TI'TANANNIA JONES
Houston,USA
Summary
Compliance-minded and policy-oriented, individual with 8+ years' experience in planning, directing, and coordinating clinical research projects from inception to completion in accordance with time, quality, budget, and regulatory compliance. Instrumental in negotiating budgets and contracts, working cross-departmentally, collaborating with vendors and sponsors, and providing on-going training and coaching to team members. Possess financial acumen, data-analysis experience, hands-on leadership style, and clinical development passion.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Research Administration Associate
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX
03.2023 - Current
- Responsible for post-award financial management activities of clinical research studies within the Department of Pediatrics, Research Resource Office (RRO)
- Key responsibilities include tracking expenses and invoices, collecting payments, account reconciliations and allocation, reporting on expenses, revenues, and receivables
- Develops and negotiates budgets with sponsors, creates Coverage Analysis, builds in CTMS, financial set-up, and resource allocation.
- Responsible for invoicing sponsors, affiliated vendors, and payment tracking
- Create and submit invoices for protocol-related items, study visits, pass through costs, patient-related expenses per the completed contract and internal invoices for staff time and effort allocation into study account
- Track all revenue and expenditures related to studies in CTMS
- Assist with creation and reconciliation of internal/external billing policy, ensuring compliance with applicable federal regulations
Senior Program Coordinator
Dignity Health
Phoenix, AZ
03.2020 - 03.2023
- Provide effective oversight of financial compliance and accounting requirements for federal, state, clinical, IIT and NIH clinical grants
- Develop and analyze research financial reports and ensure accuracy and integrity of information
- Provide on-going training and coaching to team on completing MCAs, creating budgets and negotiation practices, and redlining and negotiating contracts.
- Creating coverage analysis
- Negotiated and developed clinical trial budgets on time and executed clinical trial agreements
- Executed clinical trial research projects within 90-day deadline in collaboration with key partners
- Ensured conformance by providing guidance to team members in company and regulatory compliance requirements, and cost-benefit analysis
- Engaged stakeholders and worked with research pharmacy discuss drugs for upcoming trials and developed processed
- Achieved service excellence and patient satisfaction by measuring progress and efficiency of team as well as project goals, timelines, and deliverables
- Generated comprehensive financial budgets for programs using advanced spreadsheet software applications.
- Coordinated and managed multiple complex projects simultaneously, utilizing strong organizational and time management skills.
Project Intake Manager; Contract Part-time
Medix (Providence Health Care)
Portland, OR
10.2020 - 10.2022
- Oversee team of four CTMS builders in all aspects of project intake to include developing SOPs, refining KPIs, reviewing metrics, publishing dashboards and ensuring on-time and on-budget project deliveries and accurate tracking in CTMS
- Track and ensure strategic alignment and completion of project reports for optimum site feasibility
- Serve as liaison between Research Programs and Operations teams to ensure smooth operational workflow
- Exceeded company performance metrics by improving the accuracy and alignment of contract, budget, and ICF documents
- Improved operational workflow by collaborating with cross-functional teams and company stakeholders and addressed issues for resolution
- Boosted team performance through strategic coaching and mentoring to deliver continuous and high-quality research projects
Clinical Research Project Manager
Honor Health-Scottsdale
Scottsdale, AZ
03.2019 - 03.2020
- Planned, directed, and coordinated clinical research projects from inception to completion in accordance to time, quality, budget, and regulatory compliance
- Developed comprehensive contracts and effectively negotiated budgets, clinical trials, IIT and grants
- Led cross-functional teams and provided on-going training and mentoring
- Collaborated with research administration, clinical trial personnel, and legal counsel to ensure study feasibility
- Negotiated competitive trial rates and contract agreements by conducting cost-analysis and developing strategies in collaboration with clinical research, management, and finance teams
- Created and executed project plans and made recommendations for cost improvement to research management team
- Engaged stakeholders and worked with research pharmacy discuss drugs for upcoming trials and developed processed
- Served as resource and trusted advisor to Research Administration and provided continuous and high-level process improvements
- Achieved service excellence by measuring progress and efficiency of team as well as project goals, timelines, and deliverables
- Provided guidance on operational aspects of clinical research protocols to investigators and other study personnel.
Research Coverage Analyst
Banner Health Phoenix
Phoenix, AZ
05.2018 - 02.2019
- Completed charge review and patient account reconciliation for all patients on a clinical trial.
