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I lead companies of all sizes, from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises, in using technology to drive strategic advantage across industries like healthcare, biomedical, and consumer products. My expertise spans global projects in patient care, biomedical informatics, claims and pharmacy, EMR, ERP, CRM, PLM, security fortification, and media. I am skilled in:• Technology Strategy• Architecture• Data, Application, & Infrastructure Ops• GenAI, NLP, Data Science/Engineering, Analytics• Agile Development• Governance & Portfolio Management• Security & Compliance (HIPAA, GDPR, PCI, SOX)Cross-Functional Change• Developed multi-year technology roadmaps, forming 10 key business partnerships in healthcare domains (Imaging, Labs, Hospitals), reducing projected deaths by 400 per year at Kaiser Northern California.• Delivered the ECRI Data Strategy to create a data-driven organization, driving IHSI, the largest new pharma insight solution of public data globally.• Established Disney’s competency center to empower 600 engineers, accelerating delivery by 30% for Disney parks, ESPN, and ABC.• Transitioned IT to a global operating model, improving business processes by 20% aligned to OKRs and North Star Metrics.• Strategic HR Workflow Solutions: Drove the requirements, architecture, and design of workflow solutions for HR on-boarding, entitlements, and off-boarding of 60,000 contingent Disney workers. Led collaboration with business partners and subject-matter experts to ensure SOX/PCI compliance and secure appropriate application access.Product Innovation & Thought Leadership• Led the award-winning KP Advance Alert Monitoring system, saving 400 lives in the first year alone by reducing patient mortality across hospitals and improving operational efficiency.• Delivered enterprise-wide architecture for Kaiser, impacting 12M patients, and driving $250M National Pharmacy and $300M National Claims programs.• As a GenAI thought leader, I’ve published on how democratized AI accelerates solutions, highlighting how industries can harness GenAI to close the technology gap.
Benjamin D. Work Experience Details
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PartnerStratafusion GroupPalo Alto, Ca, Us -
Board MemberSim San Francisco Bay Area Mar 2021 - PresentSan Francisco, Ca, Us-SIM is the largest CIO and Technology association in North America with 5,000+ members.-SIM SF Bay Area is the place to network and share knowledge with a valuable cohort of industry peers at both a regional and a national level. We welcome Silicon Valley senior level professionals, managers, academics, consultants and other leaders in IT and business. -
PartnerStratafusion Group Feb 2021 - PresentLos Gatos, California, Us• Trusted technology advisor providing interim CIO/CTO/Chief Architect services focusing on mid to large companies. Recently delivered the multi-year data strategy for ECRI, global independent leader of patient and medication safety guidance. Delivered current-state assessment and prioritized roadmap for Clever, largest ed tech portal for K-12 schools in North America.• Established partnerships with Silicon Valley CIO and CTO leaders to share technology best-practices (cloud practices surrounding container, microservices, and orchestration), critical industry issues (SolarWinds security attack and responses), and business operations strategies (hybrid workplace and employee wellness).
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Executive Advisor & FounderSv Disrupt Dec 2019 - Present• Lead development of a direct-to-consumer software product suite and client solutions, leveraging Generative AI (GenAI), Large Language Models (LLMs), and data pipelines to create market-disruptive innovations.• Focus on transforming industries such as consumer products, health tech, and entertainment, applying disruptive innovation principles to create new market opportunities.Partner with Fortune 500 companies to deliver scalable, innovative software architectures that address complex business challenges and drive long-term success.• Plug and Play - Health Tech Advisor: Advise healthcare and biomedical companies on integrating advanced technologies like remote patient monitoring and predictive analytics.• My-E-Health - Board Member: Support growth of a global employee wellness platform offering access to mental health services through certified wellness providers. -
Chief Information Officer & Chief Technology OfficerEcri Sep 2022 - Nov 2023Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, Us• Spearheaded and launched the multi-year ECRI Data Strategy, transforming ECRI into a data-driven organization that significantly advances global patient and medication safety guidance impact. • Led IHSI (International Horizon Scanning), the world’s most extensive compound and indication insight solution using public pharma data, which catered to the vast majority of the EU Ministers of Health; solidified architecture foundation, grew the data teams, strengthened data pipelines with NLP, and delivered key business capabilities.• Drove final ISMP integration into ECRI as part of merger, encompassing the seamless migration and integration of CRM, ERP, and E-commerce systems into the workflows; included implementation of best-in-class Shopify solution. • Established offshore engineering and IT team to facilitate asynchronous project delivery and empower the “follow the sun” operational model.• Drove a new standard for customer feedback user-interface across all ECRI products with Usersnap.• Led migration of outdated infrastructure to best-in-class Pure Storage at lowest cost in close partnership with CFO, ensuring that this new foundation serves ECRI’s mission for the next decade.• Slashed Server-side Security Vulnerabilities by 89% in 6 months -
