Rick Weinstein Email & Phone Number

Gainesville, Florida, United States

Tallahassee, Florida Area

Provide consultation in Organizational Change Management. Plan and schedule initial project milestones. Lead business meetings with outside entities and perspective stakeholders. Create high level user stories to break down into smaller “right sized” user stories” so that client can establish development activities. Provide project outlines and letters of intent. Prepare documentation to assist clients in establishing goals and priorities. Provide public relations and marketing such as, print, email blast, social media presence and radio.

Gainesville, Florida

The purpose of this project was to replace the 20+ CGI Advantage system with the Workday ERP system.

Florida Department Of State

The goal for this project was to create a comprehensive, consolidated system for the management of all grant programs offered by the Department of State. It would provide grantees with a user-friendly online interface to submit applications and manage their funded grants by communicating with the Department, requesting payments, and submitting reports.

Florida Department Of Education

Lead Business Analyst - . The purpose of this project was to help deliver dashboards, downloads and reports to various Florida Department of Education (FDOE) Stakeholders using SAS BI Suite for Education. Additionally this project developed the FDOE Single Sign-On (SSO) Portal through which stakeholders can easily access various FDOE web applications.

Tallahassee

Jackson Hewitt Assisted Refund Project (ATP)American Tax Preparation (ATP) Project Lead Business Analyst/Scrum Master/Consultant - assisted in creating ATP. The purpose of this project was to help deliver the ATP Platform along with products and services to assist the low-income families to complete their tax preparation for the 2012-13 Tax season and beyond. AccomplishmentsFunctioned as member of the specialized team, brought in to bring the project out of the “red” and back on schedule.Worked with fellow Sogeti team members, Client Representatives, and Consultants from another vendor. Worked with other Business Analysts, Developers and Client Representatives in gathering requirements in the form of User Stories based on technical documentation.Facilitated entry of User Stories into the requirements repository (TFS) as well as recorded defects in same system.Tested the User Interface (UI) along with other team members.Completed project on time resulting in the client’s ability to release their product in time for the 2012-13 Tax Season.

Tallahassee, Florida Area

Florida Access Replacement ProjectBusiness Analyst/Consultant - gathered high level requirements for the replacement of Florida ACCESS System. The system is over 30 years old and relies on legacy technology centered on a mainframe system for Florida’s Public Assistance Eligibility System.Accomplishments• Worked with a private consulting team, headquarter staff and state subject matter experts• Co-facilitated requirements gathering sessions with consulting team and state personnel in small and large group settings• Worked with team to delineate the requirements needed in multiple areas of Public Assistance Eligibility.• Produced high level requirements documentation for deliverables to be included into the Invitation to Negotiate• Completed project on time and within budget

Florida Department of HealthHealth Management System (HMS)Health Management System (HMS) – Electronic Lab Orders Business Analyst/Consultant - created electronic lab ordering system.Accomplishments• Facilitated work group sessions with headquarter customer and statewide county health department staff.• Analyzed customer needs• Created and updated new and existing use cases• Collaborated with E-Labs project lead on goals for electronic lab orders.• Conducted individual interviews with key stakeholders, subject matter experts and staff Health Management System (HMS) – Business Maintenance / DevelopmentBusiness Analyst/Consultant - maintained and enhanced the existing HMS functionality.• Facilitated work group sessions with headquarter and statewide county health department staff.• Analyzed customer needs regarding defects and enhancement requests• Collaborated with state customer ensuring requests were clear and understood by all stakeholders• Conducted individual interviews with key stakeholders, subject matter experts and staff • Updated existing use cases• Developed user test scripts• Participated in User Acceptance Testing (UAT)Health Management System (HMS) – Billing RedesignBusiness Analyst/Scrum Master/Consultant - redesigned the HMS Billing System based on “accounting-centric” billing industry standardsAccomplishments• Obtained Scrum Master Certification• Initiated Agile Methodology utilizing Scrum • Maintained daily “standup” meeting records• Collaborated on state-wide Billing User Group conference calls• Collaborated on User Stories, Business Process Flows, Sprint progress and process as part of Scrum Process• Collaborated in Discovery Sessions with Billing Redesign Team to review “as is and to be” regarding Billing Redesign• Mentored team on Agile practices• Participated in UAT

Tallahassee

Business Analyst/Consultant - FLCCOC, created at the direction of the Florida Legislature. The FLCCOC supports the Clerks of Court in all 67 counties in the State of Florida by reviewing and certifying court-related proposed budgets under the oversight of the Florida Legislature, the Governor, the Chief Financial Officer, and the Department of Revenue.• Developed Agency’s first Comprehensive Employment & Administration Manual • Facilitated and directed the compilation, review and update of Statewide Clerks of Court contact information for all 67 Clerks in Florida• Designed and maintained new CCOC Website• Reviewed deliverables and made recommendations to accept or reject• Provided management consultant services to staff and contractor staff working on the development of processes in order to improve management capabilities and operational procedures

Information Systems Of Florida (Isf)

Agency for Workforce Innovation (AWI) - Now FL Dept. of Economic Opportunity (DEO)Business Analyst / Consultant - Early Learning Information System (ELIS)Lead Business Analyst / Consultant - developed requirements for the Early Learning Information System ( ELIS) a centralized technology system to provide critical information to early learning parents, partners, and providers. This includes 300,000 families whose children attend Voluntary Prekindergarten and School Readiness programs, 31 early learning coalitions, and several state agencies.Accomplishments• Facilitated consulting team and other Office of Early Learning Staff in reviewing policies, procedures and practices in order to redefine the ELIS • Analyzed the re-engineering and redesign of the processes of the Office of Early Learning.• Provided assistance to Office of Early Learning officials and their staff to promote the most efficient and effective methods of developing requirements for ELIS.

Tallahassee

Office of Grants ManagementSenior Educational Program Director - was responsible for managing a unit of 6 staff in the annual process of moving $700,000,000 in federal education funds allocated to the State of Florida to sub-recipients statewide. The Office of Grants Management manages and processes state and federal grant awards to school districts, community colleges, universities and community-based organizations. This office provides administrative and operational support to program managers including receipt and technical review, tracking, budget review, and distribution and file maintenance of all projects awarded by the Department of Education. .Accomplishments• Re-staffed and organized formally poor functioning unit.• Collaborated with new unit staff in creating new processes to improve efficiency and functioning• Increased unit productivity by 100%• Developed work plans and schedules instrumental in making unit a model for other units to follow • Conducted technical reviews of Request for Application / Request for Proposal• Tracked progress of Requests• Provided assistance/guidance to other Department offices in grant application process• Conducted training for DOE Program Personnel, school districts, local education agencies and other stakeholders• Developed requirements for web based Grants Management Tracking System (GMS) application.• Conducted testing of GMS• Provided statewide support for GMS

•Team manager, facilitating FL SACWIS statewide user advisory groups and user support.•Developed Statewide Organizational Change Management (OCM) Plan to assist personnel statewide in adapting to SACWIS/HSn.•Supervised and coordinated assignments for 15 Statewide Operations Review Specialists assigned throughout state districts/region as well as headquarter staff and contractors.•Planned, directed, and coordinated statewide HSn Application Security; Identified and analyzed complex managerial and programmatic problems for the re-engineering and redesign of the Family Safety Program Office; •Planned, directed, and coordinated the successful, statewide deployment and implementation of the first two releases of SACWIS/HSn

Msw, Social Work

Activities and Societies: Alpha Phi Alpha Honor Society

Bs, Psychology

Activities and Societies: AEPi Fraternity,