Samir Tapiawala
Senior Manager, IT @Optum
- Role
- Senior Manager, IT at Optum
- Location
- Boston, MA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Samir Tapiawala
An entrepreneur, a physician, and a lifelong learner. 25 years of entrepreneurial…
Experience
Senior Manager, IT
Sep 2021 — Present · Boston, MA, US
As a principal business program manager, I am accountable for all business and technical outcomes related to scope, schedule, and deliverables of the new strategic initiatives.• Steering lifecycle of a new product i.e. expected to save over $200M a year: conceptualization, PoC, launch, adoption, client implementations, and operational maturity• Bridging the communication between the product, implementation and operations teams• Participating in the discovery and solutioning sessions to support new initiatives and multiple solutions/services offered by Optum. Cultivating strong partnerships with functional leaders to drive focus on business objectives and become a trusted partner for executive management to ensure program success.• Nurturing strong cross-functional partnerships across Optum entities to implement and adopt the change management• Played pivotal role to document program artifacts, client agnostic project plan template, Data IRAD template, and setting up Ops/Production support model. Trained core team members to adopt these templates• Building project plans, predicting and maintaining project timelines, identifying risks early in the project and offering solutions to mitigate those• Defined and standardized all the processes to reduce the implementation cost, time, and efforts by 10-30% • Crafted dashboards for the resource planning, forecasting, and client pipelines in production. Bi-weekly and monthly reporting to executive leadership• Mentoring implementation teams for ongoing 12+ client implementations with the TCV of $115M • Spearheading operations/production support team to tackle data and infrastructure related issues for 9 production clients • Owned Scrum of Scrum meetings to align each team towards program goals• Piloted new products development and technical integrations between Optum and strategic partner’s platforms. Supported 3 payer clients’ implementation with the estimated savings of over $110M
Education
Welingkar Institute of Management
PGDBM
Northeastern University
Master's degree, Health Informatics
Supten Institute
Certificate Course on Health Informatics, Health Informatics
2011 — 2012
D.S.Homoeopathic Medical College, Pune
B.H.M.S., Homoeopathy
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