Samara Cobus Email & Phone Number

• Design and create character artwork for clients, from couple's portraits to character art commissions• Create spot illustrations for TTRPG adventure books such as UNCAGED: GODDESSES and Beneath the Waves (available on DMs Guild)

Wisconsin, United States

• Intake client requests and implement changes to create desired design• Analyze and utilize product and claims data to support clients• Effectively communicate changes to external partners and clients• Research and resolve client questions• Maintain standard formulary operations on a monthly and quarterly basis

Madison, Wisconsin, United States

• Lead team members through all processes within Formulary Operations, help them build and develop skills needed to analyze and implement highly customized clients and workflows, and triage work• Assessing complex client needs, and organization and communication with several departments to ensure client needs are met and that highly customized client builds are timely and accurate• Use business operations expertise to understand the high-level goals of a client, resolve issues, and implement different strategies to meet those goals• Communication and collaboration with external teams and internal teams when onboarding a newly acquired partner in pharmacy benefit management, and moving their client formularies into our system and workflows• Analysis of third party application for formulary operational purposes to replace in-house formulary management system• Collaboration with developers to redesign system UI and facilitate a seamless transfer of data between the in-house formulary management system and the separate in-house adjudication system• Troubleshoot application errors at the end-user level for propriety formulary management application, analysis and testing of end-user data for several other downstream processes and applications, and prioritization and management of application enhancements.

Madison, Wisconsin, United States

• Analysis of formulary management data for downstream processes, including a real-time benefit check tool and an application for customer service to be able to find formulary information quickly and easily• Responsible for research and response to RFPs of potential clients, including explanation of Navitus formulary management standards and formulary data • Implement new exchange/marketplace clients using expertise of government regulations• Training and development of all team members• Creation of standard work instructions for several formulary business processes and applications to be used by both other formulary operations team members as well as adjacent departments• Created a dynamic document to help internal quality assurance processes for the building of new formularies

Madison, Wisconsin Area

• The primary responsibilities include creating and maintaining client formularies, consistently communicating with account management teams to implement client requests, customizing formulary builds to client specifications, working closely with drug information teams and pharmacists to determine drug coverage setups based on safety and efficacy of the drugs as well as cost effectiveness for both clients and patients, processing weekly reports on brand new drugs or already existing drugs, addressing and researching answers for any questions and concerns about formulary and drug setups, management and organization of large amounts of data, and participating in projects to improve internal processes and workflows of the formulary operations team• Experience in testing updates and enhancements to propriety formulary software and filling out testing grids• Experience as lead tester for a new workflow system; worked closely with the developer and business analyst to determine business requirements for the project and to create solutions to hurdles to testing or problems with the software, created testing grids, testing based both on testing grids and on user stories, oversaw other testers and guided them through the new system, gave updates on progress of the new system to other teams• Experience in Excel, proprietary formulary creation and management software, proprietary pharmacy claims software, Portal Manager, QlikView Team Foundation Server, and BI Launch Pad

"Beneath the Waves" is a adventure book for the 5th edition of Dungeons and Dragons with a focus on the underwater world. I collaborated with writers to create spot art of the life that resides underwater, like the jellyfish-folk called the Campana, the crab-like Caraspians, and adorable creatures like the Kelp dog. Sea life has always been fascinating to me, so it was an absolute joy to work on this with such wonderful people!• Collaborate and discuss key lore and visual aspects of creatures and characters with writers to create appealing designs• Create internal spot illustrations within a tight turnaround

"Every villain has her reasons."The UNCAGED anthology is a collection of adventures for the 5th edition of Dungeons and Dragons, with a focus on subverting the tropes around female mythological creatures or monsters. UNCAGED: GODDESSES is the fifth and final volume of this collection, and features evil- or neutral-aligned goddesses, exploring their histories, conflicts, and goals.As a spot artist for this publication, I created art for four different goddesses. I collaborated with the writers and other illustrators to create internal spot art pieces that aligned with their vision of the goddess and their adventure. It was an absolute delight to learn about these goddesses and work with such talented individuals!• Research assigned goddesses to gain a thorough understanding of their background and motives to use in spot art design• Communicate with the writers and full-page illustrators to create a cohesive visual narrative for each goddess• Participate in feedback/critique and revision process

"The Coping Companion" is a personalized well-being assistant in card deck form with 55 unique coping tips. For this project, I created a piece within the "Volunteering" content portion, drawing on my brief but memorable experience volunteering at the local wildlife sanctuary.

Menomonee Falls, Wi

• Primary responsibilities include obtaining the necessary patient demographic information to enter prescription into the pharmacy system, using every resource available to obtain patient insurance information, close inspection of prescriptions to determine legitimacy, being familiar with common drug dosing and being aware of when a call to the doctor might be needed for clarification, calling insurance companies to resolve rejected insurance claims, management of drug inventory, and cashiering • Experience in outcomes billing and general Medication Therapy Management, assisting pharmacists in determining eligible patients and constantly watching things such as adherence issues or lower-cost alternatives for patients• Experience with programs used within the pharmacy includes Epic/Willow, PDX, SmartChart, Eagle POS and handheld terminals.

West Bend, Wi

• Management of a large team in a fast-paced environment• Use of time-management skills and business knowledge to effectively run store operations• Training and development of all team members, including onboarding new team members and helping current team members increase their skillsets and proficiencies

West Bend, Wi And Eau Claire, Wi

My primary duties as a team member included handling transactions, cleaning, and stocking products. I also helped in a smaller capacity than shift managers with customer service.