Vladimir State University

AFBBS

Senior Manager, Core Engineering at eviCore healthcare

Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Past Leadership rolesVP membership at IIBA Nashville for 2 yearsDirector Programs at PMI Nashville for 2 yearsVP of Programs at PMI Nashville for 2 yearsVP of Volunteers at PMI Nashville for 1 year

Nashville Chapter IIBA

President

Agile Transformation of Analytics teams.●   Coach teams in Agile practices and provide necessary training tocreate positive mindset to Agile framework.●   Plan Agile best practices and encourage team cohesion, overcomingimpediments and hurdles to productivity.●   Manage and motivate project teams to promote collaboration and keepmembers on-task and with goals of improving quality andproductivity.●   Work effectively with multiple Scrum teams both internally andoff-shore.●   Research emerging technologies and current trends to stayknowledgeable in methods that could benefit Scrum team.●   Facilitate Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming,daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospective.●   Team award for architecture/coding practices.Leading an effort on team collaboration between parent and a newlyacquired company.●   Facilitating sessions between cross functional teams to define newcollaborative solutions and drive progress.●   Monthly calls with leaderships team to discuss progress.Successfully completed company's #1 critical project involving two majorclients.●   Liaison/management across multiple teams.●   Sourced additional resources and staff to meet timeline demands.●   Helped with impediment removals.●   Maintained tactical control of project scope and timeline to keep teamson-task and achieve schedule targets.●   Transparency with regular communications across all levels.●   Over 50+ team members across multiple locations (onshore andoffshore).●   Team members - Database developers, configuration analysts,application developers, ETL developers, Database administrators,business analysts, quality assurance, training specialists, clientexperience specialists, account managers, data analysts, releasemanagers, security, management leaders, and others.Led and completed company's #1 cost saving project for 2018.●   Led analysis/development and implementation of several new featuresacross two major products.

eviCore healthcare (CIGNA company)

Senior Manager, Core Engineering

Continuing Medical Education (CME) Product Development.- Liaison/management across multiple teams.- Transparency with regular communications across all levels.- Facilitated monthly sessions with key stakeholders to define/refineEducation Informatics' road map.- Led user group meetings for each product.- Evaluated vendors to assess quality, timeliness and compliance ofdeliveries, maintaining tight cost controls and maximizing businessoperational efficiency.- Maintained team efficiency by delegating daily activities, monitoringoutput and rewarding positive contributions.- Raised performance in areas of product, services, and support byidentifying and targeting issues as well as areas in need ofimprovements.- Trained and guided team members to maintain high productivity andperformance metrics.- Identify and qualify customer needs and negotiate and close profitableprojects with high success rate.- Team members - Technical Product owners, Architects, Deans,Operations leaders, Physician leaders from different specialties (Peds,Geriatrics, Ortho, etc.).Research Projects- Managed road map/epics/features and stories.- Liaison between customers and development team to ensure timelydelivery of products and features.- Team members - Principal Investigators, Research Directors,Developers, Analysts, Program managers, Training specialists,Professors and others.Clinical Decision SupportSuccessful development and implementation of Medication Listreconciliation tool for Hospital and Outpatient clinics.Clinical Meaningful Use implementation for Medication managementin the Electronic Medical Record (EMR).Successful completion of small to medium initiatives within EMR forclinical decision support for Physicians (example: Pulmonary Nodules,Peds Discharge, etcTeam members - Physicians, Nurses, Knowledge Architect, TIBCOArchitect, Analysts, Clinical leaders Developers, Program managersSuccessful replacement of older EKG machines across all clinics.

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Manager, Product Development

Business Analysis.- Liaison between IT and business / functional owners.- Data Analysis.- Conducted JAD sessions with various Business and IT partners.- Elicited, analyzed and documented detailed business and functional specifications.- Performed gap analysis.- Worked with business users and architects to develop use cases, workflows, screen mock-ups.- Co-authored business case diagram showing interaction between various external vendors for a newimplementation project.- Offered expertise to business continuity planners to guide, support and lead strategy development.- Prioritized business and systems problems; conducted impact analysis.- Planned, managed and conducted UAT.Resource Management and Planning.- Led BABOK and PMP study groups.- Led and mentored team of reporting analysts

Healthways / HP - Enterprise Services

Manager, Business Analysis

Liaison between IT and business owners distributed across multiple locations.Elicited, analyzed, socialized and clearly documented business and system requirements.Determined operational objectives by studying business functions, gathering information and evaluatingoutput requirements and formats.Developed flowcharts and diagrams to describe and lay out logical operational steps.Mapped processes to holistically examine business flow and identify improvement opportunities.

Senior Business Systems Analyst - FLHK Project (1 year)

Led cross-functional teams to analyze and understand enterprise-wide operational impacts andopportunities of technology changes.Applied honed problem-solving skills to analyze and resolve issues impacting business operations andgoal achievement.Mapped current business and operational processes and offered recommendations for improvement.Implemented user acceptance testing with focus on documenting defects, identifying bottlenecks andexecuting test cases.Conducted interviews with key business users to collect information on business processes and userrequirements.Worked closely with software development and testing team members to design and develop robustsolutions to meet client requirements for functionality, scalability and performance.

MSI,Inc

Business / Quality Analyst - Operations

Managed 30+ team members (onshore and offshore) to support multiple projects with local client inNashville.Responsible for annual reviews, budget, office operations and support/sales of IT products.Planned client relationship cultivating events to promote growth, resulting in expansion of clientele base.

Chander Sharma, PMP, CSM, CSPO