Erik Gerard

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Cocktails With a Cockatoo = cockAtails @ Cleveland, OH, US
Cleveland, OH, US
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Greater Cleveland, United States, United States
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About Erik Gerard

Cocktails With a Cockatoo = cockAtailsBased on the feedback we've gotten, there seems to be a lot of interest in the cocktail recipes Erik's collected working in 30 states and traveling to 40 countries. So what could be more fun than watching him and his cockatoo, The Great & Powerful Oz, show you how to make really interesting cockAtails. We're planning on posting a different cockAtail recipe, bird trick and story each Thursday so you have something fun for the weekend.Here are links to the different platforms where you can follow us:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thewizardandozTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thewizardandozYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thewizardandozFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/wizardandozPlease be sure to subscribe and like since this is how we track our success.

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Cockatails

Cocktails With a Cockatoo = cockAtails
Cleveland, OH, US
Erik Gerard Work Experience Details
  • Cockatails
    Cockatails
    Cleveland, Oh, Us
  • Cockatails
    Content Creator
    Cockatails Oct 2023 - Present
    Cocktails With a Cockatoo = cockAtailsBased on the feedback we've gotten, there seems to be a lot of interest in the cocktail recipes Erik's collected working in 30 states and traveling to 40 countries. So what could be more fun than watching him and his cockatoo, The Great & Powerful Oz, show you how to make really interesting cockAtails. We're planning on posting a different cockAtail recipe, bird trick and story each Thursday so you have something fun for the weekend.Here are links to the different platforms where you can follow us:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thewizardandozTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thewizardandozYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thewizardandozFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/wizardandozPlease be sure to subscribe and like since this is how we track our success.
  • Huron
    Principal
    Huron Jun 2022 - Oct 2023
    Chicago, Il, Us
    Huron is a global professional services firm that collaborates with clients to put possible into practice by creating sound strategies, optimizing operations, accelerating digital transformation, and empowering businesses and their people to own their future. By embracing diverse perspectives, encouraging new ideas, and challenging the status quo, we create sustainable results for the organizations we serve.
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  • Impact Advisors
    Principal
    Impact Advisors Jan 2017 - Jun 2022
    Naperville, Illinois, Us
    Impact Advisors is one of the top healthcare consulting firms dedicated to improving healthcare through technology & process improvements.Providing advisory services to healthcare technology leaders around the country on a wide variety of topics, including operational improvements, infrastructure assessments, guiding teams to best practices while keeping a focus on cost reduction.• Chief Technologist responsible for advancing the firm’s technologies while experiencing significant growth (40%). Drove numerous internal technology initiatives including: Migrated the firm to Office 365 avoiding software audit penalties, improving collaboration and efficiencies. Implemented Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) as a critical security initiative safeguarding firm and client data.• Interim Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for a healthcare system and health plan which includes 12 hospitals and over 200 sites of care across multiple states. Provided technology strategy and operational leadership including design, delivery, and support of all IT services, management of complex infrastructure, relationship management, systems engineering, and budget development. Responsible for 250 enterprise architects, engineers, business analysts, project managers and successfully managed $82 million capital and operational budget. Guided the technology teams through an audit by the U.S. Inspector General’s office.• Developed multiple new service offerings: EHR Cloud Hosting Analysis, M&A Infrastructure Playbook, Infusion Pump Vendor Selection, etc. Performed multiple technical analyses of Epic EHR hosting options which included on-premises, Epic hosted, private and public Cloud hosted, developing extensive client key decision criteria. Assessed the infrastructure and operational performance of numerous health systems consisting of multiple hospitals, medical centers, and clinics developing recommendations to improve overall operational effectiveness and determine cost savings.
