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Issaquah Campus

Provided strategic guidance for technical support teams at Swedish Issaquah CampusServed on planning committees, advisory boards, and oversaw policies for delivery of IT services at the Campus Partnered with Swedish/Providence site leadership on technology support strategies and best practice approach for service management and technology standardsSupported other campuses Regional Sr. Directors and collaborated with medical facility leadership on technology service deliveryResponsible to achieve process improvement opportunities and take appropriate leadership actions to ensure high quality service and optimization of technology is achieved for the Swedish Issaquah Hospital

Renton, Wa

Directed a Staff of 60 Engineers and Analysts Consolidated the Network and Telecom groups in Washington and California into a cohesive team Supported on-going implementation of a medical-grade network with dual vendor WAN infrastructure redundancy Responsible for budget forecasting and tracking Collaborated with engineers and vendors to design, maintain and replace systems to ensure continuity of the networkCoordinated vendor relationships and built partnershipsDeveloped strong relationships with medical staff to improve the effectiveness of systems implementation

Seattle, Wa

Managed a staff of 25 Engineers and Analysts Administered a network infrastructure that supports over 35 sites with 10,000 users and 15,000 phonesResponsible for budget forecasting and trackingChampioned and drove the conversion of the telecommunications architecture to VoIPDesigned, maintain and replace systems to ensure continuity of infrastructureTeam consolidated five data centers over the last 8 yearsActively manage vendor relationships and build partnershipsDevelop partnerships with clinicians and staff members to enhance effectiveness of systems implementationManaged network growth from three hospitals to five hospitalsDirected the upgrade of the network core and closets, four times over the last 15 years, resulting in a strong medical-grade network with dual vendor redundancy in the WAN infrastructure

Seattle, Wa

Managed a staff of 20 Engineers and Analysts Administered a network infrastructure that supports over 20 sites with 8,000 users and 11,000 phonesResponsible for budget forecasting and trackingBuilt out a completely new Data Center structure to support the implementation of chassis based seversSupport and participated in strict change control policies Member of the selection team for GE PACs systemSupervised network growth from two hospitals to three hospitals and the implementation of 20 remote clinics including the consolidation of a data center.Implemented the first SANs as well as the implementation of TSM for centralized backups