OBJECTIVE

To obtain a position as a senior enterprise EMR / EHR, clinical EIM and architecture implementation strategy specialist in the areas of enterprise information architecture specifically government, healthcare and pharmaceutical/life sciences subject areas

PROFILE

Highly experienced functional and solution with over thirteen years of information technology and project management experience demonstrated ability to lead diverse teams of both business and technology professionals to new levels of success in a variety of highly-competitive healthcare-related industries, cutting edge innovations and fast-paced environments. Strong technical and business qualifications with an impressive track record of more than 10 years of hands-on experience in strategic planning, data warehousing, regulatory and non-regulatory information enterprise, data and information architecture business and clinical workflow development, project and product management at the enterprise level and information architecture and data management strategies. Proven ability to successfully analyze an organization's critical business requirements, identify deficiencies and potential opportunities.

industries of expertise

Healthcare, Clinical Research and Development , Automated Grants Management Government Federal, State , Payer Public/ Private , Pharmaceutical, Provider, CPG/ Retail, Education

METHODS and TECHNOLOGY SUMMARY

Business Process Management: , Oracle BPEL

Grants Management: Oracle PeopleSoft, Custom Solution Microsoft Grants360 with SharePoint

Clinical Information Systems: MEDITECH Client Server and MUMPS-based , McKesson PBM, ProServ , Cerner Millennium 2007 Implementation - Clinical Imaging, Biosurveilliance, Community Health, Point of Care, HIM : NextGen

Enterprise Architecture/Clinical Information Architecture Frameworks: Zachman, TOGAF, SAFE, IHE, Oracle HTB Healthcare Transaction Base

Inbound/ Outbound Data Feeds: Reuters, CDC BioSense, ESSENCE, RODS, HL7 v2.x across various clinical

Portal/ Mobility Solution: PatientKeeper Portal and Mobility Mercury Mobility SalesForce VisualForce

Data Migration/ ETL Informatica PowerCenter 7x, 6x Ab Initio, IBM Ascential DataStage TX, Quovadx Cloverleaf

Data Masking/ Privacy Data De-identification : Princeton Softech: Meditech, Cerner

Messaging Services: HL7 2.3M, CDA evaluation, XML mapping:

Data Cleansing/ Profiling Quality : Trillium QS, Discovery v.7, v.8:

Data Viewing/ Design: Data Integrator/ Data Profiler ERwin, Informatica DataProfiler

Public Health Reporting/ HIE/ RHIO Technology: InterSystems HealthShare:

EMPI: Initiate

Integrated Healthcare Data Standardization Application: 3M HDD SNOMED CT, UMLS, LOINC and ICD

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Project Manager

• Design of longitudinal electronic health record EHR as owned for use across safety net providers across city of Chicago and Cook County including cross integration of proprietary RLS/ MPIs Cerner, PWPM, NextGen, OCHIN and other various disparate files and systems
• Creation of clinical data repository for internal use of files for outcomes management, healthcare workforce management and program/ service
• Legal health record for safety net patients/ clients in coordination with clinical , HIM and legal SMEs
• Responsible for implementation of automated grants lifecycle solution for City of Chicago Department of Public Health included HHS HRSA, CDC , ARRA according to GAO standards ideation to closure
• Designed solution for integration of departmental and city government processes including submission and validation of services and compliance
• Created cohesive architecture across grantors and recipients and subrecipients including existing grants and ARRA compliance, regulatory integration, G/L and overall transparency
• Integrated existing manual processes into streamlined BPM solution for service validation and procurement
• Integration of existing City of Chicago centralized Oracle PeopleSoft Grants Management solution to new department-level HRSA/ CDC/ ARRA grants compliant with each set of corresponding grant requirements

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Project Manager

• Responsible for managing a team of clinical business analysts and technical resources in the implementation of an external claims reporting system utilizing de-identified patient information for use by external contracted customers
• Worked extensively with departmental clinical specialists to capture requirements to ensure non-standardized, non-structured data from McKesson ProPBM and ProServ data is translated into interoperable information for aggregation and clinical data standardization
• Responsible for extensive client relationship management and coordination with offshore development team

Confidential

Project Manager

• Managed and acted as an enterprise level clinical information domain Expert within Enterprise Information Architecture area subgroup of Enterprise Strategy and Planning Group while managing multiple data sharing initiatives regulatory reporting federal and state and non-regulatory RHIO/HIE facilitating between corporate headquarters, division/ facility resources and third party vendors simultaneously. Responsible for translating and procuring the applicable requirements for government-related data transmissions RODS, ESSENCE, BioSense for public health bioterrorism purposes
• Led evaluation, design, selection and creation of enterprise information methodology for use across the in-patient clinical systems as part of a new enterprise level Electronic Health Record/ EHR including portal, retention database, CDR and CDW this methodology addresses new capabilities for enterprise standardization, nomenclature translation, terminology management and CDSS and CIS transition
• Acted as chief facilitator between the corporate IT department and clinical shared services for requirements gathering for E HR and clinical portal product to be used as a replacement system for the existing MEDITECH CIS used across the enterprise. These areas included transplant, oncology, PACS, in-patient supply chain, etc. all to be implemented according to IHE clinical workflows and transitioning
• Led clinical evaluation/ selection for data profiling, data quality, nomenclature translation and terminology management for various enterprise initiatives for clinical terminology enterprise dictionary
• Influenced and implemented functions utilizing PMI-based corporate project management methodology and standards including estimating, forecasting, planning, process modeling, issue and risk management, meeting facilitation, variance analysis and reporting to Enterprise Strategy and Planning Department senior management
• Worked closely with both internal business and IT teams to ensure that information needs and requirements are understood in a liaison fashion to complete and transform said requirements into useful and applicable implementations across the enterprise effectively presented solution s to stakeholders for implementation of physician and clinical staffing portal and mobility solutions
• Acted as vendor management lead for all enterprise information and data integration products and for enterprise EHR solution utilized knowledge of hardware, software and systems and applicable needs of business leaders to facilitate needs utilizing collaboration skills, industry contacts, capacity planning to build upon the organization's relationship management for EMPI enterprise master patient index
• Maintained extensive relationships with corporate HIPAA Officers and various Information Technology resources across the enterprise to implement various pay for performance measures and other enterprise quality procedures during/ after privatization of company
• Designed, implemented and supported of knowledge management solutions, enterprise information integration plan and related technologies for collaborative clinical information sharing both internally and external to the HCA enterprise enterprise data sharing regulatory and NHIN/ RHIO/ HIE initiatives
• Special Initiatives included: E HR design of data storage architecture CDR, CDW, EDW clinical information Lead functional and technical contact for enterprise regulatory and non-regulatory data sharing initiatives coordination between field operations, internal interface, security and networking group, and external vendors and companies

