ROLAND SAMAROO
Upper Marlboro,MD
Summary
Strategic Health System Specialist with expertise in healthcare administration, workforce management, and operational improvement. Analyzes staffing, vacancies, and recruitment effectiveness to enhance administrative readiness and efficiency. Skilled in performance management, audits, executive reporting, and data-driven decision support.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
Work History
Health System Specialist, GS-0671-11
Defense Health Agency
02.2023 - Current
- Exercise formal supervisory authority over assigned personnel by assigning work, establishing priorities, monitoring performance, providing feedback, identifying development needs, approving or recommending leave, addressing performance concerns, and recommending awards or other personnel actions.
- Lead workforce-management coordination among hiring officials, timekeepers, approving officials, administrative personnel, and human-resources stakeholders; prioritize requirements and ensure timely completion of staffing, personnel, and compliance actions.
- Manage full-cycle recruitment actions for clinical and administrative positions; review job opportunity announcements and applicant qualifications, serve on interview and selection boards, and make or recommend selections based on qualifications and mission requirements.
- Analyzed turnover, vacancy rates, full-time-equivalent utilization, premium pay, leave utilization, and recruitment effectiveness; maintained directorate-wide manning database and advised leadership on staffing gaps, workforce risks, allocation, and succession planning.
- Developed and maintained workforce-management reports using manning, vacancy, turnover, leave, premium-pay, and recruitment data; presented trends, staffing risks, and actionable recommendations to leadership for informed decision-making.
- Serve as a subject-matter resource for Defense Medical Human Resources System internet (DMHRSI) and Automated Time Attendance and Production System (ATAAPS); validate timecards, review attendance and payroll data, resolve discrepancies, and train timekeepers and approving officials.
- Coordinate with administrative and support stakeholders to identify and resolve operational logistics requirements affecting workforce readiness, continuity of operations, and delivery of healthcare administrative services.
- Led workforce-readiness, compliance, reporting, and process-improvement special projects; developed tracking tools and provided data-supported recommendations to leadership.
Administrative Manager
United States Navy / Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
10.2019 - 10.2022
- Led a six-person team providing short- and long-term support to wounded Sailors and their families during medical treatment and recovery.
- Developed and maintained patient-status tracking tool to enhance continuity of care, personnel accountability, and workload visibility for leadership decision-making.
- Assigned work, established daily priorities, monitored completion of patient-support actions, and adjusted workloads to ensure operational continuity.
- Provided guidance and training on patient-status tracking, casualty reporting, care-documentation requirements, and coordination procedures.
- Coordinated care documentation for personnel receiving treatment and prepared non-medical assessments to facilitate return-to-duty or separation actions.
- Served as a medical evacuation liaison; supported seven inbound medical evacuation missions and completed 12 patient casualty reports.
- Developed an automated budget-tracking tool that updated available funding by program and function.
- 40 Hours per Week
Fleet Medical Liaison / Team Lead
United States Navy / Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
04.2019 - 10.2019
- Led a six-person team providing short- and long-term support to wounded Sailors and their families during medical treatment and recovery.
- Served as a medical evacuation liaison; supported seven inbound medical evacuation missions and completed 12 patient casualty reports.
- Created and maintained a patient-status tracking tool improving continuity of care and enhancing personnel accountability for leadership decisions.
- Assigned work, established daily priorities, monitored patient-support actions, adjusted workloads to ensure operational continuity.
- Provided guidance and training on patient-status tracking, casualty reporting, care-documentation requirements, and coordination procedures.
- Coordinated care documentation for personnel receiving treatment and prepared non-medical assessments supporting return-to-duty or separation actions.
- Developed automated budget-tracking tool that streamlined funding updates by program and function.
- 40 Hours per Week
Education
Master of Science - Healthcare Administration
American Public University
American Public University System06.2025
Skills
- Healthcare Administration
- Medical Treatment Facility Operations
- Facility operations
- Supervisory Leadership
- Personnel Management
- Compliance
- Administrative Management
- Healthcare Operations Management
- Budget Support
- Employee Engagement Strategies
- Data Analysis
- Performance measurement
- Program improvement
- Project Management
- Data Presentation
Timeline
Health System Specialist, GS-0671-11
Defense Health Agency
02.2023 - Current
Administrative Manager
United States Navy / Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
10.2019 - 10.2022
Fleet Medical Liaison / Team Lead
United States Navy / Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
04.2019 - 10.2019
Master of Science - Healthcare Administration
American Public University