Epic May2019 edition upgrade in under 4 hours of Hospital downtime. Enhancements include Storyboard thereby significantly reducing unnecessary clicks, and screen shifts. Successful upgrade to Epic August2018 edition. 4 hour downtime, qualifying for Epic's "Good Install Program" resulting in a 400K OpEx maintenance savings. Successful Epic 2015 EMR implementation including Hospital, Ambulatory, Cogito, and Home Health for ~1600 concurrent users. Project delivered on time and under budget. Tactical leadership of an enterprise-wide A/D domain migration including +300 servers, 3200 user accounts, and 2500 PC clients in preparation for EMR Go_Live completed on time. Included Exchange/Sharepoint standup, D/R solution, perimeter presence.Manage Managed Service Provider MSP agreement that provides: Monitoring, Backups, Patching, and next generation risk management (NGRM) IT security program.Directed Vblock converged infrastructure CoLo build-out in preparation for EMR consolidation. Focused on RTO/RPO targets, along with application performance metrics. Application Launch in 11 seconds and RTO under 45 minutes.Security Committee member with oversight on quarterly pen-scans and annual assessment. Currently benