Steve Wheeler Email & Phone Number

Scottsdale, Az

- Implementation manager responsible for integration of Vitera Intergy Product Suite within the ambulatory healthcare market facilitating HIPAA 5010 compliance and preparing practices for Meaningful Use attestation.- Map current implementation processes, consolidate and refine actions, as well as translate new activities into templates, resulting in a 20% improvement in delivery time.- Chosen by senior management to be the Implementation Manager for a ground breaking 2 year EHR study co-sponsored by Medical Economics. Key success factors being tracked were installation time, ease of use, workflow enhancements, and analysis of clinical outcomes and how the product improves quality of care.- Comfortable implementing traditional client/server configurations and cloud based “On Demand” solutions.- Project champion for corporate pilot of Physician Portal product a secure on-line solution that manages referral submissions, inbound orders, and report distribution.- Consistently manage 70 to 90 implementation projects simultaneously and achieve organizational objectives.- Develop specifications and coordinate HL7 interfaces which allow practices to achieve interoperability with state Health Information Exchanges (HIE).

Phoenix

- Developed project justification; established baseline budget, estimated resources and determined timelines for $1.5M project to achieve Federally Mandated HIPAA 5010 compliance.- Authored impact study to assist in determining staffing, payer/plan modifications, and analyzed internal/external impacts of ICD-9 to ICD-10 compliance.- Facilitated data sharing and validation with QVADS/QVAS system development team to assure accurate capture of key vendor information used for processing after 5010 remediation.- Developed methodology to map homegrown codes and modifiers to appropriate 5010 loops and data elements so normal processing would occur after project completion.- Directed daily activities of 10 staff consisting of developers, business analyst, and QA test engineers tasked with integrating Tibco/Foresights Transaction Insight and Instream Data Validation engine into AZDES claims workflow.- Managed executive and workgroup planning sessions focused on business problem definition/reduction, business process/scope, requirements capture/clarification for 837(I,P), 820, and 834 Healthcare EDI transactions.- Planned and directed migration for 20 virtualized severs supporting member, plan, and payment systems from SQL 2002 to 2008R2.

Mesa, Az

- Created MS Project plans, identified critical success factors, managed change, and monitored progress to assure organizational project cost savings were achieved. - Performed stakeholder and end-user interviews to accurately determine “As-Is” state for current processes and tools. - Recommended and designed “To Be” models assuring solutions maximized reusability/ scalability.

- Generated Work Breakdown Structures (WBS), Cost Breakdown Structures (CBS) and ROI calculations for industry specific projects.- Instrumental in the development, testing and rollout of a $2MM Project Portfolio Analytics initiative that enabled organizations to proactively manage business success based upon unique corporate thresholds.

- Aggressively recruited/retained by CEO to create companies first Project Management Office.- Integrated cutting edge project estimating and tracking technologies, streamlined business practices, cut costs, measured results, achieved 15% reduction in operating costs.- Built and managed a 5 member project team, (one remote), responsible for identification, implementation, and successful closure of $22MM in projects.

Phoenix, Az

- Facilitated development, documentation, testing, and release of a completely new Windows CE based product offering used to collect, verify, and record key project performance measurements in the field. - Conducted end-user surveys to assure critical business and empirical field data was captured and transmitted to back-office operations.

- Managed activities for an international team of 250 business analysts, solution architects, and implementation consultants responsible for data migration, application mapping and integration services to clients in the US, Europe, and Asia.- Performed process flow mapping/analysis, identified issues and risks, collected and analyzed organizational data, recommended and implemented workflow improvements for customers in HealthCare, Manufacturing, and Finance.- EDI implementation expert, instrumental in assisting many of the largest US Healthcare companies with their HIPAA 3060/4010 remediation.

Phoenix, Az

- Focused heavily in the implementation of Patterns of Treatment software that allowed payers to evaluate patient treatment based upon Procedure Code/Diagnosis Code combinations submitted by physicians.- Facilitated end user interviews, customer requirements analysis, use case development, and application test and debug sessions.- Conducted technical/business site reviews to assess current claims process, created customized implementation plans, and engineered post go-live policies.

- West region program manager for Consistent Office Environment, COE, enterprise infrastructure replacement project. Developed scope, reviewed capacity requirements, created project plans, selected software and hardware, managed installation in all GM locations west of the Mississippi.- Data Center manager at General Motors Proving Ground, led team of 10 implementation managers, installed fiber optic backbone and support hardware, directed complete refresh of premise hardware and software, directly handled budget and P/L for entire operation- Selected by senior manage management as program director on an enterprise initiative to consolidate all of General Motors US mainframe IT operations to a single lights out data center in Plano, TX.

Education record

As, Information Systems

Bs, Information Systems