Thomas H. Bargmann Email & Phone Number

Camp Hill, Pa

IT MANAGER- Corporate and Health Initiatives Responsible for managing a team of Program Managers, Senior Project Managers, Project Managers, and Project Coordinators. Team composition consisted of FTE’s and contract staff. Team size reached 31 direct reports. • Monitored new demand requests and staff capacity. Matched resources to demand requests.• Monitored budget verse actual results for department. Met monthly with Finance personnel. • Ensure all staff members are complying with corporate standards for Project Management Methodologies, including use of the Clarity tool.• Maintained close relationship with outside staffing vendors.• Maintained inventory of all contract staff for entire department. Approved all contract staff timesheets and expense reports.• Responsible for maintaining department Business Continuity Plan and perform semi-annual tests of Alert Find tool.

Camp Hill, Pa

PROGRAM MANAGER II– IT Initiatives Managed and/or participated in several projects of varying size and scope. • Assigned to work with 8 teams during planning stage of potential consolidation with another large Blue plan (2.6M members) in the State of PA. Primary interaction was with Team Leads that spanned both organizations. Worked closely with outside consultant throughout entire process. • Served as primary interface between Team Leads and Project Management Office for duration of consolidation planning effort. • Worked very closely with outside legal counsel on all Day One activities and descriptions of these activities due to very stringent legal requirements.• Assigned to implement CareFirst Medicare Processing capability on Highmark platforms. Initial effort focused on discovery and project methodology to be utilized for both organizations. Transitioned off this project to join consolidation effort. • Maintained responsibility for any required activities and inquiries post the closure of HealthGuard.

Lancaster, Pa

VICE PRESIDENT- CORPORATE OFFICER HealthGuard, Lancaster, PA (Highmark Subsidiary)Responsible for all day to day operations of organizations entire IT environment, while adding IT Security and Business Continuity. • Key team member in planning and executing activities to withdraw all products from the marketplace while meeting all contractual obligations.• Created and reported on a monthly basis key performance indicators required by the State of PA during product withdrawal process.• Closed out Medicare Risk product after three years of operation within all legal requirements.• Developed and executed plan to meet HIPAA requirements.• Represented company as primary contact to Pennsylvania Healthcare Cost Containment agency. • Lead role in planning and executing expansion of service area. • Lead role in meeting requirements to become a Blue Cross/Blue Shield branded affiliate. • Achieved Infrastructure Security Certification.

Lancaster, Pa

IT DIRECTOR HealthGuard, Lancaster, PA (Highmark Subsidiary)Responsible for all day to day operations of organizations entire IT environment. • Stabilized IT function after a poor system upgrade process. Effort included physical environment in addition to staff.• Transitioned image of IT Department in 2 years to go from worst to first in internal Customer Satisfaction Survey. Maintained ranking in subsequent years.• Budget level responsibility for all aspects of information systems for the corporation.• Chaired MIS Steering Committee to develop short and long term strategic direction.• Lead role in planning and executing all Year 2000 remediation efforts. • Selected to lead effort to expand product lines to add dental, vision, short term disability, and flexible spending accounts capability. This effort required full time attention due to extremely aggressive timeline. • Performed lead role in planning and executing three successful major system upgrades.• Interfaced with vendors, brokers, and clients on a frequent basis.

Camp Hill, Pa

APPLICATION SUPPORT MANAGER KHP Services, Camp Hill, PA (Highmark Subsidiary)Managed a team of application developers that supported six separate Health Maintenance Organizations (Commercial and Medicaid) ranging in size from 22k to 250k members in an outsourced environment. • Budget level responsibility for a team of application developers. • Performed role of client interface regarding issues and new development requests. Role required a unique blend of technical expertise and customer contact (phone and in person).• Performed lead role in new customer implementations. • Performed lead role in Point of Service product capability.• Performed software standard and quality assurance reviews of development staff work items.

Concord, Nh

Healthsource, Inc., Concord, NHMANAGER OF INFORMATION SYSTEMSManaged day to day computer operations and programming staff. Healthsource Inc. (HSI) serviced 5 Health Maintenance Organizations ranging in size from 13k to 47k members. HSI had equity interests in 3 organizations while the other 2 were outsourced application and management services only. • Performed lead role of client interface with staff of all organizations. • Performed application support as well as new development requirements.• Prepared large volume of data requests for investment bankers during private to public transition.• Prepared data requests for yearly audit process.• Budget level responsibility for department.

Windham, Nh

Hydratec, Inc., Windham, NHPROGRAMMER ANALYSTInternational software vendor servicing the needs of the fire protection sprinkler construction industry. Performed a wide variety of duties for this organization. • Performed customer support for several applications via phone and/or at customer’s site.• Performed training for applications at customer site.• Performed new implementations and/or upgrades of applications at customer site.• Wrote first ever instruction manuals for applications (Payroll, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Inventory, Job Costing, Job Scheduling, and General Ledger).• Performed application support as well as new development requirements.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Business Administration And Management

Bachelor'S Degree, Management Information Systems