Lynn Derrick

Director of IT Data Analytics Support @Texas Health and Human Services

Austin, TX, US

Feb. 2021 to present• Primary responsibility and oversight of extended team of 45 staff initially spanning HHSC and DSHS analytics portfolios. Approved budgets and expenditures for state and federal funding requests and project/program monitoring and reporting.• Managing the Data Engineering and Data Management teams. Transitioned DSHS duties to new peer.• Targeting State Legislature Exceptional Item of $22million+ for SFY24/25• In response to an emergency COVID grant, doubled the number of positions in my first two months.• Helped establish and strengthen inter-agency IT and Data governance and migrated to new project portfolio management platform (Microfocus). • Worked with DIR/DCS Technology Solutions Services to engage and manage TSS vendor (Deloitte).• Led various project and blended workgroups for policy, process and portfolio planning, agency directives, declarations and action memos.June 2019 to March 2021, Solution Architect:• Collaborated on Data Analytics, Performance Measures and Business Plan for IT Data Analytics Support• Reviewed project deliverables, charters, design documents, test plans • Elicited detailed requirements for new performance measures• Automating performance measures in the Executive Commissioner\'s Business Plan by holistic understanding of enterprise application rationalization• Preparing detailed requirement specification documents, business process diagrams, charts, tables and reports that depict the present and proposed systems in terms of benefits and costs.• Creating use cases and process models and verify they accurately portray specific business needs.• Assessing project change requests for potential impact to project scope and timeline.Team Award2021 TASSCC Project Excellence Award for the Infectious Disease Data Integration (IDDI) platform for pandemic response.2022 Best in Data Analytics, IT Leaders in State GovernmentGraduated Executive Leadership Academy Dec.

The University of Texas at Austin

Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA