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United States

United States

Davis, California, United States

Direct IT operations including infrastructure, hardware, vendor support services, data systems, telecommunications, and service desk. Consulting with the center director, senior-level administrators, and stakeholders to identify business and technology needs and to optimize the use of information technology. Additional responsibilities include:- Ensuring smooth delivery and operation of IT services by monitoring systems performance- Overseeing the operation of server and storage… Show more Direct IT operations including infrastructure, hardware, vendor support services, data systems, telecommunications, and service desk. Consulting with the center director, senior-level administrators, and stakeholders to identify business and technology needs and to optimize the use of information technology. Additional responsibilities include:- Ensuring smooth delivery and operation of IT services by monitoring systems performance- Overseeing the operation of server and storage systems- Directing implementation of software and hardware upgrades- Identifying and recommending technology solutions & third-party software implementation- Creating processes and standards for implementation and support of computing systems Show less

Directed infrastructure and application development teams at CNPRC. Worked with stakeholders to understand business strategies, envision the future-state, transform paper-based business & clinical workflows, and develop a first of its kind data management platform. Defined IT strategy, solutions implementation and life-cycle management of information/data systems and technology infrastructure. This included utilizing tools and techniques to develop and implement multi-phase projects. Leading… Show more Directed infrastructure and application development teams at CNPRC. Worked with stakeholders to understand business strategies, envision the future-state, transform paper-based business & clinical workflows, and develop a first of its kind data management platform. Defined IT strategy, solutions implementation and life-cycle management of information/data systems and technology infrastructure. This included utilizing tools and techniques to develop and implement multi-phase projects. Leading key projects and supporting the center director, associate directors, faculty, investigators, and staff research associates to accomplish the following:- Developed business/technology strategy, architecture (business operations, data/information structure, and process models) and operations used to support creating user-driven solutions throughout the transformation lifecycle - Collaborated with technical leads to create strategic road maps, enterprise architectures, IT principles, standards and technical reference architectures- Engaged center executives to define, understand and document business strategy and desired business capabilities, iterate new business and technology capabilities, and create future-state IT strategy- Aligned with internal business units to develop budget and resource commitment to support emerging business cases.- Completed the migration to a Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) Show less

Electronic Health Record Implementation (on Smile CDR)Program Manager and Agile Product Owner overseeing the design and delivery of a prototype for a cutting-edge Clinical Data Repository (CDR), Electronic Health Record (EHR) and Research Data Management (DM) system at CNPRC. The program is a National Institute of Health (NIH) funded program working in collaboration with five other National Research Centers. The implementation includes:- Developing Smile CDR based on HL7 Fast… Show more Electronic Health Record Implementation (on Smile CDR)Program Manager and Agile Product Owner overseeing the design and delivery of a prototype for a cutting-edge Clinical Data Repository (CDR), Electronic Health Record (EHR) and Research Data Management (DM) system at CNPRC. The program is a National Institute of Health (NIH) funded program working in collaboration with five other National Research Centers. The implementation includes:- Developing Smile CDR based on HL7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR)- Implementing Lab Information System (LIS) and integrating clinical and assay instruments- Documenting current-state clinical workflow and paper-based HIM processes- Designed the future state clinical workflows for electronic health record management- Designed new EHR User Interface (UI) for clinical case management- Completed data migration using Extract Transform Load (ETL) and validated data- Implementation of researcher portals for collaborators on Zika and HIV vaccine development- Design of processes to achieve FDA 21 CFR Part 11 complianceData Management Platform Implementation (on LabKey)Senior Project Manager LabKey Data Management Platform. LabKey was implementated with the goal to collect, curate and store 50 years of observational, clinical, pathology, and research data from multiple internal and external business sources data into a centralized repository. The project included:- Managed a large scale effort to replace legacy data management environment- Lead the definition of requirements from multiple organizational stakeholders- Defined a data migration, validation and coexistence plan from the existing clinical database to the new Lab Key based platform/solution- Setting up a scanning and Optical Character Recognition (OCR) solution to digitally archive 2,000,000 of clinical observation data- Managed the execution of the effort across all phases (full SDLC) Show less

- Provider of on-site project management services for government human services and healthcare clients with project budgets frequently exceeding $100M.- Provider of Project Portfolio Management (PPM) solutions and consulting services with implementation of solutions to manage portfolios from $50M to over $2B- Provider of outsourced application development with development partners in India, Eastern Europe and China

