Medical Assistant specializing in clinical and administrative functions with a strong focus on process optimization. Achieved enhanced productivity and operational efficiency through the application of industrial engineering principles. Experienced in workflow analysis and technology implementation, resulting in cost reductions and improved performance. Proven ability to foster teamwork and drive continuous improvement initiatives using lean manufacturing techniques. Bilingual Performance Improvement Coordinator proudly offering many years' expertise handling policy, procedure and contract review processes. An educated employee with mentoring and coaching skills that have led to highly trained employees. Skilled in task prioritization, resolving issues successfully, and making quick decisions.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
Work History
Quality Performance Improvement Coordinator / Medical Assistant
The Kirk Clinic
Moultrie
02.2020 - 03.2025
Demonstrated expertise in HEDIS, CMS, CAHPS, HOS, QPIP, and QSSP metrics.
Conducted comprehensive analysis of patient care data to identify trends and improvement areas.
Implemented quality improvement initiatives, leading projects to enhance healthcare delivery.
Facilitated communication across multidisciplinary teams to achieve common quality goals.
Executed medical record audits to ensure provider compliance with clinical guidelines.
Developed detailed requirements for patient visits based on thorough provider collaboration.
Trained healthcare personnel on best practices and regulatory compliance standards.
Utilized various tools to enhance real-time data reporting and visibility for organizational needs.
Managed continuous improvement strategies to eliminate end-product variances, improve manufacturing margins and reduce costs.
Worked closely with staff members to ensure they received proper training regarding newly implemented processes or procedures.
Coordinated with Plant Manager and design engineers to implement quality measures, reducing costs across manufacturing process.
Developed and implemented improvement tools and methodologies that resulted in increase in operational efficiency.
Trained and mentored project leaders and discipline managers to drive culture change toward total quality mindset across production continuum.
Identified best practices from other organizations and developed strategies to incorporate them into current operations.
Coordinated with cross-functional project team leadership for R&D, Supply Chain, Quality, and Engineering to devise process improvements resulting in increased capacity, reduction in cost and significant boosts in productivity.
Created performance indicators to determine overall effectiveness of improvement measures and methods.
Improved methods and procedures for processes, measurement, documenting and workflow techniques.
Recommended solutions based on research findings that would help improve organizational outcomes.
Coordinated training programs, workshops, and seminars related to performance improvement initiatives.
Conducted data analysis to identify areas of opportunity for improved efficiency and effectiveness.
Drafted reports detailing performance improvement projects, results, recommendations, and timelines.
Prepared presentations highlighting progress made towards achieving objectives set forth in improvement plans.
Kept production logs and maintained job material inventory.
Identified needed resources and aligned with project milestones, deliverables, and prioritization for viable production planning.
Developed and implemented performance improvement plans for a variety of departments.
Advised management on methods for improving operational efficiencies through technology applications.
Led team in identifying and implementing lean and continuous improvement actions to enhance production volume and efficiency while exceeding quality standards and product specifications.
Provided guidance on organizational policies, procedures, standards, regulations, laws. related to performance improvement efforts.
Increased efficiency through process evaluations and new process creation.
Recommended methods for continuous improvements after assessing performance against actual goals.
Established and accomplished goals for improvements in profits, quality and delivery.
Medical Assistant
Sterling Group Rheumatology
Moultrie
03.2019 - 02.2020
Managed time effectively to ensure tasks were completed on schedule and deadlines were met.
Managed inventory and supplies to ensure materials were available when needed.
Contributed innovative ideas and solutions to enhance team performance and outcomes.
Completed day-to-day duties accurately and efficiently.
Assisted with customer requests and answered questions to improve satisfaction.
Worked successfully with diverse group of coworkers to accomplish goals and address issues related to our products and services.
Demonstrated strong problem-solving skills, resolving issues efficiently and effectively.
Provided support and guidance to colleagues to maintain a collaborative work environment.
Conducted comprehensive research and data analysis to support strategic planning and informed decision-making.