Global Vp Of Information TechnologyCutera, Inc. Jul 2018 - Jan 2020Brisbane, Ca, Us• Served as CIO driving company transformation across enterprise applications (Arena PLM, Office365, BambooHR), ERP (Dynamics 365 migration), CRM (Salesforce refactoring), infrastructure (Azure cloud transition), end-user services (unified ticketing system), SOX/PCI/GDPR compliance (SOX & PCI segregation of duties & controls), security (Okta SSO, anti-phishing practice), and operations.• Improved operational efficiencies by automating and accelerating Order to Cash operations by 51%• Delivered enterprise mobile credit card solution which reduced transaction costs by 70%, enabled PCI Compliance, and increased productivity for global Sales, Service, and Marketing.• Delivered Zoom enterprise-wide (e.g., Zoom rooms, shutting down legacy channels, enhancing audio conference calls) and increased remote worker productivity by 45% -
Global Vp Of TechnologyMethod Products Pbc Jan 2017 - Aug 2018San Francisco, Ca, Us• Served as both CIO and CTO driving enterprise applications (UltiProHR, Arena, Anaplan), ERP (SAP migration), infrastructure (Azure cloud), end-user services (standardize to TopDesk), security (NIST practice, OneLogin), integration (EDI and BOOMI), and operations.• Shifted IT to global operating model to support company worldwide growth aligned to OKRs and North Star Metrics; improved automated processes by 20%.• Implemented technology governance, by creating and leading transatlantic tech governance councils covering 15 countries in NORAM, EU, APAC to prioritize key Tech Pipeline projects, to ensure cross-functional leadership endorsement, deliver mission-critical solutions, and meet GDPR requirements• Audited and assessed master data, including identification of enterprise systems of record to improve reporting and application data source quality.• Implemented Zoom enterprise-wide to every conference room and client across the globe which transformed regional/global collaboration and dramatically increased remote worker productivity by 30% -
Executive Director Of Strategic Planning And ConsultingKaiser Permanente Jan 2016 - Jan 2017Oakland, California, Us• Led 60-person cross-functional team of business analysts, solution engineers, data analysts/scientists, and innovation engineers supporting the $28B Northern California Kaiser health-care provider organization. Partnered closely with Behavioral Health, Care, Nursing, Imaging, Clinical Tech, Lab, TeleHealth, Medicare/Medical, Appointment Services, and Informatics to deliver innovative solutions and multi-year technology strategies. • Led pioneering clinical predictive analytics solution (KP Advance Alert Monitoring) to proactively predict patient acuity to reduce mortality and increase in-patient efficiency proven across multiple hospitals. Established a repeatable pattern to transition research (KP Department of Research) to clinical operations. -
Executive Director Of Enterprise Architecture Ncal, Scal, Hi, & National Application ArchitectureKaiser Permanente Dec 2011 - Jan 2017Oakland, California, Us• Served as Chief Solution Architect for California & Hawaii regions and Kaiser Health Plan Insurance.• Drove and led KP-IT enterprise adoption of the KP App Strategy Framework to drive investment planning, app rationalization, and senior executive decision-making serving the $60B organization. Rationalized $1 billion application portfolio with IT strategy resulting in $10M direct cost savings, strategic business segment planning, business-driven identification of competitive apps, and increased technology life-cycle visibility.• Launched unprecedented enterprise app KP app portfolio repository across all regions with sustainable process, data quality, and executive reporting.• Delivered enterprise KP Mobility Technology Guardrails and KP Mobile Application Standards (e.g., Java, C++) to equip software developers with the right practices and tools to develop KP mobile apps.• Led investigation and delivery of go-live in-flight architecture assessment for the $250 million National Pharmacy program (Java, C#) with definitive recommendations in 72 architecture domains which drove remediation of major problems and brought the pharmacy program back on track.• Initiated and led delivery of Patient Room Aware POC as a foundation to enabling secure push messaging mobility architecture as well as expansion of KP patient room of the future innovation.• Led a 28 person organization in the delivery and operations of the national analytics shared service including SAS, Cognos, Informatica, Ab Initio and Business Objects.
