Chris D. J. Email & Phone Number

Nashville Metropolitan Area

Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Nashville, Tennessee

Majority owned division of HCA Healthcare.Oversee data management and analytics strategy and project portfolio implementation facilitating information insights for world's largest healthcare Group Purchasing Organization ($58 B in contracted spend sales). Orchestrated creation of an Enterprise Data Warehouse, designing single source of truth, simplifying its use, and evangelizing business consumption of organizational data. Executed cross-functional Data Governance, Quality, and Stewardship programs, increasing quality by 22.6%, improving stakeholder / member trust in data, and adding $3 M of EBITDA annually. Guided creation of various machine learning initiatives: Boosted contracted spend compliance to 95%. Deploying algorithms to automate item categorization reducing manual labor. Implementing strategies to test and certify 3rd-party data all the time. Championed operational efficiencies via Lean Six Sigma and root cause analysis (RCA), eliminating annual support costs of $740K. Forged highly effective business-centric analytics program, enabling stakeholder teams, and eliminating IT overhead costs. Influenced significant cultural changes, enhancing employee satisfaction by 43.9% in 18 months; increasing employee engagement scores from 59% to 85%.

Greater Nashville Area

Reassigned to modernize antiquated enterprise analytic tools and implement a data-driven culture supporting citizen development. Spearheaded targeted initiatives to restructure analytic tool operations for MicroStrategy, Tableau, and Business Objects, increasing uptime availability beyond 99.9%.o Business Objects downtime to multiple events daily to 1 event in 2 years.o MicroStrategy downtime to 1 event weekly to 1 event in 2 years.o Tableau downtime to 1 event weekly to 1 event every 6 months.Led Analytics Council guiding selection and implementation of modern analytic tools, including QlikView, QlikSense, Tableau, and Power BI, democratizing stakeholder development and improving report creation speed to market.Deployed standards, best practices, automated processes, and training programs, supporting highly efficient and effective business-centric analytics development strategy.Negotiated multiple legacy analytic tool vendors, procuring $2.2M in annual savings funding modern tool investments.Aligned team of highly skilled experts, garnering Center of Excellence designation for Enterprise Analytics.

Greater Nashville Area

Orchestrated IT development team supporting contract sensitivity analysis with insurance providers to maximize hospital reimbursement rates ($28 B in annual revenues).Managed software development team to design and develop contract and workflow management system, decreasing average negotiation times from 3 months to 1.Facilitated and partnered across 6 lines of business, aligning automated workflow processes to transition contracts to executed state.Led separate team and drove efficiencies in support of contract sensitivity calculations, improving times from 2 days to 4 hours.Assigned to stabilize QlikView for large data consumption by deploying common sense development standards / documentation, peer-review expectations, and proper server sizing.

Greater Nashville Area

Manage enterprise analytical tools and related upgrades, provide training, and serve as a consulting team for the most complex reporting challenges.Maintained vendor relationship including negotiating USE terms and licensing costs saving annually more than $1.5 M over 5 years.Partnered with corporate leadership to standardize and document user interface designs simplifying new developer training.Devised internal basic, intermediate, and advanced development courses for all reporting applications eradicating annual training subscriptions valued at $125K.Implemented sophisticated monitoring and alerting processes ensuring uptime availability of 99.9% or better.Directed RFP process changing enterprise data integration tools that involved more than 6,000 jobs, 9 development teams, and employing more than 50 contractors (45 offshore and 5 onshore) completing transition in less than 6 months and ahead of budget.