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Ottawa, On, Ca

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Ottawa, Canada Area

Providing product management, management consulting and quality assurance testing services to a small, software and professional services company.Accomplishments:>>Led the successful redevelopment and release of a business continuity plan management SAAS tool. Responsibilities included establishing development priorities and leading testing, communications and education efforts.>> Conducted business impact analyses and provide business continuity plan… Show more Providing product management, management consulting and quality assurance testing services to a small, software and professional services company.Accomplishments:>>Led the successful redevelopment and release of a business continuity plan management SAAS tool. Responsibilities included establishing development priorities and leading testing, communications and education efforts.>> Conducted business impact analyses and provide business continuity plan development and exercising expertise to corporations across a wide range of sectors. Show less

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Providing business analysis services to a national health information organization. Responsibilities include gathering and documenting requirements, planning and executing user acceptance testing, and preparing end user documentation.

Ottawa, Canada Area

Performed research and wrote reports on provincial/territorial substances use concerns across Canada with a focus on prescription drug misuse.Accomplishments:>> Facilitated meetings of multi-sectoral teams to implement a 10-year strategy to reduce the harms associated with prescription drug abuse (First Do No Harm: Responding to Canada’s Prescription Drug Crisis).>> Drafted the inaugural First Do Harm annual report.>> Supported collaborative… Show more Performed research and wrote reports on provincial/territorial substances use concerns across Canada with a focus on prescription drug misuse.Accomplishments:>> Facilitated meetings of multi-sectoral teams to implement a 10-year strategy to reduce the harms associated with prescription drug abuse (First Do No Harm: Responding to Canada’s Prescription Drug Crisis).>> Drafted the inaugural First Do Harm annual report.>> Supported collaborative work with the Canadian Addiction Counsellors Certification Federation in support of certification of substance abuse professionals. >> Coordinated pan-Canadian consultation meetings with senior provincial and territorial officials regarding substance abuse concerns in their jurisdictions. Show less

Provided analytical, project management and leadership expertise to support sound health care decision-making. Promoted steadily from entry level Analyst to Senior Analyst and then Team Lead.Accomplishments:>> Facilitated technical and non-technical teams through three multi-year IT system development and redevelopment projects from requirements gathering, to user acceptance testing, education development, communications and launch. >> Updated and developed… Show more Provided analytical, project management and leadership expertise to support sound health care decision-making. Promoted steadily from entry level Analyst to Senior Analyst and then Team Lead.Accomplishments:>> Facilitated technical and non-technical teams through three multi-year IT system development and redevelopment projects from requirements gathering, to user acceptance testing, education development, communications and launch. >> Updated and developed new vendor data submission specifications for national home and continuing care databases including the development of data to test algorithm integrity.>> Traveled to promote communication between subject matter experts and remote IT teams to ensure timely and accurate documentation of detailed requirements.>> Designed knowledge exchange events and workshops, bringing together health care providers, policy makers and researchers to discuss using data for health-system decision-making and policy development. >> Collaborated with trauma clinicians and researchers to evaluate the impacts of modifying the data standard for a long-standing provincial trauma registry. >> Completed Privacy Impact Assessments for two CIHI data holdings.>> Designed and produced the first provincial comparative reports profiling home care clients.>> Supervised work assignments and guided professional development of direct reports. Show less

Promoted the Ontario Joint Replacement Registry (OJRR) mission to improve the longevity and revision rates of hip and knee joint replacements, to Eastern Ontario surgeons and hospitals.Accomplishments:>> Launched an electronic data collection process in 31 surgeon offices and 8 hospitals to capture surgical details on thousands of total hip and knee replacements. >> Achieved the highest regional participation and data collection rates among all field… Show more Promoted the Ontario Joint Replacement Registry (OJRR) mission to improve the longevity and revision rates of hip and knee joint replacements, to Eastern Ontario surgeons and hospitals.Accomplishments:>> Launched an electronic data collection process in 31 surgeon offices and 8 hospitals to capture surgical details on thousands of total hip and knee replacements. >> Achieved the highest regional participation and data collection rates among all field coordinators. Show less

Ottawa, Canada Area

Provided patient care as a licensed physiotherapist at the Ottawa Hospital and the Ottawa Heart Institute.

Ottawa, Canada Area

Provided patient care as a licensed physiotherapist.

Ma, Human Kinetics

Studying exercise and sport psychology

B. Sc., Physical Therapy

B. Sc., Environmental Science