Resume of Tamera Brown
Summary
Tamera is a highly skilled professional with over 20 years of IT Project Coordination experience with billing analysis, financial reporting, project management and account management in both telecom and healthcare industries consulting for clients like Verizon, Community Health Systems and Hewlett Packard.
Over 3 years of Healthcare IT Project and Program Coordination experience with HP and CHS consulting on multiple enterprise wide software implementation and integration projects
oCoordinated project specific events, timelines and communications for Program and Project Mangers, Business Owners, Directors, AP Departments and multiple hospital sites
oDeveloped and updated multiple Go-Live, Training, and Testing schedules
oCoordinated on projects budgets of up to $9 Million working with up to 7 PMs at a time
Able to coordinate and effectively manage deadline-driven projects in a highly visible environment
Superb leadership, management and coaching skills. Possess strong oral and written skills with a keen attention to detail
Technical Skills
MS Office, Google Docs, Global Deploy and Access using the PC platform, Outlook, Excel, Power Point, HMS/MedHost, Sparta, QuickBase, Swift Track (Norad), Siterra, FST, Ontario Artiva, Remedy, Daptiv, SharePoint, Hyland OnBase
Experience
Independent Business Owner 3/2017-Current
Designs by Tamerah
Project/Program Coordinator 9/2014-3/2017
Community Health Systems
Responsible as the sole Program Coordinator for the enterprise wide Ontario-Artiva Patient Accounting and Hyland - OnBase Document Imaging implementation projects with a combined budget of $9 Million. Implementations standardized and consolidated enterprise wide Hospital Business Offices into 1 of 6 Shared Services Centers (SSC).
Daptiv-Tracked Projects, Time and resource allocation, Tracked Time sheets for department-coordinating submission and approvals, Program Mgr created Project shell, I maintained project and time and resources as well as upload project documents and track milestones.
SharePoint-Created Project Folders and uploaded pertinent documents for the various projects into SharePoint.
Coordinated project specific events, timelines and communications for Lead Program Manager and the 3 Project Managers consulting on the project.
Developed and updated Go-Live, Testing, and Training Schedules as needed per facility
oResponsible for Weekly Post Go Live calls with each SSC to confirm all work and conversion completed to their satisfaction and get approval for moving the facility to Support for future ticket issues
oAssisted with trouble shooting issues for Go Live scenarios of new implementations
oCoordinated Go Live information from 200+ hospitals for multiple users per hospital for new software
Held weekly calls with each of the 6 SSC’s for updates and outstanding issues for each facility being moved, which includes tracking tickets, updating the Dashboard, completing Task in Daptiv
Opened and Followed up Remedy tickets for each component of the transition (HMS Access, Printers, Queries, Scanning, Email)
Set up Bi-Weekly Calls with Senior Project Manager to help coordinate the DAR Facility conversions which in many cases coincide with the CBO conversions
Assisted with Hyland OnBase Project as needed, coordinating with the Vendor on Invoices
Maintained and Follow up with A/P on All Project Invoices (Artiva, CBO, Hyland OnBase, Telephony, DAR)
Audited site by site analysis, reports for completed work and all documents inventory required
Project Coordinator/Support 5/2013-8/2014
Alcatel-Lucent Sprint Vision Upgrade Project
Processed, Reported and Updated over 14,000+ sites for Sprint on Network Upgrade daily.
Daily conference calls with Management as to progress of site upgrades
Weekly audits of Sprint and Alcatel Lucent field reporting vs System statistics
Finance Manager/Project Coordinator 2/2011-5/2013
Nsoro/Mastec Wireless, Inc. Close Out Projects
Assisted vendor with development of customized software for Project Management and Provisioning Departments to implement procedures for flow-through and completion of client services
Completed Inventory/Warehouse overseer, audits
Assisted vendor with development of customize software for Project Management and Provisioning Departments to implement procedures for flow-through and completion of client services
Closed out sites onsite with AT&T Corporate for payment ($15 Million) of work completed for the TN/KY Region
Project/Program Coordinator/Support 12/2009-2/2011
Hewlett Packard
Managed application installs, onsite cutover coordination and support, Conference Calls, Cut Sheets Data, Reports and Statistics Globally for HP/Agilent project, working with up to 7 PMs at a time.
Developed and managed weekly Team Statistics and Reports as well as Executive Management presentations for the HP/Agilent Project
Developed and managed weekly Team Statistics and Reports as well as Executive Management presentations for the HP/Agilent Project
Managed IPT documentation and posted for all Management, Team and Customer contacts to view as needed
Produced weekly conference call minutes for each Project Manager and their respective calls
Assisted with BOM inventory for the project
Travelled to Go Lives in some US cities to support and assist with onsite trouble ticketing and Go Live progress/reporting
Owner 6/2009-12/2009
TheTelecomSolutions.com
Client Account Manager 8/2008-6/2009
FocusOne Services (short term project)
Developed training guides for provisioners, client account managers, and customer service consultants and data entry
Trained customer service consultants to input data, analyze bills and for relationship building
Telecom Project Consultant 8/1990 – 8/2008
MCI, WorldCom, Verizon National Accounts
MCI was bought by WorldCom, which was bought by Verizon
Customer Support Mgr National Accounts 11/2000-8/2008
Carrier Relations/Provisioning Manager 6/1999-11/2000
Provisioning Manager Project Coordinator and Trainer 8/1997-6/1999
Project Coordinator/Project Manager 8/1990-8/1997
Coordinated client service specs with technical consultants by facilitating our internal specialist and the client’s IT specialist to assure proposed services were best fit, most cost effective and made the most sense for the customer
Facilitated on-site client/vendor service installations and implementation for seamless MACDs
Built and managed strong client relationships with multiple national clients with regular on-site meetings and collaborated work days. Worked with the hundreds of individual sites to track MACD’s and billing (CHS Being one of those customers)
Coordinated on-site network migration for more than 175 clients
Escalated and tracked orders, provided internal and external reports to clients and management to include timeline intervals and SLAs
Developed RFPs for contract renegotiation across all telecom services
Coordinated response to client RFPs by facilitating technical, legal, sales and support department feedback to ensure all components were addressed and approved