Leading the implementation of Midas Core Measures and Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluation (OPPE) products for the Medical Staff Services and Quality and Patient Safety departments at Legacy Health in Portland, OR. • Liaison between the project team, vendors, key stakeholders, and senior leadership.• Responsible for overall management of Midas product implementation process.• Coordinating project activities with vendor and project team.• Identifying and resolving project issues, making sure the project progresses as required.• Managing project scope, project schedule, project budget, project plans, facilitating meetings, overseeing quality, documenting requirements and decisions. • Responsible for securing and maintaining appropriate project resources. • Preparing operations for the transition from implementation to maintenance.

- Research, planning, and analysis of strategic opportunities for existing and potential ambulatory operations.- Facilitated development and refinement of various operating commitment metrics, dashboards, and reporting tools.- Working with providers and a cross functional IS team to optimize the Epic EMR tools and workflows.- Led effort to activate Epic MyChart for online scheduling of patient visits while enhancing the virtual patient experience.- Initiated and provided direction on projects that improved the patient experience related to patient visits.- Managing Physician Services project management team and tools.- Coaching and educating departmental staff on project management and internal tools for collaboration and productivity.- Developed project management and team organizational tools to improve team interaction and performance.- Ensures project selection in annual planning is aligned with organizational strategies to achieve targeted metrics.- Works with team and governance groups to address challenges and arrive at alternative course of action.

- Directed the management and implementation of multiple projects to enhance system wide decision support capabilities. - Built and managed teams to configure, implement, and standardize applications for budgeting, reporting, and forecasting. - Anticipated sponsor’s needs with preplanning activities for each stage of each project. - Identified obstacles and producing project schedules, activity plans, risk assessments, and communication plans.- Ensured project teams are staying on track with project deliverables and progress is communicated to stakeholders.- Coordinated clinical and technical project resources for planning, designing, and building order sets. - Negotiated across related project teams on deliverables, due dates, and resources.- Collaborated with project teams on risks, issues, and status reporting.- Monitored and tracked progress of CPOE components of order entry system and build of pharmacy application.- Performed lead project management role on intranet/internet projects. Directed efforts to analyze requirements and goals resulting in plans for designing effective logical application architecture, information architecture, and governance structure to align with overall strategic plan. - Consulted with executives and key business stakeholders to elicit requirements for designing user-centered solutions while managing change requests.- Worked side by side with technology specialists to investigate and troubleshoot SharePoint related issues and bringing in appropriate expertise as appropriate to resolve issues. - Engaged directly with developers to analyze and design solutions to meet needs for capacity, backup / recovery strategies, integration requirements, and network optimization. - Employed business tools such as workshops, surveys, brainstorming, and SWOT analysis for making decisions and understanding situations.- Managed project cost along with vendor contracts and resources.

- Managed implementation of financial applications across newly acquired facilities, introducing corporate standards while listening to and addressing client requirements.- Led a team of 28 hospitals in preparing, testing, and implementing upgrades to their clinical and financial software. This involved facilitating issue resolution with several interfacing clinical applications.- Coordinated a cross functional team to implement system wide budgeting and invoice imaging solutions.- Organized and led committee of directors for developing the JCAHO IM plan.- Led project to implement Patient Accounting in four facilities.- Implemented productivity, decision support and financial applications at 6 newly acquired facilities. Provided leadership to meet deadlines for transitioning from seller organization.- Managed initial project to install the Kronos Visionware productivity system at 15 facilities using Citrix MetaFrame technology. Worked with facilities to capture statistics representative of their departmental workflows for meaningful labor management reports. - Developed data extract processes with corporate Chief Medical Officer to populate a third party vendor clinical database, thereby increasing the value of reports used at each facility within the company and providing core measures data submitted to CMS.- Provided training and mentoring to applications staff over decision support applications. - Implemented McKesson Trendstar Decision Support system for 17 facilities. This included coordinating installation and training activities. Worked with corporate finance to furnish various reporting solutions. Provided support for the product to all facilities.