Christopher Carter
Bonney Lake
Summary
Multi-talented professional with 25 years of leadership experience in healthcare and higher education. Proven ability to guide multidisciplinary teams, foster strategic partnerships, and manage complex academic and healthcare enterprises. Expertise in curriculum development, faculty training, and professional development initiatives. Extensive experience working with diverse student populations, including military-affiliated, international, and adult learners, utilizing various online platforms for instruction.
Overview
25
25
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Dean: Health & Human Services
Renton Technical College
11.2015 - Current
- The dean works closely with health industry partners to determine program development needs, designs innovative curricula that enhance students' skills and knowledge, complies with professional accreditation requirements, recruits students and faculty, and manages the operational logistics of significant grants and union contracts.
- This position serves as a liaison with outside agencies, community organizations, and other constituencies within the college.
- Provides leadership for 18 allied health education programs allied health continuing education programs, conducts health industry research and analysis, including market research, data collection, analysis, and educational research in the field.
- Coordinate the annual and long-range departmental planning and evaluation processes and budgeting related to allied health education.
- Oversee design and revision of courses; identify resources; coordinate course offerings; and evaluate.
- Maintain currency in and enforce college policies and procedures and state and federal regulations related to allied health education.
- Ensure compliance with state-mandated performance measures and utilize data for continual program improvement.
- Recruit and recommend employing full-time and part-time faculty and ensure credentials comply with all applicable licensing and accreditation requirements.
Associate Dean: Allied Health Programs
Charter College
01.2009 - 11.2015
- Performs administrative work assisting the Dean of Education in formulating, implementing, and evaluating the Allied Health programs.
- Work also involves managing all classes and scheduling.
- Formulates, implements, and evaluates the procedures and standards of the Allied Health program.
- Supervises, evaluates, and promotes ongoing faculty and staff professional development to ensure technically sound instructions.
- Recruits, interviews, and recommends hiring all faculty and staff for the Allied Health program.
- Supervises related Professional Support Staff.
- Supervises curriculum development and program evaluation to support accreditation.
Technical Writer/Corporate Trainer
Molina Healthcare
01.2005 - 01.2009
- Writes, revises, and maintains training curriculum on guidelines and contract interpretations.
- Participate in brainstorming sessions with staff and management to develop solutions to payment issues.
- Train examiners on guidelines, contract interpretations, and navigation of the SharePoint site.
- Create and revise flow charts to document existing and model workflow. Special Projects include Auditing Molina East staff, training Molina East staff, being the owner and creator of the claims department SharePoint site and writing curriculum pieces for the K2 Pre-Processing project and claims department training phase I project.
- Developed, produced, and maintained a variety of complex technical and user documentation.
- Planned and executed writing projects that needed attention to complex technical content.
- I provided a practical and valuable presentation of that content and timely progress reporting in meeting schedule milestones-complex knowledge and utilization of one or more word processing tools, including Info-Mapping.
MICB Instructor and Program Chair
International Education Corporation
09.2000 - 09.2007
- Program Chair for the Medical Billing and Insurance Coding Program and wrote the MBIC Program.
- Trained students and instructors on professional and institutional billing, coding, and claims examination.
- Taught seven specific modules within the MBIC curriculum, recognizing the different types of learners and incorporating these concepts into the curriculum: recommended changes regarding textbooks and other aspects of the curriculum. Each session required four platform hours and 1 hour of administrative work daily. In addition, approximately 1 hour of prep time was usually necessary for lecture hours. MBIC Instructors also, based on the type of learner, prepared and delivered lectures and lab demonstrations as outlined in the curriculum.
- Facilitated class discussions to ensure student's conceptual understanding of employability skills. Researched, updated, and augmented lecture material and lab skills and participated in faculty meetings and quarterly in-service training.
- Supervised daily activities and tasks of students. Promoted skills through demonstration and repetition.
Education
Ed.D. - Adult & Higher Education
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR06-2024
M.A.Ed. - Educational Leadership
Argosy University
Los Angeles05-2008
B.S. - Health Information Technology
Charles Drew University
06-2000
B.A. - Speech Communication
California State University Long Beach
05-2000
B.A. - Black Studies
California State University Long Beach
01.1995
Skills
- Qualitative Research
- Data Analysis
- Communication
- Problem solving
- Health & Human Services
- Managing projects
- Leadership & management
- Innovation
- Training curriculum
- Managing faculty & staff
- Time management
- Professional Development
Affiliations
- Washington Allied Health Centers of Excellence
- American Health Information Management Association
- Washington Health Information Management Association
- Washington Faculty and Staff of Color Coalition
- Washington Administrators of Color Leadership Program
- Social Justice Leadership Institute Alumni
- Washington Healthcare Leadership Table
- Free and Accepted Masons of Washington and Auxiliaries
- Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Incorporated (Zeta Pi Lambda Chapter)
Certification
- HCEMB, American Career College, 1995
- CCA, 2000
- CCS-2002
- RHIA-2003
- RHIT-2004
Publications
Retention: A hermeneutic phenomenological evaluation of Black male students enrolled in a professional technical program, Doctoral dissertation, Oregon State University
Languages
English
Past Experience
- Associate Dean: Allied Health Programs, Charter College, 01/2009, 11/2015, Assisted the Dean of Education in formulating, implementing, and evaluating the Allied Health programs., Managed all classes and scheduling., Supervised curriculum development and program evaluation to support accreditation.
- Technical Writer/Corporate Trainer, Molina Healthcare, 01/2005, 01/2009, Wrote, revised, and maintained training curriculum on guidelines and contract interpretations., Trained examiners on guidelines, contract interpretations, and navigation of the SharePoint site.
- MICB Instructor and Program Chair, International Education Corporation, 09/2000, 09/2007, Program Chair for the Medical Billing and Insurance Coding Program., Trained students and instructors on professional and institutional billing, coding, and claims examination.
Timeline
Dean: Health & Human Services
Renton Technical College
11.2015 - Current
Associate Dean: Allied Health Programs
Charter College
01.2009 - 11.2015
Technical Writer/Corporate Trainer
Molina Healthcare
01.2005 - 01.2009
MICB Instructor and Program Chair
International Education Corporation
09.2000 - 09.2007
Ed.D. - Adult & Higher Education
Oregon State University
M.A.Ed. - Educational Leadership
Argosy University
B.S. - Health Information Technology
Charles Drew University
B.A. - Speech Communication
California State University Long Beach
B.A. - Black Studies
California State University Long Beach
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