Compliance & Risk Analysis

Gregory Crysler

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Austin, TX ***29

[cell] 512-***-****

[email] *******.*******@*****.***

Legal/Regulatory Compliance

Summary of Experience

Since earning a Juris Doctorate in 2007, Greg Crysler has acquired considerable expertise in federal and state regulatory issues within the Texas Medicaid program. Advancing into a leadership role in 2008, Mr. Crysler protects the electronic health information of more than 1 million active recipients of public assistance. He also leads all data privacy and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliance activities.

Key Skills

● Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the HIPAA Privacy Rule, Security Rule and Transaction Code Sets Standards

 Trained representatives of Medicaid fiscal agent contractor under state-mandated Corrective Action Plan (CAP). Training focused on the protection of electronic Protected Health Information (e-PHI) and employee-monitoring strategies.

 Completed investigations of possible or actual HIPAA violations and reported findings to state customer. Deliverables included extensive analysis based on stakeholder interviews, policies and procedures and reviews of available data.

 Thorough knowledge of state and federal privacy regulations and HIPAA enforcement process, including HIPAA preemption analysis.

● Creative problem-solver who excels in approaching issues from multiple perspectives, performing thorough quantitative and qualitative analysis and formulating persuasive arguments.

 Expert Skill: Microsoft Excel, Business Objects, Microsoft Word

 Advanced Skill: Microsoft Access, Microsoft Visual Basic, Microsoft VBA, Microsoft Sharepoint, Microsoft Project

 Intermediate Skill: SQL Server, Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, Microsoft Visio, Microsoft PowerPoint, Maple / Mathematica

● Knowledge worker equally comfortable dealing with technological or traditional challenges.

 Expert verbal and written communication skills focusing on clarity of expression.

 Able to tailor communication strategy to audiences having diverse educational, economic and social backgrounds. These skills facilitate respectful and honest discussions that produce the best ideas from all participants.

 Effective at keeping simple things simple. Also capable of breaking down complex topics to efficiently summarize issues.

Work History

2008—2009 Privacy & Security Director, ACS, Inc. Austin, TX

● Managed physical and information security operations for Texas Medicaid fiscal agent contractor, including an extensive update of corporate Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP). Raised standards for incident investigations and submitted formal report deliverables to the Texas Health & Human Services Commission (HHSC).

● Advised senior leadership on regulatory and contract compliance issues. Examples include: legal discovery process for employee internal emails; contingency planning to address emerging medical privacy issues (e.g. electronic medical records); and business license reciprocity between states.

● Provided guidance to staff to ensure the effectiveness of internal privacy/security policies and procedures for more than 1200 employees. Issues include: maintaining IT Security requirements while transitioning a substantial number of staff from working on-site to at-home; data transfers to sub-contractors and state-approved trading partners; and negotiating Business Associate Agreements (BAAs).

2006—2008 Business Analyst, ACS, Inc. Austin, TX

● Acted as principal representative of operations divisions during implementation of major federal initiative, the National Drug Code (NDC). Under an accelerated development schedule, led business requirements negotiations and coordinated with system design project manager throughout software development life-cycle.

● Prepared financial analyses for changes to medical billing procedures and state funding regulations, including the NDC and National Provider Identifier (NPI) projects. Identified key Medicaid providers most likely to experience billing difficulties and helped coordinate outreach efforts.

● Leveraged legal and data analysis skills to help implement cost-saving initiative with 3rd party contractor. Initiative involved identifying complex criteria to produce 80,000 Medicaid clients having annual claims in excess of $1,500,000,000. Ran extensive queries on Texas Medicaid data warehouse and served as the data SME for the project.

2004 Summer Clerkship, Office of the Congressional Liaison, United States Department of Veterans Affairs, Washington D.C.

● Assisted attorneys with statutory analysis of bills before the House and Senate Veterans Affairs Committees

● Coordinated with congressional staffers to prepare VA officials for testimony before the House and Senate Veterans Affairs Committees

● Served as research assistant in annual review of the department’s Disaster Recovery Plan, including the VA’s response to a catastrophic attack on Washington, D.C.

2003 Inside Sales Representative, Careerbuilder.com, Chicago, IL

● First sales representative among those hired at the same time to achieve $10,000 of revenue in one month

● Demonstrated elite writing and speaking skills to build client base

● Developed strong customer relationship management (CRM) skills

Education & Training

2007 University of Miami School of Law, Coral Gables, Florida

Juris Doctorate

2002 Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island

Bachelor of Arts, Political Science

Bachelor of Arts, History

1998 Texas Academy of Mathematics & Science, Denton, TX

Diploma

References

1. Rick Pope, Esq. ACS, Inc. Managing Director, Texas. 512-***-****

2. Mark Noble. ACS, Inc. Managed Care Program Director, Texas. 512-***-****

3. Shane Garonzik. Pension Live, LLC. Partner. 214-***-****

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