Tom Cole Cphims, Pmp Email & Phone Number

Louisville, Ky, Us

Louisville, Ky, Us

Atlanta, Ga, Us

As PMO Consultant, worked with several health systems to maximize their IT investments and reduce their enterprise application inventory footprint. I've prepared enterprise application inventories and decommission strategies to reduce duplication and maximize efficiencies across resources and software support. As a Project Manager / Business Analyst, I worked with business units to capture business expectations, then translate them into functional requirements for the developers. As the acting development manager, managed a full stack development team to create solutions that meet business objectives. Projects involved integration to 3rd party’s required technical architecture, development oversight, and delivery of reliable sustainable solutions. Access to applications was delivered access via SingleSign on and validated all aspects of security protocols.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Warbird Consulting Partners is a finance, IT and accounting advisory firm that serves Fortune 500 companies, healthcare organizations, government agencies, financial institutions and small to medium-sized businesses.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

- As eBusiness program manager worked with executives and business units to capture business expectations, and translate them into functional and technical requirements.- Project health reporting / monthly reporting included: Vice Presidents from Sales, Information Technology, Claims, and Risk Management- Support integration to 3rd party’s required technical architecture, security platforms development oversight to deliver reliable sustainable solutions.- Working with cross functional and matrix style team resources.- Project monitoring & reporting including executive level escalation and reporting.- SDLC & ISO Development Agile including Scrums in delivery to QA and Waterfall delivery to client facing technology.- Business Analysis, requirements development.- Quality assurance / integration testing.- Software deployment / change management.- PCI compliance / implement new credit card payment vendor / Fiserv.- Technical workflows for integration / user workflows.- Technical architecture diagrams / support.- Hiring / contracting / contract negotiations.- Integration with SMS text vendor.- Integration into document storage system.- Full stack development teams, integration testing and deployment. - Security / single sign-on / role-based security.- DB architecture / design & planning.

Marietta, Georgia, Us

- Developed and directed a team of technical, clinical and business professionals within client IT Department including hiring, evaluation, budgeting, salary administration, discipline, employee development and staff retention- Through portfolio analysis and project readiness, many of these systems required upgrades and a technology refresh to support the new platform- Responsible for hiring, evaluation, budgeting, salary administration, discipline, and employee development and staff retention- Hiring / Contracting / Reviews, multiple direct reports, team size 20+- Executive reporting, reported directly to enterprise CIO- Budget and financial responsibilities - Team managed clinical apps to prepare for EPIC transformation (500M project)- Cross functional / matrix resource assignment and management

Waltham, Massachusetts, Us

- Served on client’s senior IT management team and provided strategic insight, technical solutions, and executive program updates- Owned direct P&L and client management responsibilities for revenues worth over $5mm per year- Directed co-located resources to provide IT services to a top 5 LTC organizationServices included: custom application development, legacy application support, custom e-learning program development, and IT service desk operations- Custom software development / Agile & Waterfall SDLC- Project tracking / executive reporting- Project escalation / risk mitigation.- ITIL Training

Louisville, Ky, Us

- Provided project management / contract leadership to multiple clients allowing internal staff professional growth and leadership- Worked with client leadership to develop a customer facing eBusiness strategy- Managed and led the development team in creating an updated internet presence using standard technologies- Provided program and project management services to help clients develop and deliver effective PMO services and achieve an ROI on their technology investments through standardized processes and industry best practices- Project / Program Management – multiple projects for eBusiness- Working with cross functional and matrix style team resources- Project monitoring & reporting including executive level escalation and reporting- SDLC & ISO development Waterfall delivery to client facing technology- Business Analysis, requirements development- Quality assurance / integration testing- Software deployment / change management- Technical workflows for integration / user workflows- Technical architecture diagrams / support- Full stack integration testing and deployment.- Security / single sign-on / role-based security

Louisville, 40223, Us

- Focused the PMO to standardize and implement common tools while supporting the project management initiatives of the health system. These enhancements increased the efficiency of each project, decreased implementation timeframes, and saved time and money on each project.- Directed a clinical team responsible for pharmacy and primary ancillary IT support teams.Team implemented one of the first bed-side pharmacy administration systems in the state.- Managed the selection and onboarding of a new medication distribution vendor which saved the health system over $2M per year in direct purchase savings.- PMO Overhaul – tools / methodology / training.- Contract negotiations: Agfa / McKesson, 3M dictation.- Lean Six Sigma training.- ITIL training.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

As a Healthcare Consultant, I have been responsible for multi-entity HIS Upgrades, Billing Implementations, Clinical System Installations, Financial System Implementations and various system upgrades. I have also managed many contract negotiations on behalf of clients with their vendors. While consulting at a multiple hospital healthcare system, I co-managed the implantation of Active Staffer and Payrollmation from API, Inc. As a member of PMI, I have used my project management skills to manage large projects and serve as an advisor in creating project management methodologies.

Nashville, Tn, Us

As Enterprise Project Manager, my responsibilities included transitioning accounts from the sales organization, initiating the service responsibilities for the client, performing overall project management, expectation management, as well as presenting project status to senior management. - Worked on executive level / national clients- Managed remediation of 5 Quorum hospitals using remote computing- Full star clinical / financial implementations- Y2K timeline constraints

- Started as clinical system manager- Became clinical system / interface manager- Became applications manager (clinical / financial)- Directed development of project management comm system- Created a 3-year strategic plan- Promoted to Director IT, prior to merger with Scottish Rite / CHOA

Basking Ridge, Nj, Us

- Project management- Implementation of patient access / registration- Implementation of order entry systems- HL7 Integration (hardware / software level integration)

- Project management / Lotus123 spreadsheet plans- Implementation of patient accounting / electronic billing systems- Implementation of collections systems- Full line item conversions- Client training

- Implementation of patient access, billing, general financials and ERP systems- Project scheduling- Client education & support