Howard Cohen Email & Phone Number

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

-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.