As SVP & CIO for MaineHealth and Maine Medical Center, responsible for leading a team of 500 staff including five regional CIO’s, a CMIO and CNIO to support implementing SeHR - One Patient One Record - Epic and Lawson for the health system. Total accountability overseeing $80M in annual operating expense and $150M in capital.SeHR is a $250M project to automate healthcare delivery within the state of Maine and New Hampshire that includes standardization, consolidation and migration from HIS products including Meditech, eCW, Allscripts, CPSI and other software vendors.MaineHealth is a not for profit integrated healthcare delivery network with 13,000 employees and 2000 affiliates comprised of 11 hospitals including a leading academic teaching hospital, community hospitals, rural critical access hospitals, hospice and home health. Affiliated with MaineHealth is Maine Medical Partners, Maine’s largest multi-specialty medical group. They have over 150 providers serving patients in over 40 locations.

Performed extensive consulting engagements in the areas of IT Operations Assessments, Organization Design and Staff Development, Enterprise Infrastructure and Network Architecture Design, Customer Call Center Design and Roll-out, Clinical Systems Selection, Design and Implementation, etc. Provided interim CIO services, including short term and long term contract, in various industries such as healthcare, hospitality and technology. Acted as an Advisor to vendors in the areas of product and business development.

March 1996-June 1998; January 2004 to November 2011Progressive leadership roles over the course of 10 years originating as Director of Technical Services, the organizations first VP & CTO, SVP & System CIO, System Support Services SVP & Chief Process OfficerThe CTO role within Florida Hospital did not exist prior to 2004; however, due to a series of major outages and continued customer delivery issues the executive leadership team realized the need for a strategic technology leader.The VP & CTO role had accountability for 215 employees reporting up through six directors including Network Services, Midrange Systems, Mainframe Systems, Intel Systems, Telecommunications, Database Administration, System Access, Help Desk and the Project Management Office. The SVP & System CIO role promotion took place in 2006 to support the health system deployment of Cerner clinical systems across eight hospitals, called I-Extend. The I-Extend project encompassed five years of on time, on budget deployments across eight distinct hospital environments totaling 2449 licensed beds, 2287 staff physicians and 18,535 employees.The SVP & Chief Process Officer role oversaw 9 distinct shared services verticals and 1800 employees including IT, Facilities, Biomedical & Clinical Engineering, Nutritional Services, Safety, Security, Performance Improvement and Environmental Services. Total accountability overseeing $320M in annual operating expense, $35M in revenue and $150M in capital expansion projects.

Originally recruited as Director of Network and Telecommunications to help design and implement new 1000 seat call center and data center to support resort and corporate growth; however, after the first year was given the opportunity to assume the interim CIO role. After successful implementation of key organizational objectives related to expansion and customer service, promoted to CIO.Responsible for the leadership of a team of 135 staff including a Director of Technical Services, Director of Application Development, Director of Web Development and Director of Call Center Operations. /135 Staff / $15M Operating Budget / $5M Capital Budget.

Direct supervision-overseeing technical and support center staff for a hospitality and timeshare corporation running an in-house developed suite of applications written in Progress. Additional responsibilities included telecommunications equipment, PBX & call center systems, end user computing and corporate Novell Network. Oversaw a dedicated team of five staff & multiple contractors: - /5 Staff / $3M Operating Budget /$ 1M Capital Budget.

Senior Laboratory Technician responsible for troubleshooting VSLI integrated computing circuitry for the BSY1 & BSY2 Sonar Systems installed in the Trident and Sea Wolf Submarines.Managed a territory of IBM’s midrange computing platform clients providing support for hardware, software, pre-sales and implementation services.