Nick Blasnig, PMP

Experience

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  Extendicare

  Dec 1986 - Jun 2005

  • Accountable for all on-going maintenance and enhancements to enterprise financial and clinical application portfolio.• Reported to Managing Director / VP. Original member of a 5 member team that established VCPI as a separate operating entity of Extendicare, Inc. • Accountable for the Y2K remediation of all enterprise accounting systems including Patient Information Tracking and Billing, Accounts Payable, General Ledger and Payroll. Managed consulting and off-shore resources to augment the in-house team. • Accountable for creating a web based Therapy tracking administration application. • Accountable for creating a web based Patient Information Tracking and Billing application. Show less

  • Manager Application Development

    May 1998 - Jun 2005

  • Programmer Analyst / Systems Analyst

    Dec 1986 - Jun 1998
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  VCPI

  Jan 2005 - May 2012

  Project Manager

  • Assumed the Project Manager role for an $ 8 M Electronic Medical Record (EMR) Vendor Selection Project. The EMR System will replace the current 25 year old Patient Information Tracking and Billing System, the current Activities of Daily Living (ADL) System and the current Minimum Data Set (MDS) System, as well as provide electronic Clinical System capabilities to replace the current manual clinical functions. • Planned and managed the implementation of Salesforce CRM that included custom modifications to provide tracking and reporting functionality of sales for a Group Purchasing Organization (GPO) serving Post-Acute Care companies. Coordinated the design, configuration, coding, and QA of the custom modifications with a third party vendor. • Planned and managed the upgrade of MDS 2.0 to MDS 3.0. Managed the design, configuration, coding and QA of the in-house maintained MDS to Patient Billing interface. Managed the configuration and QA of the vendor supplied MDS System. • Planned and managed the third party configuration, in-house QA, and implementation of the Vertex Tax Module to be used in conjunction with the newly implemented Oracle financial suite. • Planned and managed the design, coding, QA, and implementation of a Managed Care / Insurance Billing System as a compliment to the legacy Patient Billing System. • Planned and managed the technology related requirements and supported the planning and coordination of the business function related requirements necessary to implement the Oracle financial suite. • Planned and managed the pilot project to implement a Health Center based patient data collection system in 9 Health Centers located in 2 states. The system required physical plant review to support new data collection device location, required cabling, and device installation. The pilot was deemed a success, and subsequent implementation was executed in 150+ Health Centers across 12 states. Show less

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  Connecture

  Nov 2012 - Apr 2013

  Manager, Client Services

  Managed a project to deliver client specific customizations to the base Product of a web-based healthcare benefit exchange application. The base Product and the specific customization were developed utilizing an Agile Development Methodology. On completion of a given sprint, base Product was passed to the Service Team for customer specific application changes. Four separate vendor teams, as well as off-shore resources, collaborated on the project.

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  Concurrency

  May 2013 - Nov 2014

  Project Manager

  Managed a team of System Engineers, Application Developers, SharePoint Engineers and Process Engineers to deliver IT infrastructure projects for a Fortune 100 company. Projects included implementing components of Microsoft System Center including Service Manager, Operations Manager and Configuration Manager.