Confidential

Senior Consultant

• Worked closely with both CSC and client multidisciplinary teams in the planning, designing and documentation of various client needs within the pharmaceutical, payer and provider sub-vertical arenas
• Developed a broad understanding of each Client and their information, data/knowledge architecture needs
• Managed and delivered vital components of various clients that identify, design, and implement creative business and technological solutions for large companies
• Served in key roles for accomplishing multiple data and infrastructure management initiatives as well as providing feedback on clients' enterprise architecture and management practices
• Provided advance project management and support for multiple projects, working closely with sponsors, stakeholders, management and users to coordinate project activities and provide support for core project management functions
• Conducted architectural quality assessments/ audits including IPS assessments and techniques, quality/cost measurements
• Clients: Abbott Laboratories VA pharmacy repricing initiative , eMEDNY State of New York Medicaid and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois Claims EDW Content and Architecture Evaluation, Assessment and Revision Recommendation , Mayo Clinic Jacksonville Cerner CIS implementation and MPI

Confidential

Principal Consultant

• Acted as Information Management Subject Matter Expert and Project Manager for Sales and Marketing Data Warehouse implementation at major financial wing for retailer
• Facilitated RAD and JAD design and scoping exercises for business community acted as day to day knowledge expert for full life cycle implementation of data warehouse for the enterprise financial community
• Provided hands-on technical knowledge, collected business knowledge from various domain experts, resolved data and business inconsistencies, converted business knowledge into consolidated enterprise solutions
• Participated in and reported on usability studies and documented these studies via wireframe flow charts, content inventories, and functional and non-functional specifications
• Ensured that the project followed the iterative implementation life cycle requirements gathering to UAT while managing internal and external technical and business resources on a day to day basis
• Client: CIGNA Insurance

Confidential

Consultant

• Acted as project manager for ETL architecture and design for MPP data loads for tool evaluation/ proof of concept initiative managed team of 6 data architects and developers
• Responsible for hands on deliverables including Informatica and Ad Initio integration mappings and graphs, rapid data movement from various source systems due to company merger, status updates to client presentation of applicable
• Assisted client with tool evaluation of Ab Initio vs. Informatica for data movement
• Client: Verizon Business Telecommunications Group, Tampa, Florida

Confidential

Master Technical Architect

• Proven skills of designing and implementing technology-enabled business solutions for clients as part of multiple highly talented implementation teams
• Team lead for claims data migration/ ETL tool evaluation for major East Coast payer organization
• Acted as information architect for various initiatives for end to end management and location of data for executive dashboarding and clinical decision support
• Acted as one of the primary client advocates for Data Warehousing services for the company ensure that achievable implementation expectations are set during the sales cycle combined experience with data warehousing experience to individual client needs to define workable implementation plans Understand and effectively communicate how FCG's solutions impact customers operations and ROI drivers assisted with the creation of competitive services proposals and contracts by coordinating technical realities with business expectations
• Clients: Clarian Healthcare Systems OCR ED registration , Independence BCBS

Confidential

Senior Consultant

• Assisted client in definition, approval and establishment of various data integration initiatives with systems of record and creation of new enterprise level RDBMS solutions
• Acted as SME for burgeoning healthcare practice with process and workflow development tracked issues and resolutions throughout the requirements gathering sessions planned, designed wrote interface technical specification, WBS, and SRS with project management team
• ERD modeling and physical database implementation, developed protocols for CDW metadata
• Created test and use cases in coordination with company clinical experts configured environments for benchmarking new processes according to Gartner's Application Server Evaluation Model ASEM
• Developed Clinical Master Data Management solution workflows UI workflows, integration workflows, validation/standardization rules using the MDM platform in-depth understanding of service offering/ project scoping, consultative selling and client interface skills
• Provided extensive documentation for use by technical and business community as well as performed knowledge transfer
• Client: TAP Pharmaceuticals

Confidential

Principal Consultant

• Responsible for completing procurement of selected tools as well as for leading the project team through implementation and testing phases: provided oversight onsite for almost all training
• Responsible for developing, maintaining and growing client relationships and leading consultant and client project teams from project planning through execution
• Designed pharmaceutical data marts for corporate employee claims self insured including conceptual, logical and physical enterprise data models and UML
• Clients: Walgreens Corporation Third party administration claims processing automation , CNA Insurance claims system , Pharmacia veterinary information architecture assessment

Senior Consultant

• Proven resource in defining systems strategy, developing functional and nonfunctional requirements, designing and prototyping, defining policies and procedures as well as implementing practical business solutions under multiple deadlines
• Integrated various student, practitioner and education databases according to client specifications
• Client was American Medical Association