TransforMEDx is a Pittsburgh-based consulting firm specializing in transformative services for the healthcare industry. Our mission is to help all stakeholders within the healthcare marketplace improve patient experiences, reduce costs, and improve overall population health.

Pro-Solv Group, LLC, is a professional services company offering management consulting, strategic planning, project management, process redesign and acquisition / disposition services.I conducted multiple highly successful engagements, including leading a very sensitive, multi-company, multi-country project to change suppliers. As a result, they were able to improve efficiency through consolidating suppliers. Another project I managed was for a very large company making a go / no-go decision on a business development project involving multiple companies, positioning them to make a very strategic business decision. I also worked with a partner to recommend to a growing business how to improve their operation's organizational talent, procurement process, key metrics, information access and cash flow. As a result of our engagement the client has improved their efficiency and profitability. They also engaged us to help them make their case for new financing and prepare communications for future acquisition partners.

PowerLink began over 20 years ago by several women business owners and entrepreneurs who struggled to find mentors and advisors to coach them as their businesses began to grow and they encountered questions and challenges in hiring, marketing, business development, finance and legal. The concept of creating advisory boards for women-owned businesses sprung from this struggle. Today PowerLink has provided over 300 business owners in the Greater Pittsburgh region with Advisory Boards, and nationally our program is provided through Athena International. As an Executive-in-Residence, my responsibility is to provide leadership for the Advisory Board, demonstrate how to organize an agenda and run a meeting, follow up with the Business Owner and Advisors as needed, and generate the meeting summary and action items.

Harmonic Systems Consulting is a management consulting and professional services company staffed by highly seasoned professionals. We believe that successful organizations are similar to symphony orchestras in that everything must be aligned around the score (strategy) in order to give a perfect performance, but innovation is what keeps the audience coming back for repeat performances.To that end, we offer services in strategic alignment, organizational change management and operating performance efficiency using our unique Orchestra Model© as a guide.Our strategic alignment services include Operational Assessment & Design analysis, Team Alignment and Development Workshops and IT Capability Design. Our organizational change management services include Project Management, Change Management Tools & Workshops and Organizational Integration (M&A, Restructuring). When helping clients improve performance efficiency we emphasize Process and Workflow Design, Metrics Development and Financial Evaluation Tools.Whether your organization is determining how to grow to the next level or you are looking to maximize your current potential, we will help you make your business sing!

The High Reliability Organization (HRO) Council is a 501(c) (3) organization with a charter to urge Health Care Delivery Organizations to seek and continuously undertake efforts to become HROs. HROs are organizations that have a systematic process in place to prevent catastrophic errors, such as in the airline and nuclear power industries. The HRO Council educates the public on the need for the healthcare industry to adopt HRO principles from these industries and others, in the interest of achieving significant improvements in patient safety. The HRO Council serves as a platform for education and collaboration, and supports the implementation of HROs in healthcare, government, and nonprofit entities.Approaching HRO status improves patient safety and the delivery of available, accessible, acceptable, continuous, cost-effective, and high quality care for active duty, retired members, veterans, and their families, and the general public.HRO organizations are characterized by sufficient and high quality inputs (people, materiel, and equipment), stable, repeatable processes, and high outputs (preventive measures, admissions, visits, and procedures), that result in safe and ever improving health outcomes. Healthcare delivery processes are comprised of many individual tasks conducted by collaborative teams of clinicians, nurses, ancillary, and administrative staff. Human cognitive Task Saturation is a large, and not well understood, problem that affects patient safety across all healthcare facilities.We believe that methodologies and technologies that can solve Task Saturation by redistributing the right task to the right person at the right time, for the right patient, and provide for acuity-based staffing, can improve cost-effective outcomes and patient safety, and can ultimately contribute to achieving HRO status realistically and sustainably. Bottom line: We are improving public safety and team reliability through combating task saturation.

I managed strategic projects for the company, such as new product launches, mergers and acquisitions, major new process implementations and other important projects.

I managed a team of professionals who provided business intelligence (BI) support to everyone in GSK Consumer Healthcare U.S. We provided a single version of the truth through consolidating data into data marts, reporting on key performance indicators, developing dashboards and supporting BI tools like Cognos.

This job was a matrixed position. I managed 5 Sales teams for the large food retailers across all brands. In spite of a history of declining sales, we grew our business 3% by building stronger executive relationships and implementing more creative promotional programs. I also managed the Strategic Sales team that liased between Sales and Marketing for oral care across all retailers. We grew our oral care business across the board by 1% despite a delay in a major new launch.

I managed the Wal*Mart Sales team. We grew sales 4% while managing through challenging inventory reductions at Wal*Mart. I also created a cross-functional supply chain management team to improve coordination between Sales, the CPFR team, Packaging, Customer Service and Retail Access. Together, using new reporting, we were able to improve in-stocks on our major SKUs to meet Wal*Mart's requirements.

I managed a team of people who provided Sales analytics, communications and information. We rolled out new laptops for the Sales organization and ran a very successful national Sales meeting. We created a Lotus Notes on-line hub of information for all Sales reports, allowing Sales management mobile access. My team introduced webcasting to the Sales force to improve communications. When Wal-Mart decided to no longer provide data to syndicated sources like Nielsen and IRI, we came up with a way to provide consolidated weekly POS reporting including Wal-Mart, Club stores and Nielsen data. We also introduced a new business intelligence platform using Cognos that allows the Sales force much better access to data and to manage promotional programs.

I sold and managed information technology services engagements, including IT organization, data center consolidation, IT and non-IT strategic planning, process redesign, customer satisfaction, IT architecture, client server systems, and e-business. I formed and led a diverse e-business team of consultants, specialists, architects and project managers that worked on engagements to design and implement new e-business skills, processes, architecture and networks. In our first year we generated over $ 45 million in revenue. I also worked on three multi-client international studies for client server systems, the role of IT in business transformation and e-business.