East Texas Medical Center, 2000-present
Annual Savings: $26,512 (4 locations)
Project Manager: Lanelle Prettyman

Physical inventory of main hospital and 40 locations. Site visit to identify existing equipment, inventory, label lines, and test lines for dial tone. Prepared report of locations, made recommendations for savings. East Texas has a sophisticated network for voice and data. Utilizes some voice over IP using Cisco technology.

Mariner Post-Acute Network, Houston, TX, Year 2000
Annual Savings: $1.5 Million
Project Manager: Neil D. Oxford

Responsible for all voice systems, messaging, cell phones, long distance, pagers, pay phones, and overhead paging for 433 long-term health care hospitals and nursing facilities nationwide.
Supervised 10 field personnel responsible for physical inventory of equipment, lines, and services. Designed format for documentation of all information in a LAN-accessible database. Identification, evaluation, and recommendation of current technology options, lease buyout options, inventory costs, and return on investment. Wrote RFP and conducted vendor negotiations for systems upgrades, long distance, cellular, and paging for 55,000 employees nationwide, resulting in a net savings of $1.4 million annually.

Trinity Mother Frances Health System, 2002-2003
Annual Savings: $272,608
Project Manager: Neil Oxford

Completed physical inventory of 56 locations for Trinity Mother Frances. Prettyman & Associates visited each site, tested lines, labeled demark properly, reconciled bill and returned credits on billing to client. Trinity has an extensive data and voice network with connectivity to all remote locations.