Cincinnati

Hi, I'm Toni. This is my living portfolio.

I work across healthcare, analytics, information systems, project delivery, education, and emerging technology.

I like understanding a complicated system, finding useful structure in it, and communicating that structure clearly enough to support a better decision or a better solution.

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How I work

From a fuzzy problem to something we can actually improve.

The same loop, whether the room is a clinic, a finance team, or a classroom. Pick a phase or a step.

UnderstandSolveImproveDefineMeasureDiagnoseDesignDeliverLearnCommunicate

Explore how I work

Choose a phase or step to see what I mean, why it matters, and where I've used it.

The process keeps moving: each cycle informs the next, while communication connects every stage.

Understand

I start by getting the problem and the evidence into the same sentence. If I cannot say what decision we are making, or what the number actually counts, I am not ready to solve anything.

Define

Name the actual problem, the outcome we want, the decision someone has to make, and what would count as success.

Why it matters. A lot of wasted work starts with a request that sounds clear and is really a symptom.

Measure

Gather the evidence, write the definitions, and check that the number we are about to use is the thing people think it is.

Why it matters. Two honest calculations can still be two different facts wearing the same name.

Solve

Once the problem and the measure are clear enough, I look for what is driving the result, and for a response that can survive the real constraints.

Diagnose

Look for relationships, drivers, and root causes, and try not to treat a symptom as the cause.

Why it matters. Acting on the visible problem is how a team gets very efficient at the wrong repair.

Design

Compare interventions, tradeoffs, and constraints, and ask whether the response can actually be implemented.

Why it matters. A clever design that the organization cannot run is still a sketch.

Improve

A design that stays in a document is unfinished. I try to put something into use, then look at what actually happened and carry that into the next pass.

Deliver

Build, coordinate, and put the solution into use with the people who have to live with it.

Why it matters. The handoff is part of the work. If only I can run it, it is not delivered.

Learn

Compare what happened with what we set out to do, including effects we did not intend, and take that into the next cycle.

Why it matters. The loop only works if Learn is allowed to change the next definition.

Communicate

I keep the people who understand the system, the people building the solution, and the people making decisions connected to the same definitions, evidence, tradeoffs, and outcomes.

Why it matters. Good analysis loses its value if understanding breaks at the handoffs.

Selected work

A few projects I can walk you through

All work

These are public cases, not a full client list. Each one is here because it shows that loop in a real setting.

Employment and consulting

Requirements and delivery in specialty care

  • QuestionRequests arrived as symptoms. The work was to find the decision, the people, and the information the decision actually depended on.
  • RoleRequirements, healthcare project management, consulting delivery, and translation between clinical operations, business stakeholders, and technical teams.
  • What I didDecompose the request into decisions, definitions, dependencies, and the smallest set of artifacts that lets the next group act.
  • DemonstratesAmbiguity reduction and stakeholder translation in real operating environments.

Delivery context and venture method

Revenue and operations, made inspectable

  • QuestionTwo reports about the same operation disagree, and nobody can say which definition the decision should use.
  • RoleAnalyst and translator in delivery settings; designer of the visibility method inside the practice-intelligence venture.
  • What I didTrace the measure back to a grain, a time window, an inclusion rule, and an owner before proposing a dashboard.
  • DemonstratesSource-to-decision thinking, KPI design, and restraint about what a chart proves.

Teaching

Financial modeling and Power BI, taught

  • QuestionA model that only its author can explain is a fragile operational asset.
  • RoleAdjunct Professor of Finance. Design the progression from a measure's meaning to the model, the visual, and the way the visual can mislead.
  • What I didUnderstanding is a deliverable. Each layer of the model has to be something a student can reconstruct.
  • DemonstratesInstructional design and the same translation skill used with clients, pointed at learners.

Ideas

What I'm still turning over

All ideas

Explainers, research, experiments, and one venture. If it isn't finished, the label says so.

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Independent Practice Intelligence

A venture inside CincyLogic, founded August 2026. Assessment-led practice intelligence for independent specialty and community practices. The public entry is the Independent Practice Resilience Assessment.

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About

I live in Cincinnati. The work grew up here too.

I studied information systems and business analytics at the University of Cincinnati, then moved through delivery, consulting, and teaching. CincyLogic is the name of this whole portfolio: the city, and a way of holding different parts in one system.

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Employment, consulting, teaching, research, or a question about something on the site. A short note is enough.

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Full resume available on request.