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Aurora Medical Center Oshkosh

Provides consultation to operational leadership on financial projects, acts as the primary finance contact, and advises on the planning for new programs, revenue enhancement, expense reduction, cost accounting, charge development, procedure pricing, quality decision support, and benchmarking.Develops and implements financial project plans and performs supporting data analysis. Leads the target, operating and capital budget development process and financial analyses with approval from and in conjunction with finance leadership.

Aurora Medical Center Oshkosh

Prepares and monitors information required for budgeting, cost accounting and financial analyses for Aurora Medical Center Oshkosh, Aurora Medical Group clinics in Oshkosh, Fond du Lac, and the southern Fox Valley.• Conducted charge code analysis in hospital’s operating room and identified $10 million dollars in charge opportunities based on past 12 months of surgical volume.• Leads the annual budget process for all Aurora sites in the Oshkosh/Fond du Lac patient service market.• Created a standard operating procedure manual for financial analysts in the Oshkosh market for routine reporting that meets the requirements of executive leadership as well as state and federal guidelines.• Served as preceptor for 180-hour finance internship with Fox Valley Technical College.• Developed scorecards for market leadership on the topics of strategic planning, revenue growth, and physician productivity and satisfaction.

Aurora Research Institute

Collaborates with key leadership and administers all business-related aspects of clinical trials and grant-funded research. Additionally serve as a facilitator for process improvement initiative throughout the Aurora Research Institute.• Completed process improvement initiative which streamlined the implementation process of clinical research trials. This initiative created a cost savings of $12,449 in three years.• Completed an activity-based costing analysis of multiple collaborative research efforts with Aurora’s Center for Integrative Research on Cardiovascular Aging (CIRCA).• Collaborated on a business proposal to commercialize de-identified medical information to research sponsors in order to increase revenue and the number of clinical research trials at Aurora Health Care. • Constructed a sustainable business plan proposal for the Aurora Open-Access Robotic Biorepository & Informatics Technology (ORBIT) in order to eliminate the need for outside donations to fund the program.

Menasha, Wi

Responsible for daily financial operations and month-end reporting for the Medicare Advantage division of Affinity’s Network Health Insurance Corporation.• Created a relational database management system to more efficiently process and track Medicare Part D plan-to-plan payments to maintain compliance with the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services.• Developed an automated unclaimed property tracking process which reduced a 16-hour monthly process down to a 3-hour monthly process. This better enable Network Health Insurance Corporation to accurately report unclaimed property to the state of Wisconsin.• Conducted a process mapping analysis to take the department’s month-end financial close process from 7 business days down to 3 business days. To facilitate this change, coordinated with third party administrators for the delivery of key financial documents.

Oshkosh, Wi

Responsible for the daily operation for the following specialty care clinics within Affinity Medical Group: Cardiology, Pulmonary Medicine, General Surgery, and Urology. Specific duties included provider practice oversight, communication and support, employee relations, fiscal management and analysis, operational analysis and quality improvement.• Managed group practice composed of 4 specialty clinics generating annual gross production of $14.2 million dollars with a 3.28% operating margin.• Recognized $71,207 dollars in labor expense savings between 2 departments by assessing skill mixes and staffing to operational flow of providers.• Worked with providers and staff in all specialty clinics to attain a 96% ‘likelihood to recommend’ rating by patients resulting in recognition by Affinity Health System for service excellence.• Collaborated with a physician performing below the MGMA 50th percentile benchmark to bring up their productivity 26% in three months.• Drafted a $340,000 business case proposal for the renovation of the Affinity Medical Group Heart & Lung Center in Oshkosh. The case proposal included qualitative analysis as well as two different funding options to cover renovation cost.

Appleton, Wi

Responsible for capital budgeting and reporting, coordination of the annual budgeting process, and completing periodic benchmark reporting for Affinity Health System’s corporate division.• Served as a coordinator for the annual operating and capital budgets by working with financial analysts and department managers to update budget templates in Kaufman Hall software for future year projections.• Educated and instructed managers and directors on how to use Kaufman Hall products for budgeting and capital expense purchases.• Standardized workflow processes by writing procedural manuals for periodic reporting, the annual budgeting process, and benchmark reporting data submissions.• Provided technical leadership in analysis, design, and implementation of a $65 million dollar capital tracking project during the St. Elizabeth Hospital renovation.

Appleton, Wi

Responsible for nondiscrimination testing, trust accounting, preparation of government forms, participant distributions and loans, contribution & earnings allocations of Employee Stock Ownership Plans.

101St Airborne Division, Ft. Campbell, Ky

•Directed personnel in establishment of the forward command post and performed as operational director of the command post.•Provided guidance and executed plans of improvement for cost containment and process efficiencies by supporting key decision makers with gainful understanding of operational processes and information. This drove accountability for rapid and accurate deployment of field equipment.•Trained eight enlisted soldiers and five non-commissioned officers in daily aspects of satisfying company goals and essential tasks in a three year tenure.•Received two Army commendation medals and one Army achievement medal for demonstrated ability to step up to the next level in rank.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Health Care Management

Activities and Societies: Sigma Alpha PiUpon completion of coursework, graduates will be better enable to: • Comprehend the theories.

Graduate Healthcare Management Certificate, Health/Health Care Administration/Management

The Graduate Healthcare Management (HCM) Certificate offered by the Department of Public Administration at the University of Wisconsin.

Bachelor Of Business Administration (Bba), Finance

The bachelor's degree in finance provides knowledge to deliver strong investment, finance planning and real estate decisions.