Private consultant working with organizations to drive growth, improve organizational performance, and increase employee engagement. Consulting/Coaching with leadership teams to:Develop organizational growth strategies. - Worked with technology solutions firm to develop and launch BI cloud-based offering. - Worked with Principals to develop organizational growth strategies of healthcare consulting firm. - Set strategic direction for growth of new revenue stream for applied AI technology firm. - Created regional growth strategy for international orthopedic device manufacturer.Create and execute organizational strategic plans. - Created organizational structure and strategic plan for coalition of Managed Care Health Plans. - Created and implemented strategic plan for management consulting firm. - Created and implemented strategic plan for technology solutions firm. - Developed strategic plans and go to market strategies for multiple startup organizations.Define organizational gaps and execute strategies to enhance performance. - Created organizational gap analysis, and implemented key initiatives to resolve deficiencies for various healthcare, manufacturing, and non-profit organizations. - Created cost structure strategy and tools for international technology firm for transition to cloud-based solutions.Facilitate the integration of advanced technologies to enhance decision making and organizational management. - Integrated AI into the pricing and contract strategies of a healthcare device manufacturer. - Implemented BI application to create organizational balanced scorecard and KPI management tool.Provide project management and oversight of key enterprise initiatives. - Implemented cloud-based technology platform for billing and payroll functions. - Created and implemented BI technology platform for healthcare consulting firm. - Responsible for financial planning and implementation of cost accounting systems for healthcare provider network.

Recruited by CEO as SVP to create vision and direction of healthcare strategic business unit and provide leadership to team in strategic direction, growth, financial performance, design, development, market launch, and sales, for the delivery of healthcare suite of products focused on the improvement in efficiency and effectiveness of population health and chronic disease management care delivery models. • Senior Leadership Team Member of Healthcare Strategic Business Unit. Contributions:• Completed beta product development/creation of application with human avatar health coach focused on improvement of patient medication adherence. • Secured 2 beta client sites (large health system with 8 hospitals/800+ physicians and nationally-recognized, high-performing multi-specialty physician practice with 200+ physicians) to test and provide feedback on value and usability of healthcare application and gain credibility with potential customers.• Built Healthcare Advisory Board of nationally recognized leaders to advise in product/service development and help create valuable connections within healthcare industry. Secured, implemented, and managed diverse 8-member Healthcare Advisory Board that helped with multiple product advancements, helped obtain beta site, and introduced Company to evolving market.

Recruited by President/CEO as Member of Senior Leadership Team to lead sales and operations of NEW start-up IT Services Division, restructure product offering, and build top line growth of Orthopaedic service line consulting division. • Accountable for leadership (matrix reporting structure) over 4 functional areas (Operations, Sales & Marketing, IT, Compliance). • Led product development, market launch, sales, and operations of stroke patient navigation and management IT application (Cerebros).Contributions:• Completed initial development of first-of-its-kind SaaS Neurovascular Information System that helped hospitals and health systems in management and navigation of stroke patients. System recognized as 1 of 4 finalists from ~100 cutting-edge technologies in Cleveland Clinic 2016 Medical Innovation Summit. • Completed market launch and sales of cloud-based application for stroke patient navigation and management as basis and foundation to drive sales and top-line revenue growth, including education of market. Teamed with national players to gain exposure/credibility (National Stroke Assoc., The Joint Commission, Medtronic). Actions provided key infrastructure to integrate ‘IT division’ into existing ‘consulting company’ and work with largest stroke program in country as one of early clients. • Redesigned business development strategy of Orthopaedic consulting division to increase volume and revenue. Defined sales and marketing infrastructure within current organization without adding any FTEs, integrated marketing to run multiple Ortho campaigns, created pricing/contract structure, built market education strategy (e.g. Ortho webinars) and created messaging/strategy to target existing and past clients.

Recruited as Vice President of Finance in 1999 by team of investors as 3rd employee to lead business operations of startup; promoted to Senior VP in 2002. Promoted to COO in 2007 to improve overall products & services, consulting operations/delivery, client support, and customer service. Oversaw organizational budget/financials/P&L.• Worked with President & CEO in presenting status to Finance Committee of parent company (Zimmer).• Member of Senior Leadership Team with authority of 80% of organization. Team consisted of ~90 people within 5 functional areas (Finance, AP/AR, IT, Business Analytics, and Consulting).• Managed multiple major consulting assignments across USA and International [Dubai, Germany, Switzerland, UK].• Led organizational strategic direction, growth, and financial performance, e.g. P&L/budget management.Contributions:• Senior member of successful Orthopaedic service line consulting startup. Hospital customers implementing program averaged $1.8M annual performance improvement and averaged 21% increase in joint replacement procedure volume.• Held key role of M&A team in collaboration with Zimmer to complete acquisition of Accelero Health Partners in 2006.• Developed patented business process and cloud-based customer-facing business intelligence tool (OrthoVal) to assess and score maturation of hospital’s/health system’s service line that became 30% of organization’s top line delivering primary competitive advantage and long-term revenue stream. • Designed situational/client specific project management work plan software as part of cloud based BI tool. Increased average of 15% improvement in client’s ROI and 35% improvement in customer retention.• Restructured Perioperative Consulting Division and product offering which improved customer satisfaction to 100%. Achieved collection on 100% of risk payment contracts (KPI and client value). Increased sales by 37%.• SVP (2002 – 2007) and VP of Finance & IT (1999 – 2002)

Managed finance functions for Department of Orthopaedics; Hospital, Rehabilitation, and Physician Practice (23 physicians). Oversaw hospital budgeting, financial planning, financial reporting and implementation of cost accounting information systems.