BETTY EDWARDS
Kearny
Summary
Dynamic Senior Project Manager with extensive experience at Cyquent, Inc., orchestrating a $92M Medicaid initiative. Expert in budget oversight and risk mitigation, fostering cross-agency collaboration. Proven history in EHR implementation and conflict resolution, delivering impactful solutions that enhance operational efficiency and compliance.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
5
5
Certifications
Work History
Senior Project Manager
Cyquent, Inc.
02.2022 - 12.2022
- Directed a $92M Medicaid-funded NEMT Redesign, managing budgets, schedules, vendor contracts, and policy-driven adjustments.
- Led cross-agency collaboration with PMO, procurement, and legal teams to ensure compliance with Medicaid mandates.
- Oversaw a 15-member program team, managing resources, integrated planning, and risk mitigation.
- Produced solution proposals, business cases, and technical documentation supporting program delivery.
- Maryland Department of Health
Project Manager – COVID Response
UnitedHealthcare
04.2020 - 01.2022
- Oversaw EHR enhancements and COVID-response technology initiatives, ensuring HIPAA compliance.
- Re-forecasted schedules for Epic and Cerner modules while managing technical teams and integrations.
Application Manager
NY State Office for People with Developmental Disabilities
Albany
06.2016 - 03.2020
- Delivered a $20M enterprise Kronos workforce scheduling implementation supporting 20,000+ employees.
- Directed governance approvals across HR, IT, procurement, and legal stakeholders.
- Led vendor evaluations, contract negotiations, and implementation planning.
Sr. Project Manager – NYMMIS (PMO)
NYS Dept. of Health / Xerox
Menands
11.2010 - 05.2016
- Maintain the Project 90 Day Product Roadmap.
- Ensuring Concept, Development, and Validation team commitments and burn down are accurately updated in Version One after Sprint Planning.
- Assisting Scrum Master with intra-team communication and coordination for internal, external, software and non-software dependencies to minimize and/or address impediments on a timely basis.
- Participating in Release Planning (4 Sprints) to ensure SMEs are identified for planned deliverables.
- Responsible for creating Business Requirements gathering utilizing 40 teams for each software component.
- Managed 16 individual teams.
- Monitor metrics, conflicts to ensure minimal conflict.
- Liaising with IMS Team to ensure program milestones and release/sprint commitments are aligned and reported in the IMS.
- Supporting Elicitation/Decomposition and Elaboration sessions with IT Security, Claims and Claims Payment software installs.
- Managing teams in the requirements preparation and inclusion of MITA BPs, Policies, and PSIs.
- Work closely with security, systems admin, developers and support staff to ensure systems were functioning properly.
- Dependencies tracked to address / minimize impediments on a timely basis.
- Visibility to Release Planning outputs and Story commitments (by Sprint) IMS, Dashboard and other status reports are up-to-date (daily, weekly, monthly).
- In Conjunction with NYS DOH New Medicaid Management System (NYMMIS)
Education
M.S. - Information Management & Telecommunications
Polytechnic University of NYU
B.S. - Business Administration & Computer Science
St. Francis College
Skills
- Clinical & Financial Application Management
- Project management
- Budget management
- Risk mitigation
- EHR implementation
- Agile methodology
- Application Design & Implementation
- Workflow Analysis & Future-State Design
- SDLC
- Vendor & Release Management
- Application Installations
- UAT & Training Facilitation
- Change Management
- Conflict Resolution
- IT Team Leadership
- SOP & Policy Development
Certification
PMP Certification - PMI
Timeline
Senior Project Manager
Cyquent, Inc.
02.2022 - 12.2022
Project Manager – COVID Response
UnitedHealthcare
04.2020 - 01.2022
Application Manager
NY State Office for People with Developmental Disabilities
06.2016 - 03.2020
Sr. Project Manager – NYMMIS (PMO)
NYS Dept. of Health / Xerox
11.2010 - 05.2016
M.S. - Information Management & Telecommunications
Polytechnic University of NYU
B.S. - Business Administration & Computer Science
St. Francis College