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  • Dimension Data
    Healthcare Strategist
    Dimension Data Jul 2015 - Jun 2016
    Bryanston, Johannesburg, Za
    Providing forward looking solutions to healthcare organizations throughout the Midwest by leveraging innovative technology to improve patient outcomes and engagement while reducing the burden on physicians and nurses.• Established and evangelized the new healthcare practice in the Midwest.• Engaged with key partners to determine and execute go-to-market strategies becoming their “go to” partner for healthcare solutions.• Generated $12MIL pipeline in less than 10 months.
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  • Strategist
    Enterprise Technology & Innovation Leader
    Strategist 1994 - 2016
    • Held direct responsibility for 5 managers and indirect responsibility for 65 enterprise architects engineers, business analysts and project managers.• Successfully managed $30 million annual budget within 1% of forecast through careful resource management and planning.• Generated $12 million pipeline in less than 10 months. • Developed and presented several proposals resulting in sales of $15 million in 2013 and $1.2 million in 2012.• Provided innovative solutions to healthcare organizations throughout the Midwest by leveraging innovative technology to improve patient outcomes and engagement while reducing the burden on physicians and nurses.• Subject matter expert on electronic health record (EHR) medical monitor integration, end-user device deployments, and micro-font prescription printing.• Led the Data Management team on a large military project which consolidated the client’s Intranet asset information from multiple data sources into a single source. The client’s network services more than 700,000 users at over 2,500 locations around the world.• Achieved significant improvements to system uptime, including turn-around of fragile yet mission-critical Citrix environment to achieve 99.99% availability; supported 40% growth while realizing 47% reduction in downtime. ─ 2,700 Citrix servers running 75,000 concurrent sessions across 200,000 endpoints in 600 locations.• Drove continuous improvement efforts between technical teams resulting in reducing the error rate from 2.91% to 1.01%.• Devised and implemented Cloud & Utility Computing model generating $8.6 million and 160 KW of savings in the first 8 months by populating with almost 700 databases.• Developed service and system life cycle roadmaps for 7,000 Windows-based servers, 1,500 Citrix terminal servers, 160,000 desktop and laptop workstations, and 30,000 PDAs.
  • Avery Dennison
    Business Partnership Director
    Avery Dennison Apr 2013 - Jan 2015
    Mentor, Ohio, Us
    Avery Dennison is a global leader in labeling and packaging materials and solutions with operations in more than 50 countries, 26,000 employees worldwide and sales of $6 billion. Worked closely with the corporate IT leadership team and Avery Dennison's largest division, the Materials Group, facilitating technical needs and process improvements across the globe.• Spearheaded the development of technical roadmaps for key operating systems and platforms.• Instrumental in the reduction of Emergency Changes, RCAs and Aging Cases meeting industry best practices. • Coordinated Spotlight activities which resulted in the reduction of 65+ IT support hours per month for the Level 2 support teams.• Responsible for Quarterly Service Reviews with the business re: IT performance and infrastructure upgrades.• Coordinating key initiatives between North America, South America, Europe and the Asia/Pacific regions.• Facilitated migration to Cloud based collaboration tools (Google email and docs). • Reduce risk by developing a dashboard and monthly plans for remote site infrastructure upgrades.
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  • Deloitte Consulting
    Manager | Emerging Solutions & Health Information Technology Services (Hits)
    Deloitte Consulting Jun 2010 - Apr 2013
    Worldwide, Oo
