BARB MIHALCHICK, MBA, MEd, MAS, CPPM

Edina, MN **436

cell 612-***-****

adr0x0@r.postjobfree.com

Profile of a solution provider to business

Senior Project Management, Contractor (onsite and remote), Training Curriculum And Development, Newsletters, IT, Business and Product Manuals, E-manuals, Web Page Reviews, US and International Onsite

oInventive, creative, problem fixer

oMarketing, Accounting, Finance. IT, HR, Manufacturing

oProcess improvement, solution provider

oGoal and deadline oriented

oManager experience, Led International Teams

oProposal writer RFP

oCompliance Federal, States and EU

oResearcher and writer manuals, newsletters, articles

oSystems: Accounting, Finance, HR, Operations, Manufacturing, IT

oThird Party Support

oHIPPA

oCommunications, self starter, goal oriented, processes, and leader

oWriter of Published Books

oWarehousing and Manufacturing operations consulting, Northern Telecom Inc. North America and Europe

Reviews and Wrote policies and procedures for:

oBCBS AL

oBCBS AR

oBCBS FL

oBCBS TN

oBCBS RI

oBCBS MA and NE Block

oBCBS MN

oCommunity Health CA

oCaremark, AZ

oGateway PA

oGroup Health WA

oHealth First FL

oMedica, MN

oOptum, MN

oUPMC PA

oWellPoint (now Anthem)

2021 and 2022, Wrote and Published Children's books series, "The Adventures Of The Five Rabb Boys," Published 6 books in series. Written 3 more, in illustration process

2021 and 2022, Wrote and Published Romance and Adventure/Climate Change books 1) "The Other Path Taken," 2) “Murder At Alton Manor,” 3) “Fleet Murder In The Bahamas,” 4) “Murder In The Bahamas Twice Again,” series; 5) “Paradise is Burning, Get Out! Evacuate! Now!,” 6) “It Just Fell.” Three book Climate Change Fiction series “ 7) “East Coast Tsunami” 8) “West Coast Tsunami” 9) “Got Water Wings.” 10) “Hurricane – Heists, Help Huggies” 11) “Earthquake Tremors – Not Again” Two books on Mega drought 12) “Who Stole Our Lake”- July 28 & 29, 2022 Barnes & Noble's Top Pick eight days in a row (13) in process “Dead Pool”

All books available on Internet world-wide including Barnes & Noble. Target.com, (Walmart.com and others including Mighty Ape, New Zealand and Australia, and Xlibris Publisher, Ohio. Written under the pen name of B. A. Mihalchick for the Winthrop Companies Inc.)

Professional Accomplishments

Winthrop Companies, 1/2017 to Current

Senior Process Consultant/Project Manager, Owner

oNew product: Partner with Risk Specialist to create app for use in training employees on risk. Estimated release date in late 2022.

oNew product: Partner to develop and allow young children to be read to on the call phone for preschoolers. To eliminate word encounter gap found in poor children. Estimated release date Dec 2022.

oProvided Hitrust and Audit compliance consulting for small companies eg, LearnToLive and Vetconnex’s FBI audit. Wrote procedures.

oBook author

Medica, Information Security 6/2016 to 12/2016 – CIBER

Hitrust Project Manager & Risk Consultant

oCreated the project plan, an audit and testing program for HITRUST certification. Created requirements for the 60 Hitrust controls. Performed Domain pre-assessment reviews including interviews. Mapped controls to NIST.

oUpdated or wrote policies and procedures that were other non-existent or too old.

UHG OPTUM, 5/2015 to 5/2016 – CIBER

Risk, Data Security & Hitrust Consultant

oPerformed Data Access Reviews for the 2015 Koala Project.

oPerformed access assessments, recommended remediation for over 70 Optum locations. .

oReviewed and mapped Optum's controls to HITRUST and NIST.

oRewrote Archer procedures,

oWrote a monthly compliance newsletter.

