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Thomas H. Butler Jr., President

Areas of Expertise: Hospital Financial Operations and Cash Management

o       Specializes in improvement in hospital financial performance and cash management

o       Development of Financial Analysis for the evaluation of product lines within the hospital operations

o       Development of Strategic Operational Plans

o       Multi Facility Management with two Public Traded Companies

o       Design and development of financial models utilized for Equity Fund raising.

o       Affiliation Agreements

o       B.S. Business Administration – University of Tennessee Knoxville

 

 

Edwin J. Warren, Vice President Reimbursement

Areas of Expertise: Third Party Reimbursement and Financial Operations

o       Specializes in consulting with healthcare facilities in third party reimbursement issues with over 23 years of experience

o       Development of Financial Analysis for the evaluation of product lines within the hospital operations

o       Development of Strategic Reimbursement Planning for hospitals

o       Vice President of Reimbursement for 21 Facility Hospital Organization

o       Chief Financial Officer for Hospital/Physician Joint Venture Management Company

o       Certified Public Accountant

o       B.B.A.  Accounting – University of Georgia

 

 

 Diana M Butler, Vice President Accounting

Areas of Expertise: Financial Reporting and Project Management

o       Eleven years of Public Accounting with a Big Six Accounting Firm with emphasis in the healthcare industry

o       Two years of Project Management with a University Medical Center

o       Experience in review and development of Due Diligence Material and Financial Models related to Acquisition

o       Experience in Balance Sheet and Income Statement review for Financial Reporting

o       B.B.A.  Accounting – Millsaps College, Magna Cum Laude

 

 

 Melissa Moore, Director Accounting

Areas of Expertise: Operational Accounting, Workflow Improvement

o       Ten years of combined Public and Industry experience in the healthcare industry

o       Public accounting experience with a Big Six accounting firm- assisted in planning and implementing audits for a variety of Publicly Traded Companies including the largest healthcare conglomerate in the world

o       Experience in accounting for Employee Benefits Plans and related regulatory filings

o       Experience managing day-to-day operations of several multi-person accounting departments including cash management functions and evaluation of debt compliance

o       Experience in managing accounting operations for multi-facility companies

o       Controller for two Privately Held Startup Companies

o       B.A.  Accounting – Transylvania University, Cum Laude

 

 

Lori G. Floyd, Director Project Management

Area of Expertise: Audit and Information Systems

o       Over eight years of internal audit experience for a large hospital company, including financial, operational and systems auditing

o       Over ten years total accounting experience

o       Experience designing and managing audits

o       Experience in hospital billing system implementation

o       Experience in project management

o       Experience in business analysis for systems development

o       B.S. Business Administration – Samford University

 

 

Walter G. Gibson, Director Financial Systems Design

Areas of Expertise: Accounting Professional with an Information Systems

 o     Over twenty five years experience in Healthcare Finance Information System

 o       Developed complex SQL queries utilizing derived tables, global temp tables, case logic, TeraData, OLAP functions, statistical functions, and sub queries

o       Designed and developed Business Data views and Fact Tables from multiple data sources

o       Developed "Data Warehouse Projects" for consolidated database application for multi facility management companies

o       Designed and Implement a Data Mart approach to Activity Reporting

o       B.B.A. in Accounting - Middle Tennessee State University

 

 

Lori Petrie, Director Operational Accounting 

Areas of Expertise: Chief Financial Officer with an Emphasis in Hospital Operations

 o     Twenty Years experience in Healthcare Finance

 o      Specialize in the areas of Hospital Financial Operations including Patient Accounting, Materials Management, Health Information Management , Utilization Review and Finance

o       Served as Implementation Director for Information system conversion at two Healthcare Facilities

o       Served as CFO as two hospital with over eight years of experience

o       B.S. in Accounting - Louisiana Tech University

 

 

Francis J. Fontenot, Manager Operational Accounting 

Areas of Expertise: Accounting Professional with an Emphasis in Hospital Operations

 o     Over fifteen years experience in the Management of Hospital Operations related to finance

 o       Experience in improving Cash Management

o       Designed and develop reporting requirement to monitor daily Hospital Operations

o       Assist with development of Management Plans during "turn around" projects

o       B.B.A. in Accounting - Louisiana Tech

 

