Emmanuel (Manos) Stefanakos
San Juan
Summary
Dynamic leader, with proven ability to manage staff towards job satisfaction, performance, and growth. Strong analytical thinker, capable of analyzing data to produce actionable information. Team player, willing to take on additional responsibility and work for the success of the team. Effective facilitator, with expert communication skills and success in relationship-building with clients. Adept liaison between developers and non-technical stakeholders. Able to review processes, organizational structures, and data flows to find areas for improvement.
Overview
30
30
years of professional experience
20
20
As a data professional
Work History
Chief Data Officer
Boon IT Solutions, Inc
03.2018 - Current
- Guiding a team of offshore developers in the creation of a cloud-based business intelligence tool for education agencies, elementary through post-secondary
- Responsibilities include:
- Guiding data architecture and governance throughout the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
- Expanding the design scope to include information such as social/emotional learning, standards mastery, competencies, and equity to allow for the creation of personalized plans for student success
- Defining workflows and user interface requirements for maximum efficiency by the end users
- Conducting focus groups with stakeholder groups to gather requirements
- Working with marketing agency on SEO activities, and blog articles
- Testing releases and suggesting changes.
Executive Consultant
Bardic Systems, Inc
01.2019 - 01.2021
- Consulting for the Division of Infrastructure and Innovation of the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office on data management and governance issues
- Achievements included:
- Authoring an Enterprise Data Strategy; a multi-year, multi-disciplinary plan for the agency to optimize the collection, storage, and usage of data to inform decisions and support the Chancellor’s Vision for Success, which includes a strong emphasis on data-driven decision making, including a strong focus on equity
- Co-creating the agency’s data governance structure and processes
- Facilitating and/or acting as a consultant to a variety of groups related to the agency’s data warehouse, data policies, harmonization, and process improvement
- Managing a buy/build process for a data dictionary tool
- Participating in national standards bodies on education data standards.
Director
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Inc
11.2013 - 05.2017
- Worked for the largest education company in the world
- Led a team of technical staff and business analysts focused on large- and medium-scaled data projects
- Responsibilities/Accomplishments included:
- Leading the effort to create/integrate new data products, including overseeing buy/build decisions
- Overseeing successful implementations of HMH’s K12/P20 education data warehouse product
- Providing subject-matter expertise and roadmap guidance in a variety of other development and product activities, including processes, systems architecture, data modeling, security, privacy, and report creation
- Managing offshore vendor development team
- Participating in national standards bodies on education data standards.
Senior Data Architect
Choice Solutions, Inc
06.2009 - 11.2013
- Worked for the leading state longitudinal data system provider, leading several SLDS projects, product development and overseeing all business analysts
- Accomplishments/Responsibilities included:
- Designing P20 (Pre-K to post-secondary) data structures and reports for use by education agencies
- Managing data warehouse and reporting component of multi-stranded state longitudinal data systems
- Creating and implementing data governance programs for clients
- Compiling requirement and design documents for public dissemination of educational data
- Working with client stakeholders to establish parameters for public and secure reports, including EDFacts
- Creating documentation for data system design and user training.
Director of Metadata Products/Senior Project Manager
ESP Solutions Group, Inc
03.2007 - 04.2009
- Worked for one of the premier education data companies, leading the development of a key product as well as simultaneously managing several projects from multi-stranded state data warehouse projects to smaller, targeted data projects
- Accomplishments/Responsibilities included:
- Leading the design and development efforts for the DataSpecsTM metadata, architecture, and mapping tool
- Delivering to and training clients on systems that improved the collection, quality, reporting and analysis of educationally relevant data, including the use of the Schools Interoperability Framework
- Reducing clients’ federal EDFacts reporting time from two months to two days
- Presenting case studies at the annual National Center for Educational Statistics conference.
Senior Information Administrator
Coventry Health Care, Inc
05.2005 - 03.2007
- Worked with the Government Programs Compliance Medicare Finance Departments to address a variety of needs from compliance to business analysis
- Accomplishments/Responsibilities included:
- Bringing in over $30 million in additional revenue by managing and making necessary additions and improvements to the existing claims submission processes
- Initiating strategic planning and process improvement of future risk adjustment activities using data
- Creating databases to assist in policy and business decisions.
Medicare Reconciliation Project Manager
Kaiser Permanente
05.2001 - 08.2004
- Retained by one of the top non-profit Health Maintenance Organizations in the country to manage several projects maximizing Medicare reimbursement
- Accomplishments/Responsibilities included:
- Collaborating with regional staff, vendors, and programmers to create and document processes and tools for identifying enrollment and special status discrepancies
- Reporting on the progress of monthly reconciliation and recovery efforts to senior management
- Training regional staff on the use of reconciliation databases
- Receiving significant bonuses for meeting department recovery targets.
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Political Science
University of Massachusetts
Skills
- Analytic Functions
- Requirements Elicitation
- BI Tool and System Design
- Dashboard Design
- Predictive Modeling
- Data Governance
- Security Standards
- Presentations and Decks
- Executive-Level Presentations
- Routine and Ad Hoc Reporting
- Project Proposals
Affiliations
- Common Education Data Standards (CEDS) Post-Secondary Workgroup
Work Availability
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Quote
To laugh often and much: To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Timeline
Executive Consultant
Bardic Systems, Inc
01.2019 - 01.2021
Chief Data Officer
Boon IT Solutions, Inc
03.2018 - Current
Director
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Inc
11.2013 - 05.2017
Senior Data Architect
Choice Solutions, Inc
06.2009 - 11.2013
Director of Metadata Products/Senior Project Manager
ESP Solutions Group, Inc
03.2007 - 04.2009
Senior Information Administrator
Coventry Health Care, Inc
05.2005 - 03.2007
Medicare Reconciliation Project Manager
Kaiser Permanente
05.2001 - 08.2004
Bachelor of Arts - Political Science
University of Massachusetts
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