Alaric Barber
Mission Viejo,CA
Summary
A Pharmacy Technician with over 20 years’ experience collaborating with Healthcare Professionals, Business Operations, and IT Teams to implement workflows, improve processes, and customize databases within healthcare applications. Strong analytical skills with experience analyzing, forecasting, and report variances supporting cost reduction strategies to increase revenue growth. Designed workflows / system customization using object-oriented models. Superb organizational, scheduling and planning skills with the ability to prioritize workloads and implement strategic problem solving to maximize productivity.
Overview
48
48
years of professional experience
Work History
Lead Pharmacy Technician
Aliso Ridge Behavioral Health Hospital/ Anaheim Community Hospital
01.2022 - 07.2022
- Prepared medications for patients. Received and verified the prescriptions. Pricing and filling of prescriptions. Obtained pharmacist’s approval. Completed patient paperwork related to the filling of prescription. Assisted with insurance claims processing (usually a pharmacist will handle this, but assistant’s help will be needed – the entire process is done online). Stocking and pricing of medications in inventory. Ensuring availability of drugs by delivering them to patients or facilities. Compounding IV’s, Oral medication preparation.
Pharmacy Technician
Kindred Hospital-Paramount
09.2021 - 01.2022
- Prepared medications for patients. Received and verified the prescriptions. Pricing and filling of prescriptions. Obtained pharmacist’s approval. Completed patient paperwork related to the filling of prescription. Assisted with insurance claims processing (usually a pharmacist will handle this, but assistant’s help will be needed – the entire process is done online). Stocking and pricing of medications in inventory. Ensuring availability of drugs by delivering them to patients or facilities. Compounding IV’s, Oral medication preparation.
Pharmacy Technician-PRN, Per Diem
Jackson Pharmacy Professionals
08.2021 - 12.2021
- Prepared medications for patients. Received and verified the prescriptions. Pricing and filling of prescriptions. Obtained pharmacist’s approval. Completed patient paperwork related to the filling of prescription. Assisted with insurance claims processing (usually a pharmacist will handle this, but assistant’s help will be needed – the entire process is done online). Stocking and pricing of medications in inventory. Ensuring availability of drugs by delivering them to patients or facilities. Compounding IV’s, Oral medication preparation. 340B.
Pharmacy EHR Integration Manager
Defense Health Agency / Right Factor
10.2020 - 03.2021
- Accountable for all aspects of project performance related to deployment activities. Monitored performance indicators such as cost, timing, and manpower loading. Reviewed project schedules, performances, and deliverables for correctness and ensured their progress in accordance with the assigned timeline. Responsible for the coordination and completion of training projects. Coordinated and executed all deliverables in accordance with Project Management standards in congruence with PMBOK and PMI. Assisted in identifying networks, remote access points, existing/future hardware and software interfaces, potential medical device integration (MDI) opportunities, and existing workflows with MTF staff. Establish baseline knowledge of MHS GENESIS and cultural readiness for change to enhance the needs for MTF and OPMED staff that will be MHS GENESIS users.
340B Pharmacy Business Operations Analyst
Palomar Medical Center
03.2019 - 04.2020
- Directed strategic and operational multi-disciplinary team of Pharmacy, Revenue Cycle, Admissions, Vendors, Stakeholders ensuring 100% program compliance. Redesigned and implemented more effective company procedures which decreased drug cost by $100K monthly, Identified risks to prevent duplicate discounts and diversion. Saving program fines more than $100K. 100% compliance with 340B program requirements for qualified patients, drugs, and locations. Group Purchasing Organizations (GPO) savings of 6% by aggregating purchasing volume, negotiating discounts with manufacturers, distributors and other vendors. RFP
340B Pharmacy Project Implementation Consultant
Providence St. Joseph Health Care
02.2017 - 08.2017
- Achieved $1 million in savings in a seven-month period. Directed strategic and operational multi-disciplinary team of Pharmacy, Revenue Cycle, Admissions, Vendors, Stakeholders ensuring 100% program compliance. Redesigned and implemented more effective company procedures which decreased drug cost by $100K monthly. Identified risks to prevent duplicate discounts and diversion. Saving program fines more than $100K. 100% compliance with 340B program requirements for qualified patients, drugs, and locations. Group Purchasing Organizations (GPO) savings of 6% by aggregating purchasing volume, negotiating discounts with manufacturers, distributors and other vendors.
Pharmacy Clinical Systems Integration
St. Joseph’s Healthcare
04.2016 - 09.2016
- Gathered business requirements from customer/onsite counterpart/other stakeholders to ensure project success. Integrated an extremely complex system for the company. Transformed business requirements to Software requirements for stakeholders saving $200k in consulting fees. Developed Strategic Project plans, defined scope, performed risk analysis Initiated risk assessments with corresponding remediation plans relative to custom solution proposals achieving 100% success. Guided team to successfully achieve 100% deliverable objectives. Tracked project related tasks from team Leads providing guidance to team achieving 100% efficiency.
