A senior business systems analyst in Massachusetts, Anthony Freddura builds upon a long career in business technology that includes tenures as a project manager/principal analyst with Fidelity Investments and a product owner/lead business systems analyst with Epsilon. Outside of the professional arena, Anthony Freddura is a dedicated member of the World Vision Grace Chapel in Lexington, Massachusetts.
In addition to offering regular Sunday worship services and performing special religious ceremonies, Grace Chapel support a number of internal grassroots ministries that serve specific Christian populations and support specific charitable causes. One of these ministries is the adoption, foster, and kinship care initiative Home for Good. Grace Chapel’s Home for Good ministry began as a highly personal project of its founders, which included grandparents who adopted their grandchildren, parents with adopted children from Guatemala, the foster parents of both teenagers and toddlers, and a dedicated youth social worker. Over the years, Home for Good has reached out to foster and adoptive families to provide them with the information and resources that they need to welcome children into their homes.
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Anthony Freddura serves Epsilon as a product owner/lead business systems analyst. In terms of philanthropic interests, Anthony Freddura supports Grace Church in Lexington, Massachusetts. Founded in 1948, this non-denominational church met in members’ homes for several years and eventually expanded into a congregation of 4,000 members spread across Lexington, East Lexington, Watertown, and Wilmington. Grace Church makes a concerted effort to increase the presence of other cultures in its largely Caucasian membership. Today, 30 percent of its members have roots in Latin America, Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, the Pacific Islands, and the Caribbean. The church’s multicultural and leadership-learning team takes several steps toward promoting diversity and assesses its progress along the way. The team strives discover how cultural groups can contribute to worship and service and identify practices that might be unwelcoming to individuals with different cultural backgrounds. Acting as a liaison with overall church leaders, the team encourages the church’s ministries to identify emerging leaders who are representative of the church congregation’s multicultural makeup. The team also works toward reframing outmoded definitions of leadership. In addition, Grace Church offers language classes for English learners, some worship services have Korean, Spanish, and Mandarin translators. Experienced in project management and business systems analysis, Anthony Freddura formerly served as a business systems analyst for Genentech, Inc., in the San Francisco Bay area. Anthony Freddura currently works as a senior business systems analyst with MultiPlan, Inc.
Headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts, MultiPlan has become one of the world's leading providers of health care cost management solutions. Insurance companies, health management organizations, and self-funded employers represent some of the groups that utilize its services. Moreover, MultiPlan’s network and analytics-based software helps identify fraud and reduce costs. Additionally, MultiPlan gives back to its community through its annual Holiday Card program. Health care groups from across the country allow pediatric patients to make drawings that may be featured on Holiday Cards, which the respective hospitals can then use for fundraising. In 2014, more than 45 patients sent in their drawings, and the top drawings came from facilities in Tennessee, Texas, and Nebraska. Also that year, MultiPlan made a $12,000 donation to the global nonprofit group Starlight Children's Foundation. Among MultiPlan’s other end-of-year initiatives are donating toys to hospitals and funding rural health care programs. An avid guitar player, I enjoy the opportunity to share music and God's Word through worship at Grace Chapel in Lexington, Massachusetts. As a volunteer in the Worship Arts Ministry at Grace Chapel, I dedicate my music to my brothers and sisters in Christ. In a community of people who live passionately to serve and worship the Lord, I seek to establish an environment that encourages others to build close, vital relationships with God.
The Worship Arts Ministry allows those of us with creative interests to bring attention to Jesus in any way we can. In addition to Grace Choir, Grace Orchestra, contemporary praise bands, and vocal teams, which lead worship for morning services at Grace Chapel, the Worship Arts Ministry includes diverse opportunities for individuals who want to contribute their talents to worshipping God. Those with experience or an interest in running the technical aspects of worship, including sound, light, and video, possess the opportunity to serve in the Technology Ministry. Actors and other stage specialists can contribute to the Drama Ministry, which includes ongoing troupes, as well as seasonal productions. Finally, the Worship Arts Ministry strives to establish the worship of God as not only passionate, but also accessible through the Media Ministry, which produces weekly recordings of services, and the Signing Ministry, which expresses worship through the art of signing for the hearing impaired. In addition to volunteering at Grace Chapel, I played rhythm guitar with a few friends at a weekend retreat in New Hampshire for high school students. I helped lead worship with music from contemporary Christian artists, such as Hillsong United, Matt Redman, and Lincoln Brewster. The experience proved enjoyable for the kids and ourselves. Business project manager and systems analyst Anthony Freddura has built up 15 years of experience in his field. He has worked since 2013 as a lead systems analyst and product owner at Epsilon, a company based in Wakefield, Massachusetts, near Boston. Anthony Freddura additionally donates a portion of his free time to furthering the needs of his community, including serving as a volunteer to address the needs of people experiencing homelessness. Homelessness is a continuing challenge for the Boston area. In 2014, a survey released by the United States Conference of Mayors reported that Boston had the largest number of people residing in temporary shelters among the 25 larger cities surveyed. The city has shown its commitment to ending chronic homelessness. Its annual Homeless Census helps officials and the public understand the scope and size of the problem, which is one of the first steps toward providing creative solutions. The Census also helps by providing much-needed information about where the gaps lie in the city’s provision of services to people currently experiencing homelessness. Through its Boston’s Way Home Fund, the city has set its sights on raising $10 million in order to construct hundreds of new housing units to provide safe, secure places to live for chronically homeless people. With more than 10 years of experience in software project implementation, Anthony Freddura serves as a senior business systems analyst at MultiPlan, Inc., in Waltham, Massachusetts. Anthony Freddura also supports philanthropic work and sponsors World Vision, a Christian nonprofit that provides assistance to national and international communities. World Vision recently observed the UN’s World Water Day in March of 2016 by highlighting the progress that’s been made in Rwanda, where less than a third of the rural population had clean water after the 1994 genocide. Over the last 15 years, World Vision has helped double the number of people in Rwanda who have access to clean water and the organization provided almost 250,000 people with clean water in just the past five years. Last year, World Vision established 1,000 water points that helped almost 100,000 people, while also working with other nonprofits to supply clean water to more than 43,000 people who fled to Rwanda from Burundi. According to World Vision, the progress in Rwanda supports the feasibility of ending the global water crisis by 2030 in accordance with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. |
AuthorServing as an Information Systems Quality Analyst, Anthony Freddura held responsibility for testing and supporting a client/server transaction processing system. Archives
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