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ALICIA SMITH

Albuquerque,NM
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ALICIA SMITH

Summary

Graduate intern with significant financial and leadership experience seeking full-time role. An enthusiastic student with good leadership, multi-tasking skills, keen listener and excellent team player. Experienced in developing, coordinating and executing financial and stakeholder activities with multiple organizations and teams in high visibility programs in both the national security and medical industries. Many years of excellent customer service, along with activities that include audits, assessments and managing record systems . Competent in major financial and scheduling systems to include EBI, CET/PET, Oracle Business Suite, and Primavera P6. Currently hold a level-Q clearance. Organized and committed to achieving operational objectives of each project by contributing to strategic plans and reviews. Hands-on experience planning, analyzing and implementing assigned projects and establishing schedules and project parameters. Solves critical issues in time-sensitive environments.

Overview

8
years of professional experience

Work History

Sandia National Laboratories

Project Management Graduate Intern
01.2023 - Current

Job overview

  • Coordinated with technical and program staff to update project cost estimates and completed monthly uploads, enabling conduct of projects within budget requirements
  • Created and updated CAM reports on multiplex national security program projects, enabling accurate tracking and forecasting of project performance and budget
  • Monthly cost and finance updates on multiple rigorous projects
  • Developed sandbox schedules for national security programs using Primavera P6
  • Procurement uploads and updates on multiple projects
  • Project Task uploads in Oracle Business Suite
  • CPI/SPI monthly analysis
  • LTE & FTE weekly analysis
  • Manage Pos with overdue shipments and open orders
  • Ensure timely deliveries of materials to product locations
  • Resolve issues with purchasing, delivery, receiving, accounts payable invoices
  • Prepared and filed documents and collected data to track performance and efficiency
  • Worked with senior project managers to assist with day-to-day functions

United Health Care Group

Strategic Account Specialist
01.2016 - 01.2023

Job overview

  • Financially assisted high priority physicians with high end financial claims (greater than $1M)
  • Assisted multiple Native American medical facilities with high end financial claims (greater than $500K)
  • Assist Providers that accept Medicaid, and Medicare community Health Insurance with patients benefits, claims, and authorizations
  • Give detailed information on patients benefits, deductibles, co-insurance, and co-pays
  • Attend to answering high volume of calls
  • Follow HIPPA guidelines while assisting providers with medical information
  • Benefit assistance with Medicare, Medicaid and commercial plans
  • Assist setting up with daily schedules and appointments
  • Help providers calculate and thoroughly understand their claims that have been processed
  • Assist providers with claims that have been denied by researching their denials and getting their claims to claim's adjustor for reconsideration
  • Assist Providers in initiating medical prior authorizations for all medical surgeries including outpatient, inpatient, and emergency admissions
  • Assist Providers in helping their patients get set up for language interpreter for their office visits
  • Daily assist Providers from multiple states such as NM, AZ, CA, WA, and surrounding states with members from their clinical offices, hospitals with all managed benefits, claims and appeal disputes
  • Research medical claim appeals for providers and provide documentation on denials or approvals
  • ICD-10 Coding trained along with medical terminology along with knowledge of medical claims (ability to assist in calculation and breakdown of claims)
  • Worked effectively with fellow team members to coordinate effective solutions to any question or concern
  • Created business correspondence to foster clear and precise communication with external parties

Education

University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM

Master of Science from Project Management
08.2023

University Overview

GPA: 4.0

University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM

Bachelor of Business Management & Administration
12.2021

University Overview

GPA: 4.0

Central New Mexico Community College
Albuquerque, NM

Associate of Arts from Liberal Arts
04.2018

Central New Mexico Community College
Albuquerque, NM

Associate of Applied Science from Integrated
04.2018

Central New Mexico Community College
Albuquerque, NM

Studies Medical Coding Certification Nursing Assistant Certification
04.2017

Skills

  • Financial Accounting
  • Financial Management
  • Financial Decision Making
  • Accounting I & II
  • Microsoft Outlook
  • Rally Software
  • Microsoft Word
  • Microsoft Powerpoint
  • Oracle Business Suite
  • Oracle People Soft
  • Primavera P6
  • Power BI (early learner)
  • Excellent verbal and written skills
  • Knowledge of Sharepoint
  • Problem Solving Skills
  • Data Imports
  • Project Assistance
  • Managing Multiple Projects
  • Clerical Support
  • Administrative Support
  • Data Compilation

Languages

Spanish
Native or Bilingual
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Timeline

Project Management Graduate Intern

Sandia National Laboratories
01.2023 - Current

Strategic Account Specialist

United Health Care Group
01.2016 - 01.2023

University of New Mexico

Master of Science from Project Management

University of New Mexico

Bachelor of Business Management & Administration

Central New Mexico Community College

Associate of Arts from Liberal Arts

Central New Mexico Community College

Associate of Applied Science from Integrated

Central New Mexico Community College

Studies Medical Coding Certification Nursing Assistant Certification
ALICIA SMITH