of Missouri, by developing and delivering comprehensive and highly successfully proposals and presentations.
• Missouri Children's Division FAMIS / FACES Interface Web Project, Development Manager 9/2009 08/2010 : Steered effort to integrate data related to protective services children with the FAMIS system, to include developing interface enabling authorization, payment, notice processing for individuals. Leveraged leadership expertise to meet highly aggressive and fixed deadlines / budget to realize 2.2M in revenue and engender highly collaborative approach via e-training and web meeting technologies.
• Missouri Family Support Division FSD Web Project, Development Manager 11/2007 05/2009 : Sourced and acquired Missouri Benefits Online Project focused on connecting new Internet-based system with existing mainframe system to allow Missouri families to access programs, information, and assistance. Successfully met aggressive deadline and realized 2M in revenue as well as continuing maintenance and enhancement revenue opportunities.
• Missouri Family Assistance Management Information System FAMIS Project, Development Manager 10/2001 Present : Replaced and enhanced legacy Child Care, SNAP, and Temporary assistance IT systems, successfully implementing eligibility and benefit delivery components into FAMIS system State awarded next Medicaid phase to company after successful implementation of first four phases. FAMIS ranked third in nation for 2006 error rate and earned a 4M bonus.
• Missouri Family Support Division FSD Project, Development Manager 5/2004 1/2005 : Identified and secured Web-based Child Care Online Invoice Project. Enhanced process enabling providers to receive invoices and enter attendance information online instead of paper invoices, significantly saving cost to State and reducing staff. Delivered project with aggressive deadlines ahead of schedule. Firm, fixed price project that generated 700,000 in revenue within three months and secured continuing maintenance and enhancement phases.
• National Savings Project, Tier UK, Business Systems Analyst 8/2000 10/2001 : Developed Imaging and Workflow System for 3.2 million international project, designing, testing and implementing applications. Authored critical project deliverables, including business, functional, and technical requirements, as well as project implementation plan.
• New Billing System NBS Project Humana, Inc., Development/Data Conversion/Interface Manager 6/1998 8/2000 : Led group of 20 programmers at multiple sites in development of new 32M billing system using COOL:Gen. Programmed and tested billing application and managed sections of data conversion and external interface, successfully executing conversion process and validating results.

Technical Support Center Manager

• Managed technical aspects of 24/7 support center, providing numerous All Fusion Gen/Advantage Gen/COOL:Gen functions, including planning and guiding external clients on Web-enabled conversions, supporting .NET developers and documenting development processes. Managed internal team of up to eight. Identified cross-selling opportunities to generate additional income, following-up on leads and work in progress. Delivered full lifecycle support / consulting to internal and external clients. Selected Projects:
• Assisted clients with COOL.Gen/Advantage Gen model management, including reverse engineering, data encyclopedia / configuration management, migrations, version control and software generation.
• Independently developed and executed plans to complete IEF to COOL: Gen CE/application conversion project and implemented Y2K solutions for production applications.

Confidential

Senior Consultant

• Provided project management administration and consulting services for major public clients, leading development teams, including project billing and time management. Directed programming, testing and implementation of systems using a variety of case tools. Selected Projects:
• Milwaukee County Civil/Criminal Justice Information System C/CJIS : Designed and developed logical and physical data model and on-line / batch DB2 applications. Managed development teams, change control, tuning and maintenance of IEF/Composer's MVS central encyclopedia. Programmed, tested and implemented system using Information Engineering Facility IEF/Composer .
• Maryland Financial Management and Human Resource Information System FMIS : Implemented integral HRMS DB2 products for personal benefits, payroll, time and attendance / labor accounting, position control, and recruiting / applicant tracking.