Qualifications

Confidential is a certified Project Management Professional PMP and a veteran Information Technology Organization Leader and Practitioner. She has31 years of experience in information technology in both the private and public sectors, including 14 years of project management experience, 6 years of organizational leadership experience, and 22 years of software engineering experience. Ruth has successfully managed the implementation, socialization, and adoption of an Confidential team and practice within a state government agency, facilitating an IT strategy of promoting efficiency and cutting costs by eliminating redundancy and leveraging re-usable solutions across the enterprise. She has managed large scale enterprise wide system implementation projects with budgets up to 47M dollars. She is an expert at managing cross-functional teams comprised of consultants and internal organization staff through all phases of the Software Development Life-Cycle SDLC . During State Fiscal Year 2014, Ruth managed the Medicaid Information Technology Architecture MITA Framework 3.0 State Self-Assessment SS-A for the State of Indiana,providing a roadmap for Indiana's Medicaid Enterprise technology modernization and business process improvement. Ruth is currently providing MITA 3.0 SS-A and Technology Modernization/Business Process Improvement services for the State of Iowa, managing a core team of 25 experts and an extended team of more than 60 additional Subject Matter Experts SMEs . Previously as the Chief of Enterprise Solution Architecture at the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services ODJFS , Ruth developed the Enterprise Architecture EA governance model, standards, and best practices for the Office of Information Services OIS , managed the Agency's first SOA Framework implementation and other Enterprise Architecture projects, and extended the organization's Unemployment Compensation Information System.

Experience

• 31 years in information technology/Software Engineering/Business Systems Analysis
• 14 years in project management
• 6 years in enterprise architecture
• 6 years in organizational management

Expertise

• Health and human services
• Unemployment compensation
• Information technology
• Project management
• Enterprise Architecture

Confidential

Health and Human Services IT Project Manager - Senior Consultant

• Provide IT project management system implementation and assessment services Includes provision of technology modernization and process improvement strategies based on the application of Enterprise Architecture EA frameworks and industry standard process improvement techniques, and facilitation of the development of organization strategic plans.
• Establish client PMO and provide project assurance services Includes risk assessment, quality assurance, and change management.
• Provide business and technical analytic services Includes process decomposition, technical services and infrastructure evaluation, data management evaluation, BPMN diagramming, UML diagramming, and extensive technical writing.
• Provide project execution leadership and direct/manage project human resources includes management of project communication at all layers of the stakeholder hierarchy, up through executive management.
• Managed the State of Indiana'sCenters for Medicare and Medicaid Services CMS required Medicaid Information Technology Architecture MITA Framework 3.0 State Self-Assessment SS-A project. Facilitated Indiana's Family and Social Services Administration FSSA agency executives through Health and Human Services HHS programs agency-wide strategic planning effort, resulting in development of Indiana Medicaid's FY14 Concept of Operations and three year strategic MITA Roadmap.
• Customized the MITA Framework 3.0 assessment tools and managed application of the resulting updated EA framework artifacts in a high-level cross-agency Enterprise Architecture capabilities assessment of Indiana's FSSA HHS programs and supporting systems.
• Currently Managing the State of Iowa'sCMS required MITA 3.0 SS-Aproject.

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Project Manager / ESA Chief / Implementation Manager

• Served on organizational leadership team managing organizational re-alignment with peer Architecture Engineering A E Section Chiefs to set strategic direction for establishment of Enterprise Architecture EA engagement at Office of Information Services OIS including development of organization's EA Governance model, Standards, and Best Practices and establishing and leading teams of Enterprise Solution and Application Architects in development of re-useable technical frameworks, design patterns, and objects to be utilized in design of automated solutions developed to meet business needs.
• Provided oversight of Architecture and Engineering A E Bureau tactical engagements in on-going software engineering and infrastructure efforts in support of delivery of IT Services to all ODJFS program areas see N-Tier technical environment details below . Employed formal Project Management strategies in work effort. Provided technical management oversightin matrix team environment consisting of cross-organizational members from Project Management PMO , Architecture Engineering A E , Development, and Production Operations P O Bureaus.
• Directly supervised Solution and Application Architects' work efforts in delivery of strategic Architectural Artifacts: Common Requirements Vision CRV , Current Future State models, and Roadmaps as well as Tactical Architectural Artifacts based on the '4 1 Views' Software Architecture Model represented by UML architectural diagrams.
• Managed large, complex, cross-organizational IT projects. Engaged risk management strategies. Utilized standard change management toolsto administer change control processes. Compiled budgetsubmissions.
• Managed vendor and client relationships. Wrote Requests for Proposals/Requests for Letter-head Bids RFPs / RLBs / Statements of Work SOWs . Evaluated vendor responses and made vendor selections.
• Led firstimplementation of core Service-oriented Architecture SOA Enterprise service Bus ESB capabilities at ODJFS OIS.
• Developed technical assessmentsfor screening job post candidates in the Solutions Architect, Application Architect, and Software Developer series classifications. Selected new hires and promotion candidates.
• Provided EA TOGAG 9 certification training opportunity at 30 market value cost, resulting in 88 of the organization's ESA Architects achieving TOGAF 9 certification.

