The Digital Blue Leadership team averages over 15 years of experience in leading transformational change within Healthcare and Insurance. We are not only experts in consulting, information technology, healthcare, and transformational change leadership; but outside-the-box thinkers who leverage deep expertise within industries, technology, data, and processes to partner with our clients to help them attain their strategic objectives and deliver meaningful improvements in healthcare every day.
All Members
Shawn Firehock
Managing Director
shawn.firehock@digitalblue.io
Shawn Firehock is Founder and Managing Director of Digital Blue. Shawn leads the team in creating and executing strategic growth plans. As a hands-on leader, Shawn works closely with clients and strategic partnerships to identify opportunities to improve an organization's business performance significantly. As a result, Digital Blue regularly delivers solutions that will enhance operational productivity by over 40%. Over the past 20 years, Shawn has led enterprise-wide programs to transform health plans and provider operations, resulting in significant improvement in government health programs and improving provider satisfaction and patient outcomes.Shawn and his wife are raising four children and two
Richard Lavertu
Vice President of Operations
richard.lavertu@digitalblue.io
Richard Lavertu is the Co-Founder and Vice President of Operations at Digital Blue Solutions. In this role, he oversees the performance of organizational goals and ensures team coordination on project management. Richard is an accomplished leader with 25+ years of experience in senior program and project management consulting for various business faculties, including Business Process Management (BPA, RPA), Strategic Visioning, and Business Re-engineering Modeling. Richard's Strong business acumen has helped to leverage technology platforms delivering optimal business solutions across multiple industries. Richard is a leader in the functional and technical spectrum across healthcare. Prior roles have included Program/Project Management, Business
Matt Pontius
Vice President of Architecture
Matt.Pontius@digitalblue.io
Matt is the Co-Founder and Vice President of Architecture at Digital Blue Solutions. In this role, he leads his team of developers to drive client success across multiple facets, including innovation, automation, industry best practices, software development, and software/solution architecture. Matt has hands-on experience from developer to architect to project management, using leadership to foster and inspire teams to build quality solutions consistently. A Healthcare focused leader, Matt has experience with driving programs for both providers and payers, delivering high-efficiency gains and in-year ROI.
Matt's project successes include full hands-on leadership of the Blue Prism program for large companies. These include
Pallavi Agrawal
Solutions Engineer
Pallavi is a Solutions Engineer at Digital Blue. In this role, she develops and implements OnBase solutions to optimize provider enrollments, medical review, mailroom, inbound/outbound correspondence, prior authorization, claims processing/appeals, and quality assurance. Pallavi has over 10 years of experience Developing, Engineering, and Programming Software and systems for large organizations. Pallavi has experience working in OnBase Content Management systems, OnBase reporting services, and Crystal reports. In addition, she is skilled in creating and working on web-based products (.NET, PHP, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS, and AJAX), Oracle Database, Software testing, and has a strong understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SCLC).
Pallavi
Xin Bai
Lead Solution Engineer
Xin is Lead SolutionEngineer at Digital Blue. In this role, he works with Digital Blue-based teams to deliver intelligent automation solutions to drive measurable operational improvements to our clients. In addition, serves as a development facilitator with multiple groups across finance, sales, operations, and information technology. Xin is responsible for working with teams to deliver automation development tracks, adhering to the best practices and high standards.
Xin has skills and demonstrated success in creating general and ad hoc pipeline jobs for data integration and ingestion and dataflows for data cleansing and transformation processes using Azure Data Factory. Xin's strengths include streamlining
Anwar Benamara
Senior Digital Transformation Architect
Anwar is a Senior Digital Transformation Architect at Digital Blue. In this role, he is in charge of implementing digital strategies for our clients and collaborating with them to conceptualize and design innovative and complete end-to-end digital enablement roadmap that includes digital transformation strategy. His role also includes developing solutions around productivity tools and services like file sharing, content creation/management, collaboration/communication software, and more. In addition, he builds robust partnerships with key business stakeholders to understand their requirements and develop solutions while defining strategy and governance around productivity, communication, and collaboration tools and services.
Anwar’s project successes include leading the design
Amanda Mahoney
Marketing Lead
Amanda is Marketing Lead at Digital Blue. In this role, her focus includes market research and strategy, product and partnership marketing, sales support, and business administration. Amanda manages and supports Digital Blue's social media channels, website, CRM, branding, lead generation campaigns, event marketing, and some areas of growth strategy.
Amanda has a demonstrated history of working with growing B2B companies to find and reach target markets, improve brand imaging, and add engaging and impactful content. Before joining Digital Blue, Amanda worked as a Marketing Associate for Consolidated Analytics, inc, where her efforts helped to support a 3-year growth rate of 118%
Ranjan Parida
Senior Digital Transformation Consultant
Ranjan is a Senior Digital Transformation Consultant at Digital Blue Solutions. In this role, he works directly with senior stakeholders from clients and partners within the Healthcare industry facilitating action with multiple groups across finance, sales, operations, technology, and data science. Ranjan is responsible for project management, program management, and analysis of strategic and transformational initiatives with clients in requirements gathering, technology selection, business process optimization, business case creation, solution design, and implementation of digital solutions. A trusted adviser, strategist, and digital transformation specialist, Ranjan has been delivering value for over 12 years to the healthcare, insurance, and financial services
Evan Roz
Senior Solutions Engineer
Evan is a Senior Solutions Engineer at Digital Blue Solutions. In this role, Evan ensures client business goals are translated into software reality with project scope and delivery situational awareness. A priority-first solutions engineer experienced in solving complex problems, Evan leverages his unique background in business process optimization, Agile Software Development, and data mining to bring measurable results to our clients. A hybrid data scientist/software developer/project manager, Evan has wide-ranging experience in insurance and annuities, healthcare, energy conservation, and building science. This experience gives him a breadth of domain knowledge that he leverages into solution design.
Project success includes designing, developed,
Jared Surething
Senior Consultant
Jared is a Senior Consultant at Digital Blue. In this role, he works directly with senior stakeholders from clients and partners within the Healthcare industry facilitating action with multiple groups across finance, sales, operations, technology, and data science. Jared is responsible for project management, program management, and analysis of strategic and transformational initiatives with clients in requirements gathering, technology selection, business process optimization, business case creation, solution design, and implementation of digital solutions.
Prior to this role, Jared was Senior Project Manager for NewsBank where he Completed many projects that helped increase sales or increased efficiency by replacing old and inefficient
Scott Van Buren
Senior Software Engineer
Scott is Senior Software Engineer at Digital Blue. He is a driven technology professional with a proven 20+ year track record of success in participating and leading projects for clients across various industries, including healthcare, financial services, specialty pharma, insurance, and entertainment. His perseverance, total commitment, and years of experience in database architecture, data analytics, reporting, software design, and development have been the keys to his clients' success. Scott continually demonstrates his ability to quickly understand and optimize operations by optimizing legacy technologies and incorporating new (BPM, RPA, ECM, no code) technologies, as evidenced by many loyal customers. This experience