Dale Simmons Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Help ship reliable data and platform infrastructure to enable actionable, data-driven decisions about Squarespace's customers, products and business

Dallas, Texas, Us

*Coached the newly formed Patient Prediction Zone team comprised of Data Scientists, Data Engineers, and Technical & Business Analysts to autonomously plan, prioritize and deliver their work using the Agile Scrum project management framework to better forecast patient outcomes during episodes of care*Assisted team leadership in prioritizing and planning work to achieve organizational goals during Signify Health's company acquisition of Remedy Partners

Dallas, Texas, Us

*Lead Project Manager for Data Lake, Data Management, Database and Reporting Warehouse ETL teams*Wrote Data Lake Data Governance policies, a critical component of the Data Lake project, designed to reduce data storage costs, maximize reporting and analytics product offerings, and maintain a secure, HIPAA compliant environment*Provided daily status reports to VP, Analytics and Reporting Product Technology Development, as well as the SVP, Application Development & QA*Monitored project progress and ensured transparency using project management tooling (e.g., Sprint Reports, Burndown Charts, Kanban/Scrum boards, and project plans)*Oversaw end to end SDLC process from requirements gathering, development, QA testing, and release cycle*Facilitated agile ceremonies (e.g, daily standup, sprint planning, retrospectives, backlog refinement/grooming, tech designs, etc.) and resolved blockers to project / team success*Collaborated with business leads and analysts to gather project requirements, such as acceptance criteria, and then helped engineering teams plan / execute technical implementation*Coordinated cross-team dependencies, maximizing time and resource efficiency, while providing deliverables to business within tight timeframes*Worked closely with product owners to create and maintain an effective project backlog to ensure continuous delivery of features and service requests

Dallas, Texas, Us

Subject matter expert of the Episode Connect platform, Remedy's proprietary care coordination & discharge planning platform.Trained internal employees, new hires and clients in-person and via live webinar on Episode Connect, a care coordination platform developed by Remedy Partners to manage BPCI patients. *Created and presented curriculums, training scripts, course content, workflows, webinars and workshops*Interfaced with user cohorts across a broad spectrum of roles and a unique set of needs: internal employees, partner care coordinators, and partner leadership *Provided new user training, train-the-trainer, feature previews and troubleshooting across Remedy’s partner verticals, including hospitals, physician's groups, and post-acute facilities*Coordinated incoming training requests*Ensured documentation and training content was in alignment with platform changes and product vision

Dallas, Texas, Us

Started the Production Support team for a new technology startup, focusing on Remedy Partners' Episode Connect, reporting, and analytics platforms to facilitate the transition from fee-for-service to value-based payments for health care services. *Resolved user incidents and requests by either training users or escalating issues to Product Management, Development, Integration, Databases, Business Development QA, and/or IT*Created internal & external self-service Knowledge Bases & documentation in collaboration with Technical Writing*Trained users on Remedy Partner's proprietary Episode Connect platform to manage patient journeys (e.g., discharge locations, next sites of care, readmissions) and care teams*Communicated provider and patient needs to development, business, operations, product, and integration teams*Used JIRA, JIRA Service Desk and Kayako to triage support requests & analyze weekly/monthly ticket trends *Onboarded/trained new hires*Automated & templatized support responses

Burlington, North Carolina, Us

*Managed 75 high-revenue Methadone accounts across the United States, helping resolve laboratory / testing issues *Supported Executive staff in Labcorp's brand-new toxicology department following the acquisition of Bendiner & Schlesinger, Inc. Medical Laboratories by tracking accounts, budget changes, and barriers to senior leaders and relevant stakeholders

*Transferred Bendiner & Schlesinger client accounts to LabCorp following their acquisition*Managed laboratory billing and coding to reconcile rejected claims and maximize revenue collection from Medicare and Medicaid*Trained laboratory clients to use electronic medical records (e.g., Epic, NextGen, Methasoft) to order labs, view test results, and print reports*Serviced client accounts and maintained laboratory business relationships*Created and updated sales materials*Primary internal/external IT resource

*Managed 40 farmers markets across Westchester, Rockland & New York City*Expanded WIC & food stamp benefit program to markets*Ensured food vendors complied with USDA health and safety regulations*Tracked market attendance and identified levers to improve attendance (e.g., marketing, shifting scheduling, diversifying vendors at the markets, location, etc.)*Billed the farmers and kept track of budgeting*Developed and maintained business relationships with farmers, vendors, and market goers*Responsible for Marketing

This was a part-time, paid community organizing and political advocacy internship. *Facilitated meetings with needle exchange clients to connect them with opportunities outside of NYHRE*Educated peers in New York City and State about policies impacting sex workers, drug users, and people living with HIV/AIDS to effect social and legal changes within their communities*Organized and managed the Peer Delivered Syringe Exchange Conference in collaboration with local harm reduction agencies across New York City, including VOCAL and the NYC Department of Health & Mental Hygiene*Oversaw and ran NYHRE's U.P.R.I.S.E. program, in which 10 clients from the syringe exchange were trained to become peer educators, do community outreach, and distribute syringes and condoms. --Created course curriculum--Recruited facilitators for training sessions--Provided coaching and feedback to facilitators to help them best support our clients

New York, Ny, Us

Wrote policy briefs advocating for the expansion of syringe exchange access and funding for Community Health Centers, Federally Qualified Health Centers, and Substance Abuse Treatment Programs in order to reduce disease transmission.

Devon, Gb

Conducted ethnographic research around how people use social media & network online.

Managed 40 farmers markets, wrote weekly e-mails to customers / vendors, and kept track of billing. My proudest accomplishment was the significant increase of food stamp & WIC benefitUsage amongst the non-English speaking Hispanic population at the Ossining Farmers Market as a result of the outreach efforts I organized (in Spanish).

Interviewed injecting drug users about how they use drugs and taught safe injection practices to prevent/reduce HIV & Hepatitis C infections in the Lower East Side for the NDRI study: "Staying Safe: Training Injecting Drug Users in Strategies to Avoid HIV and HCV Coinfection"

Annandale-On-Hudson, Ny, Us

Maintained Bard's Center for Curatorial Studies & Museum's contemporary art library databases and assisted students with reference resources.https://ccs.bard.edu/museum

Annandale-On-Hudson, Ny, Us

Assisted Professor Felicia Keesing's (Bard College) research project by conducting direct immunofluorescence assays (IFA) to test ticks for the presence of B. Burgdorferi, the bacterium which causes Lyme disease.

Millbrook, New York, Us

Received a National Science Foundation federal grant to research reducing tick-borne disease transmission (e.g., Lyme Disease, Anaplasmosis) with Dr. Felicia Keesing & Dr. Richard Ostfeld. My research focused on the effects of Garlic Mustard, an invasive plant species, and B. bassiana, an entomopathogenic fungi, on black-legged tick survival.

Annandale-On-Hudson, Ny, Us

Great Barrington, Ma, Us

Student liaison between prospective students and school admissions.Gave tours to prospective students applying to early college, and answered their questions about it based on my own experiences as an early college student. I also provided my feedback about the prospective students to the admissions department.

Msc Medical Anthropology

Bachelor Of Arts, Biology And Global Public Health

Associates Of Arts, Liberal Arts