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Columbus, OH, US

• Positioned OHA as a leader amongst peer State Hospital Associations by developing several key reports focused on membership ROI, membership engagement, field visit profiles, OHA strategic initiatives, and internal key.
• Led the complete overhaul of OHA’s data systems used to collect and analyze 350+ million patient encounter records while increasing revenues and lowering direct costs associated with the program resulting in a net.
• Successfully led the design, development, and implementation of OHA’s transition to a modernized website built upon Kentico CMS.
• Successfully led the selection, design, development, and implementation of an embedded external facing Microsoft Power BI embedded application.
• Successfully led the organization’s transition to a centralized Microsoft CRM based membership management system.
• Successfully led the design, development, and implementation of Microsoft SQL Server based data warehouse.

Hilliard, OH, US

• Refocused the organization’s Health Information Exchange (HIE) adoption strategy by realigning priorities, improving productivity, and addressing staffing deficiencies; served as the leader and catalyst for positive.
• Directed the adoption of project management and operational procedures to streamline the HIE implementation projects, which resulted in more than 40 hospitals currently exchanging data on the statewide system.
• Regularly met with hospital leadership (i.e., CEO, CMIO, CIO, CFO) and project stakeholders for technical pre-sales discussions, account status updates, and to jointly develop strategies for future HIE functionality.
• Lead the team responsible for operationalizing Ohio’s state designated health information exchange; overseeing both hospital and physician adoption, implementation and support services.
• Worked in conjunction with legal counsel and Partnership leadership by advising on contract structure, non-standard terms, and alternative pricing to resolve contractual issues and minimize exposure pertaining to.
• Served as the technical sales lead tailoring presentations to specific audience needs leading to more than 90 hospitals contracted with the Partnership.

Columbus, OH, US

• Provided direction and leadership to the Department’s Information Technology Division through strategic planning, technology assessments and business process improvement studies to improve both the efficiency and.
• Led a team responsible for the migration from legacy, client-server based systems to a state-of-the-art Web-based application environment based upon unified enterprise architecture principles leveraging service.
• Developed technology plans including strategies, implementation steps, timelines for implementation, and the risks associated with implementing the plans.
• Developed enterprise technology policies and procedures for the Department to enforce consistent operations and mitigate risks.
• Directed an organizational transformation to adopt an agile software development methodology to improve delivery quality and timeliness.
• Led the effort to implement Microsoft SharePoint as an enterprise technology solution for Web content management, Extranets, Intranet, document management, collaboration, and business process and workflow automation.

Columbus, Ohio, US

• Provided leadership assistance to the CIO in directing the Information Technology Office (ITO) of 105 full-time positions with an annual budget of $21 million and serving approximately 850 internal users, staff from.
• Led the agency's process of developing recommendations for technology priorities with a specific focus on the requirements of external customers and developing strategies to achieve them.
• Prepared and delivered presentations on agency initiatives at national conferences.
• Oversaw large-scale, multi-million dollar projects including longitudinal data systems.
• Developed and reviewed agency policies, practices and issues as they relate to technology activities including communicating and/or discussing technology goals and the national policies and/or initiatives that may.
• Works with stakeholders and project teams to identify the technical approach to be used to integrate new systems and identify the deliverables to be furnished at the completion of the project(s).

Columbus, Ohio, US

• Responsible for all aspects of project plan development, including integrated change control, project scope management including work breakdown structure, use case development, quality assurance and control, activity.
• Developed an agency-wide custom project management methodology based on the PMBOK, including custom document templates.
• Developed In-depth knowledge of the Microsoft Project Server 2003 environment. Responsible for implementation, customization and configuration of the enterprise environment.
• Oversaw implementation schedule(s); developed and/or directed development and implementation of planning document(s).
• Allocated resources and established project budgets.
• Managed outsourced relationships and vendor activities; managed vendor selection process (e.g., quotes, proposal review, bidder conferences, controlling board appearances).

Bachelor Of Science In Business Administration, Information Systems

Computer And Electrical Engineering