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Arvada, Colorado, United States

Arvada, Colorado, United States

Technology leader responsible for software development, product delivery, on-going serviceability of internally-developed platforms. Employing a culture of DevOps to break down unhelpful barriers; bringing diverse development, customer support engineering, service reliability engineering, and operations teams together to a single goal unified toward the common goal of a stable, feature-rich platform incorporating best practices for development, security, supportability, capacity and performance on private and public cloud platforms.♦ Responsible for leading-edge healthcare interoperability solution improving outcomes for over one-third of the US population♦ Organizational leader enabling product growth from 100k customer-facing transactions/week to over 600M/week over 5 year period♦ Led transformation of datacenter-based product solution to cloud-based utilizing leading edge cloud-native architectures♦ Established practices enabling continuous improvement for availability and performance culminating in consistent 100% measured availability with performance 250% better than target♦ Delivered differentiated healthcare document interoperability product in 4 months, continuously expanding value-added features unique to the market with short lead times with DORA Elite DevOps♦ Set optimization vision delivering reduced costs of major product by over 2M through architecture, design, and delivery, leveraging savings to grow organization and accelerate delivery

Westminster, Co

Expanded accountability to include all RelayHealth Intelligence business products, delivering stability in our delivery of these products through close engagement with Development and Architecture, Physical and Cloud Infrastructure, Support and Monitoring organizations. Accountable to these peer organizations to engage, support, and enable activities throughout the business product life-cycle.♦ Improved delivery of critical healthcare information exchange solution from sub-99% availability to achieving first-ever 99.9% monthly availability♦ Established formal Operational Readiness, Operationalization and Optimziation practices♦ Formalized Change Management and Release Management practices aligned to ITIL and DevOps♦ Lead creation of Capacity Planning and Performance Management workgroups♦ Build high-performance Incident Management team reducing response time over 75%, MTTR by 75%

Westminster, Co

Member of the RelayHealth Intelligence organization, leader within the Development Operations operating space combining continuous delivery Agile development practices with highly stable and functional applications and platforms.RelayHealth, a subsidiary of McKesson, joined Change Healthcare in March 2017.♦ Enabling Development OrganizationsCode management practices, build processes and services, development environment creation and management, deployment processes, Release.♦ Operational ReadinessEnabling transition to support activities through documentation of critical knowledge such as application purpose and function summaries, application and infrastructure architecture with associated designs, failure modes and indicators, performance/scalability/reliability.♦ OperationalizationTransition of support activities to appropriate long-term support organizations, freeing Architecture and Development teams to continue development efforts with minimal escalation interruptions.

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Fort Worth, Tx

Owner of technology controls and regulatory compliance, assuming additional responsibilities following organizational restructuring for strategy, integration, and deployment of technology. Responsible for identification and resolution of challenges to deployment of technology, engaging to identify intrinsic capabilities and/or source of alternative options to deliver required capabilities.♦ Technology Architecture♦ Technology Strategy ♦ Cloud Services Strategy and Deployment: Office 365, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services♦ Information Architecture, Document Retention, eDiscovery (Legal)♦ Internal Audit, External Audit (SOX, DCAA)♦ Information Security Risk Management (NIST 800-53, NIST CyberSecurity Framework)♦ Technology Governance♦ Information Security Controls

Fort Worth, Tx

Historical Roles and Positions:- LAN/WAN Administrator- Network Administrator (promoted to Sr., Pr.)- Network Manager- Director, IT Technical Services- Director, IT Disaster Recovery- Director, Information Security and IT Compliance- Director, Controls, Governance, Risk Management

Fort Worth, Tx

Leader in Information Technology risk identification, assessment, and management, providing governance and oversight of technology service delivery and aligning delivery with business strategic imperatives and strategies.Owner of technology controls compliance, establishing management intent for a secure, compliant, operationally effective technology environment. Utilized responsibility for controls to transform controls from regulatory-based requirements to NIST-based best practice, delivering management oversight, governance, testing and validation for controls across all aspects of technology throughout the life-cycle.Leader responsible for addressing Enterprise Risk Management for Technology Risks, owner of core Enterprise risk management for Enterprise Document Management and Data Categorization, and Business Impact Analysis / Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery.

