About

Over 16 years of PROVEN experience in technology & LEADERSHIP. DEMONSTRATES a strong understanding of financial and healthcare products and services as well as supporting technology and compliance issues through consulting as a subject matter expert and delivering stellar results. Detail oriented ...

Skills

  • UI/UX Design (Product design)
    6
  • business analysis
    10
  • Leadership & Project Management
    10
  • Product management
    10

Experience

Dee Obi

Work experience
  • Working here at Horizon over the years with senior leadership and business stakeholders and decision makers has allowed me to continue to bring forth creativity and successful results with the application development framework utilizing predominantly agile methodologies. Thriving for over 17 years within the technology field with a passion for helping solutions go from the idea stage to development in production, a reality with little to no supervision utilizing SME; s and business stakeholders as guides to craft products that make our customers’ lives easier.
  • Strong points for successful implementations working with agile and waterfall teams and having them value the benefit of working together to deliver projects in a timely manner, saving cost and increasing customer satisfaction
  • On Going Achievements:
  • ✔ Company savings of more than 3 million a year for implementing Single Use Account.
  • ✔ Utilizes project management skills leading critical business and technological efforts related to new mandates, enhancements or existing functionality.
  • ✔ Built relationships with senior leadership and business stakeholders aiding in overcoming objections and getting definitive answers and goals met for projects such ACI replacement, Open Enrollment, SUA EFT Networks.
  • ✔ Instrumental in maintaining the cost of yearly projects to ensure they are within the allowable scope of funds allocated for Blue List and Divisional projects. This has been accomplished by understanding development efforts of both waterfall and agile timeliness, bottlenecks and infrastructure and good relationships with dev lead and managers to decrease waste and timeliness.

Dee Obi

Work experience
  • Working as an IT Lead- Scrum Master for affordable health care allowed me the opportunity provided customer satisfaction. Optum allowed me to build my own team to create a one stop shop integrated eligibility healthcare application that allowed consumers to shop for QHP CHIP, Snap, Tanif, Wic, that is sold to states currently. Using creativity to take senior leadership thoughts and turn them into visions and designs for approval to enhance the lives of consumers was my introduction to the healthcare industry from financial services.
  • Previous tasked that help build a team and trained tdper’s on how to construct and design an application using agile methodology
  • ✔ Developed and fostered close relationships with senior leadership to help develop the roadmap for the buildout of Integrated Eligibility from the company’s Value functions and Quality Measures.
  • ✔ Instrumental in guiding a team to build out Integrated Eligibility which is a one stop shop application used for open enrollment, Tanif, Snap, Wick, and Energy services. Led the research of all rules and over saw programming of the rules for the I.E application which is a solution sold across the country to 17 states not within the exchanges.
  • ✔ Trained a team of junior level analysts and guided them on how user stories and the process of understanding requirements and needs derived from the value, functions and quality measures play a major role in application development. They were trained to be self-sufficient with little supervision to help deliver the weekly sprints.
  • ✔ Established backlogs that are derived from the creation of epics, and features using Safe agile practices from certification gathered at Optum and managed the order of priority of the backlog and company capabilities linked to VFQ’s and Epic.
  • ✔ IT Lead for large in person JAR sessions for Billing and Payments, Medicaid Premium Processing for the State of Vermont along Optum’s 3rd party vendor Benissance, Utilizing the expertise of the 3rd party vendor’s software to help the State of Vermont transform their billing and payment system
  • ✔ Aided leadership in responding to RFP’s along with research to obtain bids to sell the I.E product.

Dee Obi

Work experience
  • Sr. BA Lead at   AIG
  • ✔ Led the roll out of the Cat Modeling infrastructure for Risk Link, ASIR, EQECAT and ESRI user tool, including creating support team user manuals, leading all testing, and creating workflow diagrams.
  • ✔ Acted as lead for requirements gathering for Global Risk Aggregation Scenario Analysis Tool, created test plans and test cases, and obtained sign-off from business users and sponsors.
  • ✔ Instrumental working with BI Intelligence Date Refresh Analysis tool created testing strategies and test plans and test scripts along with analysis for the development team.
 

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