Pharmacy Clinical Systems Implementation
Healthland | Alta Hospitals | Community Health-system | Comprehensive Pharmacy Services
01.2007 - 01.2016
- Built Healthcare Professionals, Business Operations, and IT Teams implemented workflows, improved processes achieving 100% success. Utilized strong analytical skills and MS Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio to create complex formulas, data models, project charts, and workflow diagrams. Analyzed, forecasted, and reported variances of pricing; supported cost reduction strategies to increase revenue growth.by 15% Analyzed workflows increasing efficiency by 70%, re-engineered complex workflows leveraging new systems capabilities. Documented specifications, workflows, user requirements. Identified sources of problems / issues creating 100% solutions. Knowledge of Group Purchasing Organizations (GPO) to realize savings and efficiencies by aggregating purchasing volume to negotiate discounts with manufacturers, distributors and other vendors. Analyzed / reduced drug costs to clients by over 50% increasing department revenue 5%. Maximized buying contract to obtain client best pricing, decreasing costs by 10%. Served as a resource for all technical aspects of the Clinical application. Verified system performance met clients 100% expectation and decreased issues by 10% each implementation. Ensured build matched customer requirements. Documented policies procedures. Prepared management reports defining/evaluating problems recommended solutions.
First Sergeant
United States Army, Ft Bragg NC | Ft Benning GA | Los Alamitos CA
01.1975 - 01.2014
Pharmacy Buyer, Prior Authorization Technician, Pharmacy Technician, Instructor, Curriculum Manager
Orange Coast Memorial | Saddleback Memorial | Mission Hospital | OptumRx
01.1980 - 01.2006
- Pharmacy buyer with 340 B experience. Increased department revenue over $100K managing vendor contracts. Increased Specialty Pharmacy Revenue to over $1 Million in one year. Developed and increased specialty pharmacy prior authorization team from 2 members to over 30 in two-year period. Grew relationships with special prior authorization Physicians, patients from 1 physician to over 5 medical groups in 2-year period. 100% Accurate medication order entry. Knowledge of GPO realizing savings / efficiencies by aggregating purchasing volume / negotiating discounts with manufacturers, distributors / vendors cost savings of 20%.
Education
MBA - Business Administration
University of Phoenix
Costa Mesa, CA08.2000
Bachelor of Arts - Psychology
California State University-Dominguez Hills
Carson, CA1998
Certificates -
Project Management, Six Sigma, 340B University, PTCB
Mission Viejo, CA01.1990
Skills
- Operations / Strategic Planning
- Project Management / JIRA
- Cost Benefit/ Budget Analysis
- Clinical Application Analysis
- Quality Control Management
- Team / Vendor Management
- Microsoft Office Suite
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Microsoft Project / Visio
- Excellent Communication Skills
- Agile / Waterfall Methodologies
- Project Life Cycle / SLDC
- Report Documentation
- Risk Management
- Negotiation Skills
- Auditing
- 340B
- Workflow optimization
Timeline
Lead Pharmacy Technician
Aliso Ridge Behavioral Health Hospital/ Anaheim Community Hospital
01.2022 - 07.2022
Pharmacy Technician
Kindred Hospital-Paramount
09.2021 - 01.2022
Pharmacy Technician-PRN, Per Diem
Jackson Pharmacy Professionals
08.2021 - 12.2021
Pharmacy EHR Integration Manager
Defense Health Agency / Right Factor
10.2020 - 03.2021
340B Pharmacy Business Operations Analyst
Palomar Medical Center
03.2019 - 04.2020
340B Pharmacy Project Implementation Consultant
Providence St. Joseph Health Care
02.2017 - 08.2017
Pharmacy Clinical Systems Integration
St. Joseph’s Healthcare
04.2016 - 09.2016
Pharmacy Clinical Systems Implementation
Healthland | Alta Hospitals | Community Health-system | Comprehensive Pharmacy Services
01.2007 - 01.2016
Pharmacy Buyer, Prior Authorization Technician, Pharmacy Technician, Instructor, Curriculum Manager
Orange Coast Memorial | Saddleback Memorial | Mission Hospital | OptumRx
01.1980 - 01.2006
First Sergeant
United States Army, Ft Bragg NC | Ft Benning GA | Los Alamitos CA
01.1975 - 01.2014
MBA - Business Administration
University of Phoenix
Bachelor of Arts - Psychology
California State University-Dominguez Hills
Certificates -
Project Management, Six Sigma, 340B University, PTCB
EHR APPLICATIONS / SYSTEMS
HMS | Cerner | MediTech | Centriq | AllScripts (SCM) | McKesson | Ascend WORx | SIS | Picis | MHS Genesis Pyxis | Omnicell | Med Dispense | MedSelect | ServeRx | Talyst | Macro Helix | Sentry DS | Craneware