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Indianapolis, Indiana, Us

I’m excited to start a new position leading the Sales & Business Development efforts at Prevounce Health, a fast-growing company in the areas of Preventive Services (AWV), Chronic Care Management (CCM) and Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM).

Washington, Dc, Us

Collateral Opportunities, LLC is a technology incubator, mostly, but not exclusively, focused in the healthcare vertical. The company is lead and staffed by a group of extremely talented people who have produced an amazing track record for innovation over the last 30+ years. I am thrilled to be re-connecting with one of my early mentors, Bruce Kusens and many of my colleagues from the Omega Systems days. My role will be help grow this company and help make these technologies (i.e. VersaBadge RTLS, Wait-Less Smart Message platform, Nurse Staff Duress, automated Access Control and many more to come) become household names in the healthcare industry. We will be looking to build a sales team as well as create partnerships, channels, etc. Stay tuned......

Following Imprivata's acquisition of the PatientSecure technology from HT Systems, my role with Imprivata for the last 3 years was to lead/support the combined Imprivata sales team as a subject-matter expert to expand the PatientSecure palm vein biometric positive patient identification solution across the United States and around the world. I will continue to support Imprivata's PatientSecure LOB in a consulting capacity.

PatientSecure is HT Systems' flagship biometric palm vein patient identification technology for the healthcare vertical. There are now 250+ hospitals and 2000+ clinics and physician practices across the United States and internationally who have adopted the revolutionary PatientSecure system to biometrically enroll over 6,000,000 patients and identify 50,000+ patients/day, successfully linking them to their unique medical record. Patients love the system with an adoption rate exceeding 99%. PatientSecure provides an immediate and measurable ROI for our customers.

Plano, Tx, Us

Precyse Solutions, LLC is a privately-held HIM Services, Consulting and Technology company located in Wayne, PA. My role at Precyse was to lead the business development team in the pursuit of HIM-centric business lines such as Medical Transcription, HIM Outsourcing, HIM Staffing, Interim Management, Consulting, Auditing, CDI, RAC and Oncology Data Management. I left Precyse in May, 2006 to join HT Systems as a partner, in the role of Sr. VP of Sales & Marketing.

St Paul, Mn, Us

3M HIS, located in Murray, UT, is a major division of the 3M Company. 3M HIS is the nationally recognized leader of HIM Encoder software. For two years, I was a member of the 3M HIS national sales leadership team concentrating on selling Medical Necessity, Edit Engine and CDM software through both direct sales efforts and strategic partnerships. I left 3M in 2006 to pursue a senior level management position with Precyse Solutions.

Info-X was a privately-held, northern New Jersey based centered around creating database files necessary for complying with Medicare's Medical Necessity and Correct Coding Initiative rules. I joined Info-X in mid-2003 to expand the direct sales and strategic partnerships. In less than one year, we were able to create significant re-seller relationships with Siemens, Cerner, NDCHealth, Allscripts, 3M HIS and numerous other healthcare industry companies. In 2004 the 3M HIS relationship led to the acquisition of Info-X where I continued to run this operation under the banner of the 3M HIS MN Compliance operation.

Payerpath.com was a privately held, Richmond, VA based company created to submit electronic claims for physician groups in Virginia via an ASP web-based platform. The company expanded its mid-Atlantic footprint to include providers in North Carolina, Washington, D.C. and eventually states in the Midwest. In 2001, Payerpath wanted to expand into the Hospital provider market and I joined the company to lead that effort. Payerpath commenced hospital claims submission in Maryland in 2003 but in April, 2003 ultimately decided to concentrate exclusively on the physician market. I left the company at that time to pursue other interests in the hospital market with Info-X.

Mclean, Va, Us

Omega Systems was a privately-help healthcare software development company based in Tampa, FL. Omega was a pioneer in the creation of terminal-emulation software for Automated Remittance Posting, Accelerated Medicare Secondary Billing, Automated Eligibility Checking, Medicare Medical Necessity Compliance and numerous other revenue cycle applications. Upon joining Omega in early 1997, we decided to grow the company primarily through channel partners such as NDCHealth, McKesson/HBOC and 3M Health Information Systems. In the four years 1997-2000, annual revenue grew from $4M/year to over $16M/year. I left Omega in early NDC to pursue other interests in the healthcare .com space and a number of years later Omega Systems would sold to CareMedic.

Atlanta, Us

NDCHealth is an Atlanta, GA based electronic processing company submitting hospital, physician and pharmacy claims on behalf of healthcare providers all across the company. Having joined NDHealth through the acquisition of HCS, my role as Manager of National Accounts had me concentrating on building a relationship with HCA corporate in Nashville, TN. We signed a major contract with HCA for their Medicare CBOs and provided Medical Necessity Compliance software (through our partner Omega Systems) and primary and secondary claim submission for the organization. I left NDCHealth to run Sales & Marketing for Omega Systems and assisted NDCHealth become Omega's most successful reseller channel partner.

Health Communication Services (HCS), was a Richmond, VA based for-profit subsidiary of Blue Cross of Virginia that was an electronic claims submitter of all types of hospital and physician claims to 26 states across the country. HCS was the primary submitter of Medicare and Blue Cross claims for healthcare providers in the states of Virginia and West Virginia. Through a number of acquisitions, the company became a major claims processor in the Mid-Atlantic, Southeast, Midwest, Southwest and Northwest regions. My role at HCS was to run the Chicago operation (CMC acquisition) and grow the revenue base in the states we were operating in. Late in 1995, HCS was sold to NDCHealth where I took a business development role.

CMC Technologies, Inc (also dba Chicago Micro Corporation) iwas a Chicago-based, privately owned company that was originally created to submit electronic claims to the Illinois Department of Public Aid (IDPA) on behalf of Chicago-area hospitals serving Medicaid patients. The company expanded to become a submitter of electronic claims to all payors (Medicare, Commercial Insurance, etc.) across the state of Illinois, New Jersey, Maryland, Florida, Texas and Oklahoma. I joined CMC in March, 1989 as Director of Sales and was promoted to VP of Sales & Marketing in 1990. From 1989 through 1993 my sales team increased the annual recurring sales volume from $1M/year to over $4M/year. In 1993 the company was sold to Health Communication Services, Inc. (HCS). a subsidiary of Blue Cross of Virginia where I continued in a similar role for the new owners.

B.S. And Mba, Business Administration / Management

College/University Preparatory And Advanced High School/Secondary Diploma Program