Michael Sayer
Kansas City,MO
Summary
Senior Director with 20 years of healthcare experience. Plan and implement strategies for developing improved health care management. Proven problem solver and excellent communicator. Strong organizational skills, superb understanding of data collection and performance metrics. Recognized for staff development leading to high performing teams.
Overview
22
22
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Director of Data Science
Children's Mercy Kansas City
Kansas City, Missouri
09.2021 - Current
- 20+ years experience in progressively responsible healthcare experience
- Prioritized and allocated valuable resources to meet business targets.
- Developed/Launched Data Science Strategy
Senior Director of Decision Support
Children's Mercy Kansas City
Kansas City, Missouri
07.2016 - 09.2021
- Performed continuous evaluations of business facility, teams and policies to keep operations efficient and consistent.
- Established personnel performance metrics to encourage efforts toward common goals.
- Identified and documented project constraints, assumptions, business impacts, risks and scope exclusions
- Documented business work flows for stakeholder review
- Transformed project data requirements into project data models
- Coordinated statistical data analysis, design, and information flow
Senior Director of Infection Prevention & Control
Children's Mercy Kansas City
Kansas City, Missouri
10.2018 - 09.2020
- Directed all Infection Prevention and Control activities
- Managed a team of 7 Infection Preventionsts
- Developed two Infection Prevention Managers
Director of Decision Support
Children's Mercy Kansas City
Kansas City, Missouri
07.2011 - 07.2016
- Assumed oversight of a team of 5 Clinical Abstractors (RNs) and improved operating efficiency by 75%.
- Created the Data Science Strategy
- Expanded Decision Support to a team of 12.
Manager of Decision Support
Children's Mercy Kansas City
Kansas City, Missouri
05.2008 - 07.2011
- Partnered with EMR vendor to strengthen reporting platform.
- Hired 3 Data Analysts.
IS Analyst
Children's Mercy Kansas City
Kansas City, Missouri
02.2006 - 05.2008
- Managed Cerner electronic medical record (EMR) build/implementation.
PACS Administrator
Children's Mercy Kansas City
Kansas City, Missouri
01.2002 - 01.2006
- Lead system-wide digital imaging implementation
- Managed digital imaging storage and distribution
Education
Master of Science - Applied And Computational Math And Statististics
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN05.2019
Master of Public Administration - Public Health
University of Missouri
Kansas City, MO05.2008
MBA - Information Technology Emphasis
University of Missouri
Kansas City, MO2006
Bachelor of Arts - Chemistry-Finance
University of Missouri - Kansas City
Kansas City, MO05.2003
Skills
- Accomplished leader
- Data analysis
- Business needs analysis
- Problem solving
- Process mapping
- Process Improvement
- Data visualization
- Storytelling
- Machine learning
- Statistical modeling
- Curious mindset
- Business Intelligence
Accomplishments
- Collaboration
Collaborated with stakeholders of diverse backgrounds/interests to develop comprehensive data-driven management strategies - Implementation Science
Lead electronic medical record (EMR) adoption - Quality Assurance
Ensured and enforced institutional compliance with HIPAA, OSHA, CMS, MU, and CLIA regulations for maximum quality and control - Research
Completed peer-reviewed study focused on patient access, which resulted in increased patient satisfaction and organizational revenue - Statistical Engineering
Introduced new statistical process controls, increasing appointment access by 25% while maintaining current staffing - Management
Supervised data team of 23 to ensure proper handling of institutional data needs
Professional Development
- IHI Summer Immersion, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, 2015
- Explorer Training, McKesson, 2015
- Six Sigma Green Belt, JCCC, 2010
- CPHQ Prep Course, NAHQ, 2009
- Business Objects Training, SAP, 2009
Certifications
- Mensa Member, Mid-American Mensa, 2015-Current
- CPHQ, National Association of Healthcare Quality (NAHQ), 2009-Current
Timeline
Senior Director of Data Science
Children's Mercy Kansas City
09.2021 - Current
Senior Director of Infection Prevention & Control
Children's Mercy Kansas City
10.2018 - 09.2020
Senior Director of Decision Support
Children's Mercy Kansas City
07.2016 - 09.2021
Director of Decision Support
Children's Mercy Kansas City
07.2011 - 07.2016
Manager of Decision Support
Children's Mercy Kansas City
05.2008 - 07.2011
IS Analyst
Children's Mercy Kansas City
02.2006 - 05.2008
PACS Administrator
Children's Mercy Kansas City
01.2002 - 01.2006
Master of Science - Applied And Computational Math And Statististics
University of Notre Dame
Master of Public Administration - Public Health
University of Missouri
MBA - Information Technology Emphasis
University of Missouri
Bachelor of Arts - Chemistry-Finance
University of Missouri - Kansas City