Robert J Myers, DBA, MSW, ACHE

Company Overview: Department of Defense (DOD) surgical directorate that enhances and sustains combat ready forces. Maximizes patient access to surgical care and services for 90,000 beneficiaries utilizing limited appropriated funds.

• Reduced wait-times for resources for 675 healthcare professionals in 30 support units and five departments across 1.1M sq. ft. of real estate.
• Maximized millions of dollars of personnel and service contracts to sustain 34 surgical support services and 6 operating rooms that enhanced combat ready medical forces.
• Championed administrative efforts that secured three surgical centers of excellence including Bariatrics and Foregut, Cancer Care and a Level 3 Trauma Service. First ever accomplishments for similar-sized Military Treatment Facilities.
• Awarded the hospital Chief Executive Officer’s Special Service/Act award for analysis and work that secured 20 positions to increase operating room staffing from 6 to 9 at 90 percent efficiency.
• Anchored a merger between Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Pain clinics that efficiently align resources and achieve 50 more patient visits and revenue.
• Advanced agency strategic goal to apply improved health data and business intelligence that realized higher patient access to care and critical financial goals.
• Implemented and monitored organizational plans and developed goals and strategies to address prioritized issues.

Company Overview: Department of Defense (DOD) surgical directorate sustaining combat ready forces with five departments including Perioperative Nursing Services, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Orthopedics and Rehabilitation, Department of Surgery and a Dental Clinic.

• Supervised a cadre of 14 administrative staff with functional responsibilities across five departments and increased surgical production and improved combat readiness.
• Acquired 4 obstetrics-gynecology surgeons. Saved or recaptured DOD thousands of patient visits and millions of dollars of care that would have leaked to other markets including competitors.
• Reimagined and reformed 60 outdated personnel positions; realized efficient workforce production, and saved $3M in employee salaries and benefits.
• Earned the Vice President of Operations’ Special Service/Act award for conducting an accurate first-ever review and analysis of all 675 assigned directorate positions.
• Managed $40M budgets in constrained fiscal environments. Optimized returns on civilian pay for 230 healthcare professionals.
• De-obligated Fiscal Years 2019 and 2020 service contracts for cost savings of $436K.
• Organized and managed contracts directly related to strategic mission of healthcare system.
• Provided in-depth support to executive staff in regards to healthcare programs and administration.

Company Overview: Department of Operations and Emergency Management responsible for the successful planning, execution and sustainment of local, regional and national U.S. Military operations and training in war and peacetime.

• Assigned to Current Operations (CuOPS) section; raised deployment notification compliance from 65% to 100% within two months.
• Maintained common operation pictures across multiple federal agencies to support three high-visibility Special National Security Events including a Papal Visit, World Economic Summit and Presidential Inauguration.
• As CuOPS lead, improved military operations tracking, briefed accurate data to senior military leadership on 30K hours of worldwide operations to deploy ready forces in peace and wartime.

Position Overview: Manager, supervisor and mentor to enlisted Sailors and commissioned officers. Maintained and improved shore-based and shipboard medical facilities during two wars.

• Managed the full restoration of the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower aircraft carrier health services departments that deployed with 10K Sailors.
• Led publication revisions for 100 tactical and warfare operating manuals at U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. Set delivery of care standards for 63K healthcare professionals operating in 52 separate facilities worldwide in support of 6.2M beneficiaries.
• Managed flightline aid station and medical readiness for the Marines of the Presidential Helicopter Squadron in Quantico, VA.