Kavitha Anantharaman
Amherst
Summary
HealthCare IT Project Manager with 17 years of Payor and Provider experience in managing complex, large-scale projects in Healthcare IT. Worked with five insurance plans and two provider organizations on technology projects involving Digital projects, Electronic Medical Records (EMRs), Claims, Encounters, Risk adjustment, Provider data, Wellness initiatives, Enrollments, and Market expansion. Worked extensively in both waterfall and agile methodologies. Organized, detail oriented and conscientious self-starter, able to strategize and prioritize effectively to accomplish multiple tasks.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior IT Project Manager
McKesson Inc.
10.2022 - Current
- Working on an enterprise level project with several teams geographically located in diverse locations
- Coordinating work with RTE and Cross functional teams to ensure efficient Project stewardship
- Hands on experience working with Data/Informatica projects
- Strong experience in PI Planning, working with Program architects to design program roadmap and objectives
- Proven ability to multitask in a fast paced environment and demonstrate adaptability
- Escalate and track impediments, Production issue resolution and help to manage and guide ART (Agile Release Train)
- Prepared an integrated project plan for project and associated tasks
- Ability to drive results.
Senior IT Technical Project/Program Manager
Molina Healthcare
07.2020 - 10.2022
- Coordinate internal resources and third parties/vendors for the flawless execution of projects, Offshore and Onshore resources with team size of 50-70
- Managed an award-winning mega redesign project which led to growth in sales
- Ensured that multiple challenging complex squads like Member Portal, IVR, Enrollments Inbound and Outbound, Salesforce, Public Website within the Marketplace program are delivered successfully on-time, within scope simultaneously
- Assist in the definition of project scope and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility
- Worked on high visibility special projects within aggressive timelines like eight-week implementations
- Establish and maintain relationships with third parties/vendors to deliver competitive advantage for the client
- Problem solving skills; collaborated with 25 different cross functional teams to improve process efficiency by 150% through root cause analysis.
Senior IT Technical Project Manager
Aspen Dental Management Inc.
07.2019 - 05.2020
- Facilitate, manage, lead Schedule, track and document minutes and Action Items for daily Entity Relationship Diagram Technical Calls
- Created and maintained Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipeline using most of the DevOps tools in agile methodology
- Discuss and document Foreign Key issues
- Data Migration Status
- Ensure that issues are logged and tracked on SmartSheet (tool for Collaboration and Work Management between Onsite and Offshore teams).
Project Manager
Independent Health
10.2016 - 06.2019
- Created project plan to track and monitor progress of the project and deliverables
- Provided status report updates every week to leadership, using SharePoint
- Led project kickoff meeting, to communicate project goals and objectives to stakeholders
- Documented and monitoring project risk using the RAID template
- Used Blueprint as a software, to document requirements
- Documented Requirements Specifications Document in an agile environment and used in built template.
Project Manager
Carefirst Blue Cross Blue Shield
10.2015 - 09.2016
- Collaborated with senior management in the delivery of project strategy, goals, priorities and long term plans for the portal
- Led Steering Committee meetings to communicate timelines, risks and milestones
- Reported schedule, cost (for multimillion dollar budget) and risk status on Clarity every week
- Managed stakeholder expectations through various work streams
- Proactively addressed potential issues that may affect the system and worked with developers to resolve the matter
- Built solid client –vendor relationships by accurately understanding and addressing their needs in a timely manner
- Applied strong facilitation and negotiation skills to lead project meetings, achieve project results and manage vendor relationships
- Created Project Plan and tracked the progress of team activities
- Monitored project risks and scope creep to identify potential problems and proactively identify solutions.
Senior Business Analyst
New York City Health and Hospital Corporation
09.2014 - 09.2015
- Composed Project Charter and received approval from the Project Sponsor and other Stakeholders for web implementation
- Identified risks by communicating and coaching with internal and external teams to finish the project successfully
- Managed project meetings and record keeping with project meeting minutes and action items
- Organized daily scrum meetings or standups, sprint planning and sprint review
- Developed a Stakeholder register and RACI chart
- Led the system User Acceptance Testing effort and coordinated issue resolution.
Project Lead
Affinity Health Plan
04.2013 - 08.2013
- Responsible for designing scope statement, project schedule, flow of project management and task management
- Applied strong facilitation skills to manage vendor relationships
- Prepared project requirements documents and reengineered business processes
- Helped team members in designs, plan and coordination with work teams
- Developed process flow diagrams using Microsoft Visio
- Provided technical supervision to project team members by communicating with the client.
Lead Business Analyst
Emblem Health
05.2010 - 04.2013
- Assisted in creating Project Charter to formally initiate the project
- Monitored projects on an ongoing basis, evaluating progress and quality, managing issue resolution and taking corrective action as necessary
- Achieved a strong record of success in a dynamic environment
- Led UAT daily status calls and facilitated issue resolution within 24 hours, with documented agendas, minutes and action items
- Successfully led workgroup meetings to gather project updates from large cross-functional teams including, Claims, Finance, Enrollments etc.
Business Analyst/Senior Business Analyst
JSMN International Inc.
07.2006 - 04.2010
- Managed all user requirements in RequisitePro, making requirements available to all team members
- Tested enrollments and billing functionality on the mainframe system Z/OS (IBM)
- Involved in Test Planning, coordination and implementing QA methodology
- Participated in weekly team meetings, where test status and defects were discussed
- Involved in maintaining, enhancing and trouble shooting of the application according to the needs of the customers
- Developed UAT testing documentation.
Education
MBA (Healthcare Management) -
Goldey Beacom College
MS in Management - undefined
Stevens Institute of Technology
MBA (Marketing) - undefined
Pune University
Bachelor of Science - undefined
India
Higher Diploma in Software Engineering - undefined
Aptech
Skills
Excellent Communication
Detail Oriented
Conflict Resolution
Team Leadership
Technical Presentations
Friendly, Positive Attitude
Adaptability and Flexibility
Problem-Solving
Teamwork and Collaboration
Technology Skills
- Requirement Tracking
- Rational Requisite Pro
- Mercury’s Test Director
- Mercury Quality Center
- Blueprint
- Front-end Tools
- MS Office
- MS Project
- MS SharePoint
- Clarity PPM
- JIRA
- SnagIt
- Smartsheet
- Plainview
- MS Teams
- MIRO
- Process Tools
- MS Visio
- PI Planning
Timeline
Senior IT Project Manager
McKesson Inc.
10.2022 - Current
Senior IT Technical Project/Program Manager
Molina Healthcare
07.2020 - 10.2022
Senior IT Technical Project Manager
Aspen Dental Management Inc.
07.2019 - 05.2020
Project Manager
Independent Health
10.2016 - 06.2019
Project Manager
Carefirst Blue Cross Blue Shield
10.2015 - 09.2016
Senior Business Analyst
New York City Health and Hospital Corporation
09.2014 - 09.2015
Project Lead
Affinity Health Plan
04.2013 - 08.2013
Lead Business Analyst
Emblem Health
05.2010 - 04.2013
Business Analyst/Senior Business Analyst
JSMN International Inc.
07.2006 - 04.2010
MBA (Healthcare Management) -
Goldey Beacom College
MS in Management - undefined
Stevens Institute of Technology
MBA (Marketing) - undefined
Pune University
Bachelor of Science - undefined
India
Higher Diploma in Software Engineering - undefined
Aptech