Experience

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  Grand Valley Catholic Outreach (GVCO)

  • Grand Junction, Colorado Area

  • Member of the Board of Directors

    • Jul 2016 - Present
    • Grand Junction, Colorado Area

    GVCO is a nonprofit organization that provides clothing, food and shelter to low income and homeless individuals and families in Mesa County, Colorado. We serve a daily lunch from noon to 1pm Monday through Saturday; we have a clothing bank that is stocked with donated clothing, kitchen supplies...

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  Colorado Municipal League

  • United States
  • Government Relations Services
  • 1 - 100 Employee

  • Member of the Executive Board, served as Secretary, Treasurer of CML; Member Legislative Policy Cte

    • Oct 2013 - Apr 2018

    Elected to the Executive Board of the Colorado Municipal League in October, 2013.

  • Vice Chair

    • Apr 2017 - Jan 2018

    I was chosen to serve on the Executive Committee of CML, but was termed out as Trustee of the Town of Palisade in April, 2018. (Palisade is a statutory town in Colorado and elected officials cannot serve more than two four year terms in succession before taking off one term) I resigned as Vice-Chair of CML to allow a successor to get experience in that office in preparation for taking over as Chair in June, 2018.

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  Town of Palisade

  • Palisade, Colorado

  • Mayor Pro Tempore

    • Apr 2012 - Apr 2018
    • Palisade, Colorado

    Vice Chair, 521 Drainage Authority; Liaison to Planning Commission; Member, Colorado Municipal League Legislative Policy Committee, CML Members elected me to the CML Board of Directors in June, 2012 at their annual meeting. At the July, 2014 CML Board of Directors annual retreat I was chosen to ...

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  Town of Palisade, Colorado

  • Town of Palisade, Colorado

  • Trustee

    • Apr 2010 - Mar 2018
    • Town of Palisade, Colorado

    I'm was an elected official -- Trustee of the Town of Palisade. The Town Board then selected me as their Mayor Pro Tem.

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  Rocky Mountain Health Plans

  • Grand Junction, Colorado Area

  • Sr Internal Auditor

    • 2008 - 2009
    • Grand Junction, Colorado Area

    Audited internal operations of the health plan. Improved internal operations, discovered contract terms that had not been implemented, saving half a million dollars per year on a three year renewable contract in one instance.

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  Hennepin County

  • CFO, MHP

    • 2000 - 2008

    In charge of all Financial, Accounting, Payment functions of this health maintenance organization. Negotiated all large contracts with providers of service and with payers. Turned the finances around in the first year and the plan was profitable each year afterwards. Improved enrollee benefits, ...

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  Brown & Company CPA's (now CBIZ)

  • Minneapolis, MN

  • Audit Manager

    • 1991 - 2000
    • Minneapolis, MN

    Conducted and Managed audits of profit, nonprofit and governmental organizations with revenues between $200K per annum to $20 million. Chosen as Outstanding CPA in the Twin Cities. Specific responsibilities: (1) Manage audit engagements from planning through financial report issuance and applic...

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  Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island

  • Pawtucket, Rhode Island

  • Controller

    • 1989 - 1991
    • Pawtucket, Rhode Island

    Controller of Memorial Hospital, managed all accounting functions, including Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Fixed Assets, Capital Funds, CMS Reporting, Financial Reporting, Enterprise Accounting, relations with other hospitals including Interns and Residents accounting and reporting, shar...

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  Hennepin County Medical Center

  • United States
  • Hospitals and Health Care
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Sr Internal Auditor

    • 1987 - 1989

    After attaining Certified Internal Auditor, audited various departments and functions throughout a major metropolitan healthcare organization, resulting in cost savings, cost recoveries and improved efficiencies in each area; negotiated the acquisition of another hospital, using Medicare Cost Report methodoligies to assess the financial viability of the other facility under various scenarios of combined and/or shared services -- used market analyses to determine value of assets acquired and aided negotiation team in obtaining the facility at a favorable cost.

