David Lashar Email & Phone Number

Annapolis, MD, US

Baltimore, Maryland Area

Currently engaging with clients to help them plan and execute programs for achieving excellence in customer-facing and IT-intensive operations. Specific leadership responsibilities include:* Engagement360: Enabling companies -- especially in life sciences and health care -- to achieve commercial excellence and customer resonance with process-focused.

Baltimore, Maryland Area

• Stood for election to Congress, striving to be the kind of pragmatic and civil candidate that I was seeking but not finding either on the ballot or in Washington.
• Designed, deployed, and operated the campaign’s digital platforms. Conceived, wrote, scripted all content.
• Raised more funds from donors than any other LP candidate in the country for the U.S. House.
• Polled better (40% - 300%) than any other LP candidate for statewide or federal office in Maryland.

Baltimore, Maryland Area

Responsible for establishing governance, tracking progress, and realizing objectives for a portfolio of key initiatives for improving the health and safety of all Marylanders, especially initiatives that are IT-intensive.

Baltimore, Maryland Area

• Served as COS and COO, coordinating leadership and running operations at the $14B Maryland Department of Health (MDH). Responsible for implementing a shared-services operational model (including blueprint for.
• Managed the offices for finance, human relations, information technology, central services (i.e., buildings and inventory), communications, customer service, and transformation. Coordinated these functions across the.
• Implemented methods and tools for project portfolio management, including project charters, three-tier program governance, and executive dashboard reporting. Achieved rapid improvement in coordination, progress, and.
• Launched and managed the incident response teams for high-complexity, high-urgency projects for: Safely transferring vulnerable residents from a nursing home closed by federal authorities due to unsafe conditions.
• Taught and promoted a method for creating narratives to convey the Department's work, results, and plans to outside stakeholders. Coordinated the Department's re-branding in 2017.

Baltimore, Maryland Area

• Served as IT leader for the $13B Maryland Department of Health (MDH, formerly known as the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene), providing services, solutions, and strategy to enable the Department to improve the.
• Resolved acute problems relating to procurements, vendor performance, audit risk, website experience, application development, and service delivery.
• Implemented industry-standard practices for program management, application portfolio management, application lifecycle management (including judicious leverage of Agile methods), datacenter management.
• Drafted and delivered a strategy for sustainable Enterprise IT at the Department, including a federated model both for complementing the statewide Department of IT (DoIT) and for coordinating the IT across the four.
• Delivered a range of "first ever" solutions across MDH, including an analytics platform for finance and budgeting; a managed-service model for renewals of professional licenses; wifi service for a hospital campus built.
• Recognized and averted a crisis in technology implementation, operational workflow, and customer / patient experience for the Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission (MMCC), enabling a successful launch of registrations.

Tallahassee, Florida Area

Responsible for sales and delivery of software solutions and integration services that enable the management of documents and workflow for state and local governments (details below).Stabilized the performance of the previously-challenged software group. Implemented methods and tools for portfolio management, solution estimation, financial management, and.

Baltimore, Maryland Area

• Responsible for applying information technologies to the Remedi Senior Care agenda for innovation, efficiency, and effectiveness in delivering pharmacy services to long-term-care facilities and their patients.
• For this private-equity-owned company, implemented transparency, structure, cadence, and accountability for management of IT portfolio, programs, budget, team, vendors, and service desk.
• Met all project deadlines and caused no operational disruption from major infrastructure upgrades and migrations. Introduced workflow-analysis techniques for the design of end-to-end solutions. Delivered the company's.
• Stabilized IT service, transformed vendor relationships (inlcuding implementation of SLAs), passed third-party audit certifications (e.g., CMMI and HIPAA HITECH), and delivered 10 percent favorable variance on 2014.
• Took a leadership role in long-term-care industry compliance with a major federal IT mandate (i.e., NCPDP SCRIPT 10.6).

Worked with Fortune 1000 executives to plan and deliver large-scale transformational business initiatives enabled by information technologies. Focus areas included CRM, Customer Experience, and Connected Vehicle.

Waltham, MA

Led project teams that planned, designed, and delivered e-government portals, enabling transition from paper-based to electronics-based operations for regulatory compliance.

Greater Boston Area

Conceived, designed, built, and deployed an automated business-intelligence application for an online consumer niche, leveraging Python and C# development languages and tools.

Greater Boston Area

Worked with Fortune 1000 senior executives to plan CRM and Internet investments, performing ROI analysis, creating implementation plans, and providing program-management services.

Greater Boston Area

Served on due diligence team, creating economic models and vetting business plans for potential investments. Provided operational leadership, ensuring that personnel, processes, methodologies, and technology within the incubator ventures were capable of achieving established milestones.

Greater Boston Area

Built business cases, formulated project plans, and led implementations of CRM and Internet systems. Defined and enforced methodologies for all aspects of projects: Business requirements, functional requirements, detailed design, development, quality assurance, acceptance, training, and support. (NOTE: The team or practice to which I belonged during this.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

Led teams in the deployment of the full suite of Oracle Manufacturing Applications (ERP) in diverse operating environments. Served as business analyst, technical developer, and project manager.

Rochester, New York Area

Supervised an assembly line generating $3 billion in revenues and served as business manager with profit-and-loss responsibility for a $30 million re-manufacturing operation. Utilized front-line experience to become business analyst for the global implementation team for Oracle Manufacturing Applications.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Performed research, wrote white papers, authored speeches, and published articles on matters of politics and policy, working for a caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Performed research on policy and candidates. Wrote articles and survey responses for national news outlets. Participated in field operations (e.g., Iowa caucuses).

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.)

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Russian Studies

Activities and Societies: Cross-country and track. Sigma Phi Epsilon (President). Majored in Russian Area Studies. Ran cross-country and.