Andrea Schumacher
Senior Project Manager

Andrea Schumacher, senior project manager, has been with The Hilltop Institute since 1995. She supervises and manages the activities of the web-based applications development team and works with system users to ensure that the business and program needs are being met. Her focus is in the development of web-based information system applications for home and community-based services waivers. Her current projects include developing a web-based tracking system for the Money Follows the Person Demonstration and managing the Living at Home Waiver Tracking System, the Older Adults Waivers Tracking Systems, and the Quality Care Review System. In addition, Ms. Schumacher is the lead project manager for the Prevention Reporting System for the Maryland Infectious Disease and Environmental Health Agency (IDEHA) (formerly the Maryland AIDS Administration). This system includes both a client-server application used at IDEHA and a web-based reporting tool used by IDEHA vendors.

Previously, Ms. Schumacher was the project manager for a contract with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to develop a technical user manual for implementing a health-based payment system. In addition, she coordinated the state's review of the National Electronic Disease Surveillance System (NEDSS), a national initiative of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to collect and analyze public health surveillance data.

Ms. Schumacher has an M.S. in information systems from UMBC, as well as an administrative M.S.W. from the University of Michigan. She earned her B.A. in sociology from UMBC with minors in American studies and Women's studies.