Fort Worth, Tx

Senior leader with responsibility for all aspects of information security, information security risk management, and regulatory compliance, and technology controls.Progressively grew support for Information Security initiatives through continuous collaboration, presentation, and risk assessment and management. Drove support to enable transformation of information security delivering next-generation defense-in-depth protection and monitoring solutions from the perimeter through to core technology services to client endpoint protection.Provide year-on-year continuous reduction in managed and unmanaged control exceptions, and successfully illustrated scope of risk for each exception. Drove change to regulatory controls compliance, enabling migration from rear-view action on controls to a business-oriented risk-based forward assessment, enabling control operators to perform while increasing consistency through planned integrity assurance.Enabled long-term process improvement and maturity through restructuring of management intent in policy, procedure, aligning controls with the changing face of information security.

Fort Worth, Tx

Technical and project lead for all aspects of IT Disaster Recovery, responsible for definition of needs, establishing solutions to meet business objectives, and connecting solution cost to business imperatives for recovery and continuity.Owned full responsibility for the development and implementation of a revised Disaster Recovery capability for corporate information systems. Identified and documented requirements, determined budget, and acquired assets, and identified necessary skill sets to implement new capability.Developed plan, schedule, and resourcing requirements for implementation, led team to absolute success under tremendous pressure and aggressive timelines, delivering and demonstrating new and expanded Disaster Recovery capabilities.

Fort Worth, Tx

Technical and strategic lead for world-wide corporate and field technology services, accountable for delivery of all infrastructure services from telecommunications to networks, servers, storage, databases, and e-mail services.Provided close engagement with key field customers and personnel, driving change from legacy service delivery models to current, reliable and scalable solutions. Enabled deilvery of customer-required services through up to 100% communications services cost-efficiency improvement of communications services.Identified suite of integrated solutions and actions, driving implementation of WAN and LAN acceleration technology, application code changes, and business process improvements resulting in 400-600% improvement in user-side performance of key business applicationsResponsible for delivery of technology services to a world-wide company operating in 20 countries with 50+ locations, many located in austere and dangerous areas. Traveled to forward locations to provide key support and leadership in the delivery of services enabling the company mission in support of US Government objectives.

Sole IT resource with broad responsibilities across the breadth of information technology services, from voice and telecommunications, to infrastructure, client systems and application services.Provide cost-effective in-sourced management of technology services, manage key FIS / CRM application suite and maintain reliable operation of core information services. Develop and maintain company web presence and e-commerce capabilities. Provide 12 and 24 month technology strategy supporting budgeting and investment sequencing.

Technology consultant delivering high-quality, comprehensive technical expertise and advice enabling rapid company growth through recommendations and referrals.Lead Windows NT consultant supporting customers across a large geographic area with widely diverse funding and technical capabilities. Engage clients in needs determination, solution selection, investment justification, and timelines for deployment. Provide continued, long-term technology and relationship management throughout the technology life-cycle, enabling clients to maximize return on investment and minimize additional cost.

Williston, Vermont

Technology resource with responsibility for product selection, system assembly, and technical support for a value-added computer parts and system wholesaler. Technical lead for team of 4 in system assembly lab and supervisor for team of 2 phone support staff.Developed system assembly, testing, and burn-in processes, performed detailed product assessments for compatibility, performance, and reliability guiding product selection, and provided delivery, setup, configuration, and on-site support for systems sold to local organizations and businesses.♦ Product Evaluation and Selection♦ Quality Assurance♦ Technical Support and Customer Relationship Management♦ System Assembly and Burn-In Process Development and Process Improvement

Bachelor Of Science, Information Technology, Information Security Focus

Computer Science / Music

Emphasis in Computer Science and Music.