Project Manager / Technology Manager

• Served as a Unit Chief responsible for managing technical implementation projectsas required to support the information system used by the State of Ohio's Bureau of Unemployment Compensation UC to provide unemployment compensation services to Ohio's constituency.
• Managed customer relationshipwith UC operational and supervisory management layers. Developed a quarterly deliverables process and accompanying tools to manage IT relationship with UC program staff by facilitating dialog between the UC program staff and the IT team, resulting in clear knowledge of when team augmentation was required and what resources were needed. Tackled and completed true business priority projects. Allowed for the It team to maintain sustainable contracts with the UC program staff.
• Implemented, stabilized, and customized a 47 million vendor co-developed UC system. UC benefits disbursements exceeded 1 billion annually. Served in excess of 500 thousand constituents annually.
• Managed development of UC Claims archival/retrieval system using Optim data management tools. Successful implementation recognized by IBM and Gartner Consulting. Invited to participate as a data management panelist at Gartner's fall 2008 Symposium.
• Provided technical direction to staff in the development of DFDs, ERDs UML models, and Requirements to Development and Requirements to Test Traceability Matrices, as well as leading formal JAD sessions.
• Provided technical direction to programmer analysts in client serverJ2EE front-end and COBOL DB2 back-enddevelopment environment.
• Implemented rigorous traceability methodologyand artifacts to facilitate quality assurance, maintainability and auditing efforts.
• Developed technical assessmentsfor screening job post candidates in the Programmer Analyst, Systems Analyst, and Information Technology Consultant series classifications. Selected new hires and promotion candidates.

Information Technology Consultant

• Served as direct technical consultant to the Ohio Job Insurance State Unemployment Compensation System Information Systems Section Chief. Provided guidance on strategies to obtain CMM Level-3 compliance, hands-on technical expertise in system and DB2 database tuning, application quality assurance, and systems requirements and analysis.
• Actively participated with on-site consulting system delivery team, pre-installation, in tuning the new UC System to bring the DB2/COBOL back-end batchbusiness processing components execution time within production standard batch window.Developed batch system process monitoring tools to facilitate performance management of dynamic custom transaction triggered hybrid batch schedules by identifying patterns of batch performance trouble spots within specific job sequences/clusters.
• Developed and implemented a roles-driven, formal Release Management processand accompanying artifacts for incorporation into the organization's Change Management system Dimensions .

System Requirements Analyst

• Served as a System Analyst on the Medicaid Management Information Systems MMIS team, assigned to the Health and Human Services Program Area. Conducted requirements discovery Joint Application Design JAD work group sessionsto elicit business and system requirements from Program Administrators and create system specifications and tests scripts based on captured system requirements.
• Introduced formal JAD methodologyto both the technical tem and the Program Area staff. Received buy-in to institutionalize formal JAD processes as both teams realized the benefits of traceability between business and system requirements, as well as the systematic articulation of business processesand calculations, outside of embedded code
• Completed extensive HIPAA medical claims systems requirements HCPCS, CPT, CDT, ICD-9, NDC , including accompanying Electronic Data Interchange EDI transaction requirements.

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Information Systems Consultant

• Provided systems analysis services to the Medicaid Claims Processing Unit at Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, determining action plan with regards to compliance with federally mandated HIPAA implementation.
• Worked closely with EDI implementationteam to ensure integrity if beta EDI front-end.

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Software Engineer

• Served as technical lead, supporting Multiple Virtual Storage MVS system tools and applications TSO/CICS/DB2/JCL/XPEDITER . Supported DB2 Development performance tuning enhancements, small-to-medium scale development projects, and on-call support for real time Bill Payment and Bill Presentation systems. Utilized FTP, NDM, and DTF communication protocols.
• Provided administrative technical team leadership- management of work flow, interviewing of potential new hires, led various development efforts.

Information Systems Consultant

• Converted major fulfillment system from hierarchical DB schema to a relational DB schema for Highlights For Children. Provided analysis and design for constructing a new fulfillment system to run in a CICS/DB2environment, using IBM's Visual Age Generator.

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Information Systems Consultant

• Developed application program design for constructing new locator system using DB2 and Visual Basic for the Bureau of Workman's Comp.

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Information Systems Consultant

• Provided extensive batch and on-line application software development services in TSO / CICS / DB2 environment using TELON code generator for Motorist Insurance.

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Information Systems Analyst

Information Systems Instructor

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Programmer / Analyst

Confidential

Programmer Co-op