Type Of Business:
Medical Laboratory Testing
Expertise:
Working in a fast-paced project environment; As an extension of the mergers and acquisition process, transitioning an acquired company from their current sytems onto corporate standard systems without an outage, loss in productivity, and without significant impact to the client or patient.
Major Product/SVS:
Medical testing including pathology, genetic, paternity and clinical trials
Hobbies/Sports:
Gardening; Scrapbooking; Reading
Education Degrees:
Master of Business Administration, University of Phoenix (2007); Bachelor of Business Administration, University of Phoenix (2005); Bachelor's Degree in Applied Mathematics, State University of New York (1998)
Affiliations Awards:
Project Management Institute, Inc.
Place of Birth:
Chicago, Illinois
Children's Names:
2 sons - ages 3 & 4
Work History:
LabCorp: 2000-Present
Millward Brown International: 1998-2000
Career Achievements:
I'm just where I want to be!
Charity:
Junior Achievement; Local gardening group; Local food bank
Number Of Years In Profession:
9
Number Of Years In Current Position:
4
What Does He/She Attribute Success To:
She attributes her success to the strength of her personal relationships.
Why did you become involved in your profession or industry?:
She became involved in her profession as a natural progression from five years of working in information technology project management.
Extended Bio Profile:
Ms. Kapler is a member of a gardening group that donates a portion of its harvest to a local food bank. She is also involved with Junior Achievement, through which she teaches economics topics and life skills to at-risk children at the elementary and junior high school levels.
Position Responsibilities and Duties:
Facilitating systems integration and overseeing a group of functional leads through the project life-cycle; Bringing companies that were obtained by mergers or acquisitions onto LabCorp systems - preserving what LabCorp invested in, while taking their individual values and corporate cultures into account (change management); Ensuring that all necessary information is correctly loaded into key systems for lab, billing, payroll, sales comp, provisioning, logistics, etc.
Education Certifications:
Project Management Professional, Project Management Institute, Inc.
Awards/Honors:
Billing Achievement Award, LabCorp (2010)
Where Will You Be In 5 Years:
In five years, Ms. Kapler plans to continue working her way up the ladder and possibly attain a director or AVP position.