Lisa Edwards 334.803.0447 Lbedwards48@yahoo.com Currently hold Active Secret Clearance

I have more than 29 years in IT supporting the Veterans Affairs (VA) and Private Sectors in multi-vendor, hybrid environments.

Most recent experience is in senior level positions in support of the VA programs, implementing the JAZZ platform tools, Agile Methodologies, Scrum Lead, Team Lead, Project Scheduling-Agile Increment planning, Agile Analyst(Functional/Technical), Production Support Management, and VistA support.

Older experience and skills include Mumps development on the VistA platform, to include all VistA products and applications.

During my years working for the VA, and as a contractor for the VA, I have gained a large network of people and friends along with experience in the various applications and tools that are used by the VA, which provided me with the opportunity to build my technical knowledge, critical thinking and decision making skills along with management skills. I have proven the ability to work efficiently with multiple business owners and earn their trust, as well as communicate effectively with all levels of management and customers; demonstrating clear, professional written and verbal communication skills.

I am goal oriented, detail oriented, organized, readily understand information systems, very adaptable and flexible, able to manage and lead teams to successful product delivery, client focused and committed to client success.

Experience in Health care, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) laws and regulations, as well as patient privacy laws, and Veterans Affairs PMAS/ProPath processes, Section 508 Compliancy which Require Federal agencies to make their electronic and information technology (EIT) accessible to people with disabilities.

Summary of Qualifications

Software, Tools,

Languages: Rational Jazz tools, MS Office suite

Methodologies: Agile, SDLC

Training:

An Overview of Agile Methodologies Overview of the Scrum Development Process Planning an Agile Software Development project Planning and monitoring Iterations on an Agile Project Adopting an Agile Approach to Project Management Agile Planning: Doing Estimates and Completing the Release Plan Agile Planning: Project Initiating and Requirements Gathering Agile Project Management Essentials Managing Stakeholder engagement on and Agile Project Agile Boot Camp Agile Scrum Master MUMPS Development VAX/VMS Systems Administration: Database performance tuning, Backup and Recovery, System Patches VAX/DSM database Administration

Lisa Edwards 334.803.0447 Lbedwards48@yahoo.com Currently hold Active Secret Clearance

Engagement Experience

Technatomy Corporation 10/2014 – Present

Configuration Manager – Veterans Affairs (VA) Health Administration Product enhancement (HAPE) Technical

Management Support Services (TMSS)

Responsible for planning, designing, and implementing the IBM Rational Tools for the Medical Care Collection

Fund and Purchased Care projects. The tools being implemented are the Rational Team Concert/Change and

Configuration Management (RTC/CCM), Rational Quality Management (RQM), and Rational Requirements

Management (RRM) on the JAZZ platform, providing Collaborative Application Lifecycle Management

(CALM). These tools will be utilized by the Veterans Affairs TMSS HAPE EDI Transactions Program that

enable all of the members of the extended development team to collaborate more easily.

I am also responsible for leading a release process including impacts to subscribing applications for a major

patch for the VA HAPE EDI Transactions program for HIPAA compliancy and Provider Interoperability.

Applica Solutions - Veterans Health Care 10/2013 – 5/2014

Team Lead and Scrum Lead for the Veterans Benefits Management Systems - Ratings team (VBMS-R).

Managed Production Support, and Production Defects in an agile development environment.

Scrum Lead, Team Lead for a team of Developers, Analyst, Testers and Architects.

Managed all of the production defects utilizing the IBM Rational Tools.

I created a new process for the Ratings Team for Reconciling the Code Change Requests (CCR’s) with each

Code Release by matching up the work items in rational with the CCR’s in the Service Desk Manager (SDM)

tools.

I created reports for Management and the National Service Desk (NSD) which provided the National Service

Desk (NSD) with the information needed to close the related CCR’s freeing up much needed database space in

their Service Desk Manager (SDM) system.

eVenture Technologies, LLC 01/2012 –4/2013

Senior Systems Analyst - Veterans Administration Benefits Systems (VBMS)

Worked on the Benefits Database Questionnaire (DBQ) project performing data mapping between the

questionnaire and the Computerized Patient Record System (CPRS) and debugging XML code to discover any

issues between the questionnaire and CPRS.

