I am the Chief Information Officer for the Nevada Public Employees’ Benefits Program (PEBP). Prior to joining PEBP, I served as the State of NV lead project manager for ERP and was the senior PM for Enterprise IT Services. In addition to my strong background in public sector IT project management, I bring 25 years of private sector business and information technology leaderships experience across a variety of business areas to include: cloud computing; business flow analysis; strategic IT review; enterprise software solutions; document management; information security; wireless and telecommunications infrastructure and financial and human resources management. Additionally, I was the western region controller for Travelers Plan Administrators a healthcare TPA and have been involved in private sector start-ups and acquisitions in the workers' compensation and commercial insurance industries.

Lead Project Manager for Statewide replacement of the HR and Finance systems. Responsible for all aspects of the Cloud SaaS Project and Project Management Lifecycle. RFP through Implementation.RFP development, evaluation, terms and conditions, negotiations and selection.RFP development included: gather requirements (functional, global & technical), interfaces, data migration, data conversion, implementation approach, P.M., B.I., training, OCM, UAT, design, development etc...Cloud based SaaS solution implementation.

Volunteer and Second Lieutenant for the Ground Search and Rescue Team. Also Scanner/Observer for flight operations.

IT Business Analyst/Project Manager for Inside Valuation in Reno, NV. Responsible for Software Development and the Software Development Life-cycle. Perform requirements elicitation/analysis and subsequent agile project solutions. Develop project plans by defining requirements and design specifications with business users, then translate them in to detailed technical/design specification documents for IT developers. Build and run MSSQL Queries for reporting purposes. Also utilize Planbox as our primary Project Management tool. Also manage cloud based server platform and perform daily System Administration functions with Windows Server 2012R2, 2008R2 and VMWare ESXi 5.1.

Nevada State Trauma Registry Software Implementation Project Manager. Digital Innovations software. Trauma data collection and analysis. Also Vital Records Hardware and Software upgrades and business process analysis.

Budgeting for all funds related Humboldt Toiyabe National Forest. (Volunteer)

Responsible for complete department upgrade to comply with DOI audit requirements. Designed, implemented and maintained entire LAN/WAN, wireless network, VPN's, remote desktop/thin net, VoIP-enterprise messaging telecommunications system, firewall/security and load balancing network elements infrastructure in a multi-office national environment.

In charge of planning, executing, monitoring and reporting on Information Technology, Telecommunications and Accounting Software projects. Designed, installed and maintained new and upgraded LAN/WAN solutions. Selected and installed many accounting applications for several industries. Developed and negotiated complete systems administration contracts.

Startup Company. Created, developed and maintained policies and procedures for the accounting/finance, human resources and employee benefits departments. Performed monthly accounting cycle and financial statement preparation and analysis. Also prepared annual budgets and variance analysis. Installed LAN for local claims processing.