ABS Kids — Columbia, SC
Digital data collection, regulatory compliance across clinical documentation and workflows, inventory of clinical and administrative materials.
Healthcare Operations & Administration
Professional Summary
I have spent over a decade working inside psychiatric hospitals, state mental health systems, and child welfare agencies. These are environments where documentation errors have real consequences and compliance is rigorous. I am now transitioning into administrative and operations roles where this knowledge is a direct asset. I already understand the clinical side well enough to support it without a learning curve, I know exactly what audit-ready records look like, and I have years of experience translating complex regulatory requirements into everyday workflow.
Experience
ABS Kids — Columbia, SC
Digital data collection, regulatory compliance across clinical documentation and workflows, inventory of clinical and administrative materials.
Richland County Department of Social Services — Columbia, SC
Complex caseload management under federal and state law; formal documentation for judicial review; cross-system coordination between families, providers, and legal entities.
SC Department of Mental Health — Hopkins, SC
Direct support and behavioral intervention in structured state mental health settings.
Three Rivers Behavioral Health — Columbia, SC
Acute-care direct support and crisis intervention for patient stabilization and unit milestone tracking.
Patrick B. Harris Psychiatric Hospital — Anderson, SC
A decade leading structured health programs and coordinating care delivery alongside nurse administrators and clinical staff. Managed acute psychiatric risk, provided peer guidance to behavioral health assistants.
Core Competencies
Data & Documentation
Clinical settings don't have much patience for documentation that's close enough. I've spent years maintaining records that hold up to audit review across psychiatric, child welfare, and state mental health systems. That means data entry discipline, case file organization, and knowing what compliance actually looks like in practice rather than on a checklist.
Compliance & Regulation
HIPAA, funding regulations, state and federal statutory requirements: I haven't studied these so much as worked inside them long enough that they're second nature. I've applied different regulatory frameworks across different agencies and learned that the agencies with the fewest compliance problems are the ones where the rules are embedded in daily workflow, not treated as a separate task.
Operations & Coordination
Most of my career has been in environments where things going wrong has real downstream effects. I've coordinated between clinical staff and administrative divisions, managed caseloads under legal deadlines, and kept units stocked and organized as a baseline function of the job. I'm comfortable with competing demands and I don't need a lot of hand-holding to figure out what needs to happen next.
Communication & Training
I've worked with nurses, social workers, legal teams, patients, and families, sometimes all in the same day. I've run structured group programming, conducted intake interviews, and trained peers on Trauma-Informed Care approaches. The common thread is being able to read the room and adjust without losing the thread of what needs to get done.
About Me
Establishing roots in Aiken in summer 2026. Reliably found feeding quarters into vintage pinball machines during off hours.
Education
Bachelor of Arts — History
Lander University — Greenwood, SC