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Extensive experience delivering complex global Transformation Programs for the world’s largest healthcare companies and the U.S. government with an emphasis on speed to value and challenging conventional delivery. Proven leader through all project phases including sales & contracting, planning, and estimating, blueprint, value realization, test and deployment on projects ranging from 20 – 300+ people. Functional expertise within operations finance, supply chain, technology implementation. Thought leadership in modern delivery (Agile Methods, automation, DevOps) and compressed transformation. Experience spans across varied industries including Healthcare, Health Payers, Life Science, and Federal/State Government. Complex Supply Chain Transformation:• Large Health System: Lead health industry’s largest supply chain transformation for a Health Provider with deployment to over 150 hospitals resulting in a savings of $3.6 Billion for program. Project included implementing a shared service, new processes, a common ERP- PeopleSoft and redesigned procurement operations, distribution, and inventory management. The project included the largest health provider ERP implementation as a key enabler of the implementation. The project had specific focus on transforming the supply chain, building new business processes, and driving savings.Global Supply Chain Operations Lead and SAP ERP Implementation: • Pharmaceutical Company: Procurement Lead for the Supply Chain of a global pharmaceutical manufacturer’s supply chain, with over $20 billion in supply chain spend. Oversaw the transition of services globally to Accenture, implementing new services such as spot buying, managing Procurement on a global basis. Hired over 500 new team members, implemented new business processes, installed SAP’s ERP system and sourcing capabilities globally. Implemented savings of over 20% per year for addressable categories and operating costs. Health Care Technology Transformation: • Academic Health System: Project lead for a supply chain transformation project at a major academic health system and its 10 affiliate organizations. The project was the development of a comprehensive assessment, business plan and implementation and selection of Technology Enablers. Worked directly with executive, medical staff, clinical and materials management leadership, savings opportunities (>$70M) were developed and through major process improvements, redesigned organization structure and Op Model, value analysis process governance, distribution management redesign, clinical standardization.

Listed skills include Management Consulting, Change Management, Business Process Improvement, Process Improvement, and 14 others.