To listen, listen some more and engage in balanced collaboration to help share appropriate perspective and guidance with a wide range of startup companies and new entrepreneurs.

Member of the Advisory Board. iTR Diagnostics is focused on delivering diagnostic insight and innovation through early identification of neurologic disease.

The Rapid Creek Group Inc., is a partnership-based global management consultancy that delivers specialized services in strategic planning, management consulting, business & market development in multiple sectors. We work with startups and established companies. Contact us today to learn more about our focused and tailored approach to partner with your organization to make great outcomes happen. lisa.spellman@rapidcreekgroup.com

♣ Led international and domestic operations for the ISO/TC215 Standards Secretariat Office for AHIMA, a global ISO Technical Committee with 50+ member countries, 30+ strategic alliance entities and 300+ global experts providing leadership, oversight and guidance to develop high-quality consensus-based voluntary standards. ♣ Led the US Health Informatics Technical Advisory Group (US TAG) with 50+ members including for & non-profit, industry, government, and clinical member domestic operations.♣ Led strategic alliances, joint ventures and partnerships, global and domestic with a wide range of entities including other SDOs such as WHO, IEEE, ITU, CDISC, HL7; government agencies / ministries worldwide including ONC, NIST, FDA, and VA in the US and similar entities on other continents including EU and EMEA.♣ Represent ISO/TC215, the USTAG and AHIMA to key constituencies.♣ P&L/budgeting, research, grants and contract management and proposal development.Accomplishments♣ Facilitated collaborative development of over 100 new standards products working collaboratively with stakeholders from multiple nations for each product.♣ With strategic partners, successfully convened 12 international ISO plenary meetings in 12 different nations on three continents and 27 US TAG meetings with limited support on-time and under-budget.♣ Reduced backlog of partial and delayed projects; improved new product time-to-market. ♣ Increased ISO/TC215 global membership of nations and strategic partners 35%.♣ Increased US TAG membership 114%. Grew standards product catalogue 161%.♣ Led completion of ISO/TC215 international reorganization activity and planning review for digital innovation.

♣ Led a team of five direct reports and 200+ volunteers from across the world for HIMSS global standards-related initiatives providing strategic leadership and day-to-day management of the standards practice team and the HIMSS-sponsored domains of Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) International. ♣ Strategic alliances, joint initiatives and government advocacy. ♣ P&L/budgeting, research, grants and contract management and proposal development. Accomplishments ♣ Led the successful expansion of HIMSS International Interoperability Showcases™ including a 25% annual growth in participation and revenues in Showcases held in locations worldwide and expanded IHE International membership over 65% in two years. ♣ Successfully planned and executed strategic and tactical activities for five IHE International Connectathons in three different countries, healthcare’s largest standards interoperability, harmonization and conformance testing events held in locations worldwide. ♣ Financial results: Grew budget from losing $30K plus per event to profitability per each event growing to a management of six budgets in excess of $3 million.

 Primary point of contact to connect HIMSS corporate members to member services; interaction ranged mid-level to C-level to 260+ HIMSS corporate members worldwide Led the successful planning and execution of the 2nd annual HIMSS Venture Capital Fair growing the event by 10% in participation and revenue in one

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Rapid Creek Group, LLC, Iowa City, IAFounder of a successful management consultancy providing tailored services for clients in multiple sectors including healthcare, IT, education, government and general business including start-ups, non-profit and private/for-profit.

 Founding team member of the Hunter-Renaissance Higher Education Division Project Lead, PeopleSoft Higher Education, Government, Industry implementations.