Ep. 095, Leader of the Band

Underserved

Andrew Gelina

Society & Culture, Technology

5.0 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Kim Sinclair joins me in our studio for Episode #095 of Underserved. Kim spent college in Friartown, leading the pep band on the road for fun and adventure supporting Providence College sports. After stints working for the Department of Revenue and consulting, Kim found herself moving into the healthcare payer and provider space at Boston Medical Center's health plan. By asking many questions she learned the many intricacies of the insurance side, which helped implement the Massachusetts Healthcare reform project “Romneycare” (the state predecessor to federal "Obamacare"). We talk about not wanting to be a CIO and then becoming one, being forced to make layoffs as your first foray into management, and some unusual requests serviced during COVID.

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linkedin.com/in/kim-sinclair
Doberman Rescue Unlimited - Doberman Dog Rescue of New England - Doberman Rescue Unltd (dru.org)
Heartworm Basics - American Heartworm Society
Providence College https://www.providence.edu/

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0:00.0	Welcome, everyone, to episode number 95 of Under-Served.
0:04.9	With me in studio today is Kim Sinclair, former CIO of Boston Medical Center Health Net
0:10.4	Plan.
0:11.4	Let's get started.
0:13.2	Welcome to this week's edition of Under-Served, the podcast for the rest of the tech industry.
0:20.6	Where we focus on stories of tech industry leaders, their insights, and their lessons
0:25.5	learn.
0:26.7	Now, your host, Andrew Jalina.
0:30.9	Kim, thank you so much for joining us on Under-Served.
0:37.4	Thank you, Andrew.
0:38.4	It's great to be here today.
0:39.9	So way back when at Dartmouth High School in Dartmouth, Massachusetts, what was your first
0:45.1	introduction to computers?
0:47.0	That was a computer class where we had Apple to ease.
0:50.7	The very basics getting started, and it was something that just interested me.
0:55.2	I think Apple had some sort of concerted effort to put those into schools in Massachusetts,
1:00.0	because it seems like so many people, either a digital equipment corporation, Vax, or
1:04.5	an Apple IIE, was their first time on keyboard.
1:07.0	Yeah, one or the other, yeah.
1:08.8	So when you graduate, what do you decide to do in college?
1:11.7	I wanted to not do computer science.
1:14.6	I actually went to Providence College with the idea of becoming a psychologist.
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