Senior Project Manager, 2018 – Present
Lead project manager for replacement of corporate population health management system. Eight million-dollar effort implemented ZeOmega Jiva as replacement for Medecision VITAL. Accomplishments included:

• Redesigned 16 workflows covering over 265,000 lives in 4 lines of Medicaid and Medicare business.
• Converted 2 years of legacy member, provider, authorization, assessment, and claims data.
• Trained over 800 users, both employees and subcontractor staff.
• Accommodated late addition of provider portal and overhaul of corporate prior authorization policy.
• Managed post go live communication problem/resolution efforts.
• Delivered on-time and within budget through efforts of a fantastic team.

LinkedIn recommendations I received from my time at Virginia Premier:

“I have worked with Ed in implementing Care Management Software at Virginia Premier. He is very good at the project management and was able to understand the tasks and activities and ensure the team at Virginia are on-board with the plan and execution. With his continuous expertise and guidance we were able to achieve the go-live milestone successfully.

Ed possess excellent communication skills along with project management skills. His pro-activeness of identifying potential problems / risks along with finding resolutions / solutions and leading the team towards goal is exemplary. I would strongly recommend ED for Project Manager.” Vittal Rao, PgMP, PMP, CSM. Vittal was the ZeOmega project manager for the effort.

“Ed was an integral part of the Care Management System Project at VA Premier. He served as the Lead Project Manager and made sure that the project was on-time and within the budget. He is easily on par with the best of the Project Managers out there! I have worked with many Project Managers in the past, but Ed takes the time to sit and meet with the project stakeholders, SMEs, and our executives to clearly communicate the project direction. His interpersonal skills enabled him to have great relations not only with everyone with the company but with the vendor as well. Ed is passionate about what he does and he made sure that the project is always moving. Hands down, Ed is a great Project Manager, facilitator, and mentor. He was a tremendous asset to the team and to the project’s success.” Brian Requejo. Brian was a manager of the Virginia Premier Clinical Applications Team.

“I was the technical sponsor for the care management system replacement project, and I’m happy to provide a recommendation for Ed, the lead project manager for that effort. He did a superb job at guiding this fast-track project in an often-difficult environment. Ed worked extremely well with my technical staff assigned to the project as well as business users and vendor staff. He was responsible for conducting weekly strategy sessions with management, preparing and presenting bi-weekly briefings to the extended user community, and preparing monthly updates for executive management. He presented an always calm demeanor, and his team building skills were essential to creating an environment where all were able to contribute. I would be very happy to have Ed run any future project for me, and I highly recommend to any future employer.” Steven Zabel. Steve was the Technical Sponsor for this project.

“Ed served our team as the lead project manager for the replacement of our care and utilization management documentation system, assisting in our ability to achieve the following success measures: redesign of all workflows; conversion of legacy member, provider, authorization, and claims data; training over 800 end users (employees and subcontractors); implementation of provider self-service portal; on-time delivery; and prompt post-implementation support

As a project sponsor, I found Ed’s efforts invaluable at keeping us on track and ensuring that all details were captured. He is skilled at encouraging action while balancing priorities. His familiarizing himself with the details of our workflows and needs helped provide additional perspective for decision making. Ed has proven himself to be an asset to our initiative management team.” Paula Chamberlain. Paula was the Business Sponsor for this project.

“During my time as the Director of the Initiative Management Team, Ed was one of the Senior Project Managers of our group. I have worked with Ed Foster on a number of projects, both large and small, but his primary focus was the implementation of a new Care Management platform for the company. During this project Ed served as the lead project manager and coordinated the efforts of multiple project teams across the entire organization. Given the skill and adaptability shown during this project, I would recommend Ed to perform this role in any organization. He has been quick to understand the intricacies of the Health Care environment, build team strong project teams, and adjust to a quickly changing working conditions. Ed was able to deliver this large project on time and within budget while managing such tasks as: converting two years of legacy system member, provider, authorization and claims data, training over 800 internal and external resources, redesigning multiple workflows to cover 265,000 lives for four Medicaid and Medicare lines of business, and managing the Change Management process to include the late addition of key project elements. All through this, Ed was able to maintain positive morale within the project team and keep the assigned resources on target to reach all of the project goals. Ed demonstrates the core competencies necessary to be a strong project leader and shares the concepts he uses with the project management team and provides external opportunities available for the team to learn new approaches to manage projects.” Mark DeBartolo. Mark was the head of my department.