Senior Consultant

1/2008 - /2009

Baylor Health Care System

Individual Contributor

• Participated in implementation and support of the Eclipsys (SCM) hands on building Orders to standardized cross the facilities. Build master files, category lists for LAB and RAD orderable items. Assist with go live to roll out Orders/Results for Baylor facilities. Responsible for training junior coworkers and mid size project plans to ensure project would be delivered on time and within budget. Designed, implementation of both new and existing partner relationship management functionality as a hand-on developer. Act as a technical lead to review features that others on team members worked on. Tested enhancements before rolling it out to the client after vendor fixes.

4/2006 - 8/2006

Hill Physicians Medical Group

Entry Level

•  Participated in implementation and support of the NextGen Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system in physician offices  Build master files, category lists and Rx pharmacy records and templates for the specialty. Assist with installation and training end user to use the NextGen application Tested enhancements before rolling it out to the client to ensure reported software problems were fixed

1/2006 - 4/2008

CTG HealthCare Solutions

Contractor / Freelance

•  Created HL7 mapping interface for HL7 messages as well as describing segments and fields that are used in the Epic product suites. Applied the rules to HL7 messages to ensure data send to the system were to minimize the risk of invalid data. Created HL7 standard s to ensure the communications environment the capabilities of error-free transmission, character conversion and messages length of HL7 were standard.  Developed and designed a workflow spreadsheet for Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) to achieve the best results for patient safety and quality of care. Standardize the CPOE order sets with evidence-based protocols according to Epic standard. Analyze the paper order sets and consolidate individual order groupings to be use for specific procedure or diagnoses, into one order set that included the medications sections and subsections. Customize order set to use the display name for procedure an placed instructional guidance with the order display name. Responsible for training 10-20 coworkers in building order sets.  Provided progress reporting, forecasting and analysis of the Epic Orders and clinical documentation as an EHR Application Coordinator, Lead who reported to Director of the Epic project.  Trained two staff members on build orders and procedures master files, gathered data in regards to develop Order Specific requirements, supported development of Master Files Guidelines according to Epic standards, facilitated team meetings in regards clinical documentation and build environment related issues and provided weekly status reports to report up-close understanding of the tasks at hands to upper management, EpicCare Inpatient Security for enterprise with experience building security points, roles, and profiles  Designed a security team to identity security classes using the Administration Identity Security Class in hyperspace and reported to Vice President and Directors.  Developed processes for setting up, managing and maintaining security classes, user security roles, item profiles and item defaults that work together to allow users the access they need while maintaining confidentiality and accountability Utilized security levels that are defined by the organization to build user profiles

12/2005 - 4/2006

IT Sutter Health Care

Contractor / Freelance

•  EpicCare Inpatient Security with experience building clerk entry order, CPOE order sets, security points, roles, and profiles  Supported Orders and Clinical Documentation team analyzing order master file related documentation  Trained two staff members build orders and procedures master files  Gathered data in regards to develop Order Specific requirements, supported development of Master Files Guidelines according to Epic standards  Facilitated team meetings in regards clinical documentation and build environment related issues  Provided weekly status reports to report up-close understanding of the tasks at hands to upper management

8/1994 - 12/2005

Kaiser Permanente

Individual Contributor

•  Served as National Inpatient Application Coordinator on EPIC Suite to ensure the architecture of collaborative records for master files and categorized lists coordinate with those of Northern California Kaiser regional district  Troubleshot and resolved regional issues  Extracted and analyzed data to identify key healthcare redesign business issues  Prepared preliminary interpretations of analysis and recommended actions based on results to senior management  Participated in the development of project proposals, recommendations, implementation plans, communications packages, performance measurement tools, and training materials associated with electronic record system and reported to back to upper management  Managed calendars for five co-workers and schedule direct reports to meet deadlines and to ensure project goals were obtained  Key Achievements: Attended training in Madison, Wisconsin to attain EPIC Inpatient Suite certification Played a vital role in assisting national-level team set up an electronic record system using EPIC Inpatient Suite Wrote instructions on how to load national data into master files and set up schedule for change management Received Flying Pig Award for meeting upper management’s end-of-the-year data loads (January 2005) Awarded Annual Incentive Plan consisting of 5% of annual base pay for 2004

1981

Bachelor Degree

University Of Minnesota

• Finance and Computer Science