Experience

Nebraska Judicial Branch

• United States
• Government Administration
• 1 - 100 Employee

• IT Data Analyst

  • Jun 2022 - Present

  Lincoln, Nebraska, United States

• IT Data Analyst

  • Jun 2022 - Present

  Lincoln, Nebraska, United States



Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services

• United States
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• Information Technology Business System Analyst

  • Feb 2021 - Jun 2022

  Lincoln, Nebraska, United States • Liaison between technical developers, DHHS program administration, as well as end user of N-FOUCS system to gather detailed information and system requirements • Create Business Design documents for system changes requested from DHHS program administrators to be presented to N-FOCUS technical team to make the necessary system changes • Facilitate meetings between DHHS program administrators and technical staff to complete necessary system changes for the State Eligible System… Show more • Liaison between technical developers, DHHS program administration, as well as end user of N-FOUCS system to gather detailed information and system requirements • Create Business Design documents for system changes requested from DHHS program administrators to be presented to N-FOCUS technical team to make the necessary system changes • Facilitate meetings between DHHS program administrators and technical staff to complete necessary system changes for the State Eligible System (NFOCUS). • Use Microsoft Access, Excel and SQL daily in order to find relationships, create queries, and provide reports to DHHS administrators and legal representatives • Provide data to be presented in legislative hearings. • Complete testing plans before the implementation of system changes to ensure changes are working correctly and providing accurate results • Facilitate large project changes on the State eligibility system in collaboration with DHHS administrators, technical staff, and other business analysts. • Complete codes table changes on the DHHS eligibility system. • Able to read and interpret databases and data models to ensure the correct coding changes are being implemented and queries/reports are being retrieved from the correct areas of the database.

• SNAP Program Specialist

  • Nov 2018 - Feb 2021

  Lincoln, Nebraska, United States • Answer and field SNAP Policy questions, and provide assistance to ongoing SNAP workers with determining eligibility for SNAP applications. • Formulate plans, business rules and changes to our State of Nebraska IT professional team for updates to our application based processing system. • Submit multiple reports to Food & Nutrition services, including claims, management, fraud investigations, replacement SNAP benefits and timelines of SNAP benefits. • Update ongoing State SNAP… Show more • Answer and field SNAP Policy questions, and provide assistance to ongoing SNAP workers with determining eligibility for SNAP applications. • Formulate plans, business rules and changes to our State of Nebraska IT professional team for updates to our application based processing system. • Submit multiple reports to Food & Nutrition services, including claims, management, fraud investigations, replacement SNAP benefits and timelines of SNAP benefits. • Update ongoing State SNAP regulations to be in accordance with federal policy standards and regulations. Including the Farm Bill, Code of Federal Regulations, and State Statutes. • Write policy memos and logs to be administered to DHHS CEO, Directory, Deputy Director, Program Administrator and other DHHS administrative positions for approval prior to making changes to State SNAP policy. • Oversee the Disaster SNAP issuance and procedures. Providing training materials, issuance procedures, waiver requests, collection of data, fraud prevention, site setup, and on site procedures.

• Program Accuracy Specialist

  • Aug 2017 - Nov 2018

  Lincoln, Nebraska, United States • Complete case reviews through the NEARS system on case management activities taken by Social Service Workers on Economic Assistance Programs. Including SNAP, ADC, Child Care, LIHEAP, AABD & SSAD. • Present data to Economic Assistance administrators, policy specialist, etc. using consolidated charts, graphs, documents etc. that shows strengths and weaknesses of each service area, and economic assistance program. • Collaborate with policy and field teams to discuss identified problem… Show more • Complete case reviews through the NEARS system on case management activities taken by Social Service Workers on Economic Assistance Programs. Including SNAP, ADC, Child Care, LIHEAP, AABD & SSAD. • Present data to Economic Assistance administrators, policy specialist, etc. using consolidated charts, graphs, documents etc. that shows strengths and weaknesses of each service area, and economic assistance program. • Collaborate with policy and field teams to discuss identified problem areas, new regulations and or changes in procedures • Implement various strategies and initiatives to achieve the highest possible accuracy rate for Economic Assistance programs with field teams. Facilitate team meetings to help track teams progress to find ways to improve.

• Social Service Worker

  • Jun 2015 - Aug 2017

  Fremont, Nebraska, United States • Process and determine accurate eligibility for complex federal economic assistance services programs. • Verify client information through third parties such as employers, landlords and other agencies. Compute budges, assess client situations and make referrals to appropriate programs/resources. • Complete interviews for requested programs with clients and determine the need for verification of discussed information, and creating verification requests when necessary. • Using and… Show more • Process and determine accurate eligibility for complex federal economic assistance services programs. • Verify client information through third parties such as employers, landlords and other agencies. Compute budges, assess client situations and make referrals to appropriate programs/resources. • Complete interviews for requested programs with clients and determine the need for verification of discussed information, and creating verification requests when necessary. • Using and applying software programs to complete daily tasks such as NFOCUS, Microsoft Word, Excel, One Note, Internet Explorer and Outlook.



Saunders County Sheriff Dept

• United States
• Law Enforcement
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Correctional Officer

  • Feb 2014 - Jun 2015

  Wahoo, Nebraska, United States