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Nashville, Tn, Us

Franklin, Tn, Us

• Collaborated in the creation, implementation and management of a Project Management Office (PMO) for a Fortune 500 healthcare company• Cross functional stakeholder coordination of portfolio prioritization of projects and key project demands.• Developed team of program and project managers to deliver quality, consistent results; while providing clear and consistent communication.• Created PMO standards, best practices and documentation templates around project intake, resource assignment, financial tracking, change management and project closure.• Within one and a half years, elevated PMO from a Level 1 to Level 3 organization

Franklin, Tn, Us

CHS is a Fortune 250 corporation and is one of the nation's leading operators of general acute care hospitals. The organization’s affiliates own, operate or lease 84 hospitals in 16 states with approximately 15,000 licensed beds.• Managed various information security projects for a $16 billion healthcare data center with 120,000 endpoints and 30,000 servers. Focused on firewall protection, endpoint security, threat identification / prevention and active directory integrity. Project budget range varied from $770k to $22m.• Primary liaison for information security department during hospital acquisitions and divestitures. This included overseeing the design, build-out, testing and deployment of new Palo Alto firewalls, domain controllers, circuits and policies to ensure no operational changes affected patient care or organizational performance. Largest project was a $1.2 billion spin-off of 38 hospitals in 16 states to form a new organization.• Oversaw security efforts related to the migration from an enterprise data warehouse to the cloud. This included reviewing network design review, interconnect creation between Google Cloud Platform & legacy EDW from on-prem data center, implementing VPN tunnel, high availability testing and failover, standardizing naming conventions, Palo Alto firewall & 128T deployment, Terraform implementation with ServiceNow & GitHub integration, and creating of cloud security foundations.• Developed Data Protection program for sensitive data across the enterprise environment as more people began working remotely. Identified, managed and eliminated risks. Reduced data leakage. Worked within the information security guidelines to develop a data loss prevention (DLP) program, as well as data discovery and policy creation for proper data governance. • Developed business requirements, product strategy, roadmaps, SOWs, program scope and resource needs, as well as a targeted timeline for enterprise application.

Irving, Texas, Us

Vizient is the nation's largest member-driven health care performance improvement company in the country, whose expertise spans across the continuum of care.• Optimized budgets and resource schedules while successfully managing multiple concurrent implementations that were delivered on-time & in-budget. Heavily used Earned Value Matrix (EVM), Cost Performance Index (CPI) and Return On Investment (ROI) Analysis to show an average cost saving of 12% on installation cost and $5 million in ROI in underpayment recovery.• Worked with development team to establish project framework to support agile development lifecycle in order to improve communication and understanding with project stakeholders. Project scope spanned the development of a content management system and the development of operational processes to support users. Average project deadline estimate was accurate to within 2 weeks of scheduled delivery date.• Key stakeholder on three year long project in which the software program was being upgraded from Small Talk to Java language. Collaborated with development team, business analysts, client reps, testers and software trainers.• Contributed in the software development life cycle for the new CMS bundled payment care initiative module. This module drove an increase of $2 million dollars in increased sales in 2017.• Devised and launched mentorship program across the company product development and deployment teams, kicking off in 10+ mentor relationships with program guidelines and support content.

Alpharetta, Ga, Us

MedAssets is an American healthcare performance improvement company. Providing products and services to 4,400 hospitals and 122,000 non-acute healthcare providers. Acquired by Vizient, Inc. in January 2015.• Designed and implemented an employee engagement & career growth program for internal staff to transition through the consultant career path. By aligning skills, over 5,000 FTE hours were consolidated and multiple advancement opportunities were created.• Implemented tracking and accountability controls to ensure follow through of all processing requirements and aligned technical training drastically improving retention 100%• Reduced training operation expenses through development of new best practices e-learning courses utilizing the Captivate software suite. These courses provided residual income streams of approximately $300,000 while freeing up staff to conduct more revenue generating courses instead.

Alpharetta, Ga, Us

• Delivered engaging, comprehensive classroom financial decision support training on topics including cost accounting, contract modeling, budget development and ad-hoc report writing; as well as data loading and reconciliation. Classroom income averaged over $250,000 annually.• Coordinated and facilitated monthly continuing education web-based courses. Topics were generated from a client-focus group and provided on-going education into a more granular detail of the software’s functionality. • Ensured software exceeded client’s implementation expectation by providing hands-on technical training with a survey average of 93% satisfaction.

Advanced Lean Healthcare Certification: Management Systems For Sustainability

Lean Healthcare Certification

Project Management Professional (Pmp)

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba) In Communications