- Provide executive leadership for the daily IT operations of 7 acute care hospitals and West Florida Central Supply Chain: Largo Medical Center (425 beds); Palms of Pasadena Hospital (307 beds); Northside Hospital (288 beds); St. Petersburg General Hospital (215 beds); Largo Medical Center Indian Rocks Campus (177 beds); Memorial Hospital of Tampa (384 beds) Tampa Community Hospital (201 beds) and West Florida Division Supply Chain (IRL, COE). - Currently serves as the Co-Ethics and Compliance Officer for Palms of Pasadena by planning, developing, implementing, and maintaining Division/Corporate-wide compliance programs, policies and procedures as well as coordinating internal assessment initiatives.

-Provide executive leadership for the daily IT operations of 3 acute care hospitals: Palms of Pasadena Hospital (307 beds); Tampa Community Hospital (201 beds); and Memorial Hospital of Tampa (183 beds).-Coordinate all zone resources for projects, coverage of facilities for normal and emergency operations, and achievement of service levels-Implemented Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) in 2016 at Palms of Pasadena Hospital. Creative project planning and maximizing resources ultimately resulted in a $675K cost avoidance for West Florida Division.-Directed a network and technology refresh for a 3 hospital acquisition project. Managed 5 vendors, 52K hours of manpower dedicated to project with a $12 million budget; coordinated team to deploy hardware for 3 new data centers, 28 new server closets, 63 miles of cabling and fiber, 1,100 PCs, 560 barcode scanners, 106 switches, 39 trackers, 32 third-party clinical systems and 42 HL7 interfaces in 7 months.

-Ensure continuity and alignment between division IT&S strategic plans and hospital operational needs. -Provide the appropriate leadership and motivation to staff to achieve annual BMC Remedy (ITIL) goals.

* Serve as the Hillsborough Zone Information Security Officer (ISO). In this role, I provide weekly technical guidance to 3 hospital technical teams to ensure Information Security metrics meet or exceed expectations. Duties also included providing assistance to facility IT Directors in Meaningful Use (HITECH) requirements, Disaster Recovery and Risk Management audits.* Led project team of directors and technical staff in the implementation of Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE). South Bay Hospital was 1 of 6 West Florida hospitals chosen to pilot this massive implementation that involved planning and coordinating key milestones that involved staff and physician training, hardware deployment and resource allocation. Working closely with the facility Director of Application Services and physicians, South Bay Hospital continues to provide consistent CPOE utilization of 70% to meet federal regulated threshold. * Provided technical leadership in construction of the first HCA free standing emergency room in Florida. Duties included extensive collaboration with general contractors, outside vendors, Division and Corporate employees and Brandon Regional Sr. Leadership. This construction was monumental in that all equipment and best practices will be recorded by HCA Corporate to provide West Florida Division a reproducible model for future free standing emergency rooms. ($8M Budget)* Created a business plan that was adopted division-wide as a business model for securing division prioritized funds to replace hospital access control systems. Several hospitals within the division were able to take advantage of my business plan as an opportunity to buy or replace outdated systems.

* Provided Technical and Managerial leadership for the information technology infrastructure and operation of a large, multi-site 288-bed health care facility, including telecommunications, desktop and server support, and network systems. Responsible for managing 2 analysts.* Implemented and maintained a network security policy which involved utilizing security tools such as vulnerability scanning, packet capture and analysis, bandwidth restrictions / traffic shaping, network flow data reporting and central logging. Also accountable for responding to network security breaches, attacks and events. Since implementing this policy in 2008, Northside Hospital has seen a reduction in vulnerability scores by 94%.* Administered a System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (SCCM) environment. Responsible for the analysis, design, testing and distribution of applications to Windows clients and server utilizing SCCM 2007. * Received exemplary marks for daily processes and procedures in regards to Information Security during a corporate audit in 2009.

* Accountable for managing 1500+ workstations across 15 remote locations in an environment with over 90 windows 2000/2003 servers. Responsible for managing 2 senior analysts.* Performed daily network administrative tasks including server maintenance and backups, user creation, group membership and access, email administration, and security monitoring and configuration.* Served as hospital’s System Management Server 2003 Administrator. Responsibilities included Microsoft patch management, Application deployments, Zero Touch Installation (ZTI) configuration and management and reporting system/application inventories and trends to senior management utilizing SMS reporting.

* Awarded the “Army Commendation Medal” and “Combat Infantryman Badge” for supervising 8 soldiers on over 150 successful combat missions up to 80km away from primary base operations under hostile conditions in the Sunni Triangle region of Iraq during the initial invasion of Iraq in 2003.* Received “Army Commendation Medal” for designing and implementing a satellite communication internet system and managing a network of 200+ users in Balad, Iraq.

* Supervised daily operations of 250+ workstations across 10 locations. Responsibilities included network administration, server administration and customer support.* Appointed Information Systems Chief (ISC) to oversee platoon of 32 Marines. Responsible for keeping department within the allocated budget for technical upgrades to unit.* Awarded “Navy/Marine Corps Achievement medal” and “Marine Corps Certificate of Commendation” for creating secure Local Area Network for 40+ users in simulated combat scenario utilizing satellite communications.