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United States

Indianapolis, Indiana, Us

Responsible for overseeing the entire product lifecycle, from ideation to launch. Develops comprehensive business case and supporting financial analysis for new product strategies in SpecialtyRx portfolio. Works closely with cross-functional teams to ensure products meet market demands, financial goals and flawlessly executing go to market strategy. As an industry expert play critical role in shaping future of SpecialtyRx product portfolio by building new vended partnerships and integrating newly acquired assets.

Eagan, Mn, Us

Accountable for developing and executing strategic initiatives on Prime’s Vital Few product roadmap across Commercial and Government Programs strategic business units. Served as an industry product expert and customer evangelist. Provided end to end oversight and management of portfolio of products with close partnership with technology and other cross-functional team of teams. Developed product roadmaps by translating product vision and strategy into detailed requirement documents and prototype. Directly managed a team of product managers.

Eden Prairie , Mn, Us

Led product/programs across entire lifecycle using defined processes and industry best practices, drove vision and strategy roadmap, defined solution with high-value requirements, a compelling business case, clear product positioning, priority and strategic impact, partnered with stakeholders across organization to enable successful development, delivery, and adoption of technology solutions. Negotiated win-win solutions across teams and line of business (cross application/ cross portfolios), guided leadership-level alignment across organization and enabled new connections/ relationships among partners across multiple portfolio teams.

Dublin 2, Ie

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

As one of the top leaders of organization, led all of the administrative functions of the practice including: Accounting/Finance, Revenue Cycle Management/Billing, IT and HR functions. Led implementation of ICD 10 coding and consequently upgrade of an existing Electronic Medical Record platform. (eClinical Works). • In partnership with Executive Director, worked on facility and insurance contracting (Abbott, United, Mercy and Children’s Hospital and 100+ insurance companies including Medicare and Medicaid)• Led the discussions with multiple facilities around future provider practice integrations such as IT/data integration and Total Cost of Care strategies• In partnership with HR Manager, managed Union matters such as appeals and negotiations • Led monthly reporting of operational and financial packages and presentations to the Executive Board• Led Monthly Close process, budgeting and forecasting efforts, incentive compensation and owner’s distributions calculations• Managed all of the Revenue Cycle processes, from coding to billing to collections• Led automation of all of the facility and insurance credentialing processes• Analyzed and reported clinical data for Minnesota Community Measures

Coon Rapids, Mn - Minnesota, Us

Directly reporting to CEO and private majority owner of 600+ employee organization, which is providing services to people with developmental disabilities, brain injuries and seniors. In the role of CFO Performing four primary functions: preserving assets of the company by minimizing risk and getting the General Ledger in GAAP compliance; conducting basic finance operations such monthly close efficiently and effectively; influencing the company’s overall direction by developing effective planning, budgeting and forecasting process and installing a financial mindset to execution and risk-taking throughout the business by incorporation of ROI and industry-based analysis.

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High visibility, leadership role of devloping and implimenting behavioral, clinical interventions targeted to decrease Benefit Expense of behavioral inpatient and outpatient utilization. These interventions, also known as HealthCare Quality and Affordability initiatives, are innovative solutions that transforming the way we deliver services to behavioral consumers. While these initiatives are primarily operational in nature, the results of efficiencies associated with these process improvement efforts flow as an affordability savings that not only improve Optum's buttom line and decrease in medical spend of our Commercial, Medicare and Medicaid payers, but most imprtantly focus on faster recovery and improved resiliancy of our members.

