DENNIS J. GALLO

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY: Independent consultant with 12+ years’ extensive experience engaged in numerous capacities to include Project Management, QA/Testing manager, Testing Facilitator, Analyst, implementation consultant. Over 25 years’ experience in the Healthcare Management.

QA Testing Manager/Analyst/Implementation Consultant

EXPERIENCE

Winthrop University Hospital, April, 2015 to December 2015

Mineola, New York

Soarian Clinical Testing Manager

●Coordinate testing activities for all modules in Soarian Clinicals 4.0.

●Coordinate testing schedule and resources.

●Track defects and change requests and conduct follow-up testing on corrected defects and approved changes.

●Assist in developing Functional and Integrated Testing Scripts ensuring compliance with required workflows.

Acri Consulting Services October 2006 to Present

Cary, North Carolina

Consultant - Business Development/Healthcare

Consultant on EMR Software Testing, Training, Organizational Change, Process Improvement, I.T. Recruitment and Human Capital Development.

St. Joseph Health System - April 2013 – June 2014

Lubbock, Texas /Anaheim, California

Testing Facilitator/ Analyst – Meditech – ver5.66

●Coordinate the testing and review of over 6000 NPR/Amalga SQL reports with Clinical, Revenue Cycle and Administrative staff.

●Coordinate the development of test data, troubleshoot reports, document test results in Workspace.com and Quick base.

●Provide go-live support for Texas, Northern and Southern California Regional hospitals.

Robinson Memorial Hospital - November 2012 – April 2013

Ravenna, Ohio

Testing Manager – SCM 5.5 Implementation

●Assist in Training end users in preparation for system testing.

●Develop Testing, Defect Tracking/Risk Assessment and ensure compliance with Change Control Strategies.

●Develop Functional and Integrated Testing Scripts for SCM 5.5, including HL7 testing and Revenue Cycle.

●Work directly with Orderset Builders to build and test Ordersets.

●Coordinate Testing schedule and resources.

●Track defects and change requests and conduct follow-up testing on corrected defects and approved changes.

●Coordinate and conduct Charge and ICD-9 Code Testing

The Regional Med – May 2012 – August 2012

Memphis, Tennessee

Testing Facilitator – Siemens Soarian Clinicals

●Develop Testing, Defect Tracking and Change Control Strategies.

●Develop Functional and Integrated Testing Scripts for Soarian Clinicals, Pharmacy, MAK . including HL7 testing.

●Coordinated Testing schedule and resources.

●Track defects and change.

●Conduct follow-up testing on corrected defects and approved changes.

Lahey Clinic - September 2011- May 2012

Burlington, Massachusetts

Testing Facilitator –Allscripts 5.5 Implementation

●Develop Functional and Integrated Testing Scripts for all modules in SCM, SRX, Touchworks including HL7 testing, and Revenue Cycle.

●Coordinated Integrated Testing with Xcelera.

●Coordinated Testing schedule and resources.

●Track defects and change requests using Workspace software.

●Conduct follow-up testing on corrected defects and approved changes.

New York Downtown Hospital - January 2011 – June 2011

New York City, New York

Testing Manager - 5.5 Implementation

Developed Functional and Integrated Testing Scripts for all aspects of SCM 5.5, SCM ED, and SRX.

●Coordinated Testing schedule and resources.

●Work directly with Orderset Builders to build and test Ordersets.

North Shore/Long Island Jewish Health System - March 2010 – December 2010

New Hyde Park, New York

●Integration Testing of Kinetdx and Cardio Report Writer Applications with Sunrise Clinical Manager 5.0.

●IDX /Family Practice Plan build of 400 new locations and HL7 testing in SCM 5.0.

●Review and update of SCM 5.0 testing scripts for SCM 5.5 upgrade.

●Developed Functional Test Scripts for SCM 5.5 testing.

●Conducted Functional testing for SCM 5.5 Upgrade.

CLIENT HISTORY

●April, 2015 to December, 2015: Winthrop University Hospital, Mineola, NY

●October, 2014 – Present Acri Consulting Services, Cary, NC

●April, 2013 – June, 2014: St. Joseph Health System, Lubbock, TX, Anaheim, CA

●November, 2012 – April, 2013: Robinson Memorial Hospital, Ravenna, OH

●May, 2012 – August, 2012: The Regional Med, Memphis, TN

●September, 2011- May, 2012: Lahey Clinic, Burlington, MA

●January, 2011 – June, 2011: New York Downtown Hospital, New York City, NY

●March – December, 2010: North Shore/Long Island Jewish Health System, New Hyde Park, NY

