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Hawthore, Nj

Manage local and offshore staff (Philippines) to obtain medical records for mass tort litigation.Ensure timely followup of medical records requests. Work with providers to ensure that requests are HIPAA compliant. Develop HIPAA compliant policies and procedures for local and offshore staff.

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Providing written and photographic content related to outdoor recreational activities in northern New Jersey

Supervise trail maintainers in Ramapo Mountain State Forest. Maintain hiking trails throughout northern NJ. Design and supervise construction, relocation and refurbishing of hiking trails.

Dover, Nj

Assess and prioritize work to be done on shift. Provide training to new members and cross train existing staff. Maintain database of potential employers and membership. Match potential employers with qualified candidates.

Reviewed applications for the government's E-Rate Schools and Libraries program. Checked applications for compliance with FCC regulations and assisted applicants in their understanding of program rules.

Conducted validation testing of Cognos reports in preparation for a large scale conversion to Cognos. Responsible for managing and supporting the transition of health centers enrolled in a nationwide low income patient assistance program for prescription medication from a paper voucher based product replenishment system to a web based system. Served as part of a SAP implementation team, where I assisted in the development of testing policies and procedures, developing test scripts and performing QA testing for a major SAP upgrade. In this position I used Mercury Quality Center to write over 200 test scripts which were used by the team to test the SAP installation and resulted in a problem free upgrade. Member of the Bearing Point internal audit team. Responsibilities included pre audit of project binders prior to turning these over for in-depth financial internal audit. This included assuring that all binder sections were complete, and that the quality of the documentation was clear and consistent. Client contracts were reviewed to assure that project set-up and invoicing were done appropriately. Additionally, performed analytical reviews of financial data to reconcile the data shown on these reports as well as reconciling to the engagement contract and budget. Flagged, analyzed and documented any issues encountered. Served as level two support for a temporary call center supporting a high-level directory merge for a major pharmaceutical company’s identity management initiative. The role involved managing incidents dealing with end-user and support staff problems, resulting from the merge of PeopleSoft directory data and Microsoft MetaDirectory information into the new enterprise LDAP directory. Served as queue manager, coordinating the distribution of incident tickets to staff using Peregrine Service Center. Communicated procedural updates from Project Manager and client, provided support and training to staff as needed

Responsible for supporting vendor supplied and in-house developed, VTAM based, network access products, session managers including the Network IT (Solve) suite of products, in a large scale, IBM environment. Responsibilities included the installation and testing of vendor products and tailoring them to installation specifications, applying product upgrades and software fixes, modifying vendor supplied exits and in-house code, monitoring performance, troubleshooting and acting as a liaison with vendors and internal customers. Responsible for IBM MQ Series administration, including the definition of queue managers, queues, channels, processes and other resources on NT, OS/390 and AIX platforms . Responsibilities also included monitoring MQ series performance, tuning and troubleshooting.Served as team lead in the Network Peripheral Application Support area, which included support of network access products, file transfer (Connect:Direct & FTP), session managers and MQ Series. Conducted project planning meetings and provided written and verbal performance evaluations of staff. Served as as departmental information security coordinator, problem tracking and change control.Developed and implemented disaster recovery procedures and testing methods for supported products, ensuring prompt recovery of applications in the event of a disaster. Performed security risk assessment for application data and removed non-essential, sensitive user information.Wrote test plans, developed test cases and performed QA on in-house written and vendor supplied software.Served as level 3 support for call center, resolving ongoing customer network access issues, reducing down time for individual users. Staffed level 2 call center on a rotating basis. Member of Passwords Standards Committee. Worked to develop and implement stringent, enterprise-wide password standards, to reduce the possibility of unauthorized network access.