Brenda Barr

Experience

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  Thomson Healthcare

  Jan 2006 - Jan 2007

  Data Coordinator

  Tracked, analyzed, and resolved issues surrounding data submissions for production and implementation clients, serving as a subject matter expert (SME) for the data submission system, escalation remediation, and flat and 837 file formats.

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  Thomson Reuters

  Jan 2007 - Jan 2010

  Database Operations Consultant / Technical Lead of Databases

  Transitioned to serve as a Database Operations Consultant and Technical Lead following Thomson Health purchasing Reuters and integrating operations, stepping into a data quality and analysis position. Built, tested, and delivered multiple databases each month, coordinating projects and process improvements for channel partners, and ensuring SAS 70 compliance.➜ Steered projects to ensure the achievement of timelines and deliverables, collaborating with Implementation, Client, Analytics, Database Productions, Accounts, Data Acquisition, and Update teams and associated stakeholders.➜ Designed, maintained, and documented database testing; constructed data enhancements specifications; supported user acceptance testing (UAT); and assisted the analytic consulting team in evaluating the usability of databases. Show less

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  IBM - Formerly Truven Healthcare

  Jan 2010 - Jul 2022

  Senior Operations Manager, IBM | Senior Operations Manager | Operations Manager

  Held accountability for managing program and product uptime and operability across a comprehensive portfolio of products—State Data Program, Care Discovery, Care Discovery Advanced, Care Discovery Quality Measures, Children’s Data Processing Platform, Public State Data, and Market Discovery Marketing—offering health insights, analytics, modeling, visualization, compliance monitoring, and more for diverse health organizations. Led and mentored 6-22 direct reports in supporting full lifecycle data operations through such functions as data acquisition, quality, analytics, processing, delivery, and enhancements.➜ Championed numerous product and program innovations, assessing organizational needs, defining requirements, developing project plans, testing methodologies, facilitating training, and working diligently to provide clients with more reliable, flexible, and cost-effective analytics.➜ Earned 8 awards in the last 3 years, including the highest honor for “finding ways around roadblocks and drive to find solutions that are not always apparent.” Became a Local Security Officer and SME for data security concerns.➜ Led 4 rapid-scale improvement events as the process owner or team leader, implementing Lean methodologies to identify issues, define solutions, and deploy agile processes to capture efficiencies and savings.➜ Project managed mission-critical ICD-10 migration initiative, working with hundreds of hospital facilities—and their UB04 vendors—to plan, convert, test, and execute the migration to ICD-10 compliant data formats.➜ Documented processes and systems—including creating first-time SOPs for the newest group, Data Lake Operations—tracked and trended KPIs, and intervened with sustainable corrective actions when issues arose.➜ Career-pathed top performers to build internal bench strength and support succession planning, working diligently to motivate, mentor, and cross-train in an effort to achieve heightened efficiency and effectiveness. Show less

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  Merative

  Jul 2022 - now

  Senior Operations Manager

  Currently, I hold the helm of the data operations team driving the performance of two analytics processing products for Merative, operating seamlessly within the Azure environment. Furthermore, I lead a dynamic ensemble comprising managed file transfer, data acquisition, technical analysis, and transformation programming teams for Health Insights. My leadership extends to orchestrating multifaceted operations, including the establishment and maintenance of critical connections with data suppliers, meticulous oversight of data tracking and metadata maintenance across sophisticated data acquisition tools and servers, adept handling of escalated programming and data inquiries, and spearheading intricate data investigations to drive actionable insights. Show less