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Executive Director Of Enterprise Architecture – Application Architecture & Health PlanKaiser Permanente Jun 2009 - Dec 2011Oakland, California, Us• Drove and led architecture for $300 million National Claims program (Java, C#, MQSeries) across 8 regions in direct coordination with cross-functional technical and business teams to serve as a blueprint for solution delivery.•Led the entire Kaiser Permanente (KP) Health Plan BIO/business segment in strategic and tactical architecture across all sub-portfolio domains: Claims, Membership, Benefits, Medicare, Sales, Marketing, Enterprise Portal, KP.org, and Intranet.•Designed, and delivered to senior executive leadership the KP Enterprise Architecture Maturity Model in coordination with multiple external subject-matter experts (e.g., EAEC and Forrester). •Led architecture reviews and recommendations of all solution and system architectures delivered by KP Health Plan and eBusiness.•Established and sustained strong ongoing relationships with KP-IT and business partners. Relationships strengthened through continued successful track-record in serving KP Health Plan BIO/business segment.•Drove architecture evaluation for vendor RFP proposals and a decision-maker in product selection.•Enabled formation of business-related strategies for KP-IT and then provide coordination and management of KP-IT strategies for BIO/business segment.•Participated in Architecture planning, status, and review sessions with the Chief Architect•Reviewed and assessed technical projects for budget, schedule and architecture risks•Created reports and presentations for the KP CIO, business segment CIOs, Senior IT Executives and key business stakeholders •Ensured the effective partnerships and alignment of the various architecture strategies•Connected with KP Health Plan BIO/business segment governance.
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Chief Technology OfficerEventloko Dec 2012 - Jun 2015• Focused on helping parents find, discover, and share local family events, experiences, and activities.• Led full end-to-end software development delivery of server-side event aggregation platform with mobile app (PHP, MySQL), growing customer base by 10x in 6 months and 100,000 active events.• Architected and developed aggregation engine to capture and update family events covering majority of large US cities.
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Chief Software Architect, Stanford Biomedical InformaticsStanford University Sep 2007 - Jun 2009Stanford, Ca, Us• Led the National Center for Biomedical Ontology (NCBO) in the architecture, development (Java/Spring, Ruby, Flex, NetKernel, OOR, Eclipse), and delivery of microservice-enabled platform to share scientific knowledge across diverse repositories and to enable collaboration between biomedical communities to share experimental data for human health and disease.• Managed 6 software development teams in delivery of NCBO products from leading institutions such as Stanford, Berkeley Labs, and Mayo Clinic. Included delivery of BioPortal (http://bioportal.bioontology.org), the world’s most comprehensive repository of biomedical ontologies. •Drove nationwide NCBO Developers Conferences and NCBO Code Reviews.•Launched first Open Ontology Repository (OOR) software platform and established open source collaboration across international developer communities.•Established GForge and communications infrastructure. -
Enterprise Architect & ManagerThe Walt Disney Company/Enterprise Strategic Services Mar 2005 - Jul 2007Burbank, Ca, Us• Functioned as Chief Architect for Disney West Coast. Delivered innovative software development standards management (Java, C#) serving Disney application developers and executive stakeholders globally including solution best-practices and patterns.• Drove requirements, architecture, and design of workflow solutions for HR on-boarding, entitlements, and off-boarding of Disney’s workforce of 60,000 contingent workers . Led collaboration with business partners (WDW, DCP, ESPN, ABC, BVTV, International, and Studio), subject-matter experts (HR, Management Audit, Security Strategy & Architecture, SOX & PCI groups, Workflow, and Operations), and outsourcers (IBM and ACS) to strengthen Disney intellectual property management, secure appropriate application access, and ensure SOX/PCI compliance segregation of duties.•Led the Application Architecture & Development Working Group, a governance body. -
Manager Of Information Technology, Strategic ServicesThe Walt Disney Company/Enterprise Strategic Services Mar 2003 - Mar 2005Burbank, Ca, Us• Established Disney platform competency center and governance to serve 600 engineers across all business segments to share best-practices, accelerate solution delivery, and strengthen security. Accelerated Disney Enterprise Portal growth and delivery speed by 30% to run business enterprise-wide (including family of companies such as Disney Parks, ESPN, and ABC).• Spearheaded SOA/microservices business case with buy-in and architected strategic SOA infrastructure for Disney Enterprise Portal (DEP) including elastic Hardware Abstraction Layer and web-service orchestration (precursor to Docker) to scale, increase flexibility, and speed of delivery on the platform.•Delivered first round-trip POJO (Plain Old Java Object) build/deployment for Disney Services Framework (DSF) web services•Led virtual team in technology selection of web service-enabled F5 content load balancer•Led partnership to industry (Gap, webMethods) and Disney business units (WDW Library, WDW Architecture)•Delivered first enterprise Disney Wiki to encourage knowledge sharing with app dev teams•Pioneered unprecedented West Coast multi-business unit (8 app teams from 3 business units) technology training in coordination with WDWs IT Academy; explicit feedback all indicated highly-successful knowledge-sharing event•Managed SOA Release 1 Product with multiple-teams and bi-coastal in-person training seminars
