Senior Technical Lead — Anthem — Cincinnati, OH

October, 1998 – February, 2003

Served as a project manager and technical team advisor for several large outbound eligibility data interface projects (as many as 27 sub-projects/teams) and most recently was project manager for a data quality project for data to vendors and internal data warehouse.

Accountable for leading a team of Programmer/Business Analysts responsible for the design, development, implementation, and support of Health Insurance Actuarial and Decision Support applications.

Utilized formal Project Management and SDLC Methodologies (i.e., ABT Project Work Bench and Anthem’s Application Development Methodology) and ClearCase for version management

Designed and developed Decision Support/Data Warehouse components.

Managed 2 small teams of developers during the build cycle, delivering code, and documentation while participating on the infrastructure team which defined/implemented new standard processes and maintained in-house software utilities.

Maintained and enhanced a test scripting (in-house) VBA utility and provided training and documentation while on infrastructure team.

Worked as a VB programmer on the CoMPLi project to automate documents processing for health insurance certificates.

Sr. Research Associate — Procter & Gamble — Cincinnati, OH

September, 1994 – December, 1997

Project Manager (1995 – 1997)

Managed the enhancement and maintenance of an automated Tables Generation project, including periodic roll-out, training and user support.  Project was migrated from DECVAX to HP9000, and upgraded from Visual Basic 3.0 to version 6.0.

Collaborated with project managers from Medical Surveillance and Clinical Data Management on the Data Standards Review Board to determine and deliver useful tables and monitor data standards and database modeling.

Clinical Data Manager (1994 – 1995)

Responsible for clinical data management for 7 studies adhering to Good Clinical Practices for the OTC/Oral Care focus area, including on-and off-site support and training for direct data entry systems.

Projects included implementing code for new duties assumed by data management operations to provide summary datasets for biostatistical operations.  This required an active role in the development of standard processes to facilitate the acceptance of these systems, with emphasis on meeting cycle times.

 

Project Manager/System Architect — Lasley & Hopkins, Inc. — Cincinnati, OH

January, 1993 – March, 1994

Responsible for designing/developing various applications, such as Production Line Staffing and Retail Sales Tracking for a Fortune 25 company.

Designed, analyzed, programmed and tested applications using SAS (PC and Mainframe), JCL and Macintosh’s 4th Dimension, in an Apple Macintosh workstation, Novell, Ethernet network environment and in a IBM S/370, MVS/TSO, ISPF mainframe environment.

Statistician/Data Analyst/System Architect — Wright State University School of Medicine– Dayton, OH

August, 1989 – December, 1993

WSU School of Medicine —  Fels Institute

Designed and developed SAS Biostatistics and lifestyle healthcare applications for Fels Institute which provides clinical human growth and development studies for various health care institutes and providers internationally.

Designed, analyzed, programmed, and tested database applications, as well as utilized various SAS statistical functions to conduct statistical analysis and regression.

Created library of SAS reporting functions and macros to develop flexible reporting.