Blake Wescott Email & Phone Number

Tucson, Arizona, United States

• Advise the Executive Director, staff leaders, and board members on business strategy and process improvements.• Function as the primary liaison to the ABR’s Board of Governors and Board of Trustees to develop operational strategy in line with the organization’s goals.• Designed a major revamp of the ABR testing functionality in transition from a 10-year exam requirement to a continuous online assessment (Online Longitudinal Assessment or OLA), serving as the main requirement for the Maintenance of Certification program, successfully launched to over 30,000 certificate-holders.• Manage a team of analysts in support of process improvement across the organization, including business requirements and documentation for OLA. Responsible for direction of analyst activities, training, mentorship, and feedback for division employees.• Served as product owner of OLA, developing and prioritizing product functionality.

Tucson, Arizona Area

• Analyzed current-state processes, capabilities, and gaps to enable development of strategy and execution of Board priorities.• Redesigned the Maintenance of Certification line of business, including processes used by over 30,000 radiologists to keep their professional credentials up to date.• Oversaw the development of business requirements and documentation in conjunction with other staff business analysts. • Facilitated meetings with ABR’s Board to determine new business rules and processes.• Maintained documentation around complex business rule sets and requirements along with education and facilitation of staff regarding change management.

Tucson, Arizona

• Introduced business rules, requirements, and workflow documentation to improve strategy to deployment outcomes.• Facilitated cross-functional teams to identify problems within current operations.• Elicited and developed business requirements for improvements to current-state business processes through facilitated sessions with stakeholders throughout the organization.• Validated requirements through user acceptance testing.

Seattle, Washington, United States

• Elicited and developed business requirements for over 50 customized SharePoint 2010 websites supporting 1500 Student Life staff, utilizing integrations with Microsoft Office, InfoPath, Access and SSRS.• Created eLearning training courses and technical documentation in support of SharePoint deployment.• Initiated and developed reporting and analysis services within the Office of the Registrars Degree Audit Unit, leveraging previously untapped degree audit data and academic electronic data warehouses to support business decisions across three UW campuses.• Analyzed student information system requirements to ensure consistent product performance and integration with legacy systems.

Seattle, Wa

• Analyzed regional public transportation and UW technical systems to develop software and hardware requirements for UW’s ORCA Core Migration Project, integrating faculty, staff, and students ID cards with western Washington’s regional ORCA transit system.• Facilitated meetings and workshops for internal and external stakeholders across administrative, IT and operational areas. • Launched project to over 55,000 customers with a 99.95% product success rate.• Developed requirements and deployment of Salesforce CRM solution resulting in a 43% reduction in customer wait times.

United States

• Managed projects from developing budgets to organizing schedules and timeline deliverables.• Developed creative direction and production values to meet the demands of labels and artist.• Lead creative and technical teams through project lifecycle from sketches to finished product.