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Denver, Colorado, United States

Accountable for the timely implementation of provider product solutions with a focus on Olive's Surgical Spend Variation platform designed to identify unwarranted clinical variation and enable health systems to make evidence-based care decisions to reduce costs.• Manage customer implementation efforts including technical data extraction requirements, data validation and mapping, customer workflow impacts as well as communications with Olive engineering and data science teams.• Collaborate with Olive Product teams to incorporate current best practices in our solution implementation work.• Support clinical customer enablement team to deliver over $2.5M in clinical variation and cost reduction value to customers.

• Full-time family caregiver.

United States

Set requirements and ensured interoperability across multiple solutions to meet end-user needs, organizational requirements and business objectives for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs as part of a 10-year multibillion-dollar EHR modernization effort.• Contributed to the design and validation of integration points across Cerner solutions and venues of care.• Executed a cross-functional integration strategy alongside the VA’s Office of Electronic Health Record Modernization (OEHRM).

Kansas City, Missouri, United States

Accountable for Cerner’s Materials Management Information System (MMIS), a suite of clinically driven supply chain solutions.• Ensured client and market interests were represented in the product roadmap while balancing scope, budget, resources and time, weighing priorities and stakeholder business objectives.• Empowered cross-functional development across stakeholder teams by leading iterative design events.• Collaborated with strategic partners such as United Surgical Partners International (USPI) to develop inventory management worklist functionality improving item-location maintenance, orders management, alternative vendor selection and invoice payment approval workflows among others. • Led manufacture barcode scanning initiatives to enable mobile application migration supporting GS1, HIBCC and ICCBBA barcodes as well as Global Unique Device Identification Database (GUDID) reference data integration.• Participated and presented at industry events such as the Association for Healthcare Resources and Materials Management (AHRMM) conference in San Diego, Cerner’s annual Health Conference (CHC) as well as various special interest groups and events to inform and educate on solution offerings, innovations and the value being delivered with each release.• Aligned Cerner’s solutions with regulatory requirements and industry best practices by collaborating with the FDA and CMS on barcode scanning protocol efficacy, manufacture compliance, Meaningful Use Stage 3 (MU3), Unique Device Identifier (UDI) integration and with KLAS Research Group.• Developed strategic partnerships with leading healthcare IT vendors as well as a major cloud services provider to expand and integrate Cerner’s clinically driven supply chain solutions in new markets.

London, England, United Kingdom

Established standards for an emerging electronic medication management and clinical supply chain market in the UK.• Delivered the first implementation of inpatient pharmacy and clinical supply chain in the UK at Barts Health NHS Trust. • Implemented custom general ledger (GL) interface to incorporate consultant level costing and accounting hierarchy as well as Cerner’s first EDI 810 interface implementation responsible for transacting £15m in the first 3 months.• Launched the first BD Rowa robot interface integration to fulfill pharmacy inpatient dose dispensing and floor stock requisitions.• Medication management implementations at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust, Croydon Health Services NHS Trust and West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust• Delivered new market entry assessments, bid proposals, presentations and onsite demos for prospective clients expanding Cerner’s marketing presence in the UK, Ireland, Spain, Sweden, Norway and Qatar.

Tampa, Florida, United States

Led medication management and clinical supply chain initiatives, formulated and defined project scope and objectives based on end-user and business needs.• Identified and implemented Cerner Millennium best practices and enterprise standards along with local facility policies to implement design and workflow improvements.

Provided clinical supply chain expertise across Cerner’s global clinical supply chain engagements. • Led over 25 implementations across the United States and Canada as well as Sheikh Khalifa Medical Centre in Abu Dhabi, UAE and King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.• Instructed and certified associate consultants, clients and third-party consultants in the design, build and integration of Cerner’s clinical supply chain solution, including on-site training at Cerner’s offices in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.• Provided technical design consults on executive sales bid presentations as well as RFP and RFI responses.

Consulted on service-line level workflows, provided guidance on design decision impacts to meet client specific workflow requirements and mitigate solution risks leading to successful implementations.• Managed multiple concurrent projects delivering accurate and on-time build to meet project timelines.• Implemented medication management rollout for London Health Sciences Centre, a hospital network based in London, Ontario and is collectively one of Canada’s largest acute-care teaching hospitals.