Mark Locklear
Senior Consultant at Healthcare Planning and Development
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolMark Locklear is a senior consultant and seasoned healthcare business developer with 16 years of experience driving multimillion-dollar revenue growth, operational turnarounds, and managed-care contracting across post-acute, acute, and specialty care sectors. He has a consistent track record of negotiating complex payer agreements, leading large multidisciplinary teams, and executing strategic restructurings that delivered rapid cost reductions and service expansion. Comfortable working with Fortune 500 clients and board-level stakeholders, Mark combines tactical sales leadership with deep operational know-how—from centralized claims billing and EDI implementation to provider relations and legislative advocacy. He also brings hands-on product-minded technical contribution experience, having implemented UI and backend changes to a prominent open-source education dashboard on GitHub. Based in Charlottesville, VA, he pairs a practical, results-first consulting style with a knack for spotting market-making opportunities and developing high-impact, scalable solutions. Outside work he’s a home brewer and motorcycle enthusiast, grounding a driven professional life in relatable personal passions.
16 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Biology, Bachelor of Science, Biology at Virginia Tech
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Github Skills (18)
back-end-development10
rails10
user-interface10
front-end-development10
ruby-on-rails10
react10
javascript9
rspec9
html8
css8
postgresql7
collections6
activerecord6
csv6
heroku6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
WikiEducationFoundation/WikiEduDashboard
Apr 2022 - Jun 2022
Wiki Education Foundation's Wikipedia course dashboard system
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 13 commits, 2 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Mark contributed to the Wiki Education Foundation's dashboard system by implementing a feature to disable student emails. Their work included front-end additions for a UI toggle using React components, back-end modifications in the Rails controller and model to manage a new flag, and a corresponding test suite. Further, they updated the user profile controller to make the email field editable, including related tests.
dashboardwikifoundationwikipedia
extension/team_dashboard
Nov 2021 - Nov 2024
App to display a dashboard of team health statistics
Contributions:7 PRs, 22 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years 1 month
reactstatisticshealthteam-healthdashboard
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