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Austin, Texas

Provide:VisionLeadershipAnalytical Data ReviewRecommendations Project CompletionContract review for multimillion-dollar operational and financial cost-saving projects

Austin, Texas, United States

Austin, TX

• Manage a department of 25 high performing associates
• Responsible for all Seton Regulatory reporting – proficient in healthcare Quality and Financial reporting applications and regulations
• Maintain Seton’s Inpatient and Outpatient Quality Reporting program – responsible for 10 million dollars of revenue each year
• Analytics and reporting liaison to senior leadership
• Goal development consultant for the organization

Seton Administrative Offices

• Responsible for the bulk of hospital system wide regulatory reporting
• Deep subject matter expertise in medical coding and compliance
• On-boarded and commenced implementation of a new Enterprise wide reporting system system
• Serves as the Seton liaison to Ascension activities
• Coordinated closely with Information Services on joint projects and to better align goals
• Mentors staff on data use, visualization and display

Austin, TX

• Data analysis, project management and presentation of Seton’s first Surgical Site Infection (SSI) Rate metrics by site
• Process Improvement work/database analysis for the Infection Prevention and Control team in order to maximize productivity and prepare data for presentation outside the team.
• Data analysis and project management of Seton’s regulatory and patient safety National Patient Safety Goal audits
• Manage a team of three people
• Serve as network administrator for required CDC-NHSN regulatory reporting
• Successfully project managed multiple network-wide projects

Austin, TX

• Led the implmentation team of to build a pharmacy utilization review system
• Conducted extensive analysis on Texas, Florida and Medicare inpatient databases – usage, financial and aggregated data and analysis were used to prepare reports for the consulting firm
• Complete oversight of firm I\S infrastructure - phone, computer and server infrastructure
• Attended multiple workshops at the University of Minnesota Research and Data Assistance Center for Medicare data

Master'S Degree, Information Science/Studies

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), History

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Library And Information Science