Brent Williams

About Brent Williams

I am a healthcare product innovator and strategic analyst. I like to work at the…

Experience

1. Associate Director - Optum Leadership Experience

   UnitedHealth Group

   Jul 2021 — Present · Austin, TX, US

   United Health Group - Strategy & Innovation - New Product Development• Led sprint strategic analysis to build business case and strategy for expansion of Optum Match, a patient-provider matching technology-enabled service, to Optum Care contracted clinicians• Drove adoption of enterprise ML solutions for patient engagement via Patient Engagement AI project; multi-pilot project management, pipeline strategy, and financial modeling support for team• Led reporting and analytics buildout for Optum Healthy Heart, an innovative in-home hypertension care program; managing delivery of patient lists, HCE studies, and operational reporting dashboards; worked with tech vendor to define operational reporting requirements to deliver program reporting at scaleOptum Rx - Strategy & Innovation - Product Development • Developed a payer and pharma agnostic comprehensive specialty patient data product, including real time pharmacy operations data and longitudinal adherence and demographics data, to drive first fill rates and increase long term adherence • Developed a partnership strategy for Pharma Services gene and cell therapy products in partnership with Optum Frontier Therapies, Optum’s health services business dedicated to rare, orphan, and cell/gene therapies• Guided the development of a multi-PBM proposal to CMS for a CMMI demonstration featuring value based contracting approaches for the payment of new-to-market prescription therapies with high cost, uncertain durability, and limited dosing schedule (e.g, cell and gene therapies)• Developed a population health focused health equity product suite aiming to bring innovative approaches to drive health equity value within the commercial health plan marketOptum Direct-to-Consumer - Optum Store - Product and Strategy• Created new product development processes to assess the relative strength of business KPIs during the launch of telehealth functionalities for the Optum Store, a new-to-market digital health marketplace

Education

• UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School

  Master of Business Administration - MBA, Healthcare; Business Analytics & Management Science

• The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Communication Studies

  2011 — 2012

Skills

• Sdlc
• System Integration
• Quality Assurance
• System Testing
• Test Case Generation
• Jira
• User Acceptance Testing
• Software Quality Assurance
• Sql
• Quality Center
• Business Analysis
• Curam
• Test Management
• Integration
• Manual Testing
• Defect Tracking
• Test Execution
• Hp Quality Center
• Functional Testing
• Databases
• Testing