Achieved cost-savings by developing functional solutions to problems.
Identified needs of customers promptly and efficiently.
Contacted medical facilities to schedule patients for admission.
Contacted pharmacies to submit and refill patients' prescriptions.
Maintained accurate medical records through filing, charting, transcription and data entry into electronic health record system.
Positioned patients properly during examination or treatment for comfort and safety.
Communicated with pharmacies for prescription refills on behalf of supervising physician.
Explained treatment procedures and physicians' instructions.
Prepared treatment rooms for patients by cleaning surfaces and restocking supplies.
Prepared laboratory specimens for analysis and organized lab results for review by the physician.
Administered medications under physician's supervision.
Responded to patient callbacks and phone-in prescription refill requests.
Provided assistance to medical staff in performing minor surgical procedures.
Education
Diploma - Medical Assisting Program
Moultrie Techincal Collage
Moultrie, Georgia
06.2009
General High School Diploma -
Colquitt County High School
Moultrie, GA
01.2004
Accomplishments
Daisy Award
Languages
Spanish
Full Professional
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Quality Performance Improvement Coordinator / Medical Assistant
Spearheaded initiatives for process improvement to enhance operational efficiency.
Assessed performance metrics and KPIs to pinpoint areas for improvement and executed strategic solutions.
Implemented safety protocols to maintain a secure work environment
Analyzed workflow processes to identify areas for improvement within the operation.
Supervised day-to-day workflow of employees in order to maximize productivity and quality standards.
Oversaw staffing requirements through recruitment, onboarding, and training, implementing disciplinary action as necessary.
Monitored and improved efficiency of processes, team performance, and customer service.
Assessed employee development needs and provided feedback on their progress towards meeting goals.
Identified areas of deficiency and performed root-cause analysis to solve problems.
Enhanced morale and management communication through employee recognition initiatives and commitment to open door policy.
Conducted regular reviews of existing policies and procedures for continuous improvement opportunities.
Orchestrated team assignments, defining priorities and targets.
Used strong issue resolution and communication skills to cultivate and strengthen lasting client relationships. at Amazon SSD Last MileSpearheaded initiatives for process improvement to enhance operational efficiency.
Assessed performance metrics and KPIs to pinpoint areas for improvement and executed strategic solutions.
Implemented safety protocols to maintain a secure work environment
Analyzed workflow processes to identify areas for improvement within the operation.
Supervised day-to-day workflow of employees in order to maximize productivity and quality standards.
Oversaw staffing requirements through recruitment, onboarding, and training, implementing disciplinary action as necessary.
Monitored and improved efficiency of processes, team performance, and customer service.
Assessed employee development needs and provided feedback on their progress towards meeting goals.
Identified areas of deficiency and performed root-cause analysis to solve problems.
Enhanced morale and management communication through employee recognition initiatives and commitment to open door policy.
Conducted regular reviews of existing policies and procedures for continuous improvement opportunities.
Orchestrated team assignments, defining priorities and targets.