Sacramento, California Area

Population Health Management Project:Managed the implementation of the Epic Healthy Planet module for Sutter’s Electronic Health Record (EHR) for population health management. The primary objective of project was to collect accurate data on outreach encounters for National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) accreditation and payer wellness initiatives. Implementation of the module involved: - Development of registries for hypertension, hyperlipidemia, heart disease and asthma -… Show more Population Health Management Project:Managed the implementation of the Epic Healthy Planet module for Sutter’s Electronic Health Record (EHR) for population health management. The primary objective of project was to collect accurate data on outreach encounters for National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) accreditation and payer wellness initiatives. Implementation of the module involved: - Development of registries for hypertension, hyperlipidemia, heart disease and asthma - Implementation of wellness registries for high-cost population and comorbidity management - Configuration of chronic disease risk-scoring and risk-stratification tools - Development of a Telephonic Disease Management (TDM) program for preventive care - Documentation of workflows for TDM program - Implementation of interfaces to the Health Information Exchange (HIE) - Implementation of a Business Intelligence platform for retrospective, real-time, predictive analytics with role-based daily metric dashboards - Development of specifications for operational reports with clinical drill-downClinical Lab Instrument Upgrade Projects:Managed the two system-wide Clinical Lab projects, which included: - Implementation of Sysmex hematology analyzers 24 hospitals - Implementation of 54 Immucor Echo analyzers to optimize Blood Bank workflows - Management of Quest Lab interfaces development for Laboratory Information System (LIS) Show less

- Served as Chief of the PMO for EHRS implementation- PMO development was initiated in response to a vendor breach of contract notification and a 12 month project delay- Managed the development of formal risk, issue, decision and schedule mitigation processes, as well as developing a project scheduling practices for 17 sub-project teams- Developing processes and procedures for the implementation of a Cerner Millennium Electronic Health Record System (EHRS)- The Cerner… Show more - Served as Chief of the PMO for EHRS implementation- PMO development was initiated in response to a vendor breach of contract notification and a 12 month project delay- Managed the development of formal risk, issue, decision and schedule mitigation processes, as well as developing a project scheduling practices for 17 sub-project teams- Developing processes and procedures for the implementation of a Cerner Millennium Electronic Health Record System (EHRS)- The Cerner implementation was a $186M initiative Show less

- Implemented a web-based PPM solution for the $889M portfolio of Healthcare IT projects- Created enterprise program visibility through use of CA Clarity PPM system- Worked with executives and PMO staff to implement a framework for the ITPMO. - Developed standard oversight reports for the Federal Receiver and state legislative oversight

- Created master scheduling and executive status reporting processes and procedures for the contracting and credentialing of a network of up to 500 PPO specialty and telemedicine providers to provide specialty medical services to 33 CPHCS institutions- Provided oversight for development activities for the Provider Network Directory portal and the web-based Telemedicine Scheduling portals- The PHCPN was a $2B cost containment initiative.

The Access2Care program was created in response to four federal lawsuits to overhaul clinical health care practices and implement technologies to provide a constitutional level of health care to 150,000 CDCR patient-inmates at 33 institutions and over 100 ambulatory clinics. This program was a key component of the Federal Receiver's Turn Around Plan of Action. Responsibilities included:- Managed a portfolio of clinical health care initiatives which included the implementation of a primary… Show more The Access2Care program was created in response to four federal lawsuits to overhaul clinical health care practices and implement technologies to provide a constitutional level of health care to 150,000 CDCR patient-inmates at 33 institutions and over 100 ambulatory clinics. This program was a key component of the Federal Receiver's Turn Around Plan of Action. Responsibilities included:- Managed a portfolio of clinical health care initiatives which included the implementation of a primary care model in 33 institutions for 157,000 patients with decentralized resources in eight months- Managed 14 additional clinical quality improvement initiatives- Initiatives saved $7.7M in contract services over the course of the project and substantially improved patient access to care Show less

Sacramento, California Area

Project Resource and Schedule Management (PRSM) system project:- Managed testing and rollout phases to deliver a web-based Project Portfolio Management (PPM) solution to support the Caltrans $1.2B Capital Outlay Support (COS) program- The PRSM PPM system provides project and financial management for 10,000 users and 4300 environmental, construction and engineering service projects.

Sacramento, California Area

Epic Electronic Health Record (EHR) Implementation ProjectResponsible for managing a portfolio of site implementation projects including: • Implemented Initiate Enterprise Master Patient Index (EMPI) and created a unique patient record for each of Sutter’s 14,000,000 patients• Completed additional patient registration, interface development and data integration projects• Consulted on master schedule development for the $916 million portfolio of enterprise initiatives to… Show more Epic Electronic Health Record (EHR) Implementation ProjectResponsible for managing a portfolio of site implementation projects including: • Implemented Initiate Enterprise Master Patient Index (EMPI) and created a unique patient record for each of Sutter’s 14,000,000 patients• Completed additional patient registration, interface development and data integration projects• Consulted on master schedule development for the $916 million portfolio of enterprise initiatives to implement the EHR across Sutter’s network of 26 hospitals and 130 ambulatory clinics Show less

