Donald Smith Email & Phone Number

Franklin, Tennessee, United States

Nasville

Built a BI department from the ground up, hiring, training, and mentoring, Reporting and SSIS developers. As a member of the IT leadership team helped plan the vision and define projects for the department. This included introducing Data Governance to the organization, along with helping to write IT policies around Change Management, Continuity and daily functions. Provided assistance and guidance for one of our client companies as they moved their offices from Memphis to Nashville• Provide… Show more Built a BI department from the ground up, hiring, training, and mentoring, Reporting and SSIS developers. As a member of the IT leadership team helped plan the vision and define projects for the department. This included introducing Data Governance to the organization, along with helping to write IT policies around Change Management, Continuity and daily functions. Provided assistance and guidance for one of our client companies as they moved their offices from Memphis to Nashville• Provide insight into reporting and analytic processes, introducing new tools to the organization.• Oversaw and participated in the development of an analytics report around new Medicarereimbursement rate calculation. This was the first time in years that the government had changed how Medicare rates would be established. The tool was successfully marketed and sold to multiple long term care organizations, generating revenue for the organization.• Managed and worked on data integration projects using SSIS, the migration of data from prior vendor systems to new vendor systems. Saving tens of thousands of dollars in consulting fees by not using the prior vendor to create the data extracts, and do the migrations.• Introduced the IT department and organization to lean methodologies, and implemented leandevelopment in the BI group.• Developed data governance methodologies and systems to ensure that data integrity of reportingsystems was maintained and only visible to those who needed to see it.• Oversaw and built data integrations with partners and software vendors.• Provided leadership in upgrading and improving reporting and analytics systems.• Managed developers and consultants who worked in the BI department.• Developed annual department budget.• Evaluated new tools for potential use in our organization, or any of the companies we serviced. Show less

Diversicare Management Services, Brentwood, TN1998 - PresentSr. Business Systems Analyst (11/2011 - 10/2013)Provide leadership in gathering requirements and identifying solutions to stakeholders. Used industry and company knowledge to assist in developing solutions to help attain Long Term Care business initiatives. • Developed detailed requirements for an agile development team to use in creating applications and reports requested by stakeholders.• Provided leadership in… Show more Diversicare Management Services, Brentwood, TN1998 - PresentSr. Business Systems Analyst (11/2011 - 10/2013)Provide leadership in gathering requirements and identifying solutions to stakeholders. Used industry and company knowledge to assist in developing solutions to help attain Long Term Care business initiatives. • Developed detailed requirements for an agile development team to use in creating applications and reports requested by stakeholders.• Provided leadership in analyzing problems in order to identify solutions for different business units.• Provided leadership with regards to compliance with HIPAA Security.• Managed user testing, revision, and acceptance of solutions provided by the development staff.• Coordinate efforts between vendors, internal and external customers when implementing solutions.• Continue to provide HRIS support for UltiPro.Programmer/Analyst (7/1998 - 11/2011)Provided all ad hoc reporting, database maintenance, and programming, and HRIS support for the company. • Worked closely with each department within the organization leading them in identifying ways to improve the way they operate through the use of technology. • When evaluating new applications I work with stake holders to develop needs requirements, and researched the different vendors. Then when the vendors are brought in I’ve provided demonstration requirements to ensure that the product has the capabilities to meet the developed needs. During the implantation process I worked closely with the implementers to planning data migration and configuration of the system and time lines. • Development projects have included, budgeting software, migration and development of reporting solutions, employee self services, and management of our HRIS system. Various web driven applications for different departments to track and report on data.• Helped prepare the company for the implementation of the HIPAA security rule, and provide on going monitoring of compliance. Show less