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Michael Parris is an industry leader in data, analytics and AI with a diverse background in process improvement across multiple industries. A trusted business partner to C-suite executives, Michael sets a strategic vision and leads high-performing teams to support growth, operations and customer experience for business functions that include finance, clinical, HR and supply chain. He creates organizational structure and connects foundational tools to be customer-focused while consistently showing ROI. Michael’s expertise spans master data management, machine learning, data governance, self-service analytics and population health management. He is passionate about developing “faster, easier and cheaper” ways to provide mission-critical data and is skilled at clearly translating complex data/AI concepts for senior leaders to understand the value of cutting-edge opportunities. What’s more, Michael builds consensus around KPIs, connecting employees’ incremental goals to reach the company’s long-term vision.Most recently, Michael served as Chief Data and Analytics Officer at Texas Health Resources. In this role, he created and implemented 90 machine learning models across five departments to deliver over $75M in additional direct margin annually. He also designed and implemented an AI-driven physician referral navigation engine that generated an additional $45M in direct downstream margin. During his tenure as Vice President of Data and Analytics, Michael modernized the department’s technology stack and facilitated the transition to self-service, producing a 70% reduction in repetitive manual reports and saving 10 hours of time per week on average for 200+ analysts. Prior to joining Texas Health Resources, Michael spent nine years at Banner Health, advancing from Director of Clinical Performance for the Obstetrics Service Line to Senior Director of Business Intelligence and Analytics for 30 hospitals. By strengthening internal analytics capabilities, Michael’s work helped to align system KPIs that enabled Banner to achieve quality and financial targets; reduce compounding pharmacy expenses by $4M annually; and decrease time to produce analytics results by 50%+. Michael’s recent software experience includes Alteryx, Tableau, PowerBI, Teradata, MuleSoft, Salesforce, Cloud Pak for Data and GitHub, among others.