Heather Franks
Professional Summary
Professional, meticulous systems and training administrator motivated to
drive projects from start to finish as part of dynamic team. Achievements
include purposeful selection, configuration, integration, training, and
deployment of multiple systems. Support change management through
effective communication and collaboration skills to ensure solutions meet
business needs throughout the organization. Creating and expanding
training solutions and programs through needs assessment, enhanced
curriculum design, eLearning development, deployment, and measuring
results to meet changing/expanding company needs. Learning
Management System implementation, integration, administration, and
optimization. Decisive leader with complex analytical skills that include
excellent organization while utilizing a collaborative approach. Positive
energy to identify long term solutions that meet organizational needs.
-- Campbell Lane, Plainfield, IL 60585
Skills
• Leader who takes initiative
• Dedicated to both professionalism and
integrity
• Training solutions development
• Process evaluation, optimization, and
enhancement
• Highly organized
• eLearning design, development, and
Work History
Benevis – Consultant Contract – Atlanta, GA
deployment
• Learning Management System
2022 - 2022
implementation, integration,
Training Design/Development: Project to evaluate training needs,
administration, optimization, and
develop company training framework, centralized employee orientation,
enhanced utilization
and develop engaging content to be deployed across all 14 states included
in the company’s geographic footprint. Conduct a companywide training
needs assessment across multiple roles, all states, and each department
head to define the Benevis functional onboarding needs. This included
• Effective support through change
management
• Project management, planning, and
development
development of an onboarding framework and training content to support
• Interdepartmental coordination
a centralized engaging onboarding experience for all new hires. Designed
• Advanced problem solving
eLearning modules to effectively deploy enhanced and centralized
• Strong communication skills with all
training content across 14 states. Provided training framework and future
development roadmap and training needs summary to leadership team
for ongoing development.
levels of the organization
• Develops effective relationships within
own team, peers and leaders
• Systems configuration, integration,
Caravel Autism Health - Consultant Contract – Green Bay, WI
2019 – 2022
Training Design/Development: Support discovery, design, development,
and alignment of training initiatives following recent acquisitions across
multiple states. LMS administration, optimization, and vendor
relationship oversight. eLearning design to develop new centralized
employee orientation training, systems training, annual compliance
training, and policy and procedural changes. LMS system migration and
groundwork for LMS integration with current HRIS system. Training
needs assessment to identify future training development roadmap.
administration, and deployment
• Ability to learn new
systems/technology quickly
• High customer service and action
oriented towards long term solutions
• Enneagram Certification
• Conscious Leadership training
Athletico Physical Therapy – Consulting Contract - Oak Brook, IL
2016 - 2019
LMS Administrator and eLearning Design: Support LMS migration to
new system including configuration, transfer of data, security,
deployment, training. Ongoing development and deployment of internal
training initiatives including new employee orientation, compliance
programs, service line and system training, and leadership development.
Provide status completion reporting for content owners. Oversight of all
employee access, company hierarchy structure and change management
from HRIS system into LMS. eLearning design for interactive adult
learning through Articulate Storyline. LMS administration and vendor
relationship oversight.
Education
Missouri Baptist University-
St Louis, MO
Bachelor of Arts: Human Services
Psychology and Religious Education
Minor
Magna Cum Laude
Jefferson College 1993
Hillsboro, MO
Athletico Physical Therapy – Oak Brook, IL
2002 - 2016 Full Time Employee
Training Project Manager: Implementation, configuration, and
deployment of new Learning Management system. Project oversight of
Human Resources Training and other department training
initiatives. Gathering content from SMEs to deploy through new LMS.
Director of IT Systems Operations: Project management of systems
configuration, administration, maintenance, and deployment. Oversight
of systems including configuration and deployment of our Practice
Management and Electronic Health Record systems throughout the
organization.
Director of IT/IS Operations: Oversight of Information Technology
teams. Project management, oversight of support services, equipment
deployment, phone systems, application system administration. Strong
team building. One of two team members directly reporting to the COO
responsible for vendor review, selection, purchase, configuration,
implementation of Practice Management and EHR integration and
deployment across entire platform. Effective communication and
collaboration skills to ensure solution meets the organization needs
throughout all levels and across multiple departments and
locations. Offer critical thinking solutions and results, driven to ensure
organizational success through the equipment and services the team
provides. Kick-start innovative programs and enhanced solutions while
ensuring successful transitions and communication necessary for adoption
of these new systems.
Operations Services Manager: Support the IT team with project
management oversight to ensure projects are completed within deadlines
and oversight of IT communications throughout the organization of
training, changes, and system enhancements. Oversight of IT customer
service as well as clinician documentation services.
Transcription Manager: Management and leadership for transcription
department responsible for transcribing all clinical notes dictated by
clinical teams. Support both the transcriptionists and clinical teams
through multiple technology changes. Provide project oversight, change
management, and training implementation through each enhancement.
Early Childhood Education
Administrative Services Manager: Provide training and support for front
office administrative teams to enhance their customer service, practice
management utilization, billing processes and communication skills.
Provide project support for the Director of Billing.
Rush Copley Medical Center - Medical Billing - Aurora, IL
2001 - 2002
Communication liaison between the physician practice, patients, and
insurance company. Responsible for daily submission of all charges to
appropriate insurance companies and posting payments.
Collect all
outstanding patient and insurance balances due on each account.
The Church of St. Charles - Human Services Director - St. Charles, MO
1997 - 2000
Director of the House of Hope transitional housing program. Connect
families in need with supporting community agencies for assistance.
Implement ministries that meet holistic practical needs of low-income
families. Participate in a community coalition designed to partner both
local churches and state organizations in meeting the needs of this
impoverished area. Orchestrate opportunities for other local churches and
community members to volunteer their time or resources to assist these
families with a hand up and not a simple hand out.
Christian Family Medicine - Medial Coding/Billing - St. Peters, MO
1996 - 2000
Communication link between doctors, patients, and insurance companies.
Code appropriate diagnosis and procedure codes for patient care received
and bill appropriate payor plans. Enter all charges for each patient visit
and collect outstanding patient balances due. Train office staff on system
use and processes.