Deputy Executive Director
Accounting
and Finance
• Established operations and clinics at the 120,000 sq.
ft. Southwest Freeway site following placement of $10,000,000
bond offering with Bank of America for acquisition and renovation
of 7011 & 7033 Southwest Freeway.
• Recruited a chief financial officer (CPA, Master of
Public Administration and Policy) from a 525-bed acute care
hospital.
• Focused department on accountability, trend-analysis,
management reporting.
Contracts
& Purchasing
• Handled all bids and contracts for multimillion-dollar
7011/7033 Southwest Freeway project.
• Hired a unit director (CPM, MBA) to lead reorganization
of departments with focus on strengthening supports for clinical
divisions and securing best value for the Agency.
• Established foundation for electronic transactions
and move toward paperless environment.
Facility
& Transportation Services
• Planned and completed major renovation projects including
the NeuroPsychiatric Center, Furniture Bank, and the Southwest
Freeway Building.
• Led response to Tropical Storm Allison that impacted
seven facilities and required 12 months of environmental testing,
remediation, planning, and construction as well as negotiations
with insurers and FEMA.
• Trained more than 250 drivers, secured transportation
grant funding, and reduced costs by 35%.
Organizational
Development & Human Resources
• Named a director to establish Organizational Development
Department to establish Human Resource generalists responsible
for the HR well-being of assigned departments.
• Completed a collaborative effort with Managed Care
to achieve 100% compliance on training and documentation.
• Analyzed existing and proposed initiatives including
employee assistance plan, retirement plan, cafeteria plan
feasibility, wellness and health management.
Information
Technology
• Named a director to spearhead response to outages caused
by Tropical Storm Allison and relocations to various sites.
• Implemented new Agency-wide client data and assessment/treatment/planning
information system and rolled out exchange for one intranet
and Internet mail system and public files.
• Completed Program Charters for all IT projects with
cost/benefit analysis and Agency-wide prioritization.
• Revamped department to provide effective balance of
contract and permanent staff responsive to changing needs
of the Agency.
• Established a training department to address ongoing
challenges for development of expertise at all staff levels
with various software.
Managed
Care
• Developed full functionality of behavioral health organization
services.
• Assumed responsibility for billing and reimbursement
and credentialing.
• Developed and implemented business plan for coordination
of benefits department to meet new community standards.
• Established comprehensive provider profiling for the
Agency.
Identified streamlined reporting needs and established monthly
performance auditing and reporting.
