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• NRCS Power BI Consortium Chair leading the planning, strategy, and implementation to charter a new Power BI Consortium for an agency wide initiative. The consortium consistently has a regular attendance of 27-30 employees attending the Bi-monthly meetings. Led the design of the team's channel and SharePoint. Provided leadership in organizing and planning BI-monthly meetings to the agency. Including leading briefs to senior NRCS executives and various divisions.• Liaison leadership… Show more • NRCS Power BI Consortium Chair leading the planning, strategy, and implementation to charter a new Power BI Consortium for an agency wide initiative. The consortium consistently has a regular attendance of 27-30 employees attending the Bi-monthly meetings. Led the design of the team's channel and SharePoint. Provided leadership in organizing and planning BI-monthly meetings to the agency. Including leading briefs to senior NRCS executives and various divisions.• Liaison leadership activities between Department/Agency headquarters and regional offices relating to Micro-Purchases, Fleet operations, Personal Property operations and special projects. Liaison activities include interpreting, creating, and appropriately principles to procedures, requirements, regulations, responding to data calls, and disseminating the information to over 100 employees with varying technical backgrounds.• Led the development, based on data and process improvement principles, and implementation of a relational database to support a Business Intelligence (BI) system. The database evaluates and reports on all operations. The system provides predictive analytic capabilities (qualitative/quantitative analysis). The insights improve the program operations and procedures across 36 geographical located field offices. The database is now a proof-of-concept (POC) for an enterprise application.• A current Business Owner lead (Representative/Product Owner/SME) for an Enterprise IT Agile project budgeted at 1.6 million dollars. The project will deliver 3 cloud-based Power Apps used by over 200 users to increase automation, reporting, and support data driven decisions using Power BI. Other leadership roles filled: made recommendations on data architecture design, pre-bid development and presentation, UAT testing, attending weekly Sprint Reviews, and member of the project team. Show less

Portland, Oregon Area

• Took the lead to automate outpatient authorization procedures, with VBA and VISTA micros, built on Lean process improvement methods. The automation decreased lead time in creating authorizations. Consequently, provided "Veterans" with timely health care.• Train new employees in technical federal regulations pertaining to purchase care eligibility and effectively communicate eligibility to community hospitals, VA staff, and veterans.• Took the lead to develop and integrate… Show more • Took the lead to automate outpatient authorization procedures, with VBA and VISTA micros, built on Lean process improvement methods. The automation decreased lead time in creating authorizations. Consequently, provided "Veterans" with timely health care.• Train new employees in technical federal regulations pertaining to purchase care eligibility and effectively communicate eligibility to community hospitals, VA staff, and veterans.• Took the lead to develop and integrate Excel and OneNote, as a phone reference for medical and administrative phone center questions. A reference vital in the case management and medical staff supporting Veterans.• Communicated daily to "Veterans", doctors, RNs and insurance providers, about complex and ambiguous medical claim outcomes, policies and procedures. • Analyze, evaluate and present payment decisions on complex emergency room (ER) inpatient and outpatient medical claims. Based on complex federal medical payment regulations• Created medical authorizations using complex fee basis claims system (FBCS), computerized patient records system (CPRS), Veterans information systems and technology architecture (VISTA) programs. The authorizations provided health care for Veterans outside of the VA medical system.• Completed a 6-month PATHWAYS leadership program. The program included a team project based on Lean principles. The program ended with capstone project and formal presentation to the senior executive staff. A solution to increase new hire satisfaction.• Knowledge of strategic funding allocation models: Veterans Equitable Resource Allocation model (VERA), Medical Center Allocation system (MCAS) Show less

Portland, Oregon Area

• Supervised planning/coordinating transportation of equipment/personnel to Gowen Field, Idaho for 2005 annual training;consequently, received a Letter of Commendation from the Battalion commander for my leadership• Supervised a fire team to accomplish given infantry and combat engineer missions• Member of a training team to train a company-size element (100 soldiers) on new procedures and yearly military requirements.

Portland, Oregon Area

• Customer Service: Coordinated all requests and questions regarding veteran's records, health, or other concerns to the assigned doctor, RNs, social worker, or other administrative staff involved with providing veteran mental health.• Accountable for the accuracy and accountability for over 20 rooms and adjust any discrepancies concerning rooms, doctors, and patients• Responsible for the security status and tracking of all veterans, resulting, in the security and safety of the… Show more • Customer Service: Coordinated all requests and questions regarding veteran's records, health, or other concerns to the assigned doctor, RNs, social worker, or other administrative staff involved with providing veteran mental health.• Accountable for the accuracy and accountability for over 20 rooms and adjust any discrepancies concerning rooms, doctors, and patients• Responsible for the security status and tracking of all veterans, resulting, in the security and safety of the Ward. Show less

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A), Business Administration, Management And Operations

• Strategic planning: Assessing key decision makers’ conceptual skills will increase the probability of implementing and following.

Bachelor Of Science, Public Administration

Activities and Societies: Food Industry Leadership

Associate Of Business, Business

Activities and Societies: Associate Student Government(ASG): Senator, Membership Committee Chair, Budget Finance Representative. Veterans.