Jaswinder Dhillon

JAS DHILLON

IT Implementation Expert

Philadelphia, PA
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Summary

Over 15 years of healthcare IT experience leading end to end software implementations for some of the nation’s largest healthcare plans including Blue Cross Blue Shield. Successful execution of multi-year SDLC and Agile implementation plans in projects of up to $8M and a consulting engagement with a Predictive Analytics healthcare startup.

Key Competencies


Client Engagement


Lead project implementations


Program Management


Cross functional Collaboration & management


Customer Feedback & Voice of the Customer


Requirements Gathering & Testing


Product Development


Quality Programs and ACO Networks

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Area of specialization: Healthcare Technology

Experience

2020 Mar - Present
Program Manager
Nuna Health / Remote
  • Lead client-facing value based application implementations from pre-planning to post production phase.
  • Build strong relationships, trust, and credibility with healthcare clients.
  • Document and drive consensus around implementation project goals, priorities, and scope.
  • Create program implementation plans, resource plan, risks, issues, and key decisions in Smartsheet.
  • Partner with engineering, data science, product, and testing teams to identify the program delivery milestones including data processing, development of backend tables, front end user interface, testing, and delivery timelines.
  • Lead daily internal touchpoint calls with product, data scientist, engineering, and business analysts for alignment on program milestones.
  • Guide internal project coordinators on customer expectations, creation, and maintenance of internal ticketing system and keeping Confluence up to date for client approved documents and approval dates.
  • Collaborate with the customer program management team to align the Nuna delivery timelines with the user acceptance testing.
  • Ensure a successful product launch in partnership with internal technology teams. Document plans for a secure data file exchange process.
  • Coordinate external client interactions with internal business partners, including stakeholders, data science, engineering, and product.
  • Act as voice of customer and advise teams on business objectives and quarterly milestone priorities as they design, develop, implement, launch, and support new products and enhancements to existing products.
  • Work closely with the client and internal training team to document and deliver the end user training and onboarding plan.
  • Manage daily external communication of program status and report any blockers to customers. Create and publish formal weekly status reports to customers.
  • Manage daily internal communication with project team and management stakeholders, including frequent team meetings and stand-ups. Publish internal status reports and dashboards as required
2017 Oct - 2021 Mar
Sr Project Manager/Lead Business Analyst
Altruista Health, Inc / reston

Senior Project Manager 02/01/2019 – 03/05/2021

  • Lead the planning and implementation of multiple information technology projects involving Altruista Health’s GuidingCareTM SaaS based Care Coordination software product and facilitate the definition of project scope, goals and deliverables in collaboration with the stakeholders.
  • Assist Business Analysts and Clinical leads in identifying and prioritizing the project requirements for clinical workflows including Care Co-ordination, Utilization Management, Appeals & Grievances, and Population Health for risk management.
  • Responsible for the overall direction, coordination, execution, controls and completion of multiple assigned projects within a strategic program, including work stream tasks, ensuring consistency with Program strategy, commitments and goals.
  • Identify, define project tasks and resource requirements and develop full scale GuidingCareTM implementation project plans in support of Altruista’s business strategy.
  • Keep leadership and stakeholders informed of daily and weekly progress against commitments and escalate issues as needed.
  • Identify, assess and manage risk and timely escalation and resolution; work cross-functionally with inbound and outbound interfaces, testing, clinical, and business analysis teams to solve problems and implement changes.
  • Lead daily team stand-up meetings and assist the team in prioritizing the project tasks
  • Maintain and proactively manage Project Risks, Issues, Action Items, and Decisions. Manage project budget and timeline.
  • Undertake strategy creation for contingency planning and risk mitigation.
  • Develop or refine all related processes, procedures, and governance required to operate and execute programs and projects successfully in a global environment.
  • Act as point of escalation to drive collaboration with program and project team members to resolve conflicts and project issues and drive them to resolution.
  • Develop Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) to establish program metrics, monitors effectiveness and results of programs and adjust accordingly.
  • Track project deliverables using appropriate tools such as One Drive, Confluence, Smartsheet, SharePoint and Jira.
  • Work with the account management team to implement and manage project changes and interventions to achieve project outputs.
  • Evaluate and assess project results based on project objectives for patient-centric care and management platforms.

Lead Business Analyst 10/17/2017 – 01/31/2019

  • Responsible for helping customers solve complex business problems in Commercial, Medicare, and Medicaid healthcare sector.
  • Collaborate with key stakeholders and subject matter experts to identify and document business requirements and processes.
  • Lead and mentor a team of business analysts.
2010 May - 2017 Aug
Operations Lead
McKesson Corporation / Boston, MA

Operations Lead

Responsible for successful payer data management solutions implementations. Lead a global and cross functional team of business analysts and quality analysts in multi-year payer data management product development and implementation plans in projects of up to $8 million.

Education

2020 - 2021
Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management
Professional Certificate in Digital Marketing
2017 - 2017
Scrum Alliance
Certified Scrum Product Owner
2013 - 2015
Cornell University, S.C.Johnson Graduate School of Management
MBA
2004 - 2006
Rutgers University, School of Communication & Information Studies
Master of Communication and Information Studies
2000 - 2004
Punjab Technical University
Bachelor of Technology – Electronics and Communication

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