Providing a combination of project management & systems analysis skills for the DMS Team.Lead & Manage IT staff to coordinate, delegate, monitor, and report on activity in a fast-paced environmentExcellent verbal & written communication skills and with the ability to present technical and non-technical audiences, including upper managementUnderstanding complex system design that has many moving parts across dozens of platforms.Strong Partnering with external teams to identify system dependencies on upstream and downstream systems, and building project plans that align release schedules across multiple suppliers.

Provides consulting expertise with business partners to define requirements, develop solution alternatives, provide estimation, and translate business requirements into specific systems, applications or system process designs. Integrate in-house and/or vendor architecture with vendor package selection and configuration as necessary. Projects ranged from $850K to $25M.Provide Solution Consultant Expertise: Reduced Kaiser’s exposure to State/Federal corrective actions or fines by identifying Membership and/or Non-Membership centric solutions. Identified system gaps, then prepared, presented and collaborated with physical solutions project team and business partners on all necessary deliverables. Negotiation: Effective relationship and consensus builder bringing different perspectives together in a highly charged atmosphere creating an effective team dynamic for business and IT to succeed.Provide Membership Systems Expertise: Provide high level cost estimates and solution assessments for the Membership System, allowing business to gauge impact and determine ROI. Assisted projects teams to align with development entrance criteria and filled requirements gaps as needed. Includes web service expertise to allow for SOA Reuse, saving time and cost for project implementations.SME Knowledge Includes: Medicare, Medicaid, Membership Administration Systems [Common Membership (ROC), Foundation System (CA), and The Membership System (MAS)], Document Management Strategy (DMS), Pharmacy Interfaces, Claims, and Benefits Interfaces.

A relationship builder between the business partners and Membership IT organization. Provided business critical or complex technical solutions that met business needs and improved business performance by providing the technical analysis, problem solving, and troubleshooting. System Analyst Expertise: Applied effective system techniques at the CSC Fort Worth to provide significant improvements in multiple areas: Billing, Regulatory, Call times; all were enhanced and significantly improved. Team provided over several hundred minor fixes and significant major fixes. Travel of 50% was required to CSC Ft Worth.Medicare Regulatory Expertise: Overcame significant obstacles to meet the Federal guidelines for MMA (Part D), LIS, LEP and many other regulatory requirements. Achieved significant improvement in inter-regional relationships, national standardization, and significant efficiency and workforce gains for the CSC and Regions. A minimum of 25% Travel was required.Claims Knowledge and Implementation Improvements: Documented the process for the Q/Care CO Release Implementations, and supported the Claims Systems (CO and OH (Q/Care)) for several years as a Sr. Programmer Analyst. General Technical Expertise: Applied system analysis, planning, scheduling, implementation, testing programming projects, and functional/technical designs to meet the needs for business enhancements & fixes.

Key Achievements OverallBusiness: HealthCare, Retail, Manufacturing, Inventory, Financial (limited), Freight Movement.Technical: EDI, DB2, CICS, COBOL, JCL, ASSEMBLER, Data Modeling, SQL, GUI, JAVA (Training), Agile (limited) Web Services, SOA Reuse, Word, Excel, Power Point, UML, Object Oriented, ACCESS, Visio, TEAMS (CDP) Solution Methodology.