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Resume

Brad Long

Technical Project Manager & Business Systems Analyst

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Experience

Technical Project Manager / Scrum Master · Optum

July 2024 – Present
  • Lead three Agile development teams across multiple healthcare software projects.
  • Build detailed project plans: meeting cadence, gantt charts, resource allocation, budget management, dependency tracking, and communication plans.
  • Negotiate competing priorities with business leadership through detailed analysis, scope projections, and resource/budgetary constraints.
  • Drive cross-functional collaboration on technical and process implementations across multiple business segments.
  • Plan strategic risk mitigation to solve internal and external issues before they occur.

Business Systems Analyst · Optum

Oct 2017 – July 2024
  • Designed and implemented an automated print vendor solution, saving an estimated 14,000+ labor hours annually (~$300K).
  • Coordinated a cross-functional team of 30 through a complex application and data migration, protecting data integrity across legacy-to-enterprise crosswalks.
  • Managed vendor relationships, including drafting Statements of Work and handling enhancement requests.
  • Designed SFTP interfaces with threshold limits and scheduling for secure payer-provider data transfer.
  • Performed deep-dive operational analysis of EHR systems to translate clinical needs into technical requirements.

Quality Testing Specialist · Adtalem Global Education

May 2015 – Oct 2017
  • Safeguarded revenue by identifying critical bugs in Payment Operations before public release.
  • Led testing for video integration within educational eBooks, resolving defects for a seamless student/professor experience.
  • Implemented Scrum and Agile methodologies using JIRA and Zephyr to track defects and project status.
  • Created comprehensive test plans and scripts across database, device, and cloud-based platforms.

System Administrator · Adtalem Global Education

Aug 2010 – May 2015
  • Developed process documentation and knowledge base articles, reducing new-hire training time.
  • Managed Active Directory accounts, enterprise software, and file server/database configurations.
  • Distributed hardware and created user guides that improved efficiency for the course production team.

Education

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Kansas University

Lawrence, KS

School of Business and Psychology

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DeVry University

Sherman Oaks, CA

B.S., Computer System Integration

Cum Laude