Functional Skills

Project Management
Forecasting / Projections
Customer Experience
Process Design / Re-engineering
Operational Efficiency
Program Management
Industry Expertise
PMO Transformation
Portfolio Optimization
Clinical Operations

Software Skills

Salesforce
ServiceNow
Epic EMR
Microsoft Visio
Microsoft Project
Jira
Airtable
Monday
Sharepoint
Smartsheet

Certifications

PMPProject Management Professional

Sector Experience

Business Services
Healthcare
Life Sciences & Pharma

Experience

Wentland Consulting, Inc. Management Consulting
Founder and President
3/2016 - Present
▪ Work directly with engineers to C-suite consulting on technical and operational implementations. Manage a diverse collection of high-level consultancy projects. Manage overall business operations including contracting, budgeting, payroll, vendor management, and client management.

Wentland Consulting, Inc. Management Consulting
Integration Project Manager, CareDx
6/2022 - Present
▪ Software Implementation Leadership: EMR and CareDx LIMS system interface.
▪ Coordination: Acted as a centralized source of information and coordination while working with client EMR analysts, engineers, and clinical stakeholders, and CareDx integration engineers, support analysts, and Patient Care Managers.
▪ Timeline Management: Reduced estimated project timelines by managing project scope, build and testing planning, communications planning, training, and go-live planning and support.
▪ Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs): Analyzed and modified existing SOPs for onboarding and client deployments.

Wentland Consulting, Inc. Management Consulting
Program Manager, Clinical Technologies (Biomedical Engineering), UCSF Health
10/2018 - 7/2022
• Medical Equipment Deployment: Managed the deployment of new and reused medical equipment with a product budget range of $50K - $1M+.
• Cross-Departmental Communication: Communicated with UCSF clinical technologies leadership, engineers, C-suite leadership, operations leadership, and external vendors to plan, manage, and report on program and project activities.
• Department Development & Leadership: Developed Clinical Engineering project management office, including project intake, cost, resource sizing, capital planning, project governance, and execution standards.
• Scope Planning: Developed a communication/training plan that determined budget, logistics, tasks, communications, and go-live planning.
• Project Management Office Development: Recruited to assist in the development of all processes and procedures, documentation standards, and tools for the Clinical Technologies department.

Wentland Consulting, Inc. Management Consulting
Transplant Program Workflow Standardization and System Advisor, CPMC – Sutter Health
9/2018 - 3/2019
▪ Multi-Project Management: Supervised workflow standardization across five programs over a six-month timeline: Heart Transplant, Kidney Transplant, Liver Transplant, Hepatology, and Complex Digestive Diseases.
▪ Cross-Departmental Communication: Directly worked with executive administration, transplant directors, program managers, physician champions, and IT staff to develop a workflow development and deployment project plan template.
▪ Workflow Optimization: Supervised, analyzed, and determined future proper workflows; developed workflow process and documentation and obtain signoffs from clinical staff, managers, and IT staff.
▪ Staff Training & Development: Coordinated and scheduled workflow training sessions pre-go-live and provided post-go-live rounding for 50+ staff ranging from medical assistants to physicians.
▪ Operational Playbook: A created document containing workflows, flowcharts, training documents, and tip sheets.

Wentland Consulting, Inc. Management Consulting
Physician Optimization Clinical Analyst, Stanford Health Care
12/2017 - 8/2018
▪ Clinical Operations Optimization: Improved the operations of 7 specialties: Dermatology, Dermatology Surgery, Obstetrics, Urology, Gynecology, Neurology, and Neurosurgery.
▪ Cross-Departmental Communication: Directly worked with executive leadership, medical directors, clinic directors, clinicians, and IT analysts.
▪ Research & Development: Completed observation rounds with 34 physicians and five nurse practitioners for 1-2 hours each
Christopher J. Wentland, PMP
▪ Workflow Implementation: Delivered changes in three 7-week cycles to 7 specialties affecting a total of 54 departments and 282 providers.

Wentland Consulting, Inc. Management Consulting
Community Connect Conversion and Cutover Project Manager, UC Davis Medical Center
5/2017 - 11/2017
▪ Large Scale Software Implementation Management: Implemented EPIC software at a healthcare organization of 125 hospital beds and over 40 outpatient clinics.
▪ Executive Level Communication: Develop and execute conversion and cutover project plan with executive leadership, clinic directors, IT directors, and application managers and analysts.
▪ Staff Education & Training: Developed and led a post-go-live 3-hour physician super user and 2-hour medical assistant superuser workflow class.

Wentland Consulting, Inc. Management Consulting
Ambulatory Implementations Analyst, AMITA Health
10/2016 - 5/2017
▪ Departmental Liaison: Directly worked with executive leadership, regional directors, and clinicians on new clinic to develop seven new clinics.
▪ Project Management: Participated in project scope meetings to identify requirements and completed all required ambulatory module build, testing, and go-live support.

Wentland Consulting, Inc. Management Consulting
Application Reporting Administrator, Stanford Health Care
10/2015 - 10/2016
▪ Workbench Administration: Manages 15 application reporting leads representing each installed epic module.
▪ Chair of monthly Cogito Application Reporting Leads (ARL) meeting; prepare agenda and deliver minutes.
▪ Executive Communications: Directly worked with executive leadership and directors on overall reporting requirements and projects. Collaborate with Reporting Executive Director as well as Clinical and Business Analytics management.
▪ Requirements Gathering & Reporting: Collaborate with application managers to manage ARL deliverables and bandwidth for reporting.
▪ Security: One of four approvers of data export access security requests.

Wentland Consulting, Inc. Management Consulting
Clinical Systems Analyst, Ambulatory Implementations, Stanford Health Care
3/2016 - 10/2016
▪ Departmental Liaison: Directly worked with executive leadership, regional directors, and clinicians on new clinic to develop three health centers of 33 departments and 23 specialties.
▪ Project Management: Participate in project scope meetings to identify requirements and complete all required ambulatory module build, testing, and go-live support.

Oxford Global Resources Management Consulting
Clinical Systems Analyst, Ambulatory Optimizations, Stanford Health Care
4/2015 - 3/2016
▪ Ambulatory Questionnaires Governance: Technical representative in Ambulatory Enhancement Governance. and implemented three custom questionnaires including scoring, branching, trending, and documentation tools.
▪ Software Implementation: Project managed, developed, and delivered new functionalities for all Primary Care (61 clinics).