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- Managed up to 10 FTEs (direct reports and project reports) as a manager in the largest membership reporting department at UHG. Achieved significant improvements in reporting accuracy and timeliness, process efficiencies, and customer relationship management.- At Uniprise, reported directly to the COO of the unit and managed a $20 M budget. Improved net income by 17.5% over the course of one year by tightening sales and marketing costs as well as better workforce management- Primary liaison between the Finance organization, sales, marketing, human capital, IT and operations. In this capacity developed solid cross-functional communication skills as well as developed clear understanding of different aspects of the business• Delivered large scale integration project to consolidate data from numerous Access Database to SQL Server and then to Web Reporting/ SharePoint. The user base increased by 75% increase and the department became the “source of truth” for UHG commercial membership reporting• Led process improvement efforts such as Automation of Data Processing, Quality Control Tools and P&P development which improved timely report delivery by 30% and reduced FTE time allocation by 25%• Led a Green Belt project that yielded 40% reduction in manual data adjustments by making systemic changes to the processes as well as implementing numerous reporting infrastructure changes • Successfully managed off-shore resources from Cognizant responsible for subset of reporting development• Managed “month-close” and “forecast” internally and for corporate reporting purposes• Managed P&L, balance sheet and accrual expenses• Developed and managed robust financial processes to assist the URS CEO, COO and Sales Vice president with sales forecast and “work force” planning needs

Managed a robust, leadership reporting infrastructure for Ingenix Consulting Senior Leadesrhip. Developed the infrastructure by utilizing various reporting tools, systems and capabilities such as dashboards, SharePoint and SQL datatbase. Streamlined processes of compiling accurate sales, operational and financial data to enable accurate reporting on the consistant basis. Pioneered the development and reporting of key drivers and metrics to accurately measure Ingenix Consulting performance. Worked directly with various, financial, “time-reporting” and sales systems owners to ensure the data is accurate at the “source”. Led the development of the workforce planning and talent acquisition process in partnership with Ingenix Recruitment Services and Human Capital as well as developing a ”systems” training process and documentation for Ingenix Consulting..

Developed robust reporting processes to assist senior management with tracking and analysisDeveloped robust processes for commission and guarantees paymentsBuilt financial models to assist senior management with their decision- making processLead financial analysis on all SecureHorizons owned capital projectsCompiled the "Business Financial and Membership Review " report for UHG senior managementPrimary finance/billing liaison between SecureHorizons and several large external vendorsFinancial lead for large savings initiatives and assisted in RFP compilation and incumbents reviewImproved visibility to SG&A spend by establishing controls such as regular tracking and analyzing of KPM and various financial matrix and GL maintenanceDirectly involved in budgeting and forecasting for various sales and marketing functionsWorked on continuous process of identifying additional cost savings opportunity by working directly with senior management, field operations and external vendorsDeveloped robust invoicing and approval processes and led continuous enhancement of invoice coding and processing processDirectly involved in financial systems integration for the extremely large PacifiCare acquisition Assisted teammates with various marketing/sales acquisition cost analysis Did ad-hoc analysis to assist senior management with their decision-making process

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Responsible for Industry and company performance analysis that factored in the decision-making for commercial loans up to $25 MKey underwriter participating in executive committee meetings to review loan approvalDelivered key written recommendations about strength of the proposed loans up to $25 MM.Analyzed and reviewed audited and company-prepared financial statements.Produced independent, supported long-term and short-term projections of customer performance.Incorporated long-term and short-term projections into the financial analysis using various systemsPrepared industry comparison analysis and scenario analysis.Prepared written loan approval documents, which are presented to senior management.Participated in site visits and customer calls.Determine all non-conformity with TCF policies and procedures.Analyze, review and interpret company-prepared projections.Use real estate appraisals to help in the analysis of the commercial real estate loans.Review "Offers to Lend" for compliance to approved loan proposals.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

Management and support for engineering projects as part of controls and navigation divisionGenerated key financial and tracking reports for the division Helped research and create project proposals.Tracked performance and budgets for various engineering projects on the weekly basisGenerated financial reports using Oracle and led the development of Web-enabled financial reports.Conducted presentations on time reporting audit policies. Audited time cards used by engineers to track time spent on various projectsInteracted with all levels of engineering and financial staff and management.

Master Of Business Administration, Finance

Bachelor Of Science, Business, Finance