• Championing health system transformation initiatives to incentivize equitable access to care and optimize the economic viability of every service line. Developed independent health economic studies and enhanced data science capabilities to craft short and long-term strategies with the chief executives across the hospitals, health plan services, and medical foundation.• Directing a multidisciplinary team of 25 clinicians, data scientists, and health economists to identify and execute on clinical operation improvements and growth opportunities through population health intelligence, mergers & acquisitions, market assessments, and product development. Achieved 98th percentile in Press Ganey’s leader index and employee engagement.• Executive oversight for the establishment of organizational strategy in quantitative capabilities for population health intelligence, health economics, market research, corporate development, and service line growth• Identified $4.7 million dollars in medical expense reduction opportunity for value-based care contracts and partnered with clinical leaders to establish targeted interventions. Spearheaded the research and development of extensive patient journey analytics with disease registries to identify health system gaps within chronic disease management (CHF, COPD, CKD, DM) and excess medical utilization.Overseeing multiple strategic planning efforts to produce formal guidance & decisions on initiatives such as:o Equitable Access to Care (Serving on Ambulatory Health Equity Council)o Population Health Impact from New Value-Based Care Programso Medical Foundation Strategy and Optimization of Operationso New Hospital Tower and Additional Site Selection Planningo Mergers & Acquisitions with Hospital Antitrust Analyseso Profitable Growth in Micro-Marketso Capital Planning and Medical Equipmento Health Plan Contract Performance and Negotiationso Service Line Profitability and Redesign (Cardiac, Transplant, Ortho, Neuro)

· Led the Pacific region as the regional director for a $27 million medical expense reduction strategy with a multidisciplinary team of economists, programmers, and data science professionals. Focused on thedevelopment of advanced analytics and identification of novel population insights for clinical outcomes and medical expenses within the national healthcare economics division.· Directed departmental data warehousing efforts in feature development from claims, authorizations, Rx, and EMR data for both legacy and newly acquired clinical delivery organizations to ensure data integrity & efficient processes.· Served as the lead geospatial expert for the Washington clinical performance team to integrate behavioral health with clinical intelligence for existing WA market infrastructure. Responsible for the development of geospatial, clinical, and business intelligence for Commercial and Medicare populations to guide market opportunity discussions.· Spearheaded the development of enterprise reporting tools & algorithms for nationwide emergency department utilization & influenza hospitalizations augmented with COVID-19 analytics to provide clinical and business intelligence.· Collaborated with an internal research & advanced analytics team to develop comprehensive profiles for predicting cohorts of at-risk individuals for age-related macular degeneration, diabetes, COVID-19, & additional priority conditions.

· Developed a formal spatiotemporal & economic analysis of patient population patterns, proposed a restructuring of population health strategy to optimize resource allocation, and successfully transitioned organizational focus to target at-risk patient populations.· Led an enterprise initiative to restructure data assets and optimize big data computations for comprehensive assessments of healthcare utilization and health outcomes through an innovative blend of social, financial, clinical, and geospatial data. Advanced organizational capabilities to allow adoption of machine learning software to modernize organizational capabilities.· Established the foundation and infrastructure for spatial data science to advance enterprise capabilities related to geospatial intelligence, spatial statistics, and health outcome forecasting.· Developed cross-industry collaborations with external organizations for innovative solutions by blending population health and data science to launch pilot programs in clinical interventions, integrated behavioral health, and community health.· Led the research and development of comprehensive healthcare economics studies to inform executive leadership on financial investments, strategic growth, and organizational opportunities.· Led the development of exploratory algorithms and population health models for complex conditions related to special populations, uncovered key clinical & business insights related to statistical correlations in comorbidities, and applied advanced statistical, algorithmic, data mining, and visualization techniques.

• Managed analytics and strategic operations for a healthcare delivery project that was projected to generate 1.4 million in additional reimbursement revenue through the Medicare Risk Adjustment system.• Collaborated with a team of clinicians and statisticians to develop a predictive algorithm for population health outcomes to minimize emergency costs and develop proactive interventions.• Responsible for developing and reviewing complex SQL scripts in multiple databases for executive decision support in our project implementation efforts, financial ROI, quality of care, and healthcare logistics.• Lead an internal research project to identify and address socioeconomic factors in the Southern California region that are negatively impacting population health and financial outcomes.• Served as a project lead in producing root cause analyses in topics such as financial discrepancies, data process measures, and logistical deficiencies.

• Promoted from Quality Analytics Specialist to Performance Improvement Engineer• Initiated and led a Lean Six Sigma quality improvement project on hospital restraints. Collaborated with clinicians to develop key performance indicators and action plans that align with The Joint Commission and the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services to accurately assess quality of care.• Served as a project manager for a strategic growth project in the implementation of electronic Clinical Quality Measures (eCQM) with IBM Watson Health to further advance internal data infrastructure and reduce an estimated $230,000 in costs.• Expert in hospital quality metrics, lead data submissions and action plans for collaborations/submissions such as the Leapfrog Hospital Safety Group & Anthem’s Quality-In-Sights Hospital Incentive Program. Reverse engineered statistical algorithms to allow for predictive scores and drilldowns.• Served as the project manager in the restructuring of data-driven performance evaluations of 900+ physicians. Led the internal consulting process as the subject matter expert for this category in the Tri-Annual Joint Commission Accreditation Survey and had 0 related citations.• Developed statistical algorithms to support leadership decisions for the Care Continuum Program and Population Health department on high-risk readmission patients with performance based reimbursement.• Independently engineered SQL reports through Meditech NPR report writing. Reports fueled Lean Six Sigma projects for ad hoc analyses, data extraction/analysis, and auto occurrence of specified patient listings.

• One of two researchers selected from 40 applicants to work with UCI’s Public Health department in collecting, analyzing, and presenting data regarding health policies on electronic cigarettes and the effectiveness of various policies in all 50 states. • Performed content analysis of e-cigarette public health legislation across the United States to identify essential criteria among successful policy measures to recommend for future public health legislation.• Involved in project management for developing goals / deadlines and data visualization for presenting analysis reports in the annual Undergraduate Research Opportunity Presentation (UROP).• Facilitated an e-cigarette research project to ensure accuracy of health data through continuous improvement of research methods and processes, which led to a final research paper submission for academic journal review.