Wells Fargo Wealth, Brokerage & Retirement 9/2014 – 5/2015 – Robert Half

Federal Regulatory Consultant

oBased on the Treasury non-compliance letters for the American Disabilities Act and Service Member Civil Relief Act verified problems had been fixed. Provided assurance or non compliance letters to Senior Managernent.

oReviewed over 160 websites user web pages for compliance.

Anthem Blue Cross, 8/2013 to 8/2014 – Concord Technology Consulting Program/Senior Project Manager

oManaged multiple Medicare, Medicaid, and LIS software development projects for Anthem’s HUB database seven billing systems, acquired from past acquisitions.

oSoftware, infrastructure and releases management. Created training documentation.

oCreated training documentation for software development.

oWrote articles on compliance.

Ameriprise Financial, 6/2013 to 8/2013 – KForce

IT General Controls (ITGC) SOX Auditor

oReviewed and tested the Q1and Q2 re-performance for the London England Business Unit IT General Controls.

Allianz Life, 7/2012 to to 5/2013 – Robert Half Technology

IT General Controls Auditor

oCreated audit programs, performed testing and documented IT General Controls for the annual audit.

oAudit programs used by sister company, Fireman's Fund, San Francisco, CA.

Medicare, The Burchfield Group, 6/2010 to 6/2012 – Data Validation Senior Program Manager Contractor

oWorked onsite with the business side personnel to ensure compliance to Medicare Contracts.

oReviewed and wrote Client policies and procedures.

Medtronics, 5/2009 to 6/2010 – Talent Management Consulting

IT SOX Compliance Consul

oDeveloped an IT compliance program to support the newly consolidated SOX compliance function. Identified, assessed, re-mediated and improved IT security, operation and IT controls for 109 SAP.

Cargill, 2/2008 to 5/2009 – KellyMitchell

Senior PMO IT Infrastructure Project Manager Grain & Oil Seeds NA

oManaged IT Infrastructure projects for the three Financial Controllers and field personnel.

oWrote a weekly newsletter.

oCreated and used a simplified SOC2 program for 3rd vendors.

oCanadian support

Baker Tilly Virchow Krause, 1/2005 to 2/2008

Program Group Manager – Risk and IT Services

oManaged client engagement projects for its manufacturing, retail, ethanol, government and health care, in compliance and operations. Managed healthcare operations for Omnicare Health, KY.

oReviewed and supported manufacturing operations and systems for clients.

oCreated Marketing programs and supported new firm offerings for Pandemic Disaster Recovery Programs and Forensic Accounting.

oWrote a monthly newsletter and articles on controls and current topics like Bird Flu.

oSupported SAP manufacturing systems for clients.

oActed as the Compliance Officer for Aventine Bio-Ethanol Energy, Pekin, IL for two years. Wrote policies and procedures. Performed bi-annual SOX reviews.

Northern Telecom Inc.

Canadian – All Operations Consultant, North America and Europe

background

MBA – Finance and Operations, University of St. Thomas, MN

MEd – Education, Curriculum Development, University of Minnesota – Thesis: Curriculum Development

MAS – Operations, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University FL,

BS – Education, Accounting, University of Minnesota

Minnesota Teacher License K - 12 inactive

American Society for Quality (ASQ) training

e-Commerce Certificate, University of St. Thomas

CPPM Project Management Certificate, University of St. Thomas, PMI’s PMP exam preparation class

Blue Cross Blue Shield - SCRUM

Medtronic – SIX SIGMA on-line training, ITIL on-line training

Vendor training – Telephony, Relational Databases and Warehouses, EDI and Hyperion software

Wells Fargo – Agile SCRUM on-line training program

FEMA Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity training

About Me

●Volunteer – events for children

●MN State Fair Gluten Free Baking ribbon winner including blue ribbons.

●First MN State Fair Overall Gluten Free Baker Award Winner sponsored by General Mills

●Former Teacher - High School and Middle School, Post Teacher U of Minnesota- Graduate inactive license K – 12, curriculum development in summers

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