Sacramento, California Area

Individual and Family Health Plan Installation Automation (IIA) ProjectResponsible for the implementation of an IBM Business Process Management (BPM) workflow automation system. The IIA system was designed to automate people-driven processes for health plan member intake/registration and underwriting which were manually intense and paper-based. The project included:• Implementation of a custom IBM WebSphere SOA workflow solution with a Kodak imaging and custom Kofax Ascent Capture… Show more Individual and Family Health Plan Installation Automation (IIA) ProjectResponsible for the implementation of an IBM Business Process Management (BPM) workflow automation system. The IIA system was designed to automate people-driven processes for health plan member intake/registration and underwriting which were manually intense and paper-based. The project included:• Implementation of a custom IBM WebSphere SOA workflow solution with a Kodak imaging and custom Kofax Ascent Capture intelligent Optical Character Recognition (OCR) platform• Processing of all incoming fax and mailed-in paper application forms• Backlog scanning and archiving of 2,000,000 pages of application and supplemental data forms • Management of a distributed team that included 17 offshore and 16 onshore resources• Management of the $14.8M project budget • Project completion within the nine month schedule and $520K under budget. • Benefits realized from this system include reduction in State of California Department of Insurance (DOI) tracked error rates and a 14 FTE workforce reduction Show less

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Human Services Modernization Program (HSMP) for the District of Columbia Department of Human ServicesResponsible for overseeing implementation of key strategic Health & Human Services modernization initiatives (as outlined in Supporting the Vision: Mayor's Plan to Integrate the District of Columbia's Social Services Information Systems). These initiatives included:• Implementation the $4.0 million Simplified Preliminary Eligibility project for Medicaid, Food Stamps and TANF intake… Show more Human Services Modernization Program (HSMP) for the District of Columbia Department of Human ServicesResponsible for overseeing implementation of key strategic Health & Human Services modernization initiatives (as outlined in Supporting the Vision: Mayor's Plan to Integrate the District of Columbia's Social Services Information Systems). These initiatives included:• Implementation the $4.0 million Simplified Preliminary Eligibility project for Medicaid, Food Stamps and TANF intake (registration) and applicant screening through implementation of secure, public facing J2EE web application• Implementation of the $4.0 million Common Intake Assessment and Referral system to provide inter-agency referrals, intake coordination and case information to agency case for providing seamless delivery of medical, cash and recovery services to women, children and families• Implement Project.Net Project Portfolio Management (PPM) solution and guidance documents to centralize all HSMP program/project schedules, risks, issues and documentation.• Development of Request for Proposal (RFP) documents and evaluations of bids for MMIS re-procurement• Development of Advanced Planning Documents (APD) for Automated Client Eligibility Determinations System (ACEDS) for federal funding Show less

Sacramento, California Area

Served as Consortium Technical Manager for the State of California Interim Statewide Automated Welfare Systems (ISAWS) consortium and providing oversight of the technical architecture design, development, and implementation of changes to the automated ISAWS Medicaid eligibility, employment services, and childcare applications in collaboration with 35 of California’s county Chief Technical Officers (CTOs). Other accomplishments included:• Provided oversight to the Welfare to Work (WTW)… Show more Served as Consortium Technical Manager for the State of California Interim Statewide Automated Welfare Systems (ISAWS) consortium and providing oversight of the technical architecture design, development, and implementation of changes to the automated ISAWS Medicaid eligibility, employment services, and childcare applications in collaboration with 35 of California’s county Chief Technical Officers (CTOs). Other accomplishments included:• Provided oversight to the Welfare to Work (WTW) infrastructure re-procurement, including application and technical requirements analysis, data modeling, technical infrastructure design • Developed detailed system designs for the WTW ad-hoc reporting system• Developed Implementation Advanced Planning Documents (IAPD) documents for federal funding for Statewide Automated Welfare Systems (SAWs) migration to Consortium Four (C-IV) systemFor Consortium Four (C-IV) Projects, performed the following: • Provided Quality Assurance reviews of the C-IV Medicaid eligibility and benefits determination system implementation plan, County Maintenance and Operations (M&O), Program Control Document (PCD) and System Operations and Support Plan (SOSP) with the objective of identifying material and cosmetics deficiencies• Monitored C-IV post-implementation issues related to technical infrastructure, system performance and capacity planning Show less

Sacramento, California Area

CalWORKS Information Network (CalWIN) Implementation Project:- Managed workstation refresh projects- Implemented project portfolio management portal- Facilitated Business Process Re-engineering sessions for Medicaid, Food Stamps and TANF eligibility system

San Francisco Bay Area

On contract to Sacramento Superior Court:- Managed Business Process Re-engineering project for implementation of a new Criminal Case Management system- Managed W2K/AD readiness assessment projects- Managed Novell to AD migration projects

Sacramento, California Area

- Managed quarterly software releases, which included the digitization of over one million printed pages of data per year- Conducted Canadian market expansion studies- Managed special projects for California Environmental Protection Agency/Air Resources Board

Master Of Applied Science, Population Health Management

Coursework towards a Master of Applied Science in Population Health Management. Additional studies in Healthcare Information Technology.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs

Computer Science, Management, Religion and Ecology.

Political Management

Graduate level coursework in Political Management and Public Administration.

Degree Liberal Studies; Certificate In Total Quality Management (Tqm)