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Small Business IT soultions company specializing in medical practices. Castle Computing provides the following severices Project Management, IT Assessments, Application Support & Recommendations, Hardware Support, Networking, Printing and Business Startup or Relocation

• Developed and led a team dedicated to new practice acquisitions with responsibility for technical support for existing practices including applications, hardware, infrastructure and phones. Worked with a variety of.
• Consolidated a new acquisition’s data center into Novant’s data center including planning and executing move of 35 servers and combining and decommissioning additional servers.
• Led large project that established connectivity and deployed Novant hardware to 50 practices across a 6 city geographic area.
• Developed excellent working relationships and interfaced successfully with NMG leadership and staff, as well as practice physicians and staff.
• Coordinated and initiated new relationship with multiple vendors. Negotiated Statements of work, time frames and deliverables on numerous projects.

• Director - Corporate Clinical Applications  (2005 – 2007) Managed implementations and provided support for all clinical applications including Radiology, Cardiology, Clinical Imaging, Transcription, and Physician.
• Developed long range clinical application strategy, including re-implementing some existing systems, consolidating systems with duplicate functionality, and setting direction for future application selection and.
• Created and maintained succession plan for department.
• Developed strong relationship with key internal customers to ensure buy in for the clinical strategy plan.

• Director - Corporate Ancillary Applications  (2004 – 2005)Managed implementations and support of applications in IT Security, Integration, Data Warehouse, Ancillary systems, Novant Medical Group, and Disaster.
• Worked with newly acquired groups to improve current processes and workflows.
• Coached 4 managers helping them develop into stronger support resources for their staff.
• During reorganization assumed executive leadership role for twelve existing $500k or larger projects.
• Served as a technical resource and troubleshooter across all of the IT organization.

• Developed the System Security Administration group, consolidating functions from several IT areas. Key Accomplishments:
• Improved system access request process by reducing turnaround time from 14 days to less than 24 hours
• Participated in security policy development including e-mail, internet and confidentiality policies
• Designed and wrote online request system and backend automation for requesting user access