    Deloitte is the largest professional services network in the world with more than 200,000 professionals in over 150 countries earning $34.2 billion in revenue. Leading and delivering large, complex client engagements that identify, design, and implement creative business and technology solutions for large companies. Implement and oversaw the quality of deliverables and effectively manage the team and day-to-day relationships to ensure exceptional performance. • Developed and presented several proposals resulting in sales of $15 million in 2013 and $1.2 million in 2012.• Subject matter expert on electronic health record (EHR) medical monitor integration, end-user device deployments, and micro-font prescription printing.─ Developed a detailed executive matrix on over 600 clinical monitors, which was used to set scope and strategies. ─ Developed a comprehensive matrix for tracking key data points needed to integrate end-user devices into an Epic EHR system, significantly reducing the need to collect data from the field and facilitating accurate printer mapping (normally a key pain point). • Led the Data Management team on a large military project which consolidated the client’s Intranet asset information from multiple data sources into a single source. The client’s network services more than 700,000 users at over 2,500 locations around the world.• Established the Health Information Technology Services (HITS) practice’s knowledge-sharing Mentoring program. • Developed technical content & taught at numerous Deloitte offices for the CIS/HITS Boot Camps, receiving extremely high feedback ratings.─ Provided content, developed and presented webinar on EHR Citrix/Application Delivery Best Practices and Medical Device Integration Best Practices.• Successfully delivered technical projects in various roles including Program Director and Project Manager. • Established virtualization strategies for numerous clients.
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  • Eg Consulting
    Senior It And Management Consultant
    Eg Consulting Jun 2009 - Jun 2010
    Providing IT and management consulting services to such organizations as Zurich Insurance, Farmers Insurance, Medical Mutual of Ohio (health insurance), Antares (IT management solutions) and Evidant Corporation (IT analysis services). Specializing in creating scenarios where organizations can do more with less by getting their IT teams out of the daily fire fighting mode and turning them into strategic partners with the business.Services delivered:• IT Assessments• Strategic Planning • Vendor selection (POC)• Continuous Improvements • Executive Feedback Analysis• Process Development
  • Kaiser Permanente
    Senior Manager - Enterprise Engineering
    Kaiser Permanente Jun 2005 - Jan 2009
    Oakland, California, Us
    Kaiser Permanente is the largest managed care organization in the U.S. operating in 9 states plus DC encompassing 9.3 million health plan members, 167,300 employees, 14,600 physicians, 37 medical centers & 611 medical offices with $47.9 billion in operating revenues. Rapidly promoted to formulate & execute strategic & tactical direction for core infrastructure teams, including Citrix, Web, Database & Print infrastructure, Citrix applications delivering Epic Systems software & other applications. Held direct responsibility for 5 managers & indirect responsibility for 65 enterprise architects engineers, business analysts and project managers.• Successfully managed $30 million budget within 1% of forecast through careful resource management & planning.• Achieved significant improvements to system uptime, including turn-around of fragile yet mission-critical Citrix environment to achieve 99.99% availability; supported 40% growth while realizing 47% reduction in downtime. ─ 2,700 Citrix servers running 75,000 concurrent sessions across 200,000 endpoints in 600 locations.• Drove continuous improvement efforts between technical teams resulting in reducing the error rate from 2.91% to 1.01%.• Devised and implemented Cloud & Utility Computing model generating $8.6 million and 160 KW of savings in the first 8 months by populating with almost 700 databases.• Established successful enterprise programs for Software as a Service (Saas) & Platform as a Service (PaaS). • Saved over $1 million annually & enabled retention of key skills and knowledge resources by replacing consultants & contractors with full-time employees. • Experienced in maturing IT organizations by establishing Engineering Principles, defining Standard Products & Services and developing Roadmaps, resulting in significantly reduced incidents & outages, higher business satisfaction with IT and more motivated employees with higher retention.
