Mergers and Acquisitions Integration - Medicaid, Medicare, Hospice PBM, Test Strategy and Quality

ACCOMPLISHMENTS:• Oversight of the movement of Kindred’s secondary data center from SunGard located in PA to Kindred’s Kansas City, MO saving $1M in operating cost on an annual basis.• Managed the vendor selection process and implementation efforts for introducing the first ever Video Conferencing Services for approximately 20 facilities. • Managed the integration and conversion of all Telecommunications systems, solutions and processes for the all Mergers and… Show more ACCOMPLISHMENTS:• Oversight of the movement of Kindred’s secondary data center from SunGard located in PA to Kindred’s Kansas City, MO saving $1M in operating cost on an annual basis.• Managed the vendor selection process and implementation efforts for introducing the first ever Video Conferencing Services for approximately 20 facilities. • Managed the integration and conversion of all Telecommunications systems, solutions and processes for the all Mergers and Acquisitions.• Automated Medicare and Medicaid Cost Reports (RAGS) in order to meet state requirements saving the saved the company over $150,000 and resulting in significant reduction in number of staff needed for data entry and report creation.• Converted the Hospital Purchasing System from ECHO to web-based IntelliOrder 3.0 and streamlining the work for 70 Materials Managers/Directors and additional end users.LEADERSHIP:• Member of Kindred’s Disaster Recovery Steering Committee. • Provide oversight and leadership for project management and implementation efforts for several large-scale, enterprise-wide projects with capital budgets up to $1M that impact multiple business lines and extend over the course of multiple budget years.DATA ANALYTICS:• Collaborate with Senior Leader of Finance and Clinical Operations in the Nursing Centers to develop and program queries that produced monthly Scorecards for financial and quality measures used to hold the organization accountable. • Gather requirements and build new reporting metrics, analytics and dashboards driving key performance indicators (KPI’s) around Healthcare Quality and Financial Performance for the Nursing Centers. • Ran the budget reports for Business Development group on a regular basis. • Gathered requirements and worked with leaders in Business Development to design, develop and run reports that drove better performance outcomes for the Sales organization. Show less

(3 Month Break in Service between May 2007 - July 2007)PROJECT/ PROGRAM MANAGEMENT:• Manage the migration project that upgraded Business Warehouse to SAP HANA and Unicode, affecting 5,000 end users.• Responsible for managing the migration of numerous Labor reports from SQL to BW.• Provide project and program management for all Cisco VoIP Telecommunication solutions for the existing Hospital Division and work with the Implementations team to plan for timing and budget for… Show more (3 Month Break in Service between May 2007 - July 2007)PROJECT/ PROGRAM MANAGEMENT:• Manage the migration project that upgraded Business Warehouse to SAP HANA and Unicode, affecting 5,000 end users.• Responsible for managing the migration of numerous Labor reports from SQL to BW.• Provide project and program management for all Cisco VoIP Telecommunication solutions for the existing Hospital Division and work with the Implementations team to plan for timing and budget for rolling out VoIP solutions in new locations; including acquisitions.• Managed the SAP 4.0 FI/CO Implementation for Lawson and Prodata financial and statistical data. Maintained the crosswalks for General Ledger and Statistical accounts, interfaced data to SAP, resolved errors in SAP during month-end close process of Kindred Hospitals and Nursing Centers and Pharmacies. • Managed the Minuteman to Kronos Timekeeping conversion process comparing time reports from two systems to verify accuracy of the conversion. SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT:• Developed an import program for the Tax Department that significantly reduced the time spent for keying check requests into MasterTax and increased the accuracy level reducing the number of void and re-issued checks.• Developed a Visual C++ service for Meditech that modified the Meditech monthly GL and daily AP files for SAP 4.6 changes and for interfacing to SAP and archived the original files.• Developed a utility that retrieves budget data from SRC's Budget Advisor before the completion of the customization for Kindred. • Developed a utility to convert the Ocadian Payroll data received from ADP to an SAP compatible format and created files for interfacing into SAP and parsing and balancing the files. Show less

INSTRUCTION:• Taught Introduction to Visual Basic, Advance Visual Basic, MS Office Suite, Keyboarding, HTML, Software Engineering and Project Management, Web Design, JavaScript, PERL/CGO and ColdFusion.

INSTRUCTION:• Taught web development and management classes. • Currently approved to teach over 60 courses in Math, IS and Business.