  • Accounting Manager

    • 1983 - 1987

    Prepared monthly, quarterly and annual financial statements for a half billion dollar healthcare center; prepared annual financial reports including the CMS Reports; prepared audit workpapers and worked with outside auditors on the annual financial audit of the healthcare system. Prepared cost allocations and management financial reporting to determine profitability of lines of work and compare alternative processes. Managed Accounts Payable Staff and Accounting Staff, a total of 12.

  • Payroll Manager

    • 1979 - 1983

    Managed the payroll department of a healthcare system that produced 3700 checks every two weeks with an average error rate of 4 checks per payroll period; corrections to those checks were made within an average of three hours; calculated retroactive pay adjustments resulting from collective bargaining agreements; handled all changes to health insurance enrollments, elective benefits, changes in withholding. Converted system from all paper to an electronic time system. Smoothly converted payroll from one IT system to another without impacting employees negatively.

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  Hennepin County

  • Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

  • Accounts Payable

    • 1978 - 1979
    • Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

    Managed Accounts Payable in the Human Services Department of Hennepin County. Responsible for coordinating completion of benefits applications for public services, working with Social Workers, management and the finance department to ensure that applications were completed in a timely basis, tha...

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  Hennepin County Medical Center

  • United States
  • Hospitals and Health Care
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Internal Control, Billing and Accounts Receivable

    • 1976 - 1978

    Audited all Inpatient Billings of a major hospital/healthcare system; ensured accuracy and completeness of billings as well as compliance of billings with CMS and private insurance regulations and contractual obligations; calculated and entered expected reimbursement from third party payers into the healthcare system's computers and wrote off contractual discounts so that when payments were received, all discrepancies could be and were investigated and followed up. Researched these discrepancies when they occured. Identified issues regarding coordination of benefits when a patient had multiple payers. Identified Workers Compensation claims and set claims up for subsequent work by A/R staff. Identified and set up procedures for newborns and others who were eligible for Medicaid but had not yet had their status' confirmed by the State so that claims would be sent in when Medicaid status was approved. Quickly and accurately processed all inpatient claims to ensure that they would be paid without delays caused by our systems.

  • Billing and Accounts Receivable: Medicare Accounting

    • 1976 - 1976

    Assembled all information for Medicare billings; edited to make sure that the information was accurate and complete; compared bilings to Medical Records to ensure that services billed were documented and provided; edited and corrected billings where necessary to ensure completeness and accuracy; removed duplicate entries; corrected data where required; ensured that billings complied with CMS regulations and could be backed up when audited by internal control and by outside auditors

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  Bureau of ATF & E

  • Peoria, Illinois Area

  • Special Agent

    • 1974 - 1976
    • Peoria, Illinois Area

    Worked as Special Agent: Audited alcohol tax on beer, wine, distilled spirits; reviewed applications of firearms dealers, performed periodic and special reviews of compliance by firearms dealers with federal and state regulations; audited use of alcohol in applications in the food and healthcare ...

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  Mundelein College; Truman Junior College, Berlitz

  • Greater Chicago Area

  • Instructor, English as a Second Language

    • 1972 - 1974
    • Greater Chicago Area

    Worked three jobs simultaneously -- Taught English as a Second Language and tutored bilingual students hoping to qualify for the GED at Truman Junior College in the mornings; then went north to Mundelein College and taught ESL to college enrollees or hopefuls who needed to pass the TOEFL exam to ...

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  Augustana College

  • Rock Island, Illinois

  • Student Assistant, Professor Stelling, English Department

    • 1967 - 1971
    • Rock Island, Illinois

    Performed research for Dr Stelling on topics assigned; prepared draft correspondence; ordered and delivered materials from college and regional libraries for Dr. Stelling; made copies, delivered messages to other professors, typed notes, performed other routine work, filed notes; learned how to b...

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  Zion Hospital

  • Zion, Illinois

  • Paramedic, Laboratory and Pharmacy

    • 1961 - 1967
    • Zion, Illinois

    Worked in the clinical laboratory and the hospital pharmacy during junior and senior high school, every Friday night, many Saturday mornings and during the summer most days for 4 to 8 hours as needed helping out with routine lab tests, including microscopic blood counts and blood chemistry analys...