Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Office of Behavioral HealthSenior Project Manager - Consultant
Apr. 2019 - Jul. 2020Augusta, MaineManaged implementation of $4.5M CDC Overdose Data to Action (OD2A) program. Formed and administered Steering Committees. Orchestrated, monitored and reported on status of project portfolio against multiple contract deliverables and KPI’s. Motivated and influenced collaboration between projects at OBH, CDC, Medicaid, PDMP, HIDTA, University of Maine to advance and enhance results. Contributed to scope of RFP’s, policy rule changes, and researched special projects such as Telemedicine for Medication Assisted Treatment. Achieved turn-around of delayed $3.5M CDC cross-agency Opioid Crisis Response Cooperative Agreement (COAG) program resulting in favorable CDC feedback for OBH results. Formed and managed Steering Committees, liaised and advised project leads, tracked budget spend-down against deliverables, reported and presented on progress to CDC and leadership, as well as rapidly expanded scope to include and manage a naloxone outreach campaign.