I am writing to express my interest in the Healthcare Systems Engineering track in the Industrial Engineering MS. This track ties in neatly with my career goal of reducing the cost of health care in the United States and is my primary motive for applying. Furthermore, this track will bolster me as competitive candidate for Florida Hospital’s Performance Improvement department.
My four years of professional experience has been a mixture between working as an engineer and a tactical consultant for companies in Life Sciences, Health Care, and other Service Industries. In these roles, I have helped re-design systems and processes in departments such as Surgical Rapid In and Out, Finance, Internal Audit, and Information Technology. Furthermore, using value based care research, I have modelled
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Our analysis, which was vetted by hospital staff, indicated that the root cause of surgery late case starts was due to siloed and uncoordinated scheduling departments for lab tests and surgery. Our recommendation was to integrate the departments using existing technology. This would result in a 9.76% decrease in cycle time and increase throughput by a little over 200 patients per year. Note, the final presentation poster for this project is in the Engineering II building.
My experience in Financial Planning & Analysis departments were for Deloitte, a Top 5 Pharmaceutical Company, and Verizon. Most of these projects were focused around reporting optimization, consolidation and automation. This was typically achieved by working with key stakeholders and using tools such as QlikSense, Tableau, Teradata, SQL Server, Oracle, and SAP to drive the development of comprehensive dashboards and analytics. These dashboards were built to be user friendly, low cost, and used as a one source of truth for the