Lead all aspects of IT Infrastructure including architecture, engineering, implementation, and operations for the enterprise at multiple locations. Drive implementation of new business applications and ERP system. Ownership of all technology systems, providing ongoing support, escalations, and process improvements. Manages security and regulatory compliance.

Leading the IT Infrastructure strategy and direction, including on-premise and cloud services, virtualization, hyperconverged architecture, SAN storage, data centers, and more. Providing direction for system architecture, corporate IT standards, disaster recovery, business continuance, and disaster recovery. Delivering PCI and SOX compliance through technical procedures and audits. Partnering with global business unit leaders to provide highly available and cost effective IT solutions for internal and customer facing technology platforms.

Providing Executive leadership in the Global IT Infrastructure, Architecture, Implementation, and Operations arenas. Guide the Global Infrastructure programs including Communications (email, telephony, A/V systems), Network Services (LAN/WAN, VPNs, firewall, routers/switches), Data Centers (on-site, co-lo, and cloud methodologies), Server operations (Physical/Virtual, SAN/NAS), Disaster Recovery & Business Continuance, Cyber Security, and overall technical standards for operation. Working in partnership with the global business units and corporate headquarters, architect and manage IT infrastructure and ensure security standards are being met, identify and establish appropriate technologies to enable global initiatives and guide BU specific programs, present overall status of initiatives to executive management, and deliver services/products in a cost effective and timely manner.

NextGen acquired Opus in Feb 2010 (this is not a new job)Spurred significant growth and expansion.

Providing executive leadership and management of the strategic direction, budget, IT operations, and Systems Integration for a diverse healthcare oriented customer base ranging from small clinical labs, to large multi-facility hospital organizations, and all the way up to enterprise level centralization for multi-billion dollar leading healthcare service providers. Analyzing internal and external customer requirements to define requirements, architect solutions, forecast budgets, and manages implementations. Collaborate with C-level leadership at the enterprise and facility levels to assess requirements from a financial and technical perspective, and provide a solution to satisfy the customer. Managed the Clinical Information System IT and application infrastructure for the one of the top 5 Hospital IDN’s (Integrated Delivery Networks) in the United States, a $5B+ Fortune 500 listed operation with 30+ hospital and other medical facilities. The publication Information Week recognized this IDN for being in their top 500 listings for IT innovation. Brought this same level of IT expertise to the rural and community hospital level for Critical Access facilities. Managing the internal corporate business and engineering IT requirements, acting as a liaison between multiple departments to asses requirements and develop solutions. Providing multi-year capital and expense budget forecasts to assist with business and financial management.

Strategy/Architecture/Vision: Building on a strong IT technical background, directs enterprise strategy, architecture, budget, staffing, operations, and consolidation of global Technology and Infrastructure operations for support of 4000 engineering customers at 25 sites globally in a 24x7 support model.•Consolidation: Drives the strategic direction, convergence, and integration of Data Center resources to •Negotiation: Global contracts with Fortune 500 software & hardware vendors. Negotiates SLA’s and governance contracts with customers. •Communications: Creates detailed technical reports and high level executive level briefings. •Outsourcing: Experience with managing contract relationships for staff augmentation or full service outsourcing •Financial: Develops and manages a detailed $30M capital and $20M expense budget. See Resume for full details on:•Staff Development•Capacity Planning•Customer Relationship•IT Audit

Managed Engineering IT Strategic direction, Infrastructure, Data Center Operations, Applications Development, Audit and Security, and Customer Support. Directed multiple Data Center operations in several US cities as well as two international locations. Lead management teams for IT Infrastructure support, system administration, customer support/help desk, application development, and security/audit compliance. Assimilated best practices from various sites into a common process and methodology set, driving towards ITIL methodologies. Developed annual capital and expense budgets of >$10M. Transitioned data center and compute farm to extremely dense, rack-mounted blade-center technologies, optimizing space and providing lights-out management.