Skilled with New Employee Orientation, regulatory compliance of education requirements, QAPI initiatives, process development and Memory Care department leadership.

Established a non-profit Twin Cities cancer support community, an affiliate of Gilda’s Club Worldwide and named for comedian, Gilda Radner.• Conducted market research, received 20+ letters of support from Twin Cities medical institutions and cancer-related organizations and developed financial statements as input to a comprehensive Business Plan resulting in a Gilda’s Club Worldwide license agreement. Less than 30 licenses granted nationwide.• Recruited and managed 50+ volunteers as part of the founding board and oversaw fundraising events, grant-writing and marketing efforts in order to raise $3.6MM of contributions, grants and in-kind donations. • 8,000 sq. ft. brick-and-mortar clubhouse operationalized in 2014 and today, serves 540+ active members whom are impacted by cancer, offers 57 support groups and over 50 monthly activities. • Clubhouse and program activities are 100% funded by the community.

Managed all aspects of the Software Quality Engineering discipline for 100+ global team in a highly-complex and highly-regulated financial services environment.

Leadership position responsible for driving the quality strategy and direction for Healthland financial and clinical applications. Developed HQMS (Healthland Quality Management System) of standard templates & processes; established test automation service; and established test status reporting and quality metrics dashboard.

Led effort to build out and manage Thrivent’s Testing Center of Excellence Performance Test and Functional Test Automation Services. Grew existing performance test service from 1,700 hour effort to over 6,000 annual hour effort with blended on-shore / off-shore team of up to 7 members. Management of up to 25 concurrent performance test efforts.

Adjunct Instructor for the Computer Information Systems graduate department. Developed curriculum and taught online course in Wireless Design and Development (CIS 6334) utilizing J2ME and palmOne Tungsten T5

Instructor for the Department of Information and Computer Science. Taught programming fundamentals (ICS140) using lecture & lab to illustrate concepts of variables, methods, branching & looping constructs and correct style. Utilized Java (MS J++ and Borland’s J-Builder IDE).