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Greater Chicago Area

Greater Chicago Area

• Lead Business Analyst on a data lake project. This project created a fully functional solution that modernized legacy provider data extracts for migration to the data lake.• Lead Montana Medicaid implementation with a pragmatic agile scrum team and successfully stood up Medicaid program in 3 months

Greater Chicago Area

Joined Trexin to provide management consulting services. Trexin is a fast growing management and technology consulting firm specializing in the application of advanced technologies that drive business value.• Implemented standard Service Management ITIL processes and procedures at a global facility and real estate management firm• Lead global Office 365 On-Boarding project that synergized and synced two disparate IT organizations to one process. • Assisted in standing up and operationalize HCSC’s ACO Operations department resulting in documented operational processes that support the reporting tool management operated through MedeAnalytics, HCSC’s interaction with the ACO system and physician, identification and usage of cost and quality metrics used to measure and communicate ACO performance• Performed assessment on Lurie’s health IT strategy and provided detailed recommendations on clinical and operational changes needed to support their government and accountable care programs. • Drove and delivered requirements and data analysis to agile development teams and architects that supported the re-platforming of Medecision’s predictive analytic service.

Chicago

Recruited to provide solution and strategy consulting to clients within the Health Care Management division of the organization. Consistently implement business solutions to meet the information and data analytic needs of customers. • Managed the development, testing, and implementation of BI reporting solution that support Value Based Care programs that include Intensive Medical Homes and Accountable Care Organizations (ACO). Provided financial insight into clinical cost performance of medical groups participating in care programs.• Delivered requirements and data extracts to Analytics team. Enable the program evaluation effort to analyze the effectiveness and cost efficiency of value based care programs.• Collaborated with analytics team to develop member risk stratification and control match processes and analytic algorithms. Outcomes of process are leveraged by several value based care programs for reporting comparisons.• Conjoined with work group in requirements gathering for program measurements: Developed quality metric, cost and utilization metrics, financial metric, and other program specific metric.• Managed customer relationships. Escalated and remediated issues with senior level management on multiple projects.

Engaged and hired to managing, providing leadership, guidance and vision to a unit of quality analysts, trainers and Subject Matter experts in the division of Health Care Management.• Created new project and business user engagement processes. Increased the team’s visibility and footprint within projects. Fostered stronger more effective relationships business customers and technical counter parts. • Produced new departmental communication standards. Implemented new communication template standards. Coached and developed team into a highly conscious and skilled business liaison group. • Implemented extensive regression testing design model. Increased team’s defect capture rate by 20 percent during UAT test phase. • Designed effective defect management process. Increased accuracy and documentation of defect tracking and testing.• Remediated interpersonal conflicts. Collaborated with HR on implementing high performance team building sessions. Management changes produced 30 percent increase in blue pulse survey scores for creating a “trusting and open environment”.• Managed multiple project releases for Premier Pricing project portfolio. Ensured timely delivery of requirements, test cases, and training materials as well as the execution of UAT and operational validation activities in accordance with the Solutions Delivery Method.

Chicago

Joined the Information Governance & Stewardship team to deliver quality information repositories and Business Intelligence applications through providing data and information analyst.• Created clear and concise project documentation and requirements specifications for the enterprise metadata repository (ASG Rochade). Requirements enable metadata acquisitions, storage, system impact analysis efforts.• Collaborated with team to develop information governance and stewardship standards. Created governed terms and definitions used in data warehousing efforts. • Contributed to data intensive, data warehousing, business intelligence, reporting, operational data stores, and transactional data processing efforts.

Blue Cross And Blue Shield Of Illinois (Hcsc)

Provided lead system and user acceptance testing services for business application in adherence to the SDLC methodology implemented in the IT and Health Care Management divisions.• Lead system testing phase of Premier Pricing Data Migration implementation. Designed testing documents for system testing, also coordinate UAT test plans with business users. • Expanded use of testing automation tools for regression testing. Trained peers on use of Rational Suite Testing tool for testing automation. Reduced team manually testing time 3 hours per execution.• Collaborated business users and business analyst during requirements gathering and documentation sessions. • Designed and join forces with e-solutions team to develop and build team intranet site. Received SPOT recognition award in 2007 for innovation.

Recruited by Motorola to provide key testing and software support in the wireless communication division.• Tested programs for use in telecommunications devices; executed and developed software test plans, posted test results, performed defect management, coordinated with development team for issue resolution• Utilized specialized software programs (RadioComm, PST Flash & Test Commands, RSD, RTA, and MultiLogger) for programing and trouble shooting

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Health Services Management, Gpa: 3.96

MBA in Health Care Management

Bachelors, Computer Engineering Technology

Computer Engineering Technology