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Wakefield, Rhode Island, United States

Wakefield, Rhode Island

Narragansett, Ri

Retired from Cigna Healthcare and on to my next journey! Completed RYT 200 and currently studying for RYT 300 in Yoga Beyond Asana through All That Matters. Local Photographs available at Gansett Goods in Narragansett.

Leads Cigna's enterprise strategy, product roadmap & execution for Virtual Health Solutions (VHS). VHS encompasses Virtual Visits, Extended Networks, Remote Health Monitoring, Virtual Treatment and Omni-Channel Coaching.

Bloomfield, Ct

- Serve as US Product Liaison with the Retail / Customer Value Strategy & Innovation COE teams to drive innovative customer-focused solution development & business growth. Participate in front-end solution definition, creation and demo processes, & lead teams and development of business cases.- Ensure that customer insights are disseminated, deeply understood, and used as the basis for development of innovative new products and services.- Leads and manages pilot or test programs that drive incremental improvements in product offerings or resolve identified customer pain points. Leads evaluation of pilot to determine if solution should be scaled, refined, or discontinued.- Develop and lead product initiatives to fill solutions gaps and meet established earnings/growth targets. Lead product lifecycle development including opportunity assessment, business case development, project funding and development, pricing, implementation, and marketing/sales launch. Represent the voice of the customer throughout life cycle.- Support product development opportunities to increase customer lifetime value by monitoring competitive landscape to ensure deep understanding of capabilities and competitive position. - Work with IT and business architecture to scope out capabilities and requirement for solution “shelf” modularity so that solutions can be more flexibly packaged and offered to customers.- Partner with business segments, sales and account management to ensure customer-centric solutions are effectively positioned against customer needs and competitor capabilities to drive and maximize growth and earnings.

Bloomfield, Ct

- Works across the clinical teams to evaluate and strategically plan for how clinical product roadmaps should evolve to support the new private exchange marketplace.- Collaborates with Private Exchange product team to bring new clinical solutions into the marketplace.- Supports and executes strategies for business and product development designed to maximize innovation, growth & revenue.- Includes dual responsibility through role expansion noted above, while maintaining leadership accountability for the Complex Product / Delivery Exception function which oversees the analysis, design and approval of complex customization requests for our most important client relationships.

- Oversees the analysis, design and approval of complex customization requests for our most important client relationships requiring broad knowledge of Cigna's products, networks, organization and operations.- Leads strategic discussions with executive leadership facilitating decision making around organization trade offs, strategic alignment, funding, resource reallocation enabling on time quality delivery.- Creates and socializes detailed trend analysis enabling organizational responsiveness to the market.- Drives ongoing process improvement and organizational partnership enabling effective, timely decision-making.

• Lead new wellness program development through all stages of the process to successful launch and on-going management. • Developed go-to-market strategies, translating strategies into tactical plans and monitors execution of plans to drive measurable customer traction and sales growth. • Created product launch plans and drives multi-functional groups to launch new products. • Crafted product messaging, positioning & differentiation strategies for existing/new products.• Lead near term new product planning as well as long term new product strategy and vision.• Developed competitive product pricing and packaging strategies.• Translated product feedback into feature & requirements specifications, ensuring highest priority features are delivered to meet customer needs.• Developed business case for new products/or features including financial justifications and ROI analysis to drive resource decisions based on quantifiable analysis and requirements.• Understood market trends/competitive intelligence related to health advocacy products.

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- Co-lead a small team to create the MMFG IT Strategy in alignment with MMFG business strategies.- Established Service vision, strategy & identity for MMFG IT.- Developed new service model introducing Service Portfolio Management, Service Channel Management & Service Ownership geared towards running IT Services as a business - ensuring the viability of a given service, price competitiveness, reasonability of total cost of ownership and assurance of consumer satisfaction.- Built the Project Portfolio Management (PPM) practice for the Enterprise Technology organization while establishing automation for MMFG's PPM practice including project visibility, governance, resource supply & demand visibility and portfolio reporting.- Established the vision, strategy & execution of MMFG's IT governance program overseeing the quality of execution within the delivery lifecycle.- Lead Technology Governance responsible for assessing risk, determining balanced response and annually revalidating reasonability & necessity of standards.- Drove large change management initiative to embed standards & governance into the fiber of the organization's operating model.

- Developed e-Business strategy and electronic service model for Retirement Services culminating in the design, development and delivery of our award-winning participant (The Journey) and sponsor (Total Retirement Services) electronic services. Each site dramatically reduced operational costs while increasing customer service efficiency and effectiveness.- Supported cultural shift required to move RS to an e-Business model by acting as a change agent within the operation and becoming a champion of electronic delivery throughout the enterprise and industry.- Accomplished speaker recognized as e-delivery business expert fulfilled numerous speaking engagements at an array of industry conferences (e.g. SPARK, LIMRA, IFEBP, PSCA). - Provided a compelling, knowledgeable presence during countless large market prospect situations articulating the vision and value of our electronic services to an audience that ranged from benefits administrators to CEOs.- Operate as business driver during the execution of various external relationships including Computer Associates, HP, ACI, Morningstar, and RR Donnelly.-

- Designed and supported the development of multiple software solutions including: project portfolio management, financial planning, sales illustrations, expense projections, proposals, retirement plan highlights, and customized communications programs.- Developed and implemented MMRS Sale's Office initial technology strategy including the rollout of 100 PCs, design, installation and management of Home Office-based Help Desk, and establishment of application development support unit based in the business community.

Masters, Business; Management Info Systems Concentration

GPA 3.85/4.0

Bs, Special Education; Psychology Minor