Taz M. Email & Phone Number

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

• Overall responsibility for strategic planning and delivery of large business transformation initiatives
• Led the business and technology implementation of strategic initiatives – Medicaid Retention, Medicare Renewal, New Dental Vendor Transition, New Vision Vendor Transition
• Partnered with Cognizant in the implementation of a multi-billion dollar BPO engagement that includes operations (claims, provider, medical management, enrollment and billing, customer service) and technology.
• Led the end to end planning and execution of large and complex business transformation initiatives ranging from $15M to $45M in size leveraging global teams. These initiatives were delivered successfully in a very.
• Led application development teams and directed the data center migration initiatives and business impact assessment and business continuity initiatives.
• Collaborated with key technology and business leaders in the development of business cases, valuation, value proposition and ROIs for transformational initiatives

• Overall responsibility and accountability for all aspects of technology including project management, technology strategy and operations, infrastructure (network, data centers, telecommunications, DR), application.
• Formulated the technology vision and executed a multi-year strategic technology road map with a focus on value creation, cost optimization and customer service and implemented IT governance processes to ensure business.
• Championed the use of technology to drive process simplification leading to optimization of business processes and work flows, thus increasing productivity and quality of the operations teams
• Determined strategic vendor relationships for infrastructure, software, maintenance and telecommunications services and managed ongoing partnerships with a focus on exceptional levels of service and cost optimization..
• Defined and executed technology strategies including virtualization, SaaS/cloud computing migrations and upgrades, data center migration, Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery
• Led RFI, RFQ and RFP processes, contracting for implementation of VOIP/MPLS network, telecom, IVR and call center applications, and reviewed and approved contracts and terms of agreements

• Ingenix
• Established a global architecture and development team and formulated a technology roadmap to eliminate disparate and duplicate systems that supported clinical trial management
• Partnered with the clinical teams and vendors in the implementation of a Documentum based document management solution that replaced a paper based Trial Master File process
• Led the definition of the target application architecture and design of an integrated clinical trial management/EDC/Drug Safety solution to reduce the clinical trial lifecycle. Collaborated with clinical leadership and.
• Implemented dashboards and BI solution as a foundation for the decision support systemMyuhc.com is UHG’s largest consumer portal. Responsible for solution architecture, application development and operations, project.
• Led large teams to successfully deliver multiple, concurrent business technology projects in monthly and quarterly releases.

Ahip Executive Leadership Fellowship Program, Strategy And Leadership

Master Of Public Health (Mph), Healthcare Management

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Electrical And Electronics Engineering