Experience

Ingalls

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

• Information Systems Coordinator /Automation Specialist /Analyst

  • 2004 - Present

  Promoted to provide leadership and serve as Subject Matter Expert for Information Systems, Automation, and Informatics. Lead and manage related projects, implementations, and initiatives. Maintain formulary additions, deletions, and updates for all pharmacy applications★ Partner with senior leadership and cross-functional technical and non-technical teams. Ensure alignment, gather requirements, and provide strategic advisement. Continuously improve processes, policies, procedures, and the application of IT solutions to drive operational efficiencies, optimization, and automation success.• Provide daily hardware support, maintain system upgrades and enhancements, and daily, weekly, and monthly maintenance for all pharmacy systems.• Lead full-lifecycle projects, from conception to delivery, to post-delivery follow-up. Manage resources, risks, and milestones. Delivering projects on time and within budget, while accomplishing project objectives.• Serve as Subject Matter Expert, providing support and employee education/user training for automation system functions, implementation, optimization, enhancements, bugs, and identifying and resolving technical issues. Provide setup and system training to new staff.• Collect and analyze large data sets and key metrics. Generate reports, dashboards, and executive summaries/presentations. Present findings and provide data-driven advisement to key stakeholders and senior leadership.• Identify root causes, bottlenecks, and antiquated systems, procedures, and technologies. Cross-functionally partner to remedy operational and technical concerns.• Prepare weekly and monthly audit, workflow, and workload reports. • Run quarterly stock optimization for the Pyxis ES system.• Maintain, test new upgrades, and audit Soarian Financials as it pertains to the pharmacy formulary and charges.• Provide procedural documents for all systems.

• PHARMACY / MEDICAL, HARDWARE / SOFTWARE APPLICATION EXPERIENCE

  • 2004 - Present

  Designed, built, implemented, maintained, and supported both hardware and software for the following applications:• Pyxis ES Medstation as an automatic medication distribution system in surgical and procedural areas. • Pyxis Anesthesia System as a controlled substance documentation system and an automated medication distribution system in surgery and procedural areas. • Codonics Printer System as controlled substance documentation and labeling system in the surgical areas. • Siemens/Cerner Pharmacy as a fully functioning medication order entry system with decision support, IV manufacturing, label functionality, billing, jcode processing, and interfacing with automated medication dispensing systems.• Siemens/Cerner Pharmacy Medication Administration System (MAK) as an electronic medication documentation system with bedside bar code scanning. Implemented for Barcode Scanning at Ingalls.• Fastpak EXP Packager as a repacking solution for oral solids.• MediDose as a repacking solution for oral solutions and half tabs.• RX Verify and RX Inspection as an automated system using bar code technology for the replenishment of medication storage locations.• DoseEdge Pharmacy Workflow Manager as an enterprise solution that interfaces with Siemens/Cerner Pharmacy which automates the process of routing, preparing, inspecting, tracking, and reporting on IV doses.• Care Fusion Pharmogistics software as a comprehensive inventory management system that helps track medications, simplify workflow processes, improve productivity, reduce medication cost, and waste.• RX Auditor as a controlled substance audit tool. • Video Security System to monitor inside inpatient and outpatient pharmacies. • Soarian Financials Application as a formulary management system for pharmacy charge code builds used for billing/claims and jcode processing.• McKesson as a purchasing enterprise management system that tracks medication purchases and interfaces with inventory management.