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Marietta, Georgia, Us

Responsible for management of the Information Technology department; including resource teams, operational activities, budget, and project initiatives. MiMedx is a biologics company with $340m in annual sales of products for the wound care, burn, and surgical recovery sectors of healthcare. • Management of the application teams; including development, implementation, project management, business analysis, quality assurance, application support, and change management. • Management responsibility expanded in 2020 to include all aspects of Information Technology department; adding operations, desktop support, and cybersecurity teams. • Responsible for custom software development and third-party software implementations; consistently running multiple projects in parallel. Involved in all planning and controlling of the projects including scope, quality, schedule, and budget. Utilizing Jira and MS Project for issue and project tracking.• Implemented and integrated systems for CRM (Salesforce), ERP (QAD), Quality Management, Document Management (Alfresco), Manufacturing Execution, Procure to Pay, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Warehouse Management, and Shipping.• Creation and management of annual Information Technology operational and capital budget.• Approval and management of technology supplier procurement to payment.• Establish and maintain relationships with strategic technology partners.• Execute IT governance, controls, and compliance programs to support Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), HIPAA, and FDA (computer systems validation) requirements.• Participate in formation and ongoing lead technology representation for IT Steering Committee, in partnership with business department executives.

Marietta, Georgia, Us

Managed a team of system administrator, network engineer, help desk, application support, and desktop support resources.• Responsible for on-boarding 700+ corporate and remote employees during a rapid-growth period; including user, desktop, and application setup.• Completed cloud-based email to in-house MS Exchange migration and Proofpoint protection, including Active Directory domain migration, for 350+ users. • Responsible for all hardware and software procurement and inventory.• Successfully completed business growth initiatives such as strategic acquisition and new office expansion; including implementation of server infrastructure, network connectivity, desktop/device and email migrations. • Responsible for user, application, and telecom (Cisco) help-desk support.• Responsible for server, network, desktop, application, and telecom; including provisioning, monitoring, backup/disaster recovery, troubleshooting and triage.

Managed $5m+ departmental budget consisting of 50+ resource team; including application development, project management, business analysis, quality assurance, and application support. Resources included multiple U.S. based and offshore locations. Alere Health, LLC is a Disease Management, and High-Risk Pregnancy services company with $450m in annual sales.• Responsible for large-scale stategic project ($2m+) delivery, to tactical short-term initiatives; consistently running multiple in parallel. Involved in all planning and controlling of the projects including scope, quality, schedule, and budget.• Managed full life-cycle of software development from scope, estimates, and ROI, through implementation; leveraging SDLC and agile methodologies.• Responsible for development and maintenance of multiple integrated (as well as disparate) custom application platforms; accessed by 500+ business and clinical healthcare users, servicing 1m+ participants. Several of the applications are included in the clinical progam certification of accreditation agencies such as NCQA and JCAHO; as well as yearly SOX audits.• Integrated multiple vendor-supplied applications for non-core specialties such as computer telephony integration (CTI), interactive voice response (IVR), biometric devices, and other modes of communication (email, text messaging, and postal fulfillment) with participants, and providers.

Managed $2m+ departmental budget consisting of 20+ resource, application development team; including U.S. based and offshore locations.• Responsible for application development deliverables within projects of up to $1m; including estimation, resource allocation, design and construction. • Responsible for development and maintenance of several custom application platforms. The clinical application platforms served 500+ users, and 500k+ participants.

Responsible for up to $750k project deliverables from statement of work, through project closeout; for custom application development.• Worked with a matrixed team of business analysts, application developers, quality assurance testers, and infrastructure engineers, to deliver custom application development projects.• Established and executed project plan, budget, monitoring, and implementation for multiple projects running in parallel.• Facilitated communication within the project team, stakeholders, business, and management; including status reports for tasks, progress, risks, issues, schedule, and budget.

Responsible for software requirements specification documentation for custom application development. The applications served 500+ clinical and business users for participant care ranging from disease management to high-risk obstetrics.• Worked with all levels of the organization from senior management to understand scope and strategy, to subject matter experts to detail system requirements. • Delivered technical software requirements specification documents for application development, and input to quality assurance test plans.

Kansas City, Missouri, Us

Led a group of application specialists in software implementation and integration (utilizing HL7 standards) at numerous 500+ bed hospitals, across the U.S. Cerner Corporation is a healthcare information technology company, that supports the clinical, financial, and operational needs of providers worldwide.• Mentoring and lead role, facilitating milestone checkpoints of software implementation with clients and application specialists. • Consulted on several failing projects, to bring back on-track for successful implementation.

Kansas City, Missouri, Us

Responsible for implementation activities for admissions and scheduling software at several 500+ bed hospitals.• Led client stakeholders through their application implementations (focus on registration and scheduling) from scope to production. • Facilitated business requirement documentation, and customized applications to suit the client's needs.• Led conversion activities, including data migration from legacy systems; through parallel testing and go-live.

Master Of Science, Sports Medicine

Bs In Health Science, Health Promotion