Produced Functional and Non Functional User Stories

Entered Requirements into Rational Requisite Pro

CACI International Inc. 02/2010 – 01/2012

Development Manager/Scrum Lead –Veterans Administration - Veterans Authorizations and Preferences (VAP)

The VAP Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) was designed and developed to implement the Veterans' health

information into the Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record (VLER) National Health Information Network (NHIN)

to include VA, DOD and Private Health Care Facilities which provided the Veteran’s the option of sharing or

not sharing their health records.

Responsible for managing developers, analysts, architects and configuration manager's in their daily tasks while

building a highly performing, diversified team.

Worked directly with the Project Manager and Project Planner in order to plan and schedule Agile Increments.

Lisa Edwards 334.803.0447 Lbedwards48@yahoo.com Currently hold Active Secret Clearance Performed as Scrum Lead to facilitate daily Stand-up meetings and weekly Scrum meetings.

SAIC 11/ 2009 – 02/2010

Sr. VistA Functional Analyst – Veterans Administration Electronic Healthcare Record System/ Regional Shadows

Repository/ Health Data Repository (HDR).

Performed analysis on Mumps code.

Performed analysis on the VistA databases to match up to the UML (VHIM) modeling.

Performed research on the data bases utilizing the VistA File Manager tools.

Validated API's, RPC's, and UML (VHIM) modeling.

Analyzed and documented a new monitoring tool in which the Manager’s and Operations could watch data

transmissions to all of the sites to ensure that all systems were operational and data was being transmitted. This

was requested by the VA COR as a special project.

SGS Technologies 03/2009 – 04/2009

Sr. Analyst - Veterans Administration - Veteran's Benefits Management System (VBMS)

Interim Project. Performed Analysis and created User Stories for the Development team and implemented into

Rational tools.

Coventry Health Care 12/2006 – 12/2008

Senior Business analyst for Private Insurance

Worked with multiple clients and vendors in order to implement companywide Insurance plans into the

Coventry Health Care (Aetna) systems.

Responsible to Requirements Analysis, writing RSD’s, RTM’s, RFP’s. I also provided support to

management on interviewing new candidates and reviewing/ writing management reports.

Interface Analyst at Henry Elliott & Company, Inc. 01/2006 – 7/2006

Lab HL7 Interface Analyst - Mayo Clinic Laboratories

Developed Bi-Directional HL7 Interfaces utilizing Mumps code and HL7 messages in order to process Lab

results between the Minnesota and Florida Clinics.

Sandia Lovelace Hospital Systems 08/2003 – 09/2005

IT Department Manager in Patient Billing

Managed a Team of Analyst, Developers and Testers for the Implementation of new products, and code

maintenance for the IT Billing department.

Performed data mapping to implement HIPAA Compliance code into the GE-IDX Systems.

Maintained documentation for the CIO of the company keeping him abreast on a daily basis of progress in the IT

Billing Department.

Responsible for all mandated software implementations.

Provided backup support for the VAX/ VMS systems to include Backup/Restore functionality, Patch

Installations, System Maintenance and on-call support for any system issues.

Provided system support when the company was bought and the Support team was laid off.

Automated the manual Month End Billing processes utilizing DCL code saving the company time and money.

Lisa Edwards 334.803.0447 Lbedwards48@yahoo.com Currently hold Active Secret Clearance Daou-Sentient 02/2000 – 03/2001

Programmer Analyst

Coded Interfaces for different clients using Mumps and HL7.

Programmer Analyst at Duke University Private Diagnostics 01/1999 – 02/2000

IDX DBMS Mumps Developer

Analyzed and coded User Interfaces utilizing DBMS for the new Employee modules.

Sentient Systems 04/1997 – 12/1998

HL7 Interface Analyst/Mumps Developer

Developed HL7 interface messages between various Laboratory systems utilizing Mumps Code.

Keen Inc. 01/1995 – 03/1996

Mumps Programmer - State of New York – Mental Health

Developed HL7 interface messages between various Laboratory systems utilizing Mumps Code.

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs – (GS-12/S2) 01/1986 – 12/1994

Mumps Developer, VAX/VMS Systems Manager, VAX/DSM Management, Business Analyst, User Support,

Technical Analyst, Functional Analyst, IRM Department Supervisor.

Began working as a Mumps Developer and moved into various other opportunities while employed with

the VA.