University of Minnesota

Independent consultant specializing in health care data exchange with focus on agile product ownership, implementation, integration, and certification activities. Extensive experience with the following data exchange standards and  organizations: NCPDP, X12, and HL7.

Ivan Posthumus Consulting

Company Owner

•	Created and managed product backlog for suite of electronically enabled services which include:
Pharmacy/Medical Benefits, electronic Prior Authorization, eConsent, and real-time medication pricing and benefits information
•	Worked with product managers, development, and business to validate stories
•	SME for development team as services were developed
•	Tested and accepted stories for each sprint

UBC - An Express Scripts Company

Agile Product Owner: Specialty Pharmacy Hub

•	Implemented customers on new services
•	Pre-sales engineer and SME
•	Developed implementation cross functional processes and procedures
•	Created, managed, and validated story backlog for testing environment tools
•	Developed certification testing scenarios and data
•	Trained permanent Implementation and Support teams on implementation, certification,   support scenarios, and all testing tools

Change Healthcare

Consultant, Sr Implementation Mgr

Inspected and tested EMR and Hospital Systems against the ONC 2014 Edition Interoperability Testing Criterion for Meaningful Use Phase 2

Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology

Inspector Meaningful Use Phase 2:  Interoperability Criteria

•	Creation, prioritization, and maintenance of product backlog in a continuous software development environment
•	Worked with product managers, development, operations, and business to validate stories and identify additional stories for backlog. 
•	Worked with customers to understand their needs as it related to product backlog
•	SME for development team as services were developed
•	Tested and accepted stories for each sprint

Consultant, Agile Product Owner Clinical Messaging

•	Established Certification Policy and Compliance department
•	Define, implement, and enforce Surescripts' Certification Policy to ensure that all connected participants on the network implement and certify against a standard set of certification , contractual, and operationsal requirements.
•	Own, create, manage, and publish certification requirements applicable to the network.
•	Define, implement, and enforce Surescripts' Compliance policy and procedures.  
•	Serve as escalation point for Account Management and Production Support.
•	Management of compliance analysts. 
•	Core team member on Meaningful Use phase 1 project for ePrescribing module. Organization approved as ATCB.
•	Created implementation and certification requirements for Reportable Lab grant project.

Surescripts LLC

Director, Certification Policy and Compliance

Implemented and certified e-Prescribing solutions for EMR Technology Vendors, Pharmacy Benefits Managers, and Retail Pharmacy. Transactions based on ANSI x12, NCPDP, and HL7 transaction standards. Implemented functionality included: 270/271, Formulary and Benefits v1.0, Script v8.1, v10.2, and v10.6 message types.

•	Led implementation of e-Prescribing products and services for POC, PBM, and Pharmacy participants. 
•	Coordinator for cross functional groups participating in healthcare standards development and pilot projects.
•	Functioned as Sales Engineer for Business Development Group
•	Provided Account Management function to integrated participants to help define and execute production rollout strategy. 
•	   Worked with Prescription Benefits Managers on formulary and eligibility pilots  
•	   Defined requirements for testing and certification tools.
•	   Defined the implementation and certification processes for participants.
•	   Coordinated demonstration projects with standards organizations such as NCPDP around transaction interoperability.
•	   Served as contact resource for production support on transaction and connectivity issues.
•	   Worked with HITSP on Medication Management Use Case.

RxHub, LLC /Surescripts-RxHub

Sr. Implementation Project Manager

RxHub, LLC

Implementation Project Manager

Integrated supply chain technologies (transactional communications/electronic data interchange (EDI), product/catalog data management, contract data management) at Fortune 100 pharmaceutical and medical/surgical wholesale/distribution companies.

•	Led the overall implementation and delivery of core healthcare supply chain software products and Internet enabled e-tools to the pharmaceutical, medical / surgical, and GPO marketplace.  
•	Managed multiple teams in process definition of business / functional requirements, project resource allocation, and scope of phase development and services integration. 
•	Developed all committed technology and operations ahead of scheduled and 30% under budget.
•	Functional liaison between product development and corporate sales.

HealthNexis, LLC

Program Manager

Sales of Information Technology Consulting Services. Market focus: Professional services, application and database development, systems architecture and infrastructure.  Client base ranged in size from small to fortune 500 companies. Client base consisted of Manufacturing, Healthcare, Banking, and B2B e-Commerce focused companies. 

•	Expanded territory to 58 client companies, an increase of 45%.
•	Consistently exceeded monthly and quarterly quota targets.  
•	Accounted for 39% of organization’s revenue generation in 2000, generating $3.9 Million in sales.
•	Developed monthly, quarterly, and annual marketing strategy for industry, major accounts and new business categories.
•	Reengineered sales methodology and processes.
•	Facilitated and planned internal sales and recruiter training

Euler Solutions, Inc.

Account Manager

Sales of computer hardware, software, and consulting services. Market focus was on small to mid-size companies.

•	Expanded territory to 30 client companies, an increase of 40%.
•	Top Sales person, generated $750,000.00 in sales.
•	Consistently met quarterly quote targets.
•	Developed marketing strategies and collateral materials.

MTI Office Systems

Lab’s primary research focus was in the areas of: chronic pain, neuroscience, substance abuse, and computational biology research. 

•	Research focused on drug tolerance, drug mechanisms of action, and electrophysiology.
•	Conducted protein-folding experiments utilizing computational biology techniques.
•	Assigned as Project Manager to organize, plan, and execute the relocation of 15 labs and research groups in the Departments of Pharmacology and Neurosciences to new research facility