Forward-thinking professional offering more than twenty years of experience working in fast-paced environments. Proven leader with success in building strong teams.
· Self-motivated, driven individual that excels in utilizing process improvement, change management and Agile expertise to collaborate with teams and transform healthcare.
· Experience managing, and mentoring teams and staff, while dealing with ambiguity in changing work environments.
· Results driven and experienced in managing multiple efforts while utilizing skills to improve or reimagine area or needs across various service or business lines.
· Skilled professional with an interest in supporting and developing others to build their knowledge, and ability to drive toward results.
· Strong ability to implement and execute on strategies, utilizing various ways of working to coach and facilitate teams to meet objectives.
· Experience training and implementing lean practices including processes and system analysis, Six Sigma Black Belt Certified, Scaled Agile Certified, Instructor of Health Care Systems Engineering from Mayo Clinic School of Health Sciences, Prosci Change Management Practitioner, Performance Management User Certification, publications / posters/ presentations on continuous improvement projects, Lean implementations, data analysis, Value Stream Mapping, and other tools and processes improvement implementations.
Past supervision experience of quality and support areas
· Collaborated with leaders and staff in planning work across strategic partnerships by identifying department / division needs through the development of strategic plans through execution.
· Led & managed multi-faceted projects with various subcomponent & high levels of ambiguity.
· Mentored & provided direction and support for colleagues with identification, recommendation, and implementation of transformational solutions for departments, sites and shields. Utilized operations research methods, created staffing models, organizational structures, workflow and throughput and digital interventions.
· Execution and management of Gastroenterology and Hepatology (GIH) client engagements including: space assessment, utilization and future state space planning, physician scheduling improvement project to reduce rework and improve satisfaction, Pancreas and Esophageal clinical care team coordination assessments, Inbasket management processing and reporting, High Level Disinfectant processing evaluation and space remodel, simulation modeling of Procedural Spaces to improve staff and space management, SMC procedural area workflow and pre-post space move, creation of personnel utilization evaluation and scheduling tools, creation of room utilization tools and assessment, etc.
· Execution of urgent COVID care needs including: COVID multi-site Occupational Health Management contact tracing process overhaul to reduce process time from days to hours, collaborated with a physician partner to lead the transition of COVID Frontline Care Team’s management to Primary Care teams, COVID STAR GI procedural ramp-up simulation modeling to efficiently manage practice changes.
· Current assignment includes leading Bold. Forward. Unbound. In Rochester Change Agile Team including implementation of Agile ways of working across the team and initiative Change Management needs, as well as other support needs as assigned.
· Key projects and efforts include: Northfield Hospital and Clinic partnership assessment and support of evaluation of strategic direction and future collaboration planning, MCHS emerging market assessment and Health Spot trial of remote services, Office of Population Health Management Operations and organizational structure assessment, Plummer Project Change Management Lead for MCHS and Arizona, OBGYN PC02 (Primary c-section rate reduction) Quality Reporting (Led leadership team through silver project and Leadership Prescription course), Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology and Community Laboratory Medicine and Pathology test order consolidation, Austin / Albert Lea planning for optimization efforts
· Coordinated and managed projects with Mayo Clinic Health Systems (MCHS) leadership. Lead projects involving employee schedule optimization, MCHS standardization, integration, and review of business consolidation opportunities, MCHS IP Computer Provider Order Entry (CPOE) process creation/ standardization, etc.
· Mayo Health System (MHS) 5010 system implementation this included coordination across locations with separate governing bodies, Midwest practice integration, Development and implementation of tele-medicine within Mayo Post-Acute Care (MPAC) locations, Implementation and development of working relationships within Community Lab Medicine Specialty Council (MCHS and RST), creation of the Patient Financial Services workforce forecasting tool, planned and executed EMR satisfaction survey to evaluation Cerner post implementation, developed MCHS standardized new physician hiring process, performed feasibility study of merging Ericson’s Hair and Skin Care Center with Mayo Clinic Mastectomy Store