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SENIOR APPLICATIONS SPECIALIST
Career Overview
Performance driven, reliable, highly adaptable, and experienced Project Manager/Systems Analyst possessing an excellent blend of analytical, project management, organizational, technical, and clinical workflow focused capabilities in the Healthcare IT/EHR setting .
Summary of Skills
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Technical Skills
MS Office Suite, MS Project, Team Foundation Server, XML, HL7, Services Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, CDA/CCD, Epic, Cerner, Meditech
Work Experience
Senior Applications Specialist02/2014 to CurrentArthur J Gallagher & Co.Odessa , TX
- Disseminate medication, immunization, and allergy related clinical data across the enterprise EHR using service oriented architecture principles and self developed applications that improves patient safety.
- Managed and successfully implemented project to convert legacy allergy and immunization records to the new vendor EHR (Epic).
- Led a team of analysts and developers to define requirements, develop, test, implement, and support a new Allergies and Immunizations HL7 interface between legacy and the vendor EHR's (Epic).
- Resolve complex project roadblocks by formulating creative and time efficient solutions.
- Report project status and accountable for issue/resolution to upper management.
- Provide production support for the team's entire portfolio of medication and allergy related decision support web services and self developed applications.
- Design functional specifications, use cases, and test cases related to clinical workflow in the inpatient and ambulatory setting.
- Serve in a mentor role to other team members.
Senior Applications Coordinator11/2012 to 02/2014Cleveland ClinicLas Vegas , NV
- Gathered Provider and Nursing inpatient orders related clinical business requirements and built requirements into the EHR (Epic) being implemented across the enterprise.
- Organized and implemented enterprise plan to standardize inpatient provider order sets ensuring safe standardized patient care.
- Guided Clinical Steering Committee members to achieve consensus to standardize inpatient transitions of care (ADT) and medication reconciliation workflows, built, and tested in the EHR (Epic).
- Itemized existing inpatient legacy decision support rules, scoped with clinical leadership, built, and tested the rules included in the EHR implementation.
- Quickly obtained Epic certifications in Inpatient Orders and Inpatient Clinical Decision Support easily adapting from home developed EHR environment to a vendor based EHR environment.
- Served in a mentor role to other team members.
Senior Project Specialist, Project Specialist04/2007 to 11/2012Scientific GamesGardiner , ME
- Delivered medication, immunization, and allergy related clinical data across the enterprise EHR using service oriented architecture principles and self developed applications to improve patient safety.
- Managed and successfully implemented a $400K budgeted interoperability project with the Meditech based community hospitals to share patients' allergies utilizing Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) principles.
- Guided leadership on strategy to pursue and implement a program to improve quality, safety and efficiency through incentivized patient safety medication related IS projects.
- Managed the enterprise Medication Reconciliation Program successfully implementing projects to improving patient care such as a comparison report of med lists in transitions of care and a patient friendly discharge medication report.
- Scoped and managed team to gather requirements, create use cases, and develop enterprise wide initiative to standardize over 4 million patient Immunization records into a repository to facilitate patient care and reporting to the State's Department of Public Health.
- Served in a mentor role to other team members.
Project Specialist, Application Analyst I/II05/2002 to 04/2007Partners Healthcare SystemsCity , STATE
- Directed successful implementation to integrate a vendor Radiology & Imaging system (Percipio) at Brigham & Women's Hospital improving decision support, scheduling, and cutting costs.
- Steered a portfolio of medication safety projects for the Inpatient Pharmacy system working with Clinical Business Owners and a team of developers/analysts utilizing SDLC methodologies.
- Designed functional specs, tested, designed courses and trained end users on Brigham and Women's Hospital electronic medication administration record (eMAR) and CPOE systems.
- Coordinated priority and strategy of CPOE clinical system portfolio with Clinical Steering Committees.
- Formed CPOE clinical systems courses and trained end users.
- Provided 24/7 production support to clinical systems.
Systems Analyst III11/2004 to 05/2005University Of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC)City , STATE
- Supported overall design and implementation of Cerner clinical systems to UPMC's network of hospitals and clinics allowing easy access to patients' clinical data across the healthcare settings and improving patient care.
- Designed and created security model for different clinical positions, tasks, and privileges in Cerner's clinical application suite by working with clinical business owners and IS staff.
- Quickly gained knowledge of Cerner clinical systems suite (Powerchart, Powerchart Office, Surginet, Firstnet, Pharmnet, etc) as a result of extensive security design and testing and ability to quickly adapt to new systems.
- Provided on call system support.
Business Analyst09/1999 to 05/2002Electronic Data Systems (now HP Enterprise Services)City , STATE
- Operated as a consultant for Blue Cross Blue Shield of MA to develop, maintain, and managed IT solutions to improve reporting metrics on the Provider Incentive Reporting System using SDLC methodology.
- Collaborated with BCBS counterparts to define business requirements for new projects and enhancements to existing systems.
- Formulated and executed test plans.
- Guided integrity of work and delivery dates between the developers and customer.
Education and Training
Bachelor of Arts: HistoryCollege of the Holy CrossCity, State, USA
- Student-athlete in college football program
Certifications
Epic Certified: EpicCare Inpatient Procedure Orders, Inpatient Decision Support
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School Attended
- College of the Holy Cross
Job Titles Held:
- Senior Applications Specialist
- Senior Applications Coordinator
- Senior Project Specialist, Project Specialist
- Project Specialist, Application Analyst I/II
- Systems Analyst III
- Business Analyst
Degrees
- Bachelor of Arts : History
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