• Spearheaded the development of an industry-leading data and analytics team to drive informed decision-making, optimize operations, and enhance patient outcomes in global capitation contracts • Implemented a BI strategy that leveraged cutting-edge technologies and analytical tools, leading to improved healthcare data management and operational efficiency • Oversaw the integration of multiple complex data sources to create a unified, comprehensive data warehouse, resulting in a 40% improvement in data retrieval times and data-driven insights • Facilitated cross-functional collaborations between the data and analytics team, healthcare providers, and stakeholders, enabling a patient-centric, value-based care approach • Partnered with C-suite executives to align BI initiatives with overarching organizational goals, demonstrating the value of data-driven decision-making at the highest levels of the organization • Presented actionable insights to stakeholders through comprehensive dashboards and reports, supporting evidence-based decision making and strategic planning

Ascension | Aug 2019 - Aug 2022

Data Analytics Manager

● 2019 - Featured in Ascension Texas intranet Associate News for recognition of servant leadership ● 2019 - Excellence in Action Award: In recognition of successful and early implementation of an internal attribution algorithm ● Aligns and directs the management, development, and integration of data for analytics and business intelligence necessary for supporting the mission, vision, strategies, objectives, and goals of the business ● Reports to director and fulfils management duties such as hiring, timecards, and employee reviews ● Created and led a data quality workforce focusing on data quality. This workforce develops data monitoring reports and reviews/resolves data anomalies across all applications daily. ● Participated in the development and execution of Incentive Compensation policies and reduced time-to-payment by six months ● Hiring manager for an agile development team ● Lead cross-functional projects in onboarding new data sources and participated in data acquisition ● Increased automation of data delivery to downstream processes ● Standardized the release process using DevOps automation ● Functioned as Product Owner for several data projects ● Coached direct reports, organized the team, lead daily stand-ups ● Monitored all applications and health of data

Ascension | Sep 2017 - Aug 2019

Senior Developer Technical Lead - Data Warehousing and Analytics

● Principle Data Warehouse Architect, ELT/ETL developer, and Release Manager/DevOps Engineer ● 2018 - Excellence in Action Award: In recognition of going above and beyond in dedication to teammates ● Lead Agile development teams in high ROI value-based care projects. An example of such a project is designed and developed a patient Attribution algorithm to map ACO members to providers based on utilization metrics leveraging data from many complex data sources. ● Developed data pipelines for daily hospital discharges to integrate into our care management outreach application ● Designed an application to ingest flat files from any payor source and deliver records to appropriate care management partners based for only patients they were assigned to ● Reduced time-to-market by 34% through fostering DevOps culture and automated workflows ● Implemented and managed GIT source control in all team projects ● Experience with Agile project management tools (JIRA and Azure DevOps/ VSTS/TFS) ● Implemented use of Azure DevOps to automate production roll outs

Hendrick Health System | Mar 2013 - Aug 2017

Business Intelligence Developer

IT Skills: SQL Server, SSMS, SSIS, SSRS, ETL, Data Warehousing, Database Management, PowerBI, PowerShell, Oracle, IBM Cognos, VB.Net, OLAP, Analysis Services Cubes ● Saved the health system over $1M in billing errors by developing a statistical algorithm to identify quantity input errors in the hospital coding system ● Developed Emergency Department and Operating Room executive dashboards ● Applied data-driven models to develop and automate a daily manager productivity report, integrating Premier benchmarks to compare with actual volume and labor hours. This report was automatically distributed to every business unit manager daily, contributing to lean operational performance throughout the health system. ● Developed a monthly performance report that was delivered to the CEO of the health system and all executives and directors ● Participated in data acquisition from Premier for productivity benchmarks ● Generated check requests for physician incentive programs ● Developed data driven models for payer contract negotiations ● Oversaw the deployment of data to the data warehouse ● Developed policies and procedures for the collection and analysis of data ● Monitored analytics and metrics results ● Perform data profiling to identify and understand anomalies ● Performed monthly accounting activities and added journal entries for business unit volumes

Hendrick Health System | Mar 2007 - Mar 2013

Financial Analyst

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Lauren Engineers & Constructors, Inc | May 2007 - Aug 2007

Procurement Intern

● Created project schedule layouts and resource allocations in Primavera Oracle-based enterprise project portfolio management (EPPM) software and Microsoft Project ● Assisted Vice President of Procurement with Power Point slides and presentations to the Board of Directors ● Utilized Excel to organize negotiation tools gathered from bid responses

UPS | Apr 2004 - Jan 2007

Operations Supervisor

● Supervised local rollout of new Delivery Information Acquisition Devices (DIAD VI) including planning, monitoring, training end users on usage, and troubleshooting issues ● Managed 150+ union employees and oversaw $27.4 million in production each week ● Implemented processes that reduced service failures by 23% ● Exceeded production goals by 40% daily ● Averaging 840 packages-per-hour over a plan of 600 ● Nominated for Supervisor-of-the-Month seven (7) times among 88 colleagues ● Performed Annual Assessments

My Education

Take a look at my formal education

Master of Science - MS, Business AnalyticsTexas A&M University | 2016

Master of Business Administration (MBA), Strategic ManagementTexas A&M University | 2014

Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Accounting and FinanceAbilene Christian University | 2012

High School Diploma Neuqua Valley High School | 2001

About Me

10+ years in Healthcare Analytics leadership. Interested in advancing AI in healthcare.

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