Albert Cruz

Albert Cruz has built up an impressive track record in his twenty-year career as a leading IT consultant for insurers, financial institutions, Health Informatics vendors, and the Energy industry. He has successfully developed and implemented strong strategic planning and technology solutions, with a success rate of over 90% in implementing more than 45 projects of all sizes that consistently meet objectives. Some of his areas of expertise include portfolio creation and oversight, configuration, migration, transformation, and process performance improvements. Cruz has proven to be an innovative leader and problem solver, adapting to any situation to meet or exceed objectives, which has resulted in his reputation for building strong relationships with customers, vendors, leadership, stakeholders, and teams.

Cruz's expertise spans the Healthcare IT Value adoption, Government sphere, project and program management, product owner certifications, process, data, technology, and software development life cycle solution provider. He has worked with various enterprises, including Private and Public Sectors, Health Care IT, State, County, and Local levels. Some tools he excels at are QNXT, Facets, Agile Central, Salesforce, Kanban, SharePoint, Goldmine, JD Edwards, Planview, EDI, and Claims Encounters. Cruz is skilled in planning, integration, and migration, with a focus on MS Suite, QNXT-FACETs-TMS-ITS, Medi-Medi, Duals, IT SaaS, IaaS, DaaS, EDI, Claims Encounters, Capitation, Agile Central, and Jira/SwiftKanban.

Cruz's academic experience includes a Bachelor's degree in Information Technology from California State Polytechnic University-Pomona, Degree Extension courses in Information Systems from the University of California, Los Angeles, an MA in Organization Management, Business, People/Culture, Processes, Technologies from the University of Phoenix, and a State of California Real Estate License. He has also studied cloud AI Studio, noSQL, and VMs at the 2018 MS Azure Bootcamp, PMP and Information Security at PMI LA, OC, CIE UCI Extension, and Master's Degree programs, Business and IT PMP Instructor - Risk, Cost, Communications, HR at Keller Graduate School of Management of DeVry University.

Albert Cruz has worked with prominent organizations, including United Healthcare, Kaiser, Advisory as Director Systems Integration, LA Care Health Plan, UnitedHealth Group, Cognizant, Anthem, Blue Shield of California, Kaiser Permanente, and Edison, Electric Power Industry. Cruz is currently available remotely as a telecommuter and travels Western States and TX locations only.