INTEGRITY – COMPETENCE – EXPERIENCE – FOCUS

Throughout a career that spans more than 25 years, Jesse has worked with global and domestic organizations from a number of different industries in a variety of roles that include employee, instructor, auditor, manager, executive, advisor, and observer. In that time, he’s accumulated a significant pool of experience that’s focused heavily on accounting, finance, and business operations through assignments that have included Controller, Vice President, Director of Finance, CFO and CEO roles within energy, aerospace, military defense equipment, mid-market healthcare, benefits administration, and information technology companies serving in both for-profit and not-for-profit settings. Jesse’s also experienced managing federal and state government contracting relationships that include Department of Defense (DoD), Department of Health & Human Services, and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

Jesse has extensive experience in all facets of corporate finance and accounting, including financial planning and analysis (FP&A), operational and capital budgeting, treasury operations, financial reporting, corporate acquisitions, divestitures, and raising capital in private markets. Jesse’s managed strategic realignments, bankruptcies, and restructurings  for companies that include regional and national distribution of operations centers, including realignments of administrative and operational resources, based on data centric analytics and with an emphasis on rightsizing cash flow. He has participated in significant turnaround efforts at three separate mid-market companies in the last ten years, and at two separate companies, directed successful transitions from negative cash positions with an associated negative cash flow to a meaningfully positive cash flow and related strong working capital positions.

Jesse is an Honorably Discharged Veteran, having served on active duty for more than nine years in the US Navy while completing several overseas deployments. Jesse holds a BS in Nuclear Technologies from Excelsior College, a Master of Business Administration (MBA) with emphasis in Finance from Georgia State University’s J. Mack Robinson College of Business, a Master of Professional Accounting (MPAcc) with emphasis in Taxation from Colorado State University, and a PhD from Oklahoma State University.  Jesse is also a certified Six Sigma Blackbelt and holds an active DoD security clearance. 

But most importantly, Jesse is a son, a brother, an uncle, a husband, and a father in a life that centers on an amazing and beautiful partner and their five wonderful children!  And it’s from this place that the sudden and unexplained death of their oldest child has materially altered a perspective in life that now, to a different degree, recognizes the importance and significance of each person in our lives. It also emphasizes the importance of doing all that is possible to know and understand the complete healthy functioning of each person, beyond the traditional perspective of routine checkups at an annual physical or trips to the urgent care only when an acute symptomatic response demands it, but rather collecting and evaluating informative parameters of a person’s physical well-being continuously and allowing for the evaluation of that information by well-meaning professionals trained and committed to our collective’s healthy lives.

Danielle is a seasoned and experienced manager of operations and projects with an extensive background in Healthcare IT, Infrastructure Implementation & Enhancement, Healthcare Administration, Business Operations, and Client Relationships. She has a passion for making a meaningful contribution toward the production of automated & evidenced-based workflows, care plans, and treatment protocols that address the social, behavioral, medical, and economic factors that influence patient health in a way that enables healthcare professionals in their pursuit of improved patient outcomes.  Whether it’s through the care managers ability to assign health goals, or through the nurse navigator’s capacity to coordinate services seamlessly across a multi-disciplinary team, what matters to Danielle is the operative form and function of the platforms and technology that enable the many important ways that an effective population health focused organization supports patients, physicians and payers in their endeavor to transition from the traditional volume based healthcare delivery models to the patient centered value-based systems of care and wellness.

During the last couple of decades, Danielle has honed her ability to coordinate the unique and valuable inputs of the many talented professionals necessary for the progression from development to integration to live utilization of the myriad of advanced healthcare related technology platforms necessary for proper care coordination, including care management, chronic care management (CCM), electronic heath records (EHR), electronic medical records (EMR) and related platforms utilizing the latest in standardized healthcare IT interface requirements (e.g. HL7, CCD, CCDA, FHIR, ADT Messaging, JSON, etc.). Whether it’s through an AGILE, WATERFALL, or another software development lifecycle process, Danielle’s probably seen and worked with it and can help to successfully navigate the process of designing, developing and testing high quality software solutions. It’s here that Danielle demonstrates her exemplary track record of consistently working productively with her technology and operations partners to deliver advanced and capable solutions that work for the people that need them to work because it’s here that successful collaboration is one key ingredient that enables these high functioning teams to come together to produce these important tools. 

Danielle holds a BA in Social Sciences from University of Northern Colorado and a MS Information Technology Management with an emphasis in Healthcare Administration from Colorado State University, a certification as a Project Management Professional, and is an active member in good standing with the Project Management Institute. 

Danielle’s passion for healthcare extends from her primary role in life as a mother responsible for the care and nurturing of her five beautiful children, as a life partner to her husband, and a daughter to her aging parents. Danielle’s passion has evolved with the sudden unexplained death of her sixteen year old daughter, emphasizing the importance of understanding health factors in all people, at all ages, and at all stages of their lives, including children and including the effective integration of the crucial data related to these health factors into the platforms used by care professionals such that there are ultimately fewer unexplained or sudden deaths of children.