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Elizabeth Harman Milan

Carmichael,CA

Summary

A strategic and effective leader with over a decade of experience in nonprofit healthcare, implementing DEI initiatives, outreach and engagement, and operations management. Specialties include distilling complex messaging into simple and actionable items, effective relationship building, successfully growing and fostering success in cross-collaborative work environments within large-scale corporations.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience

Work History

Directing Co-Chair of Employee Resource Groups

Blue Shield of California
03.2021 - Current
  • Achieved 50% growth in membership to 1432 members in 3 years
  • Management of 100+ Ambassadors, six pillar leads and their workstream deliverables.
  • 25+ event/year involving public speaking and overseeing all promotional communications. Ensured all messaging aligned with state political views and company’s overall mission.
  • Optimized budget use and oversaw charitable giving and fundraising of $50,000+/year. Full budget management and hiring final decisions.
  • Strategic recommendations, architecture and roadmap presented monthly for approval to C-Suite and VP advisory board.

Consultant. Operations Governance Manager

Blue Shield Of California
05.2023 - Current

Established Network Adjustment Governance for end-to-end member experience, ensuring continuity of care, compliance and accreditation in all Lines of Business for all provider types

  • Managed team of three Operations analysts, formulated and directed resolution implementation and data remediation efforts, auditing and QA spanning 11 teams
  • Governance over all QA processes, including methodology design
  • Automated multiple manual processes from requirements to implementation
  • Defined performance indicators and quality metrics to maintain compliance with governing policies, standards and adoption requirements
  • Defined governance roles and responsibilities to establish clear accountability for stewardship of principal information assets
  • Worked with diverse, collaborative and energetic workforce to spark innovation and develop service ideas
  • Built cross-functional relationships to support organizational change
  • Established and executed governance implementation roadmap
  • Assisted in developing and maintaining department policies and procedures to support organization and industry best practices
  • Compiled data for analysis and developed tracking and reporting

Senior Program Manager, Associate Business Analyst

Blue Shield Of California
05.2016 - 05.2023
  • Assessment of systematic feasibility for new state, federal, and company mandates as leader of newly established team for end-to-end product lifecycle.
  • Management of 3 employees.
  • Initiated and led process optimization of designing new system to deliver coding resulting in $250,000/year savings Trained 30+ people in customer-facing documentation creation and in UX analysis and testing of internal software.
  • E2E management of changes to Mid-Large Custom, Cycle, Small Business, IFP and ASO product programming requirements, customer-facing legally required documents, customer-service-facing UI data feed, programming documents, internal summary generating program, and coding (CPT). This included new products, vendors, programs, and design requests.
  • QA (Quality Assurance) of programming requirements and macros to create customer-facing documents - 99% accuracy for all of Product. Cross-collaboration with 15 teams to streamline, automate and optimize processes, reducing employee manual efforts.

Marketing Manager

2nd Chance Kitty
03.2022 - Current
  • Fundraising and marketing outreach and development for all 6 sites in Northern California, nonprofit policy and strategy
  • Found and maintain relationships with sustainable, biggest donors in history of non-profit.
  • Developed and implemented marketing strategies to use for launches, rebranding campaigns and promotions.
  • Researched developing trends to stay updated with new ideas and marketing practices.

Business Analyst • Customer Care

VSP Global
10.2015 - 05.2016
  • $2m reduction in payment due to project management research, gap remediation and mitigations for Promise program by addressing dissatisfied member complaints
  • Managed implementation of automation to company website resulting in $900K departmental cost absorption
  • Collaborated with stakeholders to define project objectives and criteria

Business Analyst Associate

Blue Shield Of California
02.2015 - 10.2015
  • Trained six employees on benefit entry for all Lines of Business for customer-facing required documentation with 99.9% accuracy rate
  • SME for health benefits
  • Researched incumbent plan and provided competitive RFPs, deviations, pricing grids, and portfolio plan design.

Marketing Intern

VSP Global
06.2014 - 09.2014
  • Re-designed VSPOnline website (team intranet site) and implemented project requests
  • Analyzed website data and created infographic dashboards, coordinated provider event notifications.
  • Assisted in creating written, video and image content for marketing channels.

Operations Manager

TeleSource Center
08.2010 - 12.2012
  • Management of 40 franchisees, including reporting, updates and negotiations
  • Personal sales acquisition tripled clientele
  • Trained and managed 14 employees
  • Wrote marketing, sales and event-invite scripts and outgoing e-mail templates
  • Performance reporting, evidence-based hiring and recruiting.

Education

Ph.D. - Psychology

Chicago School of Professional Psychology
2026

MBA (Master of Business Administration) - Market Research

University of The Pacific
2013

Bachelor of Science - Social Science & Psychology

University of Oregon

Social And Behavioral Research - Interviewing Tactics

CITI Program
Online
10.2023

Project Management Certification - Operations, Implementation And Project Management

Duke University
11.2020

Project Management Professional (PMP) - Project Management

Project Management Institute
Online
12.2020

Six Sigma Black Belt - Waste Reduction, Lean Methodology

Expert Learning
Online
2018

Business Case Development Certificate - Business Development

Harvard Business
Online
2014

Skills

  • Best Practices Implementation
  • Staff Management
  • Configuration Management
  • Management Coaching
  • Growth Planning
  • Program Oversight
  • Performance Improvement
  • Virtual and digital engagement and outreach
  • Lean waste reduction practices
  • Regulatory Compliance
  • Budget Analysis

Accomplishments

2023 Marquis Who's Who

2021 Mission & Values in Action Award for Innovation (Blue Shield of California)

2021-2023: Corporate Citizenship Recognition - Cares Leader (Blue Shield of California)

Corporate Citizenship Recognition - Top Volunteer of the Year (Blue Shield of California)

Volunteer

  Blue Shield of California 

Shield Cares Ambassador • 08/2016-2021 

● Coordinated and promoted volunteer events for Blue Shield employees. Structured presentations (in person and virtual) and fundraising. 


2nd Chance Kitty 

Volunteer Coordinator • 05/2020-10/2021 

● Point of contact for Lodi-region volunteers, coordinated scheduling, the care and cat adoptions for no-kill rescue 


PUENTES 

Board of Directors • 05/2017-1/2021 

● Community farm supporting incubators, educational certifications, childcare programs and tree canopy restoration. Committed to establishing financial solvency, budget management, company policy and strategy, fundraising events, and staffing decisions.

Timeline

Consultant. Operations Governance Manager

Blue Shield Of California
05.2023 - Current

Marketing Manager

2nd Chance Kitty
03.2022 - Current

Directing Co-Chair of Employee Resource Groups

Blue Shield of California
03.2021 - Current

Senior Program Manager, Associate Business Analyst

Blue Shield Of California
05.2016 - 05.2023

Business Analyst • Customer Care

VSP Global
10.2015 - 05.2016

Business Analyst Associate

Blue Shield Of California
02.2015 - 10.2015

Marketing Intern

VSP Global
06.2014 - 09.2014

Operations Manager

TeleSource Center
08.2010 - 12.2012

Ph.D. - Psychology

Chicago School of Professional Psychology

MBA (Master of Business Administration) - Market Research

University of The Pacific

Bachelor of Science - Social Science & Psychology

University of Oregon

Social And Behavioral Research - Interviewing Tactics

CITI Program

Project Management Certification - Operations, Implementation And Project Management

Duke University

Project Management Professional (PMP) - Project Management

Project Management Institute

Six Sigma Black Belt - Waste Reduction, Lean Methodology

Expert Learning

Business Case Development Certificate - Business Development

Harvard Business
Elizabeth Harman Milan