Forrest Barnes Iii Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Illinois, Us

In this role, I lead Renalogic’s technology IT/IS and the Data Development teams. I oversee compliance, security, and technology innovations that produce results for our clients. As part of the Senior Leadership Team, I am committed to organizational health, coaching talent, and celebrating “hungry, humble, and smart” as we work toward best possible outcomes for our clients.

Plano, Tx, Us

Responsible for delivering technological enterprise solutions, engaging clients to understand business’ posture to enable system, network architecture, security, and cloud-based business enhancements that align with my client’s business objectives. Perform as-is analysis and design future mode solutions for clients within the healthcare, ambulatory and financial services business sectors. Certified Project Manager - accountable for supporting application delivery, strategic planning, management and execution of organizational network and system migrations to standardized architecture for clients exiting and newly acquired, hospital and healthcare offices to centralized and streamline operations and management of patient health and claim information.

Senior IT leader for Evolution Health, a subsidiary of Envision Health, responsible for staffing, project management, and development of short and long-term strategic initiatives to meet corporate goals of effective management of patient policy, claims and systems ensuring contractual obligations are met, and operational goals are exceeded.• Standardized organization on single EMR application resulting in 30% optimization and cost cutting effort. Managed the enterprise implementation and dev-ops support of EMR application migration from McKesson to Cerner application for patient processing and Claims management.• Project lead for the Ascension Health (Joint Venture) to Evolution Health, infrastructural design and system upgrades. Replaced over 60 office network systems to CISCO servers and phones. Provided physicians and nurses with standard equipment deploying over 7000 tablet devices and Cell phones. Lead contract negotiations with third party mobile device providers for nurses and practitioners resulting in 45% per unit cost reduction. • Designed and implemented integrated Human Resources (HR) on/off-boarding process an system implementation across organization to automate employee, nurse & physicians management resulting in a 40% time reduction for onboarding personal providing system & account access and equipment acquisition. • Negotiated contract terms and implemented enterprise HIPAA compliant electronic faxing and document retention solutions across the organization realizing a 35% operational cost reduction. Performed a software solution assessment, gathered business requirements, and performance metrics and selected an appropriate SaaS solution.• Introduced a single version of software support reducing license costs by 50% and service desk support calls by 35%, enabling single source of truth for leadership and physicians to manage client prescriptions, and claims for CPR Plus Pharmacy application.

Chicago, Il, Us

Plan and execute all enterprise business intelligence analytic and reporting initiatives leveraging our ODS, Data Modeling, project and program funding, resource and capital management, and day-to-day operational production support while maintaining IT budget. Demonstrated IT leadership, solution design, managing cross-functional IT, and business collaboration for multiple sites across the US. • Increased system and operational productivity by 40%, in response to compliance with the Federal Government (CMS) and the Affordable care Act (ACA) website national deployment. Led architectural design of system and database modifications to optimize performance. • Provided Senior leadership with Real-time dashboard tracking KPIs to enable appropriate business changes. Planned the execution of all enterprise business intelligence, data warehouse analytic reporting for insurance policies and associated claims.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Developed an integrated multiyear strategic plan and enterprise roadmap to accelerate top-line premium growth, maximize overall profitability across Insurance product lines, improve product pricing models for speed to market, expand targeted verticals, and facilitate reduction of ongoing operating expenses.• Created a plan that reduced operational costs 33%, increased IT productivity, and enabled the business to increase investments in enterprise initiatives. Directed a transformation initiative that introduced the organization to an outsourced managed services model. Developed an integrated multiyear strategic plan and enterprise roadmap to accelerate top-line premium growth, maximize overall profitability, improve product pricing models for speed to market, expand targeted verticals, and facilitate reduction in operating expenses. • Enabled Finance to make investments of premium dollars and reduce accounts receivables by an estimated 15%. Streamlined PeopleSoft financials ERP system, processes, and data warehouse environment to improve premium tracking and timing of key management KPIs.

Glen Allen, Virginia, Us

Led strategic planning, risk assessments, and execution of technology acquisitions, and a team of over 100 resources including on and offshore personnel. Accountable for the successful implementation of a new set of development, test, and production environments in support of the new Genworth Financial company IPO.• Managed and organized development of computer system projects for Warranty Insurance Services division. Designed and implemented company’s first operational data store (ODS) and data warehouse environment, enabling centralized management and standardized analytical reporting of operational, product, policy, claims, and financial information across the organization. • Built, managed, and supported Derivative and Hedging platform to support over $22B while supporting investment organizations that handled the company’s financial assets of over $110B. Enabled Genworth Financial Capital Markets group to take advantage of market changes, resulting in the execution of security trades in amount of $520M, netting an additional $1.2M.• Severed as lead architect on GE/Genworth (IPO) separation initiative from GE Financial Assurance to form Genworth Financial. Managed the design and implementation of the company trading desk and derivatives hedging system.

Glen Allen, Virginia, Us

Served as lead architect on GE/Genworth (IPO) separation initiative; Responsible for consulting with business unit leaders and program managers as technical advisor in areas of application, system, database, and architectural design to ensure alignment of project implementations on policies, Underwriting and Claim initiatives during IPO; Developed technical solutions and ensured adherence to enterprise strategic direction and guidelines of GE Financial Assurance.

Boston, Ma, Us

Developed e-business e-commerce strategy for all business locations throughout U.S. and Western Europe to support over 43 dynamic U.S. and international web sites for G.E. Financial Assurance Designed and implemented highly available, fault tolerant, shared web infrastructure, leveraging LDAP, Single sign-on (SSO), Java, WebSphere, and Oracle platforms. Created universal processes, standards, and guidelines of shared web enterprise environment while managing the 24X7 day-to-day operations, deployment, and application migration of the platform

Norwalk, Ct, Us

GE CAPITAL, Auto Warranty Services: Denver, Colorado, Applications Development Leader, Managed and organized development of computer system projects for Warranty Insurance Services division. Designed and implemented company’s first operational data store (ODS) and data warehouse environment.

Self employed: independent consulting responsible for designing, programming and implementing client/server applications using Windows, C, C++, Visual Basic, PowerBuilder, Sybase SQL Server

Ms, Managment Information Technology

Bs, Computer Information Systems

Aa, Business