Somayeh Yamshani

Optum, Inc is an American healthcare company that provides technology services, pharmacy care services and various direct healthcare services.

• Managed technical IT development teams and cross functional teams to implement new solutions from requirement gathering phase to developing, testing, maintaining and deploying to production for the external and internal healthcare clients.
• Established and curated strategic partnerships and connections with stakeholders and internal team members.
• Led and monitored UAT and E2E testing to capture any bugs and defects and address those effectively before production deployments.
• Managed PI planning events to provide a quarterly road maps as well as detailed sprints in order to achieve the goals.
• Worked closely with the leadership and PMO office to provide recurring updates and discuss any issues and solutions up front to mitigate any possible risk in future.
• Ensured compliance with regulatory requirements through diligent documentation practices and adherence to industry standards.
• Optimized software release management by defining clear milestones and tracking progress against established goals.
• Developed comprehensive product roadmaps to guide future development efforts and align with business objectives.
• Leveraged data from user testing sessions to iterate upon product features, resulting in increased user satisfaction and engagement rates.
• Championed cross-functional collaboration for seamless product integration and enhanced user experience.

Commonwealth Medicine's Center for Health Care Financing –CHCF– has extensive knowledge of government financing structures that is used to identify savings initiatives for the benefit of its non-profit and public agency clients.

• Led a team of developers to build a web-based UI tool from start to finish for the state of Vermont elementary schools for reporting their students vaccination data.
• Created training materials and provided to the school staff and end users in order to report the data smoothly.
• Facilitated scrum ceremonies –Refinements, sprint planning, task huddle, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, demos, etc
• Managed stakeholder expectations through transparent communication and timely status updates, ensuring alignment between project deliverables and business objectives.
• Created detailed user stories for system enhancements, leading to improved functionality and user satisfaction.

The health insurance Exchange –HIX– is an application for Individuals and Families that went live on 10/1/2013 in order for the MA residents to sign up for their health insurance/ coverage

• Researched user behavior and led strategic product roadmap discussion across multi functional teams
• Worked on different batch job processes included Time Clocks, Third Party Liability, AD–HOC, Customer Service Representative, Report a Change, PSI/ARD
• Collaborated with different aspects of the project such as worker portal, individual portal or CSR portal to make sure about the project consistency
• Conducted gap analyses to identify discrepancies between current and desired states, leading to actionable recommendations.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams, ensuring a cohesive approach to business analysis.