Rodney Rowe Email & Phone Number

Jacksonville, Florida, United States

Sr. IT Business Systems Consultant:•Serve as a lead systems consultant, analyst, designer, project planner, & communicator across multiple Medicare Appeals & Grievances Agile scrum projects & support efforts*Promote & recommend continuous delivery & automation solutions that are baked into Medicare processes & applications that lead/have led to 5% labor hour savings, increased application efficiencies, and reduced business expenses•Create & communicate a monthly Medicare Appeals & Grievances application performance & defect/issue snapshot for Leadership as part of a Continuous Improvement effort•Develop, maintain, and support various levels of Medicare A&G process workflows used to efficiently & effectively route Medicare Appeal and Grievance requests

Serving as a workforce ops point of contact for requisitions covering 8000+ employees•Supported 65+ Contractor Conversions generating over $1.8M in YOY Savings•Designed, delivered, and maintain an Optum centric staffing empowerment SP request entry and approval process that enabled over 1000+ extension and requisition approvals generating 400+ Hires•Supported requisition approval pilot which reduced avg days to approval by 50% and increased approvals 33%•Streamlined Optum Talent Spotlight and requisition acceleration approval processes increasing hire success rate by 65% and reducing the days to hire by 25%EES Sr. IT Business Architect*Increased staffing process efficiency by 50% while driving increased revenue and billable effort•Served as lead, project planner, and program manager for 3 agile scrum teams across multiple Continuous delivery programs that led to the delivery of multiple repeatable Virtual Application Stack (VAS) solutions saving $5K per execution•Led an enterprise application effort to reconcile 5000 business applications against the Casewise Source of Truth across multiple Domains resolving 500+ data gaps and estimated $200K saved in supporting labor costs•Developed, automated, and maintained an application reconciliation process engine to reconcile and integrate various UHG application inventories with Casewise, which freed up 20% labor costs estimated at $5K per integration•Led multiple Agile/Rally Scrum teams to deliver several Dev-Ops solutions to VM configuration management issues resulting in an estimated $10K YOY labor savingsUHC/EAA Business Architect•Instrumental in adding 15% Casewise reports supporting a 30 second execution response SLA •Contributed in finding valid Casewise Application & ADG owners for 85% of the Applications •Ensured 60% of the Casewise application data had been validated & migrated to the Public Model

Provided SDLC life cycle Retek Oracle AIX Unix replenishment system support and led investigation and conversion of 7000+ business intelligence Crystal Reports to Microstrategy for MDW reducing business expenses by 80K/year* Strategic Consulting and Project Planning, including business planning, replenishment, sales strategy development.* Oracle Reports, Forms, Unix Scripting, BI MDW MicroStrategy, Crystal Reports development and support.

Drafted architectural solutions & application claims roadmaps for Pharmacy systems in a Mainframe & web-services environment leading to & estimated 25K savings reduction in consumer drug costs via optional coverage options•Draft architectural solutions for integrated application systems.•Develop and maintain IT Architecture Strategy deliverables, weights & definition of done.•Create and manage application roadmaps containing strategic direction, business drivers and action items.•Maintain Technical Reference Models & patterns and recommend new or re-usable technologies & standards.•Chair cross-functional POS meetings to monitor system impacts and performance.•Ensure Application area domain strategies Integrate with IT Architecture strategic deliverables.

Led process improvement effort in an ISO 9001 2000 quality management environment developing an integrated set of testing processes obtaining SEI CMMI Software Maturity Level-5 certification leading to winning several new Government contracts and over 100K+ in revenue* Developed and maintained Organizational level CMMI compliant processes and procedures. * Utilized Quantitative Management, Statistical Process Control Techniques and process metrics to improve process performance and product quality using control charts, indicators, models and baselines.