Used strong issue resolution and communication skills to cultivate and strengthen lasting client relationships. at Amazon SSD Last Mile
Lead Quality Coordinator/Performance Improvement Specialist at FRANCISCAN ALLIANCE OLYMPIA FIELDSLead Quality Coordinator/Performance Improvement Specialist at FRANCISCAN ALLIANCE OLYMPIA FIELDS
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<li>Facilitated <strong>Agile ceremonies</strong> (Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives) to ensure seamless collaboration, and drive continuous improvement.</li>
<li>Fostered a collaborative and <strong>self-organizing team</strong> environment by facilitating problem-solving and decision-making discussions.</li>
<li>Proactively identified and <strong>resolved impediments</strong> to maintain sprint flow, and <strong>maximize team efficiency</strong>.</li>
<li>Managed <strong>product backlog refinement</strong>, working closely with Product Owners and stakeholders to ensure prioritized and well-defined user stories.</li>
<li>Monitored and reported <strong>Agile metrics</strong> such as velocity, burndown charts, and cycle time to assess team performance and drive process enhancements.</li>
<li>Owned release management, coordinating between developers, testers, and business stakeholders to ensure timely, high-quality deliveries.</li>
<li>Worked closely with cross-functional teams to resolve dependencies and ensure timely releases, resulting in a <strong>50% increase in positive stakeholder feedback, and a 20% reduction in customer complaints.</strong></li>
<li>Mentored beginners on Agile best practices, contributing to a high-performing team culture.</li>
<li>Performed functional, UI, regression, smoke, performance, load, security, compatibility, and usability testing, and <strong>delivered quality software</strong> to customers.</li>
<li>Handled customer-reported issues related to live applications, ensuring prompt resolution, and <strong>minimizing downtime</strong>.</li>
<li>Requirement gathering, documentation, communication, team building, quality control.</li>
</ul> at Mahindra Last Mile Mobility Ltd.<ul>
<li>Facilitated <strong>Agile ceremonies</strong> (Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives) to ensure seamless collaboration, and drive continuous improvement.</li>
<li>Fostered a collaborative and <strong>self-organizing team</strong> environment by facilitating problem-solving and decision-making discussions.</li>
<li>Proactively identified and <strong>resolved impediments</strong> to maintain sprint flow, and <strong>maximize team efficiency</strong>.</li>
<li>Managed <strong>product backlog refinement</strong>, working closely with Product Owners and stakeholders to ensure prioritized and well-defined user stories.</li>
<li>Monitored and reported <strong>Agile metrics</strong> such as velocity, burndown charts, and cycle time to assess team performance and drive process enhancements.</li>
<li>Owned release management, coordinating between developers, testers, and business stakeholders to ensure timely, high-quality deliveries.</li>
<li>Worked closely with cross-functional teams to resolve dependencies and ensure timely releases, resulting in a <strong>50% increase in positive stakeholder feedback, and a 20% reduction in customer complaints.</strong></li>
<li>Mentored beginners on Agile best practices, contributing to a high-performing team culture.</li>
<li>Performed functional, UI, regression, smoke, performance, load, security, compatibility, and usability testing, and <strong>delivered quality software</strong> to customers.</li>
<li>Handled customer-reported issues related to live applications, ensuring prompt resolution, and <strong>minimizing downtime</strong>.</li>
<li>Requirement gathering, documentation, communication, team building, quality control.</li>
</ul> at Mahindra Last Mile Mobility Ltd.
<ul><li>Roles and Responsibilities</li><li>Hiring and team building</li><li>Managing team’s career progression and performance reviews</li><li>Managing Performance improvement plan and firing</li><li>Mentoring</li><li>Product roadmap planning and execution</li><li>Accountability of the entire delivery execution including the risk mitigation planning.</li><li>Stakeholder management</li><li>Adhering to Apple Privacy and Security Guidelines for platform</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions to manage all online services for AdXchange in Apple Ads.</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions deliver Budget experimentation in Apple Ads</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions to manage data for Ad Platform.</li><li>Creating and maintaining all the data and analytics and revenue pipelines for Ad Platforms</li><li>Driving the solution for data ingestions and data processing across Ad platform</li><li>Defining the Strategy for data governance and data access</li><li>Collaboration with business to deliver relevant data and insight for our strategy and decisions.