Melissa O'Meara Email and Phone Number

Our company was founded by Joe Becht in October of 2012. As a former Partner at Ernst & Young, being of service to clients for over 30 years, Joe began the company in order to provide reimbursement, regulatory, and revenue cycle services to hospitals and health care systems. I have worked with Joe for over 8 years and joined Becht Advisory Group as Vice President of Operations in January 2013.

- Assist with growth of the Health Care Provider practice.- Display professionalism and discretion while dealing with confidential information.- Exercise interpersonal and problem solving skills as well as written and oral communication skills.- Independently prioritize and complete general administrative tasks such as word processing, copying, filing, faxing, scheduling travel, and monitoring email accounts.Chief of Staff responsibilities:- Complete new client acceptance due diligence.- Perform business development activities such as data analytics to qualify clients based on publicly available information and sales tracking.- Assist with development of marketing material to illustrate services offered; coordinate document creation with graphics design team as appropriate.- Analyze project budgets based on actual hours to complete the agreed upon scope of work; prepare invoices.- Coordinate Quality and Risk Management and General Counsel reviews of contracts.- Assist with creating quality assurance processes for project work.- Create archiving process training and work flows to comply with accounting guidelines monitored by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB).- Innovation and investment funding requests and presentations.- Analyze and distill practice-wide financial information; Fiscal Year to Date, Year over Year comparatives, etc.- Serve as a liason to the recruiting, scheduling, and retention team.Project Management Office for ICD-10 Services responsibilities:- Prepare proposals, contracts, and other presentations for client meetings.- Prepare quarterly practice-wide financial reports and presentations.- Coordinate internal training programs via classroom or video conferencing formats.

- Assist a Partner within the Health Science Advisory Services (HSAS) practice in developing and maintaining a national book of business, including scheduling meetings, conference calls, and travel.- Support the Regulatory Service Line team, including: utilization tracking, engagement financial tracking, serving as a liaison between the solution leaders and geographic leaders, and assisting in the development of the Regulatory skill matrix.- Independently complete general administrative tasks such as word processing, copying, filing, faxing, processing accounts payable requests, and monitoring email accounts.Special Projects:- Targeted data analyses and marketing efforts for specific service offerings and solutions which led to increased sales and engagements with clients.- Identified and researched governmental regulations and the implications of those regulations related to healthcare reimbursement.- Responsible for firm event planning in conjunction with the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA).- Assisted with sponsoring events for key clients; ie. Education Seminars, Webinars, Video Conferences, Golf Tournaments.- Supported a software transaction, including coordination between Ernst & Young's General Counsel, Strategic Sourcing, Business Relationship & Tracking, Independence, and others both internally and externally.- Served as Archiving Thought Leader for specialized business units, which led to the implementation of a new system to support HSAS compliance with Section 404 (Sarbanes-Oxley) guidelines.

Please see Associate responsibilities.

- Promoted growth of $4 Million business by projecting sales targets over comparative sales from previous year.- Managed operational and visual directives set forth by Talbots corporate, which included calculating individual associate sales productivity, implementing inventory controls, and a store-specific loss prevention program.- Supervised and coordinated with diverse management staff and extended staff of approximately 20 employees.

Very similar to the Arlington, VA store responsibilities, $1.5 million business and approximately 10 employees.

- Met and exceeded store specific sales goals by as much as 20% for one month.- Cash management, budgeting, inventory control.- Merchandised with an eye for suggestive selling and promotions; prioritized top volume products to ensure customer visibility and continual purchase.- Developed sales associates to achieve sales goals by exercising leadership skills.