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Director Of Application EngineeringWeider Interactive Networks Jan 2002 - Feb 2003• Designed, implemented, and deployed fee-based web application for Shape Magazine: iShape 1.0, 1.1, and 1.2 (http://www.ishape.com), generating revenues of over $1 million/yr• Architected all tiers: presentation, business, integration, and resource tiers (Java).• Initiated Agile methods within RUP both in process and in application; in process, built applications using business-driven iterative life-cycles, in application, directed creation of testing frameworks (JUnit) and debug frameworks (Log4j)• Executed Continuous Integration strategies, including implementation of daily build/smoke tests with electronic notifications• Aligned all product and community development with media and consumer drivers, including publications look-and-feel, live recording of customer/product sessions, and consultation with subject-matter experts• Headed-up project planning and change management in coordination with marketing, production, and business departments• Conducted full life-cycle risk management
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Integration Team ManagerThebrain Technologies Corporation Jan 2000 - Jan 2002• Designed and developed components for BrainEKP 1.0, 2.0, and 2.5 which were successfully deployed at Accenture, GE Equity, U.S. Dept of Defense, and the FAA; application provided enterprise knowledge and content-management sharing; knowledge was modeled as ontologies• Designed, implemented, and deployed WebBrain 2.0 (http://www.webbrain.com) and its back-end process (Java) which integrated the largest human-edited URL directory using a combination of prior-feature extraction and full-text indexing capabilities; URL directory required large-scale handling and massaging of XML data• Integrated software development strategies and application architectures with extensive use of UML; led incorporation of servlet-centric (Model 2) architecture using Command and Factory Design Patterns• Incorporated Agile methods into development practice including unit testing (JUnit) and establishment of debug frameworks (Log4j)• Conducted full life-cycle risk and project management
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Associate Director Of TechnologyUcla Medical Imaging Informatics Jan 1997 - Jan 2000Los Angeles, Ca, Us•Designed and implemented award-winning ITMVisualSRR 1.0 and 1.1 for annual RSNA convention (with 55,000 medical providers); clinical round-trip workflow through service integration with natural language processing (NLP + AI) and voice recognition (Java).•Designed and implemented components of ITMScheduler 1.0 for Harris Corporation in Florida serving a population of 10,000 patients; application included development of electronic patient medical record using an OODB (Gemstone/J) and a CORBA communication framework (Java).•Delivered full unit test framework and unit test practice with JUnit at all levels of engineering•Coordinated graphical user interface design and user evaluation (QUIS) for UCLA healthcare applications; process included in-person interviews and walk-throughs of software-prototypes•Managed project planning for research and commercial deployment using Microsoft Project•Presented technical seminars at major academic and commercial conferences -
Software Engineer IiHoneywell Jan 1992 - Jul 1994Charlotte, North Carolina, Us -
Program Analyst Assistant & Network EngineerLockheed Missiles And Space Company Jun 1986 - Aug 1991Bethesda, Md, Us
Benjamin D. Skills
Leadership
It Strategy
Wellness
Enterprise Content Management
Architecture Review
Technology
Distributed Systems
Enterprise Application Development
Rest
Portals
Content Management
Technology Standards
Web Applications
Portfolio Management
Biomedical Informatics
Web Standards
Agile Methodologies
Technology Strategy
Healthcare
Application Architecture
Strategy
Mobile Applications
Enterprise Architecture
Project Portfolio Management
Xml
Systems Thinking
Risk Management
Healthcare Information Technology
Document Management
Portal Technologies
Entertainment
Semantic Web
Enterprise Software
Business Intelligence
Management
Project Management
Knowledge Management
Application Development
Software Development
Analytics
Health Insurance
Security
Soa
Consumer Products
Cloud Computing
Architecture
Application Lifecycle Management
Integration
System Architecture
Benjamin D. Education Details
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Harvard Business School OnlineDisruptive Strategy With Clayton Christensen -
UclaComputer Science
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Uc San DiegoComputer Engineering
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