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United States

Mayport, Florida

Executes strategic leadership and operational management of over 260 employees and budget of over $9 million. Infused transformational leadership from the top to improve staff satisfaction and patient care delivery. • Focused team building approach, increased staff work satisfaction by 80%. • Successfully led staff through multiple external surveys with no critical life-safety or environment of care findings, while maintaining all services during a 60% shortage of medical and support staff.• Intensive focus on analytics and productivity analysis, restructured health care delivery for over 25,000 enrolled beneficiaries while prioritizing operational readiness of US Navy service members.

Bureau Of Medicine And Surgery, Defense Health Agency, Falls Church, Virginia

Executive advisor to the Deputy Surgeon General, overseeing operations of the Navy Medicine Enterprise, consisting of 210 medical facilities worldwide. Staffed by 63,000 personnel and valued at $9.1B, provided care to 1 million enrollees and 9.4 million eligible patients. • Coordinated global teams to complete critical tasks, identifying programmatic issues, analyzing risks, developing solutions and executing implementation.• Hand selected and trusted advisor to the most senior executive staff in Navy Medicine. • Part of an executive team responsible for the most significant transformational change in military medicine since 1945, required by the National Defense Authorization Act of 2017.

Executive operations oversight of healthcare care delivery in a politically sensitive and remote medical facility with no local network resources, where low-volume, leading to potentially high risk patient care was safely and effectively delivered to a diverse patient population with over 600 employees, and 28 staffed beds. • Successfully led staff through multiple external surveys with no critical life-safety or environment of care findings, to include Joint Commission and Navy Inspector General assessments. • Development and execution of critical facilities upgrades, including reinforcements and rehabilitation projects exceeding $2M dollars, maintaining full operations of a 60 year old medical facility. • Sought out mentor for junior, inexperienced staff of health care administrators and medical staff.

United States Special Operations Command

Executive staff coordinating health service support and recovery care coordination for wounded special operations forces throughout the world and Marine Forces within the Middle East. • Collaborative development of the first long range air casualty evacuation capability for the Marine Corps, meeting the “golden hour” requirements for saving lives of service members injured in combat. • Developed and maintained critical relationships, providing non-governmental resources for transitioning wounded special operations members. Instrumental in executive wounded warrior policy development. • Led a diverse team of American and coalition medical providers, resulting in successful coordination, planning and execution of medical support for multi-national exercises throughout Jordan and Oman.

U.S. Naval Hospital Okinawa Japan

Executive oversight, member of the Executive Steering Committee of the largest oversees U.S. Naval Medical Facility, with an enrollment and health care responsibility for over 50,000 Americans. • Led a diverse consulting team and case managers, driving performance improvement in the areas of health care operations, TRICARE, business planning, data quality, productivity analysis and financial reporting. • Authored business plan which set the executive course of the facility for three fiscal years and became the model planning document for all U.S. Navy medical facilities on the Pacific Rim and western United States. • Authored and implemented aggressive access to care plans, resulting in a 70% improvement in patient access.

Twentynine Palms, California

Responsible for management and policy development for clinical operations within a community hospital and outlying clinics. Oversight for all clinical services and support services including enrollment, provider scheduling, access to care, customer service, human resources management, financial management, business planning, and administrative support.

Twentynine Palms, California

Responsible for management and policy development for Patient Administration within a 12 bed community hospital and outlying clinics. Oversight for medical records management, medical records coding, billing, mortuary affairs, referral management, veterans administration claims processing through medical boards, military suitability screening and customer service.

Iraq

Chief of Health Operations for a Joint military Command responsible for organizing, training, equipping, and mentoring credible and capable Iraqi Joint Forces to facilitate the transition of security from Coalition to Iraqi Forces. Provided program management in the analysis of existing Iraq Ministry of Defense Health Service staffing and availability throughout the Nation. Collaborated with multi-National staff in the development, design, and logistics of new medical facilities. Served as advisor to the Iraqi Ministry of Defense Surgeon General, providing collaboration in criticalhealth issues impacting strategic planning. Provided oversight/guidance in the execution of $15M of infrastructure development and $30M of supplies/equipment extending medical capabilities to Iraqi Armed Forces Divisions and military treatment facilities throughout Iraq.

Various Locations

Medical administration, medical laboratory technician, histology technician, pathology services, mortician.

Mph, Health Administration And Policy

Bachelor'S Degree, Health/Health Care Administration/Management