</li><li>Managing storage, processing, copy/synchronization etc. appropriate to scale</li><li>Enabling machine learning and algorithm groups by proving them right frameworks and data</li><li>Advancing team’s design methodology and quality programming practices and evangelize those techniques across Ad platform.</li><li>Deliveries</li><li>Setup 8+ member team to design and deliver Budget Allocation and Budget experimentation.</li><li>Leading Ad Delivery services team, responsible for delivering various capabilities like query understanding, targeting, fraud etc.</li><li>Delivered and Lead Design for observability for budget, and data platform in Ad platform.</li><li>Setup 11+ members high performing team to handle various business needs such as analytics and micro services for Display Advertising as well as Data Platform</li><li>Instrumental in driving Data Platform throughout the SDLC from inception, design, development, testing and deployment.</li><li>Instilled a strong team culture of high-quality delivery by constructive feedback, cross collaboration, focus and motivation.</li><li>Delivered Realtime and Batch Platform with various integrations</li><li>Delivered new DIP design for Data Platform</li><li>Delivered design of all the components of Data processing platform</li><li>Transitioned Display data work to India seamlessly and delivered many critical business impacting features and organizational security initiatives.</li><li>Closely worked with various stakeholders to understand the requirements which resulted into efficient remote work culture.</li><li>Seamless Display execution and set up best practices for 24X7 production on-call.</li><li>Tools and Technologies</li><li>AWS, S3, Kafka, Spark, Hadoop, EMR, Hive, Scoop, Flume, Cassandra, Airflow, Oozie, Gobblin, Schema Store, Icloud, Grafana, Kubernetes, Vertica, Alation, snowflake, druid, Iceberg, Java, Scala, IntelliJ, Oracle, MySql, Git, RIO, Spinnaker, Elastic cache, Grpc, Agile.</li></ul> at Apple - Adplatform<ul><li>Roles and Responsibilities</li><li>Hiring and team building</li><li>Managing team’s career progression and performance reviews</li><li>Managing Performance improvement plan and firing</li><li>Mentoring</li><li>Product roadmap planning and execution</li><li>Accountability of the entire delivery execution including the risk mitigation planning.</li><li>Stakeholder management</li><li>Adhering to Apple Privacy and Security Guidelines for platform</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions to manage all online services for AdXchange in Apple Ads.</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions deliver Budget experimentation in Apple Ads</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions to manage data for Ad Platform.</li><li>Creating and maintaining all the data and analytics and revenue pipelines for Ad Platforms</li><li>Driving the solution for data ingestions and data processing across Ad platform</li><li>Defining the Strategy for data governance and data access</li><li>Collaboration with business to deliver relevant data and insight for our strategy and decisions.</li><li>Managing storage, processing, copy/synchronization etc. appropriate to scale</li><li>Enabling machine learning and algorithm groups by proving them right frameworks and data</li><li>Advancing team’s design methodology and quality programming practices and evangelize those techniques across Ad platform.</li><li>Deliveries</li><li>Setup 8+ member team to design and deliver Budget Allocation and Budget experimentation.</li><li>Leading Ad Delivery services team, responsible for delivering various capabilities like query understanding, targeting, fraud etc.</li><li>Delivered and Lead Design for observability for budget, and data platform in Ad platform.</li><li>Setup 11+ members high performing team to handle various business needs such as analytics and micro services for Display Advertising as well as Data Platform</li><li>Instrumental in driving Data Platform throughout the SDLC from inception, design, development, testing and deployment.</li><li>Instilled a strong team culture of high-quality delivery by constructive feedback, cross collaboration, focus and motivation.</li><li>Delivered Realtime and Batch Platform with various integrations</li><li>Delivered new DIP design for Data Platform</li><li>Delivered design of all the components of Data processing platform</li><li>Transitioned Display data work to India seamlessly and delivered many critical business impacting features and organizational security initiatives.</li><li>Closely worked with various stakeholders to understand the requirements which resulted into efficient remote work culture.</li><li>Seamless Display execution and set up best practices for 24X7 production on-call.</li><li>Tools and Technologies</li><li>AWS, S3, Kafka, Spark, Hadoop, EMR, Hive, Scoop, Flume, Cassandra, Airflow, Oozie, Gobblin, Schema Store, Icloud, Grafana, Kubernetes, Vertica, Alation, snowflake, druid, Iceberg, Java, Scala, IntelliJ, Oracle, MySql, Git, RIO, Spinnaker, Elastic cache, Grpc, Agile.</li></ul> at Apple - Adplatform