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Peabody, Massachusetts, United States

Middleton, Ma

Senior Manager of Events for Simplify Compliance which operates the BLR, CCMI, HCPro, DecisionHealth, HealthLeaders Media and ACDIS (Association of Clinical Documentations Integrity Specialists)Responsibilities include:• Maintain historical event data to build out conference financial budgets• Organize communications related to conference requirements and needs • Create and build hotel request for proposals, track and evaluate responses, make recommendations to conference product director• Negotiate meeting space to room block ratios, F&B minimums, and company’s required contract clauses • Review marketing materials • Build out and communicate meeting specifications to hotel conference service manager and associated vendors, including audio visual, • Manage and assess hotel registration/room block pick-up reports• Research and contract support resources as needed• Strict adherence with established budgeted financials • Travel to national conferences to lead onsite management • Provide post-event analysis along with final invoice billing reconciliation and processing for payments • Manage and mentor team members

Danvers, Ma

Responsibilities include: • Planning of conferences for national healthcare conferences from inception to execution. • Responsible for creating RFP and negotiating contract terms with venues and vendors. • Holding ongoing planning meetings with internal stake holders.• Planning all details of event including F&B, logistics, AV requirements, hotel reservations, hotel concessions, and other details relating to the program.• Responsible for all aspects of onsite management including extensive travel to HCPro national conferences and HealthLeaders Media Exchanges.• Follow up post-conference with internal stake holders to determine process for improvement.

Marblehead, Massachusetts, United States

Responsibilities include:• Supported national healthcare conferences for HCPro and Greeley brand seminars and conferences• Booked staff and speaker hotel rooms and managed hotel room blocks, tracking pickup and attrition • Seminar planning included working closely with marketing, creative services and production teams• Onsite management of registration desk, oversight of meeting room sets, F&B catering functions, AV vendors and staffing vendors• Follow up post-conference with internal stake holders to identify areas for improvement

Marblehead, Massachusetts, United States

Senior Business Operations Manager for a national health care consulting firm. Responsibilities include coordination of projects for hospitals and as well as the marketing and sales of services. Contracting with independent physician consultants. Creation and maintenance of various status reports and work plans for the department. Delivery of high quality final reports to both internal and external clients, incorporating findings and conclusions as well as designing and implementing creative solutions for business problems.HCPro, Inc. was founded in Marblehead, MA, as a specialty publisher in the healthcare industry in 1986. HCPro, Inc., is the nation’s leading developer, provider, and trainer of mandatory regulatory compliance and management information for health care professionals.

Responsible for the enhancement of a transplant provider network including the negotiation, execution, and administration of provider contracts. Credentialing of the transplant programs within centers of excellence network. Conducting extensive research regarding outcomes data for solid organ and bone marrow transplantation programs within the Triage Alliance, Inc. network. Management of vendor relationships including onsite reviews of case management vendor and leased provider networks.

Participation in the procurement of a managed care network of behavioral health and substance abuse providers for Medicaid recipients in the state of Massachusetts. Ongoing management of service providers through provider profiling, negotiating provider improvement goals and on site performance reviews. Participant in case conferences as a liaison between hospitals, outpatient providers, state agency representatives, families, schools and other involved community agencies regarding individual clients with problematic dispositions. Creation and ongoing publication of report for distribution to the Department of Mental Health and the Department of Social Services quantifying length of stay and cost projections for high-risk recipients.