Therapy Lead for Market Access, Health Economics & Reimbursement for Abbott’s Structural Heart business.

Ensure appropriate payer (government, private insurance) coverage, coding, and payment of structural heart therapies.Generate evidence to support economic and health value beyond hard clinical endpoints.Educate externally and internally on reimbursement and health policy issues.

Ensure appropriate payer (government, private insurance) coverage, coding, and payment of structural heart therapies.Generate evidence to support economic and health value beyond hard clinical endpoints.Educate externally and internally on reimbursement and health policy issues.

Generate evidence to support economic and health value beyond hard clinical endpoints.Educate externally and internally on reimbursement and health policy issues.Support clinical trial reimbursement.

Managed Research and Development projects ranging from early stage technology feasibility to formal Design Control and regulatory submission preparations.

Supported drug-eluting bioresorbable vascular scaffold manufacturing.Supported external audits by owning investigation and resolution plans for identified nonconformities.Analyzed yield information to identify improvement areas, organize data and present to management.Evaluated existing production equipment for acceptable calibration and usage.

Owned the Continuous Improvement Suggestion Program and Recognition.Facilitated or Co-Facilitated Kaizen Events.Wrote and delivered Performance Reviews for 9 direct reports Acquired and analyzed manufacturing data and employee interviews to set equipment and labor standardsReviewed manufacturing and cleaning direction sets for executability and quality assuranceAuthored Change Requests, Deviations, and departmental Business Operating ProceduresDirected Root Cause Analysis (RCA) meetings and trained the department in RCA tools (5 Why, Fishbone, etc.)

Managed on-time external development and verification of Fusion test strip calibration system - $700M projectDrove internal team to define validation strategy for Fusion test strip calibration systemDirected activities to ensure complaint handling and customer service is in place for product launchPremier Choice Award

Designed change to a device part assembly that quantitatively reduces the risk of failuresPerformed tolerance analysis to understand and educate others on part interaction and failure modesAuthored Test Instruction to examine the user-exerted force profile required to deploy StarClose SE

Instruct beginning, intermediate, and advanced adult students in dance technique and performance. Choreograph, stage, and style performance pieces in both formal and informal show settings. Styles include jazz, contemporary, tap, ballet, and hip hop.

Interned in the Abbott Diagnostics Division as a Manufacturing Engineering working in the Fill/Label department. I wrote and executed an Engineering Study on nozzle type leakage and fill accuracy as well as directed an Engineering Study to locate defective parts during 100% inspection.