Regional Information Technology Manager - Colorado Market - Panorama Orthopedics
Current• Supports 50+ providers (surgeons) and 800+ staff at physical therapy offices, MRI imaging departments, the sports therapy complex, clinics/surgery centers, and administration offices (21 locations total.)• Leads the IT Service desk and Managed Service Provider (MSP) staff according to SLAs and ticket/project priority.• Severely reduced IT tickets – We had over 1,200 open IT tickets when I was hired, with some remaining open for over a year. We worked diligently to reduce that down to 40 and are now within SLA timeframes.• Created IT incident response plan documentation for outages – Manages IT bridge calls for P1/P2 outages and Global communications for outages, updates, workarounds, and resolutions.• Hiring, training and managing direct IT and MSP staff. • Assists IT Operations with networking outages, network upgrades, and projects – SD/WAN, Velocloud, upgrading Palo Alto switches to Cisco Meraki, Wireless Access Point upgrades, PTSN to VOIP softphone (8x8) transition, Citrix VDI to VMWare Horizon VDI transition, implementation of Linux igel thin client PCs, PrinterLogic VDI session-based printing, Rightfax scan-to email/Fax (from PTSN), Verkada and Brivo badge access systems, and Microsoft Active directory > Intune migration projects (in the Georgia & Texas markets.)• IT Project Management – Uses Monday.com to manage projects, such as; Planning the deployment of new locations and office closures, PC refresh projects, Networking upgrades, new hire checklists, creating an internal IT department from scratch, transitioning from our MSP to the newly created IT department, projects mentioned above.• Cost savings ($2.5+MM/Yr, total) - Helped save UMP over $1MM/yr by changing dictation software, $1MM/yr creating an internal IT department to replace our Managed Service Provider, switching to SD/WAN and terminating MPLS and Metro Ethernet circuits, and consolidating office space.• Reports to IT Director, VP of IT Infrastructure and our CTO.• Vendor Management