Wendy Hefferan Email & Phone Number

Irvine, Ca

Support Vice President of Global Safety & Epidemiology including:•Provided contract management and liaised with department Directors, outside vendors, legal department, and internal resources in determining onboarding of contractors for outsourced business model. •Negotiated contracts and made certain individuals are processed through the proper business unit. •Supported cost tracking, quarterly accruals, projections, and annual budget ($40M per year).•Managed and chaired bi-weekly physician case review meetings and disseminated reports. This process is part of signal detection.. Managed day-to-day operations of department, point of travel, organization of meetings both small and large from concept through execution.

Irvine, Ca

• Build a business by coaching families and individuals in becoming debt free and financially secure by assessing current financials and outlining family financial goals

San Juan Capistrano, Ca

• Maintain compliance/audit responsibilities for the business unit: Fraud and Abuse Laws, CLIA, Sound Laboratory/Billing Practices and Policies/Procedures• Audit test results to verify performance of testing, type of testing and proper billing was applied• Successfully trained over 1,400 new and existing employees on Compliance related subjects • Investigated all process/procedural failures throughout the organization, implemented correction and closed investigation within 90 days• Guided growth as the contract liaison while forming opinions and guidance prior to submitting to Legal Department for final sign-off • Researched applicable laws and pending legislation to determine how they may affect the business• Implemented process improvements while overseeing the state reportable function for the business unit• Formulated opinions to management regarding pending Senate and Assembly bills as well as State Laws• Increased efficiencies while complying with HIPAA when reviewing and supplying information for Subpoenas and Medical record requests • Successfully managed two Six Sigma Green Belt projects to ensure 100% compliance with the State of New York’s HIV Informed Consent law and the Blood Lead Reporting law in California• Projected and maintained departmental budgets

San Juan Capistrano, Ca

Executive AssistantOctober, 1994 - September, 1997Supported the General Counsel in responding to all laboratories west of the Mississippi on legal matters including: Compliance, leases, human resources, acquisitions, professional liability and subpoena/document retrievalDecember, 1993 - October, 1994Supported the President of Nichols Institute Reference Laboratories including: Coordination of transportation and maintenance of trade show booths and marketing duties such as literature printing and distribution to sales representatives and clientsJune, 1992 - December, 1993Supported the Vice President of Marketing including: Creation of new assay (test) formatDepartment AdministratorJuly, 1991 - June, 1992Supported the Director of Marketing Communications and the Director of Public Relations including: Vendor Relations

Course Work Towards Bachelors (Economics, Judgment & Decision Making, Organizational Behavior)

Business Administration And Management, General