Jeffrey Price

HealthSmart Holdings, Inc.

Senior Vice President, Information Systems (March 2017 - Present)

Collaborate with executive team to design strategies that enhance business through applied technology. Oversee all aspects of design and deployment of corporate information systems. Direct operations for complex information technology environment. Oversee HealthSmart's Information Systems division, comprising 100+ employees. Design information architecture with full responsibility for business continuity.

Vice President, Application Development (May 2013 - March 2017)

Responsible for stability and uniformity of disparate application development teams spanning multiple locations and acquired entities. Successfully reorganized diverse teams under a single application development department and leadership. Extended innovative and creative Application Life-Cycle Management (ALM) techniques to improve efficiencies, quality, and versatility of contributors. Cast vision and architected system framework to position company for more extensive Agile-transformation. Served as primary information technology leader-stakeholder for HealthSmart Network Solutions (PPO) division. Oversaw HealthSmart's clearinghouse day-to-day operations and continued platform improvement.

HealthSmart Information Systems, Inc.

Director of Software Engineering (February 2005 - May 2013)

Managed software development resources to align with enterprise strategy and adapt quickly to changes in business and industry direction. Responsible for stabilizing and integrating software and systems obtained from mergers & acquisitions.

Senior Software Engineer (January 2001 - February 2005)

Architected new software systems to adapt to rapidly changing business requirements. Collaborated with clients to establish EDI interchanges. Developed core software components in alignment with corporate growth strategy. Provided training to application development staff.

Selected Accomplishments:

• Centralized source-control management on Subversion and introduced Application Life-Cycle Management (ALM) disciplines of Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Continuous Integration (CI).
• Designed and developed dynamic claim routing solution to route electronic health care claims to various partners according to client-defined plan design.
• Architected n-tier framework that centralized business rules and standardized data access to CareVu Repricing Engine enabling simplified, safe access to the application data for the development team.

HealthSmart Preferred Care, Inc.

Software Engineer (December 1999 - January 2001)

Designed and maintained software applications for nationwide Preferred Provider Organization (PPO). Drafted corrective action plans (CAP) and policies and procedures (P&P) for IS Department to meet URAC accreditation. Authored documentation for numerous projects encompassing status reports to management and developer/end-user documentation.

Selected Accomplishments:

• Coordinated year-long mailroom automation project with vendor. Specified, procured, and configured the necessary server and network stack to optimize the large paper-to-EDI project.
• Developed Electronic Claims Mailbox (ECM) to deliver and simplify client access to their medical claims resulting in significant cost reduction of traditional paper/mail delivery.

Southwest Health Information Network

System Administrator (May 1996 - December 1999)

Supported servers, user workstations, network infrastructure, and software. Established departmental procedures and best practices for setting up workstations, adding new user accounts, mailboxes, backups, and disaster recovery. Supervised small team of helpdesk technicians, delegated support tickets by balancing resource availability and skill level. Managed day-to-day interactions with end-users, extending quality customer service.

Selected Accomplishments:

• Conceptualized and developed web-based intranet Online Resoruce Center (ORC), complete with helpdesk call reporting/tracking, employee directories, and human relations forms/applications.
• Spearheaded planning, implementation, and maintenance of SAGE Acuity Financials accounting system.

Texas Tech University, Rawls College of Business

Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration (BBA)

Johns Hopkins University, Coursera

Data Science Specialization

• The Data Scientist's Toolbox (certificate)
• R Programming (certificate)
• Getting and Cleaning Data (certificate)
• Eploratory Data Analysis (certificate)
• Reproducible Research (certificate)
• Statistical Inference (enrolled)

Certifications

• Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (License 2090167)
• Microsoft Certified Professional (License 2090167)

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