Andrea Schumacher
Senior Project Manager

Andrea Schumacher, senior project manager, has been with The Hilltop Institute since 1995. She manages the applications development team, supervising and coordinating the work of the web developers and other project assistants. Her focus is primarily in the development of information system applications, both web-based and non-web-based. Her current projects include developing a web-based Money Follows the Person Tracking System, updating the Prevention Reporting System for Maryland’s Infectious Disease and Environmental Health Agency (formerly the Maryland AIDS Administration), and finalizing the implementation for the Quality Care Review System. She is also the lead project manager for the development of Maryland's Living at Home Waiver Tracking System Website, the Older Adult Waiver Tracking System Website, and the Quality Care Review Tracking System. In addition to her work on the Prevention Reporting System, Ms. Schumacher was the lead project manager to develop a data warehouse for Maryland’s HIV+ surveillance data.

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 participation in 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.