●October – November 2009, & February, 2010: Yale- New Haven Health System, New Haven, CT

●May, 2007, January, 2008 – February, 2008, January– July, 2009, January, 2010: New York Presbyterian Health System, New York City, NY

●September – October, 2009 & December, 2009: St Louis Children’s Hospital, St Louis, MO

●September, 2009: Barnes Jewish Health System, St Louis, MO

●November, 2008: Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada

●July – August, 2008: New York Presbyterian Health System, Westchester Division, White Plains, NY

●February, 2008 – June, 2008: Yale-New Haven Health System, New Haven, CT

●September – October 2007 & June, 2009: North Shore/ LIJ Health System, New Hyde Park, NY

●July – Sept., 2007 & Nov. 2007, May 2008 & Sept. 2008: New York Hospital Queens, Flushing, NY

●September, 2007: NYP/ Weil Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY

●July – August 2007: Hospital for Special Services, New York, NY

●June, 2007: University of Michigan Health Systems/ Mott Children’s Hospital, Ann Arbor, MI

●February, 2007: New York University Hospital, New York, NY

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

EXPERIENCE

Client Service Manager - May 2005 - December 2006

Catholic Health Services of Long Island

As liaison with Hospital Management and the Information Technology Dept., I facilitated day to day IT needs. Act as Project manager on hospital based projects. Work directly with Executive Management on a daily basis.

Projects included a new 4 story acute care wing, new Cardiac Catherization lab, Heart Lab, Emergency Room Expansion, multi department decanting for construction preparation. Physicians Billing system, PACS system.

Project Manager – January 2005 – April 2005

Emerging Health Information Technology/Montefiore Medical Center

Yonkers, New York

Managed IT portion of FHA Construction Projects, including new Radiology Department, and Emergency Room renovation.

Managed pilot project for Vocera personal communication device.

Facilitated upgrade of telecommunication infrastructure at multi clinic sites.

Project Manager (Consultant), March 2003 - December 2004

Queens/Long Island Medical Group

Garden City, New York

Manage all aspects of IDX/ALLSCRIPTS Touchworks application (ver. 7.0 – 7.5) rollout and VOIP Telephony/Call Center Project for a 21- center medical group.

Successfully completed, ahead of schedule, an IDX/ALLSCRIPTS application rollout (software, hardware and training) for medical group comprised of 21 Medical Practice Centers. Responsible for project team of 35.

Ensure continuity of services during Application “Go-Lives”, providing on-site management of conversion.

Confer with CEO, COO, and CIO on an ongoing basis to assess Project status and progress.

Meet with team members to track project status, ensuring project progresses in a timely fashion.

Coordinate construction with Facilities staff and Architects for physical changes to Centers as they pertain to this Project. Design layout and coordinate infrastructure wiring with cabling vendor.

Liaison to vendors on purchase/ delivery of hardware in accordance with Project deadlines.

Project Manager/Data Center Site Manager, September 1996 to August 2001

Perot Systems Corporation-North Shore/Long Island Jewish Health System Account

Westbury, New York

Managed the overall 7x24 operations of the Corporate Data Center and three hospital-based Data Centers serving the corporate offices, five hospitals, and a centralized Core laboratory. Supervised 35 operations staff. Provided continuity of services in Perot Systems transition of the North Shore/Long Island Jewish Health System account Managed Hardware/Software vendors including IBM, Computer Associates, SMS/SIEMENS, CERNER, HBOC, DEC/Compaq for all SLA’s, Hardware/Software maintenance, upgrade and installations, and contract negotiations.

Project Management – Managed Data Center component of projects such as system upgrades, installations of systems, physical plant improvements and upgrades including implementation of SIEMENS Invision in 4 hospital locations.

SYSTEMS KNOWLEDGE/EXPERIENCE

Perot Systems

SDLC, Team Lead Development Program, Project Management Program, Leadership Program, Behavioral Interviewing.

Allscripts Sunrise Clinical Manager - ver. 5.0, 5.5, 6.1

Extensive knowledge of all aspects of SCM, Ambulatory, ED, SRX. Trained in SCM 5.0 Configuration 1 and 2.

Siemens Soarian Clinicals - ver. 3.2, 3.3, 4.0 Meditech – ver. 5.66 Touchworks

Clarity, Workspace

Allscripts– Certified -SCM 5.0. /5.5 Completed SCM Configuration 1 and 2 for 5.0.

AWARDS: North Shore Health System Information Services Outstanding Leader Award

EDUCATION

Masters, Health Care Administration, C.W. Post, Greenvale, NY

B.A., Business Management, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY

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