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Krupa Levinson
Trust Assurance at Blue Shield of California
San Francisco, CA, United States
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Experience:
2022 : Present
Blue Shield of California
Information Security Risk and Governance Specialist
- Governance
- Strategy
- Business Case Development
- Impact of Investment Analysis
- C-Level reporting
2017 : 2022
Kaiser Permanente
Information Security & Privacy -- Lead IT Project Manager
Responsible for understanding IT systems and functions. Oversee strategic initiative business requirement and gap analyses. Prepare documentation; communicate and validate information. Develop risk strategy; ensure financial targets are met, accurately perform investment forecasting. Perform re-planning such that slippages avoid adverse impacts. Achieve project completion within target timelines. Compile financial and program metrics for leadership team. Perform re-baseline of Total Cost of Ownership/Impact of Investment (TCO/IOI) using an assumption-based approach to increase project transparency.
Key Performance Results
• Manage highly-complex agile software development process; oversee requirements gathering of 20+ application components, software development by 3 worldwide teams, and deployments to 7 environments across the US, involving 60+ resources
• Successfully manage application deployments to QA, Demo, Data Validation, UAT/Performance Testing, Training, Initial Production, and Main Production environments while meeting defect fix release timeline and quality commitments
• Define process and schedule for demos, data validation cycles, and data mover schedule resulting in 1-month earlier corrective feedback, Business sponsors having confidence in the applications being built and “praising” the IT team efforts to senior leadership throughout the entire development process
• Create templates and dashboards for organizational project managers to use in evaluating project risk corrective actions resulting in a 35% improvement in annual project financial variances; nearly an abolishment of project financial variances
• Implement new processes to reduce project financial variance by more than 70%
• Meet forecasting target; less than 1% variance on $7.8 million budget
• Achieve less than a 5% variance on a $27.6M forecast
• Establish change traceability against prior, board-approved budget; effectively justify additional funding by Steering Committee
2012 : 2017
Kaiser Permanente IT
Telehealth -- Senior IT Project Manager
Perform frequent ad-hoc analyses; “what-if” situations and spending scenarios. Responsible for financial planning, analysis and projection for client companies. Leverage strong accounting standards (FASB) and audit background; explore historical financial data, predict future results, drive process and policy improvements.
Key Performance Results
• Analyze risks of legacy accounting methodologies; design, develop, and implement new accounting processes, achieve month-end close 10 business days faster, a 67% reduction
• Foresee customer program risks by establishing Key Performance Indicators; work closely with Operations and Engineering to proactively avoid undesirable outcomes within programs, acquire new revenue 50% earlier than with previous processes
• Independently perform industrial engineering evaluations to reduce daily task time by 50%
• Via automation, and creation of templates when automation wasn’t feasible, nearly abolish daily operations process errors related to expediting card holder’s card initiation thereby increasing revenue by over 500% in 4 months
• Define and implement all company accounting processes and standards, which allowed the company to get financial data, systems, and reports in a state where the company was able to begin annual audits
• Co-lead a team through an audit that showed the financial strength of the company and allowed the company to receive $15 million in additional funding and providing 2 years of financial runway
2009 : 2012
Pricelock
Financial Analyst & Project Manager
Blue Shield of California
Information Security Risk and Governance Specialist
- Governance
- Strategy
- Business Case Development
- Impact of Investment Analysis
- C-Level reporting
2017 : 2022
Kaiser Permanente
Information Security & Privacy -- Lead IT Project Manager
Responsible for understanding IT systems and functions. Oversee strategic initiative business requirement and gap analyses. Prepare documentation; communicate and validate information. Develop risk strategy; ensure financial targets are met, accurately perform investment forecasting. Perform re-planning such that slippages avoid adverse impacts. Achieve project completion within target timelines. Compile financial and program metrics for leadership team. Perform re-baseline of Total Cost of Ownership/Impact of Investment (TCO/IOI) using an assumption-based approach to increase project transparency.
Key Performance Results
• Manage highly-complex agile software development process; oversee requirements gathering of 20+ application components, software development by 3 worldwide teams, and deployments to 7 environments across the US, involving 60+ resources
• Successfully manage application deployments to QA, Demo, Data Validation, UAT/Performance Testing, Training, Initial Production, and Main Production environments while meeting defect fix release timeline and quality commitments
• Define process and schedule for demos, data validation cycles, and data mover schedule resulting in 1-month earlier corrective feedback, Business sponsors having confidence in the applications being built and “praising” the IT team efforts to senior leadership throughout the entire development process
• Create templates and dashboards for organizational project managers to use in evaluating project risk corrective actions resulting in a 35% improvement in annual project financial variances; nearly an abolishment of project financial variances
• Implement new processes to reduce project financial variance by more than 70%
• Meet forecasting target; less than 1% variance on $7.8 million budget
• Achieve less than a 5% variance on a $27.6M forecast
• Establish change traceability against prior, board-approved budget; effectively justify additional funding by Steering Committee
2012 : 2017
Kaiser Permanente IT
Telehealth -- Senior IT Project Manager
Perform frequent ad-hoc analyses; “what-if” situations and spending scenarios. Responsible for financial planning, analysis and projection for client companies. Leverage strong accounting standards (FASB) and audit background; explore historical financial data, predict future results, drive process and policy improvements.
Key Performance Results
• Analyze risks of legacy accounting methodologies; design, develop, and implement new accounting processes, achieve month-end close 10 business days faster, a 67% reduction
• Foresee customer program risks by establishing Key Performance Indicators; work closely with Operations and Engineering to proactively avoid undesirable outcomes within programs, acquire new revenue 50% earlier than with previous processes
• Independently perform industrial engineering evaluations to reduce daily task time by 50%
• Via automation, and creation of templates when automation wasn’t feasible, nearly abolish daily operations process errors related to expediting card holder’s card initiation thereby increasing revenue by over 500% in 4 months
• Define and implement all company accounting processes and standards, which allowed the company to get financial data, systems, and reports in a state where the company was able to begin annual audits
• Co-lead a team through an audit that showed the financial strength of the company and allowed the company to receive $15 million in additional funding and providing 2 years of financial runway
2009 : 2012
Pricelock
Financial Analyst & Project Manager
Company:
Blue Shield of California
Spoken Language:
French, Gujarati
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