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JAMES ALVEY - MBA, CISSP, ITIL 135 STINSON BLVD NEW BRIGHTON, MN 55112 651-746-0712 Jjalvey@yahoo.com WORK EXPERIENCE 2004 to Present Allina Hospitals and Clinics, Minneapolis, MN Senior Business Analyst: • Led multiple business group team, responsible for implementing and supporting voice recognition dictation/transcription system for over 50 clinics and nearly 1000 providers resulting in over 60%reduction in transcription costs. • Coached regionally based business operations team members. • Organized and coordinated efforts of numerous IS and business teams to achieve very aggressive timeline. • Managed relationships with vendors. • Designed HL7 interfaces to and from other health information systems. • Provided business analysis services for dictation system for 11 hospitals. • Initiated and completed analysis of Clinic Radiology dictation options resulting in a decision achieving nearly$500,000 savings over the life of the agreement. • Project lead for successful project to convert 11 Aspen Medical Group clinics to Allina clinic dictation system in less than 3 months. • Initiated and spearheaded a project that will save an estimated$1,000,000 in transcription costs for the clinics. • Developed business procedures and policies. • Received Allina Key Contributor Award from Allina Medical Clinics Operations. 2001 to 2004 Independent Consulting and LBL Technology Partners, Minneapolis, MN Independent Consultant and Senior Consultant: • Performed IS audits of organizations nationally. • Developed disaster recovery and business continuity plans for districts and central office of one of the largest State of Florida agencies. • Redesign web site,write user documentation,and work on product branding for Legal software firm. • Researched and wrote chapters for book on IT security for IT Managers. • Developed business plan for starting a web based educational software company. • Produced data base design and program architecture for educational software. • Provided business strategy research and technology advice for the American Refugee Committee, Minneapolis, MN. 1999 to 2000 Ulysses netSolutions, Minneapolis, MN IS Practice Manager: • Directed and managed a staff of 8 internal and external business analysis, systems administration, networking, security,telephone,and support personnel. • Directed all voice and data security measures. • Managed move of Data and telephone services to new location. • Determined business needs and developed projects using technology, people, and process improvements to meet the needs. • Instituted procedures and policies resulting in over$50,000 in savings. • Managed the replacement and upgrade of the telephone system. • Developed and managed IS budget. • Directed IS staff and provided resources to support the business needs of 4 companies engaged in: E-commerce site development,ASP services,and software development. 1998 to 1999 MIS Research Center, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota Administrative Fellow: • Coordinated Knowledge Management, Data Warehousing,and Human Capital discussion groups. • Maintained discussion group web pages. 1991 to 1997 Wausau Hospital/Community Healthcare,Wausau,WI Recognized as one of the top technology hospitals in the U.S. Network Administrator/Project Manager/Team Lead: 1995 to 1997 LAN Administrator: 1992 to 1995 Programmer Analyst: 1991 to 1992 • Coordinated operation and an approximately twenty-fold growth in users on LANs/WANs/messaging/groupware while simultaneously improving network reliability(achieved