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Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Austin, Texas Area

Austin, Texas Area

Austin, Texas Area

Key Activities:• Led performance improvement assessments and implementations for the non-labor/purchased services team.• Conducted interviews with clients’ executive leaders and staff to assess and develop strategic direction by streamlining operations from purchase to point of use delivery systems.• Participated on several internal committees to enhance and evolve the practice to a solution based offering using surveys, streamlining data requests and cross-service line collaboration.• Developed a portfolio of over 200 purchase, support, and shared service categories that have helped hospitals achieve savings in excess of 15%.• Designed standard management action plans for entire purchased services.

Nashville, Tn

Worked with healthcare providers throughout the country to streamline supply chain operations, reduce supply and purchased service expenses, and optimize shared/support services. Implemented target savings through a variety of different analyses constructed from Accounts Payable, General Ledger, Purchase Order History, and other databases.Key Activities:• Led the implementation of a master imaging service agreement that generated $3.5M in savings for a large health system in the northwest.• Created scorecard in Tableau to help target potential clients, which allowed users to identify underperforming hospitals and health systems based on historical trends, key performance indicators (KPIs), and benchmarks.• Developed tracking tool in Qlik that monitored realized savings throughout the client engagement.• Validated client data (AP, GL, PO) by developing SQL queries to ensure the integrity of the data.• Utilized a variety of methods of project management to achieve standardization and success with clients and internally.• Examined Purchased Services effectiveness through contract analysis and benchmarking.• Participated in vendor negotiations and analyzed vendor proposals to achieve maximum savings while maintaining the high level of quality and service.• Developed professional relationships with senior leadership and mid-level managers in client organizations through a broad-based expertise on subject matter in multiple areas of service.