COLLIN PHAN
HEALTHCARE TECH
GPO SPEND MGMT
EST. 2026

How is never as important as why.

Collin Phan


Collin Phan

Hi, I'm Collin.

I am currently in a Leadership Development Rotation Program at Vizient Inc. the largest Healthcare GPO in the United States. I will complete my rotations in June 2027.

I have 7 years of experience at Vizient, performing technical customer support for hospital scoring, internal project management and change management, and training. After graduating with my MBA in June of 2025, I am expanding my horizons and experiences to include hospital GPO delivery and consulting, Pharmacy formulary and contract consulting, Project Management for performance improvement, Hospital Supply Chain experience at a national and custom contract level, and Hospital Contract Consulting and Spend Management.

Feel free to reach out to my email or message me on LinkedIn. Thank you for your time!


COLLIN PHAN

Collin Phan

Healthcare technology · GPO spend management

Spend Management Leadership Development Program · Vizient

Pharmacy Aggregation Group Rotation — Feb – May 2026

  • Delivered consulting and implementation support for Vizient's Pharmacy GPO across 20+ hospital systems in the Northeast; analyzed pharmacy spend and identified cost-saving opportunities through contract optimization while supporting Pharmacy Directors with tailored insights and project execution.

PMO Internal Project Management Rotation — Jun – Sep 2026

  • Supporting Continuous Improvement initiatives for Kaiser Permanente GPO partnership and Vizient Supply Chain Maturity Model Scoring Development.
  • Assistant PM for 2026 OKR Monthly review process and future 2027 OKR creation.

Sourcing and Supply Chain Rotation — Oct 2026 – Jan 2027

  • Exposure to national and custom contracting processes between hospitals, manufacturers, and suppliers within Vizient's sourcing operations.

Spend Management Delivery Rotation — Feb – Jun 2027

  • Conducting hospital-level spend analyses to identify cost-saving and operational improvement opportunities.
Sr. Analyst · Vizient
  • Sr. Account Executive: Managed patient data intake from multiple hospital systems, project-managed hospital re-implementations, and led monthly Data Quality and Health reviews and best-practice sessions.
  • Generative AI Champion: Automated a critical data-cleaning bottleneck using ChatGPT and Python; program-managed rollout and trained Sr. Analysts on its use. Saved an estimated 100 hrs/year.
  • Reporting Tool: Built an interactive dashboard measuring a key component in Vizient's marquee yearly hospital-scoring study; used by Analysts, Managers, Directors, and AVPs.
  • Interim Manager Duties: Led twice-weekly team meetings covering updates and best practice for 2 data-intake teams totaling 22 analysts (Apr 2022 – Sep 2022).
  • Change Management Team: Led internal projects for leadership; ran new-team-member training and onboarding; encouraged best practice across team members and client hospitals.
  • UAT Tool: Constructed a tool to validate new clinical features for our newest product upgrade pre-go-live.
Agile PM — Fellowship · Vizient
  • First graduate of Vizient's furthering-education program in Python and Project Management.
  • Scrum Master: Led a team of 4 programmers building an improved pharmacy usage visualization tool.
  • Data Visualization: Used multiple Python libraries for data analysis, visualization, and dashboard design on the clinical-database API pharmacy visualization tool.
Analyst · Vizient
  • Account Executive: Managed patient data intake from multiple hospital systems; assisted in hospital re-implementations and monthly Data Quality and Health reviews.
  • Tool Enhancement: Increased capability of the data-tracking tool used by Analysts and Managers; saved 2 hrs/day per team member, est. 30 hrs/week.
  • New Member Onboarding: Authored job-aid tutorials and mentored 5 waves of new analysts.
  • UAT: Developed and delivered first version of the updated clinical-database internal user manual.
EHR Consultant Intern · AVAAP Consulting
  • Revised and standardized 50+ Cerner EHR user procedures for client Columbus Regional Health System.
  • AVAAP Wellness Initiative: Led the program — delivered presentation to 150+ employees, collected health data, compiled and reported results to management.
  • Training Completed: Intro to EPIC, Careers in EHR Consulting, Storyboarding, Data Modeling, Revenue Cycle.
  • Competitive Analysis: Conducted analysis of 7 of AVAAP's top competitors — Clinovations, Healthlink Advisors, Impact Advisors, Nordic, Sagacious, Bluetree Network Inc., and Vonlay.
  • Research project on solutions to mitigate EHR downtime's effect on the revenue cycle as a potential client-service offering.
Technology Helpdesk Technician Intern · Stand for Children
  • Provided technical support to 150 staff at the 2016 Stand National Conference.
  • Ran diagnostics and upgraded laptop software to the latest Windows 10 OS.
  • Conducted training on online meeting and conferencing applications, in person and online for remote employees.
  • Asset Management: Inventoried, tagged assets, and organized old equipment for donation and recycling.
B.S. Health Systems Management · Loyola University of Chicago
MBA — Master of Business Administration · University of Washington, Seattle
VP — UW MBA Charity Club · Student Government & Charity VP, 2 terms
  • Strategy and leadership for the UW MBA chapter, including recruitment of new members.
  • General manager for 5 Club Representatives, including training VP successors.
  • Program Manager — Charity 5K run, 2 years: 180 participants, $5,000 in donations.
  • Charity Apparel sales — marketing, sales, procurement, distribution manager: $4,000 in donations over 2 years.
  • Charity Auction Procurement Team: $14,000 in total auction-item value procured over 2 years.
  • Aided in total yearly donation amounts of $130,000 (2024) and $150,000 (2025).
Loan Analyst · University of Washington · Commerce Bank of Washington · Spring Roll House Deli
  • Partnered with Commerce Bank of Washington (Relationship Manager Alyssa A. Schoonover).
  • Prepared a $2.5M loan package for Spring Roll House Deli for their expansion into a second location.
  • Financial modeling and interactive dashboard to analyze potential debt structures and projected financial growth across multiple financing options (real-estate loan, equipment loan, line of credit).
  • Strategic analysis for Spring Roll House Deli — trend analysis, risk analysis, historical financial performance assessment, break-even analysis, and debt-financing recommendations.
Volunteer · Wheeling University
  • Performed qualitative research into the causes and effects of the opioid epidemic in rural communities by interviewing physicians, nurses, hospital administrators, outreach professionals, teachers, and residents.
  • Research sites: Methadone Clinic, FQHC, Sustainable Williamson, Patch 21, Maternal Health Outreach.
Volunteer — Various Institutions
  • Habitat For Humanity, Chicago IL — 2017 – 2019.
  • Assisted Living Volunteer, The Clare Nursing Home, Chicago IL — Feb–Apr 2018.
  • Public Health Intern (Education and Outreach), Vietnamese Association of Illinois, Chicago IL — Aug 2015 – Apr 2016.
Python SQL Generative AI Data visualization Dashboarding Project management Scrum / Agile UAT Change management Healthcare GPO

"Shrinking the distance between deciding and doing

I have added links to my github projects below. While these projects are currently a hobby, they are my preferred way to learn how to use gen AI effectively and responsibly. I don't update this section very often, so please reach out to learn about my latest projects!

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8BitPitch ↗

Mental math trainer for investors — 8 retro-style finance drills.

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Marc CT Model Page ↗

Model Landing Page for Marc CT.

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collinphan.com ↗

This site — personal portfolio built with plain HTML, CSS, and JS.


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