Zaira Parris
Elementary School Teacher at Lewisville ISD- Claim this Profile
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Credentials
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Tableau Desktop Qualified Associate Certification
SimplilearnNov, 2022- Sep, 2024
Experience
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Lewisville ISD
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United States
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Education Administration Programs
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700 & Above Employee
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Elementary School Teacher
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Jul 2021 - Present
Responsible for teaching students in second grade, in a bilingual setting, Spanish Immersion program. Planning lessons, following up on students progress, grading assignments, providing support for especial education students and delivering instruction in Spanish per state and district guidelines as well as establishing class objectives per state TEKS at grade level. Responsible for teaching students in second grade, in a bilingual setting, Spanish Immersion program. Planning lessons, following up on students progress, grading assignments, providing support for especial education students and delivering instruction in Spanish per state and district guidelines as well as establishing class objectives per state TEKS at grade level.
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Banner Health
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United States
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Hospitals and Health Care
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700 & Above Employee
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Operations Consultant
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May 2013 - May 2018
Worked with administrators and directors supporting financial and operational goals, by developing tracking tools, utilizing analytical skills, planning during the budget process, making strategic decisions that impact operations. Performed benchmarking analysis, comparing internal departmental processes with other hospitals in the nation. Trained directors and frontline staff on Kronos Analytics, budget targets development. Worked with Tableau to create scorecards for leadership to use as visualization tool. Premier Operations Advisor and Quality Advisor to preform benchmarking analysis and find operational opportunities to reduce cost and improve efficiencies at the department level. Worked with Leaders to implement corporate process improvement initiatives at the department level to support system standardization efforts. • Performed statistical analysis to make operational decisions at the department level, evaluating volumes and resources. Utilized SQL to import/export data from various sources, M.S. Excel files, Kronos payroll system, Lawson general ledger, volume projections, budget targets. • Worked with counter partner consultants and facility/entity leadership to manage key operational processes within the organization, including operating budgets, productivity, forecasting, cost accounting, decision support and reimbursement analysis. • Helped design dashboards in Tableau for leadership to track project success. • Served as a resource and liaison to leaders and staff across the organization, developing training material and facilitating classes to support change management initiatives. • Used statistical process control to identify outliers and help reduce variation on the units.
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HonorHealth
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United States
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Hospitals and Health Care
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700 & Above Employee
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Process Design and Improvement Engineer Consultant
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Jul 2009 - Aug 2012
Worked with the quality department leadership to streamline clinical and non-clinical processes, training employees in Lean methodologies and using the Baldrige criteria of health care for performance excellence improving safety and outcomes. • Evaluated EMR implementation with clinical team to test workflow scenarios in nursing units. • Assessed and implement electronic medical record system with electronic order management, lead workflow workgroups to map current flow of information and future state to streamline processes. • Performed training on lean tools including development of A3, value stream mapping, standardization and 5S for employees at all levels in healthcare system. • Led several lean rapid process improvement events including one to improve medical equipment processing and storage in healthcare organization, which resulted in improved process flow and turnaround times for equipment repair requests, cleared clutter in hospital hallways meeting DNV standards and improved reliability of equipment. • Redesigned obstetrics operating rooms to reduce staff travel time and improve patient and staff safety. • Mentored internship student on a project to identify clinical waste in inpatient nursing units, to perform root cause analysis, PDSA analysis, and as a result improved patient throughput by creating front line clinical staff engagement and developing collaborative care efforts/teams focused on patient discharge planning. • Hosted and led team in a gemba event, guiding and presenting lean initiatives to participants from various national and international healthcare systems as part of the Health Value Network with the purpose of providing benchmarks and obtaining feedback on lean projects across organizations. Senior Performance Engineer Consultant – Contract 7/2009-3/2010 • Worked with the client’s leadership team on assessing the implementation of Operations Advisor, productivity tool, across the system.
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Norton Healthcare
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United States
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Hospitals and Health Care
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700 & Above Employee
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Management Engineer
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May 2001 - Mar 2007
• Lead effort to establish operational standards across the hospital system for ancillary departments by using lean concepts and benchmarking analysis, improving work flow and cost structure. Coordinated initiative to evaluate efficiency of Meditech EMR increased efficiency by performing statistical process control analysis on quality of output and establishing labor requirements for optical imaging process. • Implemented Kronos Visionware workforce management system across healthcare system, designed project lifecycle to evaluate the process’s current state, perform implementation and test future state. • Led efforts to establish fixed and variable labor standards for four laboratory departments and Radiology departments • Designed process flows using M.S. Visio to map out the electronic medical record and electronic patient registration processes. • Coordinated supply chain project to standardize vendors, supplies and equipment for the laboratories across the system. Organized ordering system for supplies. • Conducted environmental service project to establish labor standards for all Norton facilities, enabling managers to meet budget expectations. • Generated and maintained Access database for tracking overtime, contract agency, and utilization of extra shifts for all hospital system facilities. • Developed and generated system-wide status and progress reports for executive team at different facilities. • Researched best practice method with Premier Operation Advisor to develop process improvements at local hospitals.
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UPS Supply Chain Solutions
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United States
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Transportation, Logistics and Storage
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700 & Above Employee
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Industrial Engineer Supervisor
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May 2002 - May 2003
• Coordinated with production managers and supervisors to ensure proper product flow on production layouts. Identified cost savings related to material handling on production floor. Designed staffing forms for shipping and receiving processes. Established standards for multiple account processes to measure productivity. • Supervised payroll administration. • Implemented standardized dynamic reporting system for U.S. Central region warehouses. • Worked with shipping areas to assure orders were delivered according to the client specifications and lead time was reduced • Organized inventory tracking system by accounts and implemented an auditing process to ensure the process is sustain
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Education
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2018 - 2022
Texas Teachers of Tomorrow
Standard Teaching Certificate, Elementary and Bilingual Education -
2005 - 2007
Indiana Wesleyan University
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Accounting and Business/Management -
1998 - 2002
University of Louisville
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Industrial Engineering
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