Senior Project Manager

• Sep 2022 - Present

Membership Coordinator

• Oct 2016 - Present

Liaison between Birankai North American (BNA) organization and our members. Serving as the first point of contact for current membership related questions to assisting new schools with their new members. Tracks, annual reports revenue from organization membership and teacher dues. Maintains international (US, Canada) rosters of dojos and individual members--manually and online, including address changes, membership promotions, changes in teacher status. Regularly communicates membership data with organization governing bodies and internal membership and external dojo leadership. Track, process membership applications, renewals, and resignations. Data collection of membership statistics for incoming reports and payments, including delinquencies for reporting to the BNA governing bodies. Assist in developing and implementing strategies to recruit and retain members. Coordinate with the bookkeeper and treasurer to track membership revenue. Worked with webmaster to overhaul membership processes from manual to an online system, gathering feedback from membership to improve and update website to reflect approved recommendations. Overhaul included database testing, database troubleshooting, reports, rewriting process and procedures for the organization, creating process document for both the organization and Chief Instructors and dojos. Maintains inventory of BNA Passports. Show less

Corporate Secretary

• Jun 2007 - Jul 2017

Birankai Corporate Secretary handling administrative tasks for the organization, reporting directly to the Birankai Corporation President, Birankai founder, the executive director and/or Birankai Board members. Primary duties:• File (Annually): Statement of Information (SI-100, LLC-12R) with the Secretary of State (California)• Receive and record Birankai North America Board meeting minutes• Store and make readily available Meeting Minutes held by the Birankai Board of Directors• Record decisions made by vote of Birankai Board or as directed by Chair of the meetingAdditional Duties and Responsibilities:• Contact board members, coordinate board meetings, attend meetings as directed by the Birankai President• Provide board meeting minutes within two weeks of meeting date• Process faxes and sort incoming mails• Preparation of memos, letters, and other correspondence as directed by Birankai President• Establish and maintain secretarial practices to ensure reliable and accurate data for business operations• File, Scan and provide copy of important documents as necessary• Operate office equipment and manage office space as necessary• Conduct research and disseminate information through telephone, websites, mail services, and e-mail in a timely manner• Maintain calendars and schedules in coordination with Executive Director• Communicate verbally and in writing to inquiries and to provide information as neededSkills and Specifications• Knowledge of clerical and administrative procedures• Organized• Proficiency in spelling, grammar, punctuation, and other English language skills• Good with word processing• Must be tactful in dealing with people from US and abroad, as well as comfortable with persons of considerable higher rank• Discretion, good judgment, adaptable and versatile individual• Takes Initiative, high stress tolerance, and customer-service orientated Show less

Personal Secretary to TK Chiba Sensei

• Jun 2005 - Jun 2015

Adjunct Faculty Instructor

• Dec 2019 - Present

Mesa Community College, Adult Instruction of Aikido for Self Defense. Covering Aikido fundamentals including martial art techniques for self-defense focused on using an attacker’s force to an advantage, controlling the oncoming attack, subduing without needing to harm the attacker. Students alternate providing and receiving attacks from practice partners. Traditional discipline of body, mind, breath of the sport will be reviewed. Weapons practice, history and meditation may be introduced at the discretion of the instructor. Aikido in this class setting consists of instructor demonstration and application of traditional Aikido technique. Student partners will alternate executing technique, as well as learning and performing attacks as part of class practice. Practice includes joint locks and redirection to control an aggressor, undoing incoming conflict physically and mentally. Students will be educated in the ‘art of falling' safely. Instruction will connect student partners through basic technique, emphasizing posture and breathing, as well as stretching and conditioning drills to develop physical coordination, flexibility, agility and greater endurance. Aikido terminology, etiquette and brief history will be covered as part of lecture. As the course progresses, basic Aikido weapons may be introduced to include wooden staff(yo), wooden sword (bokken) and/or bamboo shinai. Aikido is a modern Japanese martial art developed early in the 20th century by Morihei Ueshiba as a blend of his martial studies, philosophy and religious beliefs. The aim was to create an art that practitioners could use to defend themselves while also protecting their attackers from injury---“…to unify the mind and body and to promote peace, harmony, and cooperation among all beings.” Unlike other martial arts, it is about undoing aggression and conflict, rather than escalating or celebrating them. Based on its philosophy, there are no competitions in Aikido. Show less

