Julie

Business Systems Analyst

 

Summary of Skills and Qualifications

 

Ø       More than twelve years experience acting as a liaison between end users, IT staff, and management to design systems that meet the needs of multiple stakeholders

Ø       More than ten years experience analyzing and formulating systems requirements, and communicating requirements and best practices in software design to programming and management staff

Ø       More than ten years experience reviewing and testing software, including work with QA to create test scripts

Ø       Experience providing end-user orientation and training

Ø       Exceptional oral and written communication skills; self motivated and directed

Ø       Outstanding organizational and interpersonal skills; experience working in team-oriented, collaborative environments

Ø       Experienced user of industry-standard software, including (but not limited to): Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Visio, Enterprise Manager, Query Analyzer, AS400, SQL, Oracle, Toad

Ø       Skills matrix:

Skills

Ø                               Writing specifications

Ø                               Business Analysis & Development

Ø                               Excellent interpersonal skills

Ø                               Client Relations

Ø                               Needs assessment

Ø                               Writing test scripts

Ø                               Product testing

Ø                               User-acceptance testing

Ø                               Querying (SQL)

Ø                               Project management

Ø                               Visio

Ø                               Microsoft Project

 

Professional Experience

RXAmerica, Salt Lake City, UT

Team Lead Business Systems Analyst

3/2006–Present

Ø       Distribute reports and file requests from customers to the development team for scope, analysis and development.

Ø       Lead in all MMA (Medicare Part D) projects, including PDE (Pharmacy Drug Event) for RXAmerica and all external clients, quarterly reports, adhoc reporting troubleshoots problems with the claims adjudication system.  These clients include lives totaling 300,000.  These projects are critical to company operation and the success of Medicare Part D.

Ø       Created departmental reporting and specification guidelines that are currently in use.

Ø       Liaison between customers (internal and external) and developers.

Ø       Worked with all members of RXAmerica to obtain the requirements, business rules, and specifications for reports and files.

Ø       Responsible for all work load estimation and distribution as well as deadline negotiation

Ø       Used Toad and SQL to extract data from Oracle for reporting and data extraction.

Ø       Used EspressReport writer to create reports for internal and external customers.

Ø       Organized and scheduled departmental training to enhance team skills.

Educators Mutual, Murray, UT

Business Systems Analyst

8/2005–2/2006

Ø       Successfully researched and implemented Medicare Part D

Ø       Lead in analysis, planning, design, and deployment of a web-based Call Center for Customer Service staff to enter applications for Medicare Part D and a web-based enrollment website for Medicare applicants, which also included enhancements to existing applications.  Both systems entered data into one database.

Ø       Used SQL Enterprise to query data and build data transformation packages for importing and analyzing data.

Ø       Maintained compliance with federal requirements under critical deadlines.

Ø       Used SQL Enterprise to query data and built Data Transformation Packages to import many incoming Medicare files.

Ø       Created systems models, specifications, diagrams and charts to provide direction to system programmers.

Ø       Provided end-user orientation and training for all modified and new systems.

Ø       Reviewed, tested, and verified the accuracy of new and changed programs prior to deploying them in the production environment.

XanGo, Lehi, UT

Business Systems Analyst

1/2005–8/2005

Ø       Researched, collaborated with the commissions departments their workflows and procedures and documented a technical and business specification requirements for their processes; i.e. distributor payments, Japanese commissions, international payout methods of commissions, currency conversions, RMA processes, check printing, back office distributor tools and reporting.

Ø       Obtained business requirements and composed detailed system design documents, using UML charts and diagrams indicating the various steps involved.

Ø       Researched ‘Bottomline’ as the going forward solution for check printing and local currency conversion for payment of commissions for distributors.

Ø       Collaborated with the QA department to create test scripts.

Ø       Key liaison between business and information technology during requirements definition and change request and user acceptance phase of development

Magellan Behavioral Health, Sandy, UT

Business Systems Analyst

8/2000–1/2005

Ø       Lead Analyst / Project Manager to automate a five million member feed from Aetna to Magellan.

Ø       Wrote specifications, design and development plans, using the development life cycle for a Utilitization Management System to keep current with Federal regulations, HIPAA and Sarbanes Oxley, while maintaining daily operations. 

Ø       Lead Analyst / Project Manager for a web-based automated authorization tool for therapists and physicians which was compliant with company business and federal rules.

Ø       Worked closely with developers to translate business needs to create applications with the functional specifications needed by the business.

Ø       Proficient in writing queries and analyze data on the As400, Access, and Excel.

Ø       Propose the best alternatives if between development cycles.

Ø       Construct User Acceptance test scenarios. Once the release is tested and accepted I educated the Training Department in all new functionality of applications.

Ø       Wrote detailed test plans to ensure accuracy of software.

Educators Mutual Insurance Association, Murray, UT

Configuration Analyst

4/1998–8/2000

Ø       Custom designed the intelligence of the system based on the plan design of the client. Analysis of end users current workflow and configuration of the existing client’s structure. If it was determined that there was a significant enough of a difference, an entirely new hierarchy would be created from general to very specific details of the plan document.

Ø       Analyzed new clients requirements to determine how the plan should be set up within the current system while maintaining all benefits, pricing, which are translated into claims payment based on the client documentation, state regulations, provider contracts, etc.

Ø       Worked directly with front-end staff to research and resolve difficult claims.  From this analysis, reengineered manual workflows into automation to eliminate errors.

Ø       Instrumental in data conversion to for an upgraded system.

First Health, Salt Lake City, UT

Business Analyst

12/1996–4/1998

Ø       Analyst for the implementation of Kaiser Permeate business health benefits.

Ø       Analyzed hundreds of Maryland State Mandates and other states in order to create benefit packages.

Ø       Performed business requirements gathering and writing from various levels of the organization.

Ø       Quality Assured claims to insure that they paid correctly.

Ø       Conducted business analysis and configuration of Claims and Membership Sub-Systems. Designed test plan, test scenarios, test cases and test scripts.

Ø       Performed User Acceptance and Integration testing.

First Health, Salt Lake City, UT

PPO Coordinator

7/1994–12/1996

Ø       Pricing of Provider and Hospital aspect of claims payments. First Health, as a TPA, administrates all different types of plans. I handled over fifty diverse plans at a time.

Ø       The client would provide the pricing requirements for the discounted PPO rate. This required extensive rapport with the Marketing, Clients, and Internal Front Line Operations. I would configure the system and maintain, which required prioritization, and the ability to work with more than one project at a time.

Ø       Extensive experience with ASA tables, HIAA, MDR, RVRVS, to establish the UCR to determine an allowed amount for the particular procedure. I would ensure correct claims payment by doing extensive Quality Assurance. 

Ø       Exclusively responsible for translating information into First Health standard format to facilitate rapid comprehension by Benefits Examiners as well as any other First Health employees who may be required to access this information.

 

Education

Salt Lake Community college

 

 

Ø       Completed coursework in computer information systems.

Ø       Oracle programming and forms

Ø       Advanced SQL

Ø       Project Management I and II

Ø       Management Training