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Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts, Us

Manage group of 41 IT developers, business analysts and SQA resources, supporting Electronic Eligibility, new business data migration implementations and client data management support.Worked with business partners and senior management to ensure deliverables are timely and offer top quality results for our business partners and clients.

Houston, Texas, Us

- Analyzed North American telecommunications assets and services, slashing monthly expenses by over $45k, an annual savings of over $575k by identifying and addressing excessive data usage, unneeded services and calculating most efficient monthly carriers cellular data pooling amounts. - Efficienty organized telecommunications assets and usage tracking to ensure ongoing lowest possible costs. - Analyzed IT managed fixed services and identified over $350k that had been spent unnecessarily on services that were not needed. - Over 150 services with multiple vendors identified as not needed, spanning multiple vendors which were ultimately deactivated. - Worked with vendors to identify and ensure all identified services were deactivated. - Effectively loaded data from our Technology Expense Management(TEM) vendor’s system into SQL server to enable creation of numerous queries and reports to assist with all analysis. - Generate multiple reports for upper management. - Worked with multiple business units to identify savings and efficiency gains. - Managed multiple projects. - Worked with multiple vendors during contract creation and renewals, ensuring business obtained objectives and best possible rates.

Richardson, Texas, Us

- Successfully managed multiple projects, multiple developers and business partners concurrently, in a fast paced, ever changing healthcare, technology and business environment- Leads large projects and interacts with the business unit in defining project requirements and resolving issues and working with the IT team to execute request- Self-starter with the ability to manage and prioritize workload - Analyzed situations for possible automation and process improvements- Analyze data files to understand data relationships and functionality- Strong problem solving skills and the ability to systematically analyze problems and clearly communicate the findings- Strong organizational skills with the ability to be flexible and work with minimal level of direction- Lead integration of new client data as a result of acquired business including medical claims history, eligibility and accumulators- Extensive communication skills, working closely with various levels of management- Prepare technical requirements documents for work requests/projects from business- Assist setting expected completion dates and estimated hours to complete projects while meeting any required due dates presented by business- Extensive experience working with business to complete a thorough analysis and understanding of needs- Lead software development team supporting complex health claims processing application- Perform annual reviews and growth planning with team members- Key leader in our change control process, satisfying SOC auditing requirements.- Managed a diverse team with multiple development languages, COBOL, RPG, .Net, VB, Java and skill sets- Manage day-to-day help tickets, reviewing situation and assigning to appropriate resource in addition to setting prioritization and scheduling- Translate business requirements into technical requirements and work with IT team to completion- Worked with vendor EDI interfaces including 270/271, 276/277, 834, 835(ERA), 837

San Francisco, California, Us

Employed by the same group since 1995. The latest acquisition was from HealthSmart, effective 1/1/2012.• Lead software development team to build secure single-factor and two-factor (fob/token key) web applications.• Work closely with business units to analyze complex business problems and define solutions.• Work with hardware groups to manage web, application and database servers.• Leads large projects and interacts frequently with the business unit in defining project requirements and resolving issues.• Successfully built and maintained effective business partnerships.• Efficiently manages and participates in multiple projects.• Proven record of creating detailed requirements from general business needs.• Managed change control procedures.• Assisted with test scheduling and testing.• Maintained compliance with ongoing code reviews for respective applications. • Developed team member project priorities. • Key leader in our change control process, ensuring that we maintain our SAS-70 auditing requirements. • Extensive experience with developing complex reports using SQL, Crystal Reports, Excel.• Managed annual forecasting and budgeting for team.• Experience using Agile/SCRUM methodology.• Administrator for business unit’s SharePoint sites and coordinated expanding the technology to solve business needs.Systems Analyst• Led numerous projects involving health claims processing, including claims processing/adjudication, member enrollment, provider information and benefits accumulators. • Designed and led the team development of a Health Insurance Portability and Accountability (HIPAA) and Protected Health Information (PHI) application resulting in additional revenue to the business unit.• Responsible for the data conversion of all new clients, representing over 215,000 lives. • Extensive experience using COBOL for business application development.• Key leader in conversion of new client’s data into our databases.

Note: Acordia National was purchased by Wells Fargo.Worked closely with the business unit to define requirements for project requests. Led development team to complete the project requests on time and as defined. Application was a large, health claims processing system. Responsibilities included assisting with the SAS-70 annual audit to ensure all requirements were met during the year to allow for a successful passing of the SAS-70 audit.

Mba, Business Administration

Ba Business Administration, Business/Computer Information Systems

B.S. Biology, Biology