Ankura (formerly c3 Consulting)Senior Director / Consultant managing corporate transformationsProvide consultative support for organizations of all sizes to facilitate the design and development of strategic goals, as well as, drive these goals through an implementation process to get to a successful completion. Proven expert in the ability to successfully lead transformative initiatives where focus is on business planning, strategy development, and the execution of plans to reach more efficient, higher performing organization. High performer in the implementation of many comprehensive IT solutions ranging across all spectrums of the buy, build, and hybrid approaches. Expert in both waterfall and agile project management methodologies and can seamlessly move from one approach to the other as needed based on on nature of the work and the client’s organization. Experience in mergers and acquisitions. Most recently, successfully led multiple workstreams to integrate a carve out company into a very large healthcare organization. Provide interim executive level and mid-management level support for various organizations.Industry experiences span across both provider and payer healthcare settings, distribution, financial sector, manufacturing, research, and aviation.

Provided leadership and implementation expertise to drive and manage complex projects for clients across various industries. Areas of consultative support include the execution of comprehensive IT solutions, program/project management, quality assurance, group facilitation, technical writing, and executive level strategic planning.

Lead and manage the implementation of comprehensive data warehouse with the support of talented individuals in the areas of data design, development, integration. Fully SOX compliant with nightly data validation processes/audit. Data Warehouse evolved to become central data hub for operational uses within organization due to the success of its consolidation of key systems: three commercial claims systems, commercial authorization systems, 140+ external claims feeds, and codes databases such as Ingenix, First Data Bank, and MediSpan. In 2010, along with daily duties, successfully led the IT project management of a company-wide initiative to replace the pharmacy benefit management system - a $1 Billion part of business.

Lead and manage the data warehouse, enterprise reporting teams and database teams for a $200 million dollar healthcare firm. Work with executive level leadership to establish strategic objectives and directives in order to achieve both financial and operational goals.

Lead technology teams in multiple areas for a $1.8 billion company. Areas led include Data Warehouse, OLAP, Database Administration, Web Technology Group and Project Management Office. Establish strategic objectives, develop and maintain departmental budget of $1.5 million, mentor and coach, establish priorities and work with executive staff to identify opportunities for expense reduction or revenue improvements. Manage ground up initiative for Business Intelligence within the organization: secure funding, vendor selection, hardware and software implementation, application development, and deployment.

Manage a large-scale research data warehouse and the statistical analysis for medical research firm. Lead a team in the design and development of tools and software to capture and report medical provider’s patient data. This data when statistically analyzed and compared with other providers provide insightful information to give provider’s ability to improve their patient care, marketing results, and insurance negotiations. During my tenure, I progressively implemented technology to reduce costs and improve performance. Technology evolution from manual data entry to scanner, fax-in technology, touch screen application, and web-based tools. Responsibilities included technology selection, vendor selection, implementation and support.Responsible for training and delivery of data collection tools to nation wide user community. Responsible for poviding data necessary for PhD level personnel in interpreting and utilizing results of outcome’s data to improve practice processes and patient results to nation wide customer base

Worked in the Data Processing side of business facilitating the automation and analysis of secondary loan portfolios. Worked with financial traders to ensure data was loaded from financial institutions and scrubbed for aalysis.Streamlined the loan examination process thus reducing the time for analysis by 50% for each of the underwriters. Updates from the field were also streamlined and improved by implementing the new examination process. Suppoted and worked in IT to create financial software to analyze and generate profitable point spreads on these loan portfolios.

Led team in the contractural and technical implementations of satellite services for in-room entertainment. This was the first of it's kind during this time period.Managed contracts, pre and post implementations.