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Experience

7+ Years of diverse leadership experience across multiple high- functioning, creatively excellent organizations. Proven track record of developing and implementing mechanisms that enable constant quality improvement.

u.s. Department of veterans Affairs

2020- current

Executive Lead, Office of Community Care Relations

  • Leads and collaborates daily with senior stakeholders and management to focus on proactive problem solving through the use of analytical framework across various departments of the healthcare facility. 

  • Develops problem solving actions in a constantly evolving high stakes environment while staying within federal and state regulations.

  • Sets high standards of patient care and evolving practice solutions in a constantly changing high-stakes environment.

  • Works independently to lead and organize multiple organizational projects while simultaneously working to mentor and encourage developing talent.

  • Successfully led and collaborated with Emergency Department unit managers to address and create a program to decrease Emergency Department admission delays resulting in an 80% decrease in these delays.

  • Successfully implemented a program for a training initiative in the use of CNA assisted bedside blood glucose monitoring increasing CNA competencies by 15%.

community health systems

2020

Lead Patient/ Customer Program Manager

  • Partnered with cross functional peers in an Acute Care setting to deliver high quality patient care through constant practice improvement changes.

  • Created problem solving deliverables and enhanced day-to-day operations through the practice of assessing problems and collaborating with stakeholders to streamline effective solutions.

  • Integrated compliance and risk operations in an Acute Care setting to decrease adverse events and increase successful patient care in a highly agile environment. 

  • Implemented practice change project that resulted decreased staff exposure to COVID19 by 34.4% while still giving these patients the highest level of care and decreased PPE use by 21.9%.

singing river health systems

2018-2020

Lead Patient/ Customer Program Manager

  • Managed patient and customer care in a constantly changing environment while in compliance with state and federal practice regulations.

  • Mentored developing talent and university students through collaboration with managers and university instructors resulting in a 64% hire return of these students’ post-graduation.

Creative organizational sales

2015-2018

Senior Sales Executive

  • Led strategic initiatives supported by assigned account team consisting of Sales Development Representative, Account Development Representative and Solutions Consultants to drive growth in assigned territory

  • Exceeded monthly quotas for multiple high functioning creatively excellent brands across multiple niches including fashion, luxury fashion, and food/beverage industries.

  • Provided client services, execution services, account management, and relationship management coverage for clients.

  • Independently sourced and closed high profile clients.

  • Effectively communicated complex information into an easily digestible form.

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