SUMMARY:

Technology professional experienced and skilled in data analysis, data engineering, data warehouse development, business intelligence, application development and project management.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

BI, C#, SQL, ETL, Python, R, Data Analysis, Data Mining, Linux, SSRS, SSIS, Tableau, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Hadoop

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES:

Applications: Tableau, SSRS, SSIS, SSAS, Cognos, ArcGIS, Milliman MARA, Pentaho BI, Talend BI, MS SQL, MySQLPostgreSQL, Netezza, SQLite, Oracle, MongoDB, HadoopHive, Pig, Spark

Systems: Gnu/Linux, Windows, Mac OS

Languages: SQL, R, Python, C#, PHP, Ruby, Java, XML, HTML, CSSJavaScript

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Data Science and Analytics Lead

Confidential, MO

Responsibilities:

• Led the analytical team’s efforts including: extraction, transformation, loading (ETL), aggregation and quality assurance of data from multiple sources in support of reporting and analysis.
• Develop advanced analytical models using statistical and machine learning techniques to find meaningful patterns in healthcare data to inform decision making.
• Architect, build and maintain a reporting and analytics framework to deliver standard and adhoc reports to healthcare clients.
• Provide leadership in organization data strategy, analysis and reporting.
• Develop interactive dashboards and other visualizations to communicate high level results and trends to healthcare clients.
• Develop automated processes for data import, export, processing, profiling, reporting and analysis in support of healthcare client needs.
• Provide consulting services to evaluate a state public health agency’s data governance and analytics program. Provided recommendations for implementing industry best - practices with regards to setting up a data governance and analytics unit.

Technologies used: Tableau, SQL, Python, Microsoft SQL Server, SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS), PHP, MySQL.

Director of Analytics and Reporting

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Responsibilities:

• Directed the development and execution of analytical and reporting activities to provide physicians and senior leadership with information and tools for strategic decision making and planning, clinical outcomes, provider patterns and variations, trends and forecasting, data and informatics needs, emerging technologies.
• Oversaw the analytical team’s efforts including: extraction, transformation, loading (ETL), aggregation and quality assurance of data from multiple sources in support of performing reporting and analysis of physician quality measures.
• Developed standard and ad-hoc reporting and analytics to support critical decision making.
• Developed advanced analytical models using statistical and machine learning techniques to find meaningful patterns in healthcare data to inform decision making.
• Researched, identified, & implemented new approaches and methods to facilitate quality measures reporting, analysis and monitoring, including the application of advanced analytical techniques like statistical predictive modeling and machine learning.
• Deployed industry best-practises to ensure a consistent and repeatable approach to exploration, analysis and reporting of actionable insights.
• Developed interactive dashboards and other visualizations to communicate high level results and trends to key stakeholders in the organization.
• Collaborate with other business units in the organization to advance the company’s reporting capabilities and improve accuracy of data.
• Responsible for evaluating and implementing data and analytics software solutions throughout the organization.

Technologies used: Tableau, SQL, R, Python, Microsoft SQL Server, SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS),Hadoop, Hive,Pig, Spark

National Director of Medical Informatics/Analytics

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Responsibilities:

• Provided leadership and expertise in designing and implementing data analysis, business intelligence and reporting initiatives including: ETL processes, reports, dashboards and visualizations, predictive modeling, enterprise data warehouse (EDW) and data marts, mapping and geographic analysis (GIS). This is in support of the organization’s population health initiatives to improve the value and quality of care for populations under contract nationwide.
• Developed advanced analytical models using statistical and machine learning techniques to find meaningful patterns in healthcare data to inform decision making.
• Provided leadership in organization data strategy, population health platform configuration, resource deployment, competency building and team development.
• Provided expertise in developing the organization’s risk segmentation and risk stratification models for mobile integrated healthcare services.
• Provided support in contracting opportunities for the organization including: creating new data driven business strategies and risk arrangements.
• Researched and implemented new technologies and techniques for data analysis and reporting.
• Analysis of healthcare data including EHR and claims data to guide intervention efforts for a nationwide population health initiative.

Technologies used: Tableau, SQL, R, Python, Microsoft SQL Server, SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS),Hadoop, Hive, Pig, Spark, Cognos, Netezza, Business Objects, ArcGIS.

Assistant Director of Medical Informatics/Analytics

Confidential, AL

Responsibilities:

• Led the design and implementation of a data warehouse, data analysis and reporting tool for the state Medicaid program to identify utilization patterns, develop a risk profile of the Medicaid population and physicians and find savings for a population of over 800,000 members.
• Led the design and implementation of care coordination, home health monitoring and maternity systems used by the state Medicaid agency to support care management for patients in various programs within the agency.
• Led a team of software developers in the design and implementation of new features for an incident management system used by state public health agencies in multiple states and over 1000 health facilities for disaster management.
• Provided technical training to over 1000 health workers to use the various information systems developed by my team.
• Represented the department as a member of the State Health Information Exchange (HIE) Technical Workgroup.

Technologies used: Tableau, SQL, R, Python, Microsoft SQL Server, SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS), C#, PHP, XML, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Pentaho BI, Talend BI, MySQL, PostgreSQL.

Computer Systems and Software Specialist/Sr Software Developer

Confidential, AL

Responsibilities:

• Led a team of software developers in the design and implementation of new features for an Incident Management system used by state public health agencies in multiple states and health facilities for disaster management. These features included; compatibility with the HAvBED national standard for bed availability, XML web services to allow import and export of data into the system and others.
• Led a team of software developers in restructuring the application architecture of a legacy system. Introduced a template-based process of software development that contributed to higher-quality products with reduced development time and a reduction in errors.
• Documented workflows and produced a user training manual to be used by system users and administrators.
• Led a team of software developers in the design and implementation of a data warehouse for state Medicaid program. Automated previously manual, time-consuming processes to drive gains in data extraction, transformation and loading into a data warehouse.
• Developed predictive and agent based models for the Medicaid population.

PC Applications Specialist

Confidential, AL

Responsibilities:

• Provided object-oriented analysis/design, coding and testing of state health information systems. Defined, wrote and managed requirements for major sections of these groundbreaking applications.
• Served on a team that ported the desktop-based environment to a web-based, client/server solution. Efforts averted the threatened loss of users who were experiencing major issues installing and configuring the desktop application to work on their organization's firewalled-network.
• Championed the implementation of quality assurance and coding reviews that detected programming errors early in the development process
• Deployed the web-based system and helped transition the 1000+ users into the new system by providing training through user manuals, training videos, web conferences and in-class training.