 

Sue Pratt, Director Materials Management

Area of Expertise:  Purchase and Supply Management

o       Over eighteen years of experience in Materials Management

o       Specializes in Product evaluation and Cost Control

o       Analysis of Inventory Management and Contract Compliance

o       Development of Standardization in Surgical Product Utilization

o       Served on Evaluation Committee for Group Purchase with Broadlane

 

 

Julie Alsman, RHIT, Director Health Information Management

Area of Expertise:  Medical Records and Coding

o       Over eighteen years of experience in Health Information Management

o       Specializes in all aspects of HIM

o       Analysis of HIM operations to ensure optimal efficiency

o       A.S. in Health Information Technology, Vincennes University, Vincennes, IN

o       Registered Health Information Technician, AHIMA accredited since 1986

o       Certified Coding Specialist-Physician Based (CCS-P), 2003

 

  

Gail Perry, RHIT, CCS, CIC, Director Corporate Compliance

Area of Expertise: Medical Records and Corporate Compliance

o       Nineteen years Health Information Management experience including hospital HIM department management, coding consulting, coding training/education and compliance

o       HIM association’s outstanding student award in 1986

o       Experience in monitoring a multi-hospital company’s compliance with coding and billing regulations

o       Extensive experience in development and presentation of coding seminars

 

 

Christine Diehl, Director Clinical Services

Area of Expertise: Laboratory Operations and Clinical Processes

o       Twenty years of experience in clinical laboratory operations with emphasis on operational efficiencies, expense reduction, benchmarking, staffing, accreditation and regulatory compliance

o       Extensive experience in standardization and consolidation of hospital laboratories as well as multi facility operations

o       Excellence in customer relations management

o       Experience in project management

o       Development, implementation and management of hospital laboratories as well as multi-facility outreach programs

o       Director of Clinical Laboratories for HCA, Nashville TN

o       Vice President of Business Strategies for MDS Laboratories, Toronto CA

o       CLMA President –2003-present (Clinical Laboratory Management Association)

o       B.S Medical Technology – West Liberty State College, West Virginia

 

 

Michael A. Floyd - Vice President Information Systems

Areas of Expertise:  Information Services

o       Development and Implementation of SQL Database Structure

o       Experience in development and Implementation of Corporate Software

o       Management of Conversion and Implementation of New Software Projects

o       Experience in development of Data Translation Software

o       B.S. Business AdministrationSamford University

 

 

Timothy Artz, Director Programming and Software Development

Areas of Expertise: Information Systems Programming

o       Over fourteen years of developing p.c. applications and mainframe programming.

o       Experience in programming in VBA, Visual Basic and VB.Net.

o       Database programming with Microsoft SQL (versions 6.5 to 8.0) and Microsoft Access.

o       Developed client/server applications and class objects for n-tier applications.

o       IBM and HP3000 mainframe experience.

o       Computer telephony programming

o       EDI

 

 

David Ingram – Director, Computer Main Frame System and Development

Areas of Expertise:  Information Services

o       Hospital Operations understanding as it relates to Information Services solutions

o       Development of Information Services Strategy as it best relates to business strategies

o       Development of external interface solutions

o       Development of enterprise reporting solutions

o       B.S. Computer Science – Tennessee Technological University

o       M.B.A – Tennessee State University

 

 

 David L. Jamoluk, Director Application Development

Areas of Expertise: Development of Software Solutions Architecture

o       Over 10 years of enterprise software solution architecture and development experience building client/server and web based applications

o       Solution development experienced utilizing VB.NET, VB, VBScript, JavaScript, XML, TSQL       Systems Analysis, Database

o       Experienced software development manager

o       Microsoft Certified Application Developer and Certified Database Administrator

o       Masters of Science, Software Engineering and Design

 

 

Susan E. Andrews, Manager Communications

Area of Expertise:  Marketing and Communications Management

o       Over seventeen years experience in marketing and promotion.

o       Specializes in all aspects of public relations communication and correspondence for TBG Specialists. 

o       Development and finalization of operational plans, proposals, strategies, evaluations and models.

o       B.S. Business Administration, The Ohio State University

 

 

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Last Updated: 11/16/2006