Andy Blight Email & Phone Number

Southlake, TX

Started as a volunteer to continue post-rehab (TBI) therapy, and look at me now!

Southake, TX

Southlake, Texas, United States

Had the opportunity to be a stay home Father.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

As a visionary and transformative leader, I specialize in managing the intersection of business needs and technology implementations to ensure the desired strategic alignment and value is realized. From business process review to technology selection and implementation, I have a proven track record of delivering stability, value and progress across the.

Irving, TX

Reporting directly to ACIO/VP of Strategy & Applications, I was responsible for managing and improving business relationships with our corporate business teams and our non-acute healthcare providers. In this role I provided strategic and tactical planning, development, evaluation, and coordination of the required information systems and technologies and.

Houston, Texas Area

As the Regional Information Management Executive for the homecare, hospice and long-term acute care hospital (LTACH) and retail divisions, I was responsible for assisting in executing the Information Management vision and strategy as defined by the Office of the CIO; directing routine operation and delivery of information systems and processes related to.

Tulsa, Oklahoma Area

• I managed the Tulsa-based IT support & development teams for approximately 550 users, including an international salesforce of over 200 field-based sales reps. I was responsible for integrating local and corporate IT.
• Upgraded the LAN infrastructure to 1Gb to the desktop
• Refreshed salesforce laptops with minimal service interruption
• Migrated to MPLS mesh network for WAN
• Virtualized the local infrastructure using VMWare & IBM Blade Center
• Developed a Lot Management System for the manufacturing & distribution center resulting in 98% reduction in inventory & shipping errors and ensuring recall compliance with ISO90001 standards

Houston, Texas Area

• I was brought in to stabilize and grow the IT department and infrastructure to support the increased needs of the department and their customer base of over 1,200 clinicians, physicians and staff. I built a team of.
• Upgraded IT infrastructure to current standards o Migrated old Novell file servers to Windows o Upgraded network switches to 100Mbs o Upgraded terminal servers supporting lab equipment o Implemented call center ticket.
• Upgraded the datacenter UPS with less than two (2) hours of downtime
• Migrated lab environments to CITRIX terminals, saving over $50,000 in PC upgrade costs
• Implemented a document management system for the Pathology File Room and Blood Bank, using Documentum and Oracle
• Managed multiple Cerner LIS system upgrades, including VMS cluster replacement and storage upgrades

Houston, Texas Area

• Over an eight-year period I held progressively more technically challenging positions with increasing technical and leadership responsibilities. I was responsible for defining technical implementation requirements for.
• Infrastructure o Microsoft Networking Technical Advisory Group – Chairman This group was formed to define the implementation strategy for Microsoft networking. o Systems Administration – Windows, AIX I implemented and.
• EMR Systems o CERNER PowerChart EMR – defined and managed the technical infrastructure, including client deployment strategies
• Ancillary systems o Financial and administrative system for retail pharmacy o Order-entry, results reporting and nursing documentation for Inpatient and Outpatient o Case Management systemAcross multiple projects I was.
• Defining requirements and documenting technical architectures, information flows, physical placements, hardware/software population and validation.
• Coordinated connectivity, performance/capacity monitoring and on-going support of those environments

Houston, Texas Area

• On the Computer-based Patient Record (CbPR) project, served as the LAN Administrator and client technologist.
• Worked closely with Cerner to aid in the development of their “Millennium” architecture electronic medical record project.
• Served on the Information Technology Standards Committee.
• Designed and implemented a central NT domain and was responsible for implementation and administration of that infrastructure.
• Developed NT security standard for NT Server Installations for the entire institution.

Houston, Texas Area

• Increased my programming skills to include object-oriented development using Visual Basic and Visual FoxPro.
• Developed the data structures to move research database to SQL Server 6.0. I exploited the ubiquity of the Internet to develop a browser-based inventory tracking and reporting application for Division of Medicine using.
• Expanded my institutional responsibilities as I brought together a group of independent NT Administrators representing almost every area of the hospital and chaired an institutional working group, “Microsoft Networking.

Houston, Texas Area

Responsible for implementation and administration of multi-departmental, multi-server Windows NT based LAN. Using FoxPro and Visual Basic, I developed data entry systems to support various research projects and integrated them into a customized health services research data repository for the Ambulatory and Supportive Care Oncology Research Project.

Houston, Texas Area

I served in the capacity of primary technical support for the Section of General Internal Medicine. I was responsible for maintaining a patient data collection system in ADABAS/Natural on an IBM 390 for the Section of General Internal Medicine. I developed a mainframe-to-PC data transfer methodology to integrate the legacy data with locally generated and.