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Tempe, Arizona

• Serve as product manager for the Group Retiree Ordering Portal and the end-to-end printing processes that supported multiple large scale printing campaigns for United Healthcare Medicare group retiree business.
• Gather requirements and write technical user stories for all aspects of print and print campaign management; including intake, composition, job processing, vendor integration / routing, and reporting.
• Developed a process for analyzing user experiences and operational systems to identify inefficiencies and redundancies. This resulted in identifying and implementing many new features that reduced required resources.
• Act as Product Owner on scrum team.

Eden Prairie, Minnesota

• Designed data solutions to address pharmaceutical challenges.
• Used industry knowledge and background in bioinformatics research to work through key features of usability and flow in analytical solutions.
• Identified opportunities for better insight into population dynamics and drove modifications to allow them to better support critical formulary contracting efforts.
• Managed software development teams to ensure business goals were realized and timelines were met.
• Worked with clients to determine functional requirements and designed innovative solutions for life science RWE applications.
• Managed the successful effort to convert Optum data to OMOP data format.

• Contributed to strategies that generated $162M annual plan savings for largest Part D sponsor.
• Identified critical decision points for formulary decisions. Ensured that CMS compliance, clinical factors, Stars ratings, member disruption and drug spend were systematically considered.
• Created processes for evaluating pharma rebate offers
• Built business cases for financially driven formulary changes and presentations
• Presented business cases to client leadership
• Using SAS, modeled member utilization dynamics to assess ROI of UM, including exclusion strategies. This was adopted by the highest levels of UHC and used to change PA policies and maximize stars ratings.

• Provided oversight for team of analysts: scoped projects, directed day to day activities, taught complex formulary trend modeling and coached data/information presentation skills.
• Designed formulary trend model and method for capturing outcomes that drove improved rebate offers. Involved facilitating input by cross-functional teams.
• Modeling expertise supporting rebate rate negotiation, including: Part D phase distribution; utilization trends in coverage gap and reinsurance; price protection; net effective price per unit; market share variance.
• Reviewed products and therapy classes, isolating formulary management techniques and assessed them against utilization and business profitability.
• Owned the financial assessment of all formulary design strategies and rebate offers for key pharmaceutical manufacturers.
• Built complex financial and utilization models supporting plan’s expanded formulary offerings with competitive co-pays and premiums. Efforts contributed to annual membership expansion of 8.2%.

• Developed innovative retail pharmacy point-of-sale (POS) messaging program to inform members of lower co-pay options. Increased member satisfaction and reduced plan drug costs.
• Organized large sets of claims data into outcomes-based assessments driving program enhancements.
• Managed program reporting. Identified and resolved errors. Developed sustainable, repeatable processes to support ongoing reporting activities.
• Calculated ROI’s for third party business proposals, uncovering hidden costs. Resulted in securing significantly more lucrative contracting terms.

Boston, Massachusetts

• Supported pharmaceutical investment decisions. Validated existing clinical information against scientific literature, and the viability of sustaining and improving profitability once acquired.
• Verified financial statements, media statements and reviewed clinical trial documentation for reasonableness.
• Developed presentations supporting investment recommendations and delivered findings to senior investment bankers.

Duluth, Minnesota Area

• Researched computational approaches to pharmaceutical drug discovery.
• Developed statistical models based on graph theoretical chemical descriptors to predict the central nervous system drug activity of molecules to increase the efficiency of drug discovery and prevent excess animal.
• Improved the predictive power of models over previously reported methods and increased their efficiency of their development through the application of Ridge Regression statistics.
• Presented research findings and attended conferences in the US, India and Europe.

North Chicago, Illinois

• Evaluated and improved the recovery of pharmaceutical fermentation products through chromatography, organic extraction and crystallization.
• Developed syntheses for producing chemical variants to be used in quality standards and further research.
• Helped manage the pilot plant scale-up of several drug manufacturing processes.

Master'S Degree, Biochemistry

Bachelor'S Degree, Chemistry And Biology

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