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  • Kaiser Permanente
    Planning Manager - Enterprise Engineering
    Kaiser Permanente Jun 2005 - Dec 2005
    Oakland, California, Us
    Offered a rare opportunity to turn-around a critical path, yet highly problematic environment & establish a new planning department to oversee design, engineering, & optimization of IT infrastructure. Recruited, hired, trained, mentored & oversaw architects, engineers, & regional coordinators. Drove requirements analysis, solutions design, planning, feasibility analysis, prototyping, technical specifications, service-level agreements, budgeting, availability design, capacity management, & Level 4 support. Devised, implemented, & enforced standard policies & procedures & document templates / checklists to ensure consistent processes. Collaborated with colleagues to prepare & present project artifacts & deliverables, including Concept Description, Solution Alternative Analysis, Fundamental & Non-Fundamental Requirements, Business Case, Risk Management Plan, Resource Requirements, Project Timeline, & Budget. • Liaised between CIO & vendor CEO to address & resolve critical conflict & developed action plans to improve service & relationship. • Assumed responsibility for Plan, Build, Run model; created Plan Operation Guide, Build Readiness Review H&off Checklist & Build Readiness Review Package to standardize & streamline process improvement initiatives & facilitate critical communication.
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  • Progressive Insurance
    Team Lead / Senior Software System Programmer
    Progressive Insurance Aug 2004 - Jun 2005
    Mayfield Village, Oh, Us
    Progressive Insurance is one of the largest providers of car insurance in the U.S. with 27,250 employees and $17 billion in revenue.Led 25-member team and performed technical operations for delivery of 800+ applications to 35,000 workstations throughout the organization. Assisted with workflow optimization subsequent to departmental reorganization. Prepared quarterly presentations for department head to brief CIO on enterprise projects and hardware / software roadmaps. • Designed, implemented, and tested highly redundant, dual datacenter infrastructure and created 75 page assessment document.• Gathered and analyzed detailed requirements for hosting applications to ensure delivery of highly scalable, cost-effective, high-performance solutions integrating into client enterprise infrastructures.
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  • Cleveland Clinic
    Senior System Engineer
    Cleveland Clinic Jun 2001 - Aug 2004
    Cleveland, Ohio, Us
    The Cleveland Clinic is one of the top 4 hospitals in the United States and number 1 in America for cardiac care with 10 regional hospitals in NE Ohio plus facilities in several other states and 2 other countries. Drove technical research, engineering, design, and corporate standards. Served as chief architect, maintained enterprise operating systems, and provided 3rd-tier support. Designed, tested, and implemented enterprise migration strategies. • Developed and maintained Citrix Farm comprised of 100+ servers and created methodologies and utilities to automate weekly and monthly maintenance.• Successfully delivered secure, single-point Web-based access to enterprise resources, including client / server, legacy, Web applications, Internet / Intranet sites, network resources, and XML-based Web services in adherence to short timeframe.• Established corporate-wide standards for new hardware server platform and NOS installation; created highly automated installation process to facilitate Microsoft Server builds ensuring consistency. • Managed technical team in large-scale upgrade of primary medical coding application billing $6 million daily.
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  • Pc Guru, Inc.
    Senior System Engineer / Quality Of Service Manager
    Pc Guru, Inc. Jun 1994 - Jun 2001
