Nathan Kramer
Kansas City,MO
Summary
Service-oriented and forward-thinking Project Manager offering 3 years of experience in leading large federal projects. Articulate, self-directed and motivational leader well-versed in full project lifecycle for Healthcare industry needs.
Leader and agile member of a large Health IT company’s Value Realization team providing project management expertise from identification, strategy to optimization. Extensive knowledge of government projects with IT operational challenges and medical solutions. Recognized as an expert in strategy and implementation that demonstrates success with clients through repeated requests of collaboration.
Strong focus of the defining phase to ensure design is not met with obstacles or confusion. Allowing the project and the people to progress into testing and executing with acceptance. Projects are defined by people, proper alignment from the onset this will reduce risk.
Eight+ years as a registered nurse with ICU, Emergency medicine, PACU, Hematology/Oncology experience that reinforces how calm and collected my actions occur consistently.
Created pilots & implemented net new content to support change management which directly increased client knowledge, and provided new system processes in the government operations. Establishing standard nursing informatics data to elevate decreases in work productivity and adoption deficiencies.
Overview
23
23
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
LEAD PROJECT MANAGER| DEPLOYMENT STRATEGIST
Oracle Health
01.2020 - Current
- Leveraging the Agile Management approach to create and facilitate proper change controls; defined all phases from envision, speculate, explore, adapt, and close to ensure proper adoption across all lines of business
- Subject Matter Expert > Educator in the Federal program; to enhance skills and adoption of Electronic Health Record solutions
- While leading, educating and guiding a team of 8 clinicians to be informed and armed with the most relevant information to execute a seamless, singular message for our clients
- Guided 8 associates through company requirements, regulations, reassignment in the transition from Cerner to Oracle Health while navigating the major change myself
- Defined & developed our Stakeholder Engagement Plan tool that decreased deployment timelines by 15%
- This tool communicated with internal and external stakeholders to align them to events, activities, and meetings reducing confusion of where, when and what was being deployed
- Drove vision, innovation and strategy for the ADKAR model (change management tool) with internal/external stakeholders while maintaining team imperatives, and managing to tight timelines with multiple Executive oversights
- Deployed & managed our Power BI - Start Stop Continue/Change Impact Analysis tool
- SSC was a visual process map for stakeholders to utilize and understand the changes approaching and ease fears with side by side comparisons of daily activities that sounded different but were the exact replication of responsibilities
- Coordinated all project activities from cradle to close
- Utilized a lessons learned approach to close any gaps from unsuccessful activities.
CLINICAL CONSULTANT
Cerner Corporation
03.2018 - 12.2020
- Worked with cross-functional teams to analyze current state, this led to understanding deployment challenges, and helped develop proper initiatives that allowed for seamless execution; thus, planning for road-bumps this allowed the strategy to be adaptive and flexible
- Coordinated external partnerships to ensure proper alignment in overall goal for project success; staying on-time and on-budget
- Subject Matter Expert; Go – Live Support specialist for Emergency Departments and Inpatient nursing areas throughout
- My knowledge from real time usage in the field was leveraged to put out critical pinch points amongst nursing staff from floor leadership to bedside applications
- This was performed by tracking and coordinating project deliverables and then closing the communication loop to all teams involved
- Facilitated training sessions for all department and dependencies to ensure 89% training attendance through a white glove method developed and deployed by myself and team
- I determined gaps in patient care for individual providers by utilizing data from the client’s administrative tech thus allowing us and avoidant end-users to connect and alleviate gaps in knowledge of the new system in place
- Lead Implementation strategies of Government deployments because of my knowledge and experience with the DoD (US ARMY); working in partnership with external partners Guidehouse, Leidos and the Office of Health Informatics (OHI) to mitigate adoption risks, connectivity issues, and communication across the enterprise
- Thus, identifying problems early for successful alignment of all parties connected.
SOLUTIONS ADVISOR
Cerner Corporation
04.2016 - 03.2018
- Defined, designed, and executed the National Leader knowledge Kickoff for 22 Veterans Integrated Service Networks
- (VISN) In person demonstrations outlining progress, challenges, and financial status
- Lead & redesigned Marketing work-streams to completion of all materials used for internal/external delivery on VA iniatives
- Managed multiple RFIs/RFPs lessoning the deciphering process of government jargon
- Demonstrated Nursing solutions to VA senior stakeholders and Congressional aides in DC for exposure to the products and realization of capabilities.
PEDIATRIC NURSE
Childrens Mercy Hospital
05.2009 - 02.2016
- Emergency Department – TNCC Trauma Nurse
- Hematology & Oncology – Bone marrow transplant nurse
- Charge Nurse, Informatics Lead for critical care areas
- Designed, organized and implemented the (still in use) Emergency Activation Readiness System (EARS) for care of out-of-scope patients (i.e
- Adult visitors) that had sentinel medical events
- Meaning Code Blue was inappropriate and exaggerated use of personnel and assets and the EARS program streamlined care and kept the hospital out of risk for a patient population they did not specialize in
- Redesigned the Triage workflow and policy, which directly correlated to increased patient satisfaction scores in less one years’ time
- Chaired said ED Triage Task Force and my leadership streamlined efficiency to implementation.
UNITED STATES ARMY
US Army
04.2001 - 04.2008
- Lead, trained, developed, and deployed with 30 soldier medics that protected and clinically treated a battalion of 300 during combat maneuvers in Iraq and Afghanistan
- Overseen and maintained approximately 5 million dollars of non-perishable medical equipment stateside and overseas while deployed
- Performed medical procedures and tactical decisions under extreme conditions with flawless execution that warranted military decorations and honors throughout my career.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
William Jewell College
Liberty, MO01.2012
Bachelor of Science - Biochemistry
Avila University
Kansas City, MO12.2008
Skills
- Documentation Management
- Status Updates
- Detail Oriented
- Staff Management
- Business Development
- Budget Management
- Risk Assessment
- Evidence based practitioner
- Time Management
Accomplishments
- Cerner Over Achiever award (2018) for developing and deploying the DoD awareness campaign.
- Night on the Town award (2019) Documented and resolved 100 tickets during a Go-Live in Spokane WA which led to 12 veterans to be transferred to VA facilities safely and seamlessly.
- Army Good Conduct medal (2005) for meticulous and unscathed military record.
- Presidential unit citation (2004)
- Army Commendation medal (2003) for preparation and deployment of 300 combatants.
- Combat Medical badge (2002) for triaging and evacuating 12 wounded under fire.
Affiliations
- Knights of Columbus
- American Legion
Certification
- Licensed Prosci Practitioner - current
Timeline
LEAD PROJECT MANAGER| DEPLOYMENT STRATEGIST
Oracle Health
01.2020 - Current
CLINICAL CONSULTANT
Cerner Corporation
03.2018 - 12.2020
SOLUTIONS ADVISOR
Cerner Corporation
04.2016 - 03.2018
PEDIATRIC NURSE
Childrens Mercy Hospital
05.2009 - 02.2016
UNITED STATES ARMY
US Army
04.2001 - 04.2008
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
William Jewell College
Bachelor of Science - Biochemistry
Avila University
- Licensed Prosci Practitioner - current
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