SUMMARY

• Senior Consultant and Subject Matter Expert leading business initiatives in the life sciences with over 20 years of experience .
• Extensive experience across multiple applications, including: development, IT management and consulting services as developer, business analyst, solutions architect, team lead and project lead.
• Builds partnerships at multiple levels, manages the interface between business and technology teams, leverages proven solution delivery methods to ensure success.
• Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) experience as a Government Pricing Manager for clients in the Pharmaceutical industry.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Consulting and Leadership
• Life Sciences
• Software
• Project Leadership
• Process Improvement
• Strategic Planning
• Business Analysis
• Master Data Management
• Revitas Flex
• Business Requirements
• Government Pricing
• Model N
• User Requirements
• Monthly and Quarterly AMP
• DDR
• Developing UAT Scripts
• Best Price
• ERP Systems
• Developing Users Training
• Medicare ASP
• Custom Systems
• Building Effective Teams
• PHS 340B
• Developing Client Relationships
• NFAMP and FCP
• Business Process Outsourcing
• Reporting and Analytics
• Data Mapping
• Transactional Data
• EDI
• Direct Sales
• SQL
• Indirect Sales
• Order to Cash
• Rebates
• Medicaid

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Bridgewater, NJ

IT Applications Analyst/Project Lead (Contractor)

Responsibilities:

• Project Lead for a Revitas Flex System Improvement Project. Responsible for managing resources and vendor support team. By addressing the Business Users pain points with the system and working with the Revitas Support Team, Valeant is now saving approximately $430K per year on a go forward basis.
• Member of the IT Leadership Team.
• Strategic planning for Future Road Map for upgrades to Contract Manager in Revitas and moving from Classic Medicaid to the Flex Medicaid platform.
• Project Lead for a Business Improvement Project. Reduced turn around and completion time on Revitas issues by 75%.
• Designed Current As - IS Process Flows for Chargebacks, Managed Care, Trade and Distribution, EDI Trading Partner Set Up, and Government Pricing.
• Senior Business Analyst for an E-Commerce website for Specialty Vision Products. Responsible for gathering business requirements, coordinating resources from the different business units, and recording minutes from daily status meetings.
• Developed Training Decks for IT Team. Topics include Introduction to Government Pricing, Overview of the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain, Current landscape of Valeant’s Commercial and Government Pricing business, and Contract Lifecycle Management Glossary.

Confidential, Somerset, NJ

Sr. Consultant/Government Pricing (GP) SME

Responsibilities:

• Implemented Revitas Flex Government Pricing (GP), responsible for business requirements, price type designs, unit testing, user training, User Acceptance Testing, and mentoring junior team members.
• GP SME for a large data migration project. The client acquired the Diabetes catalog from another manufacturer. Master and Transactional Data needed to be converted from Model N's format to Class I-Many (Revitas) GP. Responsible for business requirements, loading historical price points, unit testing, User Acceptance Testing, mentoring junior team members, and post go-live support.
• Served as Government Pricing Manager for Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) clients. Responsible for ensuring all data required is loaded into Model N, execution of price types, analysis of calculated prices, prepare reports for upper management, load approved prices into CMS DDR system. I was also responsible for trouble shooting issues with Medicaid Rebates and weekly calls with Model N to ensure any open system issues were resolved in a timely manner.
• Model N Roadmap & Strategy project for mid-tier pharmaceutical company. Responsible for conducting interviews with the clients various department team members, documenting potential process improvements, conducting meetings with Model N, and making a recommendation of what version to upgrade to as well as any additional modules to implement. UAT Lead for an analytics project for a mid-tier pharmaceutical company. I lead the UAT effort to ensure the modules and reports in Pharmalytics were working correctly according to the clients business and functional requirements.
• Co-developed a presentation and presented for a mid-tier pharmaceutical’s upper management. An overview of Government Programs and Compliance in US Pharmaceutical Manufacturing.
• Phase 0 Domain and Master Data analysis. Prior to the Revitas implementation the client was performing all of the Government Pricing calculations in Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. Delivered a report as to what data needed to be corrected.
• As one of Collaborative’s first hires to their Life Science Practice, I was part of the ground work in developing the practice’s capabilities, client base, team, developing internal assets, pre-sales and implementations.
• Developed a presentation “How Manufactures Can Avoid OIG Audits”. This presentation was delivered at the MDRP Conference in Chicago (September 2010) by Chester Schwartz, VP Life Sciences
• Primary Lead on RFP responses for system implementations.
• Spoke at orals for RFP responses.
• Subject Matter Expert on Model N implementation of Government Pricing and Medicaid.

Confidential, PA

Senior Consultant/ Project Team Leader/ GP SME,

Responsibilities:

• Project Leader/SME for a mid-tier pharmaceutical company Model N Government Pricing and Medicaid implementation. Upon the successful completion of the project I was appointed to lead several other initiatives for the client. The two largest projects was a Government Pricing Restatement and manual calculation of Annual NFAMP & FCP. Responsibilities included wrote Functional Requirements Document, developed business process flows, developed customizable user training, and lead System and User Acceptance Testing.
• Participated and lead financial impact meetings with client and upper management.
• Served as liaison between the business users and technical teams at a top 10 pharmaceutical company while supporting the client’s home grown GP system. The technical team was made up of both on-shore and off-shore resources. Created detailed functional requirements enabling a faster turnaround on the time on implementing the change requests.
• Senior Consultant on a team which defined a Top 10 company’s contract management software strategy, implementation recommendations and roadmap for a global managed care contract management solution.
• Senior Business Analyst for Medicaid Custom Reports for a Top 10 pharmaceutical company.
• Senior Business Analyst on a Government Pricing RFP Project.

Confidential, Parsippany, NJ

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Designed functional specifications and implemented En-Compass the firm's software solutions for Government Pricing and Medicaid Claims Processing.
• From Zero (0) live clients, I implemented successfully 6 installations and 1 outsourcing client.
• Post production responsibilities included: Managing the En-Compass Support Desk, assigning priority of issues to developers, maintaining an Issues Management Report, and conducting weekly client status meetings with business users.
• Managed a team of up to seventy-five consultant team members at an ERP Software Vendor's site for seven years as a result of the business relationship that I helped establish.
• Generated a billing average of $3 million per year which represented twenty-five percent of the consulting firm's annual revenue.
• Proficient in all areas of Order to Cash