- Executed the pre-initiation research study evaluation to include cost, coverage, and financial analysis on oncology phase I/II clinical trials utilizing clinical skills, best practices, and knowledge of research, regulatory compliance, and financial coverage requirements
- Performed financial risk-benefit analysis
- Collaborate with finance department, research directors, and reimbursement services to develop and implement project solutions
- Consistently achieved company goals by spearheading research development projects, negotiating research budgets, and developing analytical evaluations
- Completed cost and coverage-analysis to ensure compliant clinical research billing
- Engaged stakeholders and worked with research pharmacy discuss drugs for upcoming trials and developed processed
- Created study budget for research activities to identify appropriate cost and negotiate sponsor budget
- Ensured compliance by performing audits on patients billing accounts.
Clinical Research Analyst
University Medical Center New Orleans
New Orleans
09.2017 - 05.2018
- Planned, directed, and evaluated research projects, with a focus on delivering fiscal compliance, budget plans, clinical research billing, and clinical trials budget negotiations in accordance with policies, sponsor contracts, and state laws
- Conducted audits and ensured compliance with regulations
- Organized and maintained clinical trial information, clinical research database, study enrollment reporting, as well as invoicing of clinical trials services
- Ensured billing compliance by developing accurate billing coverage analysis for ongoing clinical trials in collaboration with revenue integrity team
- Revamped financial reports and delivered them on time to funders
- Developed and maintained relationships with key grantors and managed grant inquiries and applications
- Provided tracking, invoicing, and collection of office receivables
- In charge of credentialing research staff to include tracking of expiration and renewal dates
Clinical Research Assistant
University Medical Center New Orleans
New Orleans, TX
06.2016 - 09.2017
- Drove development of clinical research operations to include management of clinical research databases, protocols, billing compliance, and standards
- Created billing reports, performed data analysis, and adjusted research bills and patient charges utilizing EPIC WQ
- Completed research projects for Infection Control Department
- Developed study data utilizing analytical thinking skills and integrity to review information
- Improved productivity by developing custom portal to help outside institutions submit and gather information
- Streamlined processes by writing study manuals and defining standard operating procedures
- Reviewed clinical trial protocols for adherence to institutional policies and federal regulations before initiation.
Education
MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION - Healthcare Administration
Strayer University
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE - Biology & Psychology
William Carey University
Certificate - Billing And Coding
AAPC
04-2026
Graduate Certificate - Project Management W/ Focus in Health Informatics
Purdue Global
06-2027
Skills
- Clinical Trials Research
- Investigator Initiated Trial Research
- Budget Development/Negotiations
- Contract Negotiations
- Financial Management
- Project Management
- Billing Reconciliation and Allocation
- Internal Auditing
- Team Leadership
- Coaching & Mentoring
- Regulatory Compliance
- Risk-Benefit Analysis
- Relationship Building
- Oncology Trials
- Cardiology Trials
- Women and Infants Trials
- Infectious Disease Trials
- Neurology Trials
- Drug and Device Trials
- Trial Phase 1-4
- Clinical Trial Management Systems
- Huron
- Clinical Conductor
- Velos
- Oncore
- RealTime
- SAP
- Power BI
- Sharepoint
- EPIC
- Data entry expertise
- Document management
Websites
WEBSITE, PORTFOLIO AND PROFILES
Linkedin.com/in/Ti'tananniajones
Timeline
Senior Research Administration Associate
Baylor College of Medicine
03.2023 - Current
Project Intake Manager; Contract Part-time
Medix (Providence Health Care)
10.2020 - 10.2022
Senior Program Coordinator
Dignity Health
03.2020 - 03.2023
Clinical Research Project Manager
Honor Health-Scottsdale
03.2019 - 03.2020
Research Coverage Analyst
Banner Health Phoenix
05.2018 - 02.2019
Clinical Research Analyst
University Medical Center New Orleans
09.2017 - 05.2018
Clinical Research Assistant
University Medical Center New Orleans
06.2016 - 09.2017
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE - Biology & Psychology
William Carey University
MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION - Healthcare Administration
Strayer University
Certificate - Billing And Coding
AAPC
Graduate Certificate - Project Management W/ Focus in Health Informatics
Purdue Global