    PC Guru provided consulting and technology services to small and midsize businesses in NE Ohio. Served as primary point-of-contact for core clients and provided consulting and technical assistance for this startup. Designed, installed, and maintained WAN/LAN systems and security and supported Novell, Windows, PC, and Macintosh platforms. • Instrumental in achieving 50% annual revenue increase (5-year average) resulting in the Weatherhead 100 Fastest Growing Companies Award for this start-up.• Implemented numerous network technologies including: controlled Internet access, multiple email systems, network-based faxing, document management systems, enterprise anti-virus protection, network-based multi-media access, disaster recovery and business continuity. • Designed IT strategies for numerous clients including a 30-office, nationwide WAN.
  • Numerous
    Magician / Comedian
    Numerous Jan 1981 - May 1994
    RESORTS-Caesars-Resorts International-Sea World-M/S Sagafjord-M/S Vistafjord-M/S Royal Viking Sea-M/S Fairwind-S/S Rotterdam-M/S Noordam-M/S Nieuw Amsterdam-M/S Nordic Prince-M/V Island Princess-S/S Norway-M/S Southward-M/S Starward-M/S Skyward--M/S Sunward 11-M/S Stardancer-S/S Azure Seas-S/S Emerald Seas-S/S Independence-Palm Sprgs Raquet Club-Desert Hot Springs SpaNIGHTCLUBS-Magic Castle (Private)-Magic Island Newport Beach, Houston-Ice House-Punchline-Funnybone-Comedy and Magic Club-Laughs Unlimited-Zanies-Giggles-Tommy T's-Sir Laughs A Lot-Stanford and Son-Cartoons-Comedy Haven-Comedy Workshop-Comedy Corner-Hilarities-Grin Room-Jokers-Jollys-Finneybones-Cleveland Comedy ClubTV and FILM-Entertainment Tonight-Coming On (Disney)-Morning Exhange-Music Magazine-Girls Just Want To Have Fun-Radioactive DreamsCLIENTS-NBC TV-CBS Records-IBM-First Interstate Bank-Bank of California-California First Bank-Hughes Aircraft-Litton Industries-Boise Cascade-Seagrams-Carnation-International Harvester-Broadway-Robinsons-BullocksHOUSE MAGICIAN-RJ's of Beverly Hills-Gladston's at the Beach-Merlin McFly's -New York, New York
  • Various
    Nightclub/Disco Dj
    Various Oct 1976 - Dec 1980
    Big Apple Nightclub, Cleveland OH (capacity 2,000)Big Daddy's, Miami and West Palm Beach FL (capacity: 750)Aquamarine Disco, SS Emerald Seas (capacity: 150)Lido Disco, MS Starward (capacity: 100)Steamboat Village Inn, Steamboat Springs CO (capacity: 550)Shortbranch Saloon, Steamboat Springs CO (capacity: 250)Let's Go Disco, Los Angeles CA (capacity: 200)PS Connection, Palm Springs CA (capacity: 200)Guest Appearances: Billboard Disco Convention IV and V New York), Bo Crane Mobile Disco (Miami FL), Bus Stop (Lansing MI), WCUT (Akron OH), MS Sunward II, Dance Fever (Toledo OH), Tall Paul's (Akron OH), Big Apple Mobile Disco (Akron OH), Dirty Sally's (Redondo Beach CA).
  • The Cove
    Restaurant Manager
    The Cove Jun 1976 - Oct 1976
  • Mazzola'S Italian Restaurant
    Cook
    Mazzola'S Italian Restaurant Dec 1975 - Jun 1976
  • Thomas Snavely Co.
    Construction Laborer
    Thomas Snavely Co. Apr 1975 - Dec 1975
  • Cuyahoga Hills Boys School
    Youth Leader Iv
    Cuyahoga Hills Boys School Apr 1974 - Apr 1975
    Worked for the State of Ohio at one of eight youth incarceration centers.
  • Aetna Detective Agency
    Private Investigator
    Aetna Detective Agency Feb 1974 - Apr 1974
    Since the law had just changed making 18-year-olds adults, I was likely the youngest PI registered in the state at that time.
  • Burns Security Systems
    Uniformed Security Guard
    Burns Security Systems Dec 1973 - Feb 1974
  • The Rapart Cetner
    Peer Counselor/Social Worker
    The Rapart Cetner Jan 1973 - Dec 1973
    Working to help resolve issues with other teenagers at a federally funded drop-in center.

Erik Gerard Skills

Integration Process Improvement Project Management Cloud Computing Business Process Improvement Management It Management Strategy Itil Strategic Planning Leadership Team Building Program Management Consulting Information Technology Disaster Recovery Virtualization Problem Solving Vendor Management Networking Continuous Improvement Management Consulting It Strategy Organizational Development Enterprise Architecture Business Development High Availability Critical Thinking Change Management Requirements Analysis Training Databases Citrix Troubleshooting Strategic Partnerships Sdlc Restructuring Training Delivery Project Planning Analysis Software Development Life Cycle Process Development Content Development Recruiting Solutions Marketing Risk Management Process Simulation Integrated Solutions

Erik Gerard Education Details

  • Certifications
    Certifications
  • Western Governors University
    Western Governors University
    Business - Information Technology Management
  • Kent State University
    Kent State University
  • Shaker Heights High School
    Shaker Heights High School

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