Information Technology Management

FORREST W. BARNES III

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Information Technology Executive with more than 20+ years’ experience in complex, data-centric environments, creating stable systems, reliable processes, and long-term sustainable operations as the critical foundation for organizational success. Record of success managing cross functional teams to execute projects, demonstrating sound judgment, critical thinking, leadership to address complicated business challenges and corporate objectives.

Strategic System Planning & Execution Enterprise Technology & Business Planning Application Development

IT Governance Business Intelligence Mobile Device Management IT Regulatory Compliance Risk Management Budget Management Customer Relationship Management Six-Sigma Trained SaaS

Executive History and Select Accomplishments

EVOLUTION HEALTH-Dallas, Texas 2015–Present

Director: Technology Information Operations

Senior IT leader for Evolution Health, a subsidiary of Envision Health, responsible for staffing, project management, and development of short/long-term strategic initiatives to meet corporate goals, development of relationships with key personnel, ensuring contractual obligations are met, and operational goals are exceeded.

Member corporate IT standards & Executive Leadership Committee (ELC). Leading application design & project manager upgrade and refresh all HIPAA/SOX compliant network, telecom, data center, office and mobile device system deployments migrating contributed office sites from Ascension Health to Envision enterprise environments including McKesson, Allscripts, Cerner, DeVero client server and SaaS applications

Accountable for partnering with the Envision Shared Services and PMO organizations in support of Electronic Medical Records (EMR) application enhancements, mobile device system deployments, field support and functional operational process improvements

Successfully negotiated contract terms and implemented Scrypt, INC Sfax SaaS enterprise HIPAA compliant electronic faxing and document retention solution across the organization that is currently being rolled out as the enterprise standard

Change agent and IT business advocate accountable for business engagement, identifying process improvements, documenting business requirements, assessing application features and product changes and support of our Medical Command Centers to increase business operational productivity in alignment with the organizations key performance indicator (KPI’s).

HEALTH CARE SERVICE CORPORATION-Chicago, Illinois (Blue Cross Blue Shield) 2011–2015

Director: Technology Information Services (TIS)

Plan and execute all enterprise business intelligence analytic and reporting initiatives leveraging our ODS, project and program funding, resource and capital management, and day-to-day operational production support while maintaining budget adherence in alignment with the company’s overall strategic objectives and vision. Collaborate across business, PMO and IT areas with a focus on design and implementation efforts in support of data integration from internal and external sources into our transactional and analytical information repositories.

Partner with the Federal Government (CMS) to implement a SaaS solution to manage enrollees, providers, and corresponding claims covered and paid in compliance with the Affordable Care Act (ACA) legislation resulting in a 40% increase operational productivity (increase to 45 million transactions from 10 million).

Manage and drove Operational Data Store (ODS) design and development to build out Consumer-Driven Health Plan (CDHP) reporting resulting in business value incentives and Value Based Insurance Design (VBID).

Demonstrate IT leadership, solution design, cross-functional IT and business collaboration, and solution implementation.

Lead project status reporting and analytics effort to in-source behavioral health programs, resulting in the redevelopment of external client reporting packages and internal data marts for analytics and reporting.

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CNA INSURANCE-Chicago, Illinois 2010–2011

Vice President, Information Technology

Client Executive of Finance, Corporate Services, and Human Resources

Collaborated with business leaders to develop an integrated multiyear strategic plan and enterprise roadmap to accelerate top-line premium growth, maximize overall profitability across product lines, improve product pricing models for speed to market, expand targeted verticals, and facilitate reduction of ongoing operating expenses.

Slashed operational costs 33%, increased IT productivity, and enabled the business to increase investments in enterprise initiatives by directing a transformation initiative that introduced the organization to an outsourced managed services model. Managed the streamlining and enhancing of PeopleSoft financials ERP system, processes, and data warehouse environment to improve premium tracking and timing of key management KPI’s.

GENWORTH FINANCIAL-Richmond, Virginia 2004–2010

Director of Information Technology: Finance and Investment Systems

Managed the development, support, and implementation of enterprise systems for derivative, hedging, and Investment Accounting platforms; strategic planning; risk assessment; and execution of technology acquisitions. Lead architect on GE/Genworth (IPO) separation initiative from GE Capital.

Built, managed, and supported Derivative and Hedging platform to support over $22 billion in notional while supporting investments organization that handled company’s financial assets of over $110 billion.

Enabled Genworth Financial Capital Markets group to take advantage of market changes, resulting in execution of security trades in amount of $520 million, realizing additional $1.2 million net income.

Enabled Wealth and Income Management business unit to receive $200 million in capital relief from SEC by modeling hedge processes and developing adequate controls for management of company holdings.

G.E. FINANCIAL ASSURANCE-Richmond, Virginia 1999–2004

Director of Information Technology

Achieved 35% reduction in systems, application, and server support expenses by leading application consolidation projects via Java/J2EE Frameworks. Retired 1,800 servers and instituted shared application services.

Realized 23% increase in productivity within 24 months after designing and implementing company’s first operational data store (ODS) and data warehouse environment.

Developed e-business ecommerce strategy for all business locations throughout U.S. and Western Europe to support over 43 dynamic U.S. and international web sites. Designed highly available, fault tolerant, shared web infrastructure while managing the 24X7 day-to-day operations

Education and Professional Development

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA

Master of Science, Management of Information Technology

CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY

Bachelor of Science, Computer Information Systems

NEW MEXICO MILITARY INSTITUTE

Degree in Systems Management

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT:

Six Sigma Quality Greenbelt Trained

New York Institute of Finance Credit Derivatives Products I & II

G.E. - Experienced Information Systems Management Program (EIMP) Graduate

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