Rafael Reisz Email & Phone Number

Greater Boston Area

As a certified SBA business consultant, working with entrepreneurs to build and grow innovative businesses.

Cambridge MA

Currently teaching a post-graduate course on “Project Risk, Quality, and Change”. Work as a “challenger” helping student teams prepare for entrepreneurship prize competitions.

• Rafinco LLC is a solo and connected consulting firm working with clients to plan, manage, and deliver projects and programs that meet defined business objectives. Rafinco LLC provides program and project operation.
• Organizational growth and transition management
• Risk and change management
• Business and practice process improvement
• Integrated sales-to-delivery operations
• PMO creation and operation

Warwick RI

This full-time position focused on rapid definition and delivery of a growth strategy based on value added products development and an emerging HIE platform. The mission was to develop a new line of business focused around private, IHE-based, health information exchange, Federal eHealth Exchange and DIRECT based exchange guided by the principals of.

Greater Boston Area

I joined a newly formed and game-changing Population Health Management division of GE eHealth to help develop an innovative Care Management platform designed to enable a population health based approach to care coordination and disease management through the enhancement of the clinical workflow with integration of advanced analytics and rules processing to.

Engaged by the Managing Partners of Squires Sanders to investigate and implement process improvements for legal practices. Worked with partners to identify high value-to-cost process improvement opportunities and helped to define and implement firm-wide process improvement governance, road-map, and tool-set. Conducted workshops, presentations, and training.

Working within a broader engagement for University leadership (see below) I was asked to provide advisory services to the Provost of the Boston University Medical Campus (BUMC). The BUMC comprises the School of Medicine, the School of Public Health, the Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine, and the Division of Graduate Medical Sciences of the School.

• In 2008, I was engaged by Boston University President, EVP, and CIO to propose and then to establish a university-wide project governance and management framework. I worked with administrative VP’s and Deans to explore.
• Led the development of PMO services, project work flows, PM document framework, and reporting
• Guided PM training and project team development
• Let the design and adoption of business intelligence and decision support capabilities
• Enabled a transformation of the University’s Information Technology Services division.

The engagement first focused on operations and performance improvements with Partner's medication informatics group developing medication knowledge, alerting services, and product integration. The engagement was broadened to all to all Clinical Informatics R&D groups including Clinical and Quality Analysis, Informatics services, Longitudinal Medical.

Worked with a newly appointed CIO to identify a strategic IT portfolio, gain leadership buy-in, and demonstrate results for this fast growing multi-site, multi-practice firm. Facilitated firm-wide planning and strategy discussions focused on improvements of accounting and business systems.

Engaged to develop a PMO organization and to build-up delivery capacity and quality for the company. Realized benefits led to broadening of activities at the CIO-level integrating portfolios, operations, and resources across Business, Research, Manufacturing, and Infrastructure divisions. Responsibilities included facilitation to the weekly CIO-VP.

Worked with this mid-market turnaround firm on a range of services related to an international bankruptcy and associated litigation focusing on litigation support, eDiscovery, IP transfer, forensic accounting, and estate technology operations. I was instrumental in the recovery of funds and in the implementation of cost control initiatives. Work included.

• ADL was founded in 1886, Arthur D. Little Inc., became the first and best known consulting firm delivering breakthrough products and services in Innovation technology, Environmental Health and Services, and Management.
• M&A: Due diligence and post-merger integration with corporate leadership and multiple buyers
• Integrated Product Development: Enabled product innovation and development for a highly regulated Innovation Technology line of business
• Enterprise Information Portal: Improved communication, productivity and cost reduction through dynamic access to processes and information
• IPO Preparation: Developed information strategies related to a major “cutout” IPO initiative
• Business Intelligence: Improved business performance through enterprise-wide, global financial, case, and client analytics and decision support