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Hood River, Or, Us

Saint Louis, Mo, Us

Portfolio Management supporting Medicaid line of business. Focus in strategic initiatives that are aligned with new business, regulatory and Compliance tracking from project initiation through delivery.

Saint Louis, Mo, Us

Leading the Centene Advanced Technology Team to develop innovations to improve the health of the members we serve. Our team applies new technologies and data science to change the way we do business by implementing solutions to improve service to our members and providers. The Advanced Technology Team works across multiple complex technology platforms developing APIs and web applications on-prem and in the cloud using proven agile development processes. The scope of our work includes Medical Management, claims, provider and member related systems.

Saint Louis, Mo, Us

Leading enterprise programs in the Interoperability Innovation Lab to support Population Heath initiatives.

Southborough, Ma, Us

-Supporting a large health care payor in the development of productivity tools to improve patient care and reduce administrative tasks for clinicians. -Activities include Project Management, Business Analysis, and Software Testing utilizing AWS Services (Dynamo, Lambda, IAM, S3 and others). -Coordination and management of off-shore resources through daily scrums. -Development of executive presentations (PPT) to secure agreement on program strategy, objectives and technical approach.

Saint Louis, Mo, Us

-Established and matured Program and Project Management frameworks and Portfolio Management tools in support of the Information Technology division. -Managed a team of 29 internal associates and contractors including project managers, business analysts, and program managers. -Lead the transformation of recently merged companies to common project management methodologies, including the IT portfolio reporting, process and procedures for IT Governance to compliment the transformation to a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). -Supported SOX audits to ensure consolidation of IT controls were implemented and validated for financially significant systems.

Woodland Hills, California, Us

-Managed a group of 10 Program Managers and established standard processes deliver enterprise wide programs in a complex changing health care insurance environment.-Partnered with business unit executives to ensure the Information Technology teams met the needs of changing business environments including requirements definition to establish administrative efficiencies, systems innovation.-Partnered with business executives to lead programs in excess of $10M over a duration of 1 to 3 years.-Program managed the conversion of 1.8 million health care insurance members (Medi-Cal) from a legacy claims and enrollment system to a new business system. Scope included system changes across 30 applications with associated business process changes. Budget of $25M including hardware/software upgrades and onshore and offshore resources

Woodland Hills, California, Us

-Established IT Program Management frameworks to enable the business to achieve regulatory compliance, competitive and financial goals through execution of complex IT projects and programs.-Program Managed the $25M HIPAA 5010 Project (implemented data expansion using a new electronic data interchange translator) across 3 Health Care administrative systems including a host of down stream systems. -Partnered with on-shore and off shore teams to perform all phases of systems development.-Program Managed the implementation of a new Self Funding financial arrangement for commercial customers including the implementation of new banking arrangements with extensive financial controls. -Initiated feasibility analysis of HSA / HRA project for large employer groups including vendor partnerships

Accomplishments while I was taking some well deserved time since the last chapter of my career.President and Board Member of Santa Monica Mountains Trails CouncilAdvisory Board for ISSSC (International Society for Six Sigma Certifications)Coaching and training endurance athletes to run ultra-marathonsAdventures:Climbed Solo ascent Mt. Shasta, April '08; Ran Bishop 50 mile ultra Marathon, May '08; Ran multiple 30+ mile training runs and fast packing in the Sespe Wilderness, June '08 Ran Hardrock 100 endurance running race and climbed Mt Humphreys (tallest peak in AZ), July '08; Climbed Polemonium Peak via V notch ice climb and Mt. Tyndall (both 14,000 footers) and Mt. Gayley (13,000+); August '08Biked Double metric century "Cool Breeze", Aug '082 day 200 mile stage road bike race Everest Challenge (29,000 feet of elevation gain), Sep '08.Ran the Rim to Rim to Rim crossing of the Grand Canyon in 14 hours, Sep '08Crewed Furnace Creek 508 Bike RaceRan the entire Backbone Trail (68 miles) across the Santa Monica Mountains in 18 hours Traveled to Libya to compete in the Libyan Challenge 125 mile race 52 hoursRan Coyote 2 Moon 100 mile race 29 hours 23 minutesAssistant Course Director - Racing the Planet Gobi March ChinaDouble Century Road Bike Ride Tour of 2 Forests 13+ hoursHardrock 100 Endurance Run 36 hours 33 min.Double Century Road Bike ride 2x - self supportedRan Evolution Valley 100K 18 hours and changeTrekked Mt Ausangate and Lake Sibinicocha circumnavigation in PeruClimbed tallest peak, Wheeler Peak, in New MexicoRan Red Rock 40 Mile Run - 9:23Oriflamme 50k 7th overall - 5:07BACK TO WORK 3-15-2010Racing the Planet Australia - 150 miles, 6 days 112 degrees F, 13th overall, 1st 50-59 age groupClimbed Mt Williamson, my last of all fifteen 14,000 foot peaks in CA

Indianapolis, Indiana, Us

-Lead Sarbanes Oxley IT compliance program with direct contact with external and internal audit teams. Organized and managed IT PMO including the establishment of System Development Methodologies and tools supporting these disciplines. -Directed Mergers and Acquisistions for WellPoint IT managing projects and programs to achieve financial synergy targets.

Indianapolis, Indiana, Us

-Directed Mergers and Acquisitions (Merger of Wellpoint Health Networks and Anthem Inc.) managing projects and programs to achieve financial synergy targets. -Performed pre-merger due diligence on target acquisistions of IT related systems supporting corporate IT functions and health care insurance delivery systems.-Tracked projects and synergy financial targets for acquisition of other health care companies across the US and abroad.

Indianapolis, Indiana, Us

-Directed Corporate applications including Payroll, HR, data warehousing, Finance applications.-Included the management of 4 direct reports responsible for the direct supervision of 50 IT associates and contractors.-Created the first member and provider self service web sites through implementation of broad e-technical and business platform.-Evolved corporate websites to scale over time through expansion of infrastructure and re-platforming of computing hardware and software environments.

-Directed a group of Project managers, business analysts and programmers in supporting the Blue Cross of California Membership and Billing systems. Staff of 50 with full budget responsibility.