Owner, Chief Instructor, Aikido

• Nov 2018 - Present

Co-Chair Community Based Care and Privacy (CBCP)

• Sep 2009 - Present

Actively involved in the development of Privacy and Security standards, Behavioral and Mental Health Standards and other Community-Based Collaboration standards. Meeting facilitator for Community Based Collaborative technical, managerial and clinical working group members evaluating Healthcare IT vocabularies and terminologies related to discovery research for Security and Privacy healthcare standards. Contributor to ASTM 1986E (ASTM RBAC standard) including elements of the National Uniform Claim Committee Health Care Taxonomy (NUCC) and SNOMED CT additions. Co-author of HL7 RBAC Permission catalog and HL7 RBAC Supporting data. Show less

NDMS DMAT CA-4 Licensed Pharmacy Technician (Intermittent / Reservist)

• 2005 - Present

When deployed with the Disaster Medical Assistance Team (DMAT), provides pharmacy services during disasters and in austere conditions. This includes set-up, and demobilizations. Past deployments include: San Diego Firestorms, Hurricane Superstorm Sandy, Hurricane Harvey DMAT San Diego CA-4 is the 4th California DMAT to have signed an MOU (memorandum of understanding) with NDMS to respond to domestic disasters in the continental US and its possessions. It is currently categorized as a Level 1 team, with the ability to activate and be prepared for deployment within 6 to 8 hours of a request. CA-4 came into existence on July 19, 1991, when its MOU was signed by the Director of NDMS. Background: The U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS), in the Dept. of Health and Human Services, is the branch of the Federal Government responsible for organizing and maintaining a national medical response capability in the event of a major disaster, per the Federal Response Plan. Responsibility for Emergency Support Function, Health and Medical Services, is vested in the Office of Emergency Response (OER) and NDMS, in Rockville, MD. A partnership of other government agencies supports the USPHS in their roles under ESF #8. They include the Dept of Defense, the Dept. of Veterans Affairs, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Show less

Project Manager

• Aug 2017 - Sep 2022

Project Manager of concurrent projects, managing remote teams of diverse, talented, healthcare security and privacy Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) in Requirement Analysis, Quality Assurance, Security and Privacy. Bid proposal consultant for Security and Privacy related contracts. Post Award Contract review. Ensure alignment with the Veteran Health Administration strategic objectives, confirming the defined security and privacy impacted areas are identified and appropriate resources are engaged or reallocated as necessary to participate in the scope definition. Develop, document and implement project communication plans, establish, develop and maintain effective relationships with applicable project stakeholders, manage vendor relationships where appropriate, resolve conflicts among project participants, provide project management resources to applicable audiences, distribute project reports/documentation to applicable stakeholders, implement for ongoing project documentation storage, ensure understanding and buy-in from applicable stakeholders including contracting officer and government point of contact. QA oversight—including development of QA workflow, inspection and proposing measures to correct or improve final products and processes to meet established government quality deliverable standards, and version control, customer relations, provides direct and integrated health standards support, navigating complex care scenarios for patient-centered and multi-organizational coordination of care. Actively involved in the development of Security and Privacy standards. Co-Chair of the HL7 Community-Based Care and Privacy Working Group. Evaluates Healthcare IT vocabularies , terminologies or Security and Privacy standards including HL7 FHIR, National Uniform Claim Committee Healthcare Taxonomy (NUCC) and SNOMED CT additions. Author and Contributor to ASTM 1986E Role-based Access Control standard, Co-author of HL7 RBAC Permission catalog and HL7 RBAC Supporting data. Show less

Project Manager, Senior Information Security Analyst

• Oct 2011 - May 2017

Engility Project Manager and Technical Subject Matter Expert of diversely talented, remote team of Healthcare, QA and Security and Privacy analysts for Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) CHIO SSA Analyst Contract. Responsible for multiple scheduled deliverables, invoice review and delivery schedule. QA oversight, customer relations, Co-chair international standards organization. Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) Contractor, Subject Matter Expert for Role-Based Access Control (RBAC). Currently holding the Co-Chair position of HL7 Community-Based Collaborative Care (CBCC) Working Group and an active member of the Security Working Group. Projects include processing of HL7 Standards ballots for HL7 Security and Privacy Domain Analysis Model and the Behavior Health Continuity of Care document, most recent projects include the Patient Friendly Language for Consent Directives and the HL7 Data Provenance project. Member of the Domain-analysis Expert Steering Division (DESD) for HL7, the VA Security Requirements Steering Committee (SRSC) Staff. Additional functions include reviewing and parsing security documentation for retrieval of security and privacy related requirements and compiling for ballot preparation. Maintenance of SRSC SharePoint document site, SRSC main and ballot WiKi, HL7 Security, CBCC WiKi and collaborative documentation sites. Show less

Security Analyst

• Sep 2012 - 2014

Children's Class Instructor, Certified Instructor

• 2001 - 2014

Instruction of Children's Aikido class consisting of children aged 4-17, Class size ranged from three to twenty-six students with wide ranging levels of developmental learning capabilities/abilities. Development of original children's program curricula, including class promotion, testing schedule and grading examinations and ranking system. Responsibilities include progressive development of children as a whole through instruction of basic and advanced Aikido techniques, stretching and strength exercises, and conditioning games to develop physical coordination, flexibility, agility and endurance. Instruction encourages the enforcement of core values such as positive self-esteem and self-confidence, humility, discipline, and respect for others. Care is taken in order to avoid injury to children's delicate joints during practice. Children learn to redirect an attacker's energy and resolve conflict while minimizing injury to the attacker. Show less

Information Security Analyst II

• Sep 2008 - Oct 2011

Lead VA RBAC Task Force Project (Role Based Access Control), process lead for granting membership and access to functions and information for use of US and International standards from the security point of view. RBAC bases access control decision on the function a user is allowed to perform with an organization. Bridging communication gaps in translation of data, process and information between Systems Architects and Clinical personnel. Integration of the Veterans Health Administration with HL7 Standards to implement RBAC as an International Draft Standard for Trial Use (DSTU). RBAC is now an accepted HL7 International Standard. Contributing Editor for internationally distributed RBAC Newsletter. Show less

Software Test Engineer

• Sep 1998 - Jul 2006

Unit-, integration- and system testing. Software maintenance testing, system software upgrade testing, full functional, operational and regression services of new application software releases for the Healthcare and Enterprise Solutions Sector including First Data Bank (FDB), Clinical Bi-Directional Interface System (CBIS) and WebMD Releases as well as interfaced automated pharmacy software including Baker Cell/Baker Cell 2000, OmniCell, Pyxis, TransLux, Telephone Refill interfaces and ATC. Unit-, integration- and system testing. Software maintenance testing, system software upgrade testing, full functional, operational and regression services of new application software releases for the Healthcare and Enterprise Solutions Sector including First Data Bank (FDB), Clinical Bi-Directional Interface System (CBIS) and WebMD Releases as well as interfaced automated pharmacy software including Baker Cell/Baker Cell 2000, OmniCell, Pyxis, TransLux, Telephone Refill interfaces and ATC.

Certified Pharmacy Technician

• Oct 1995 - Apr 1999

Responsible for prescription processing for Emergency room, Outpatient, and Skilled Nursing facilities. Third party billing, physician and nursing communication, inventory control, prescription management and clerical services. Supervisor: Joseph Camello, Pharmacist Responsible for prescription processing for Emergency room, Outpatient, and Skilled Nursing facilities. Third party billing, physician and nursing communication, inventory control, prescription management and clerical services. Supervisor: Joseph Camello, Pharmacist

Pharmacy Technician Instructor

• Sep 1995 - Feb 1997

Provided formal instruction of pharmacy skills and topics necessary to successfully pass the Pharmacy Technician National Certification Exam. Course instruction includes basic math, pharmaceutical calculations, pharmacy law, anatomy and physiology, basic typing skills, prescription entry, Pacific Pharmacy Computer System (PPC), pharmacy terminology, drug names and classifications, biochemistry as related to drug therapy, customer relations, pharmacy workflow, laboratory compounding, IV Admixture. Provided evaluation reports of student overall performance in conjunction with supervisor and school director. Show less

Chairman -Technician Division Executive Committee

• 1995 - 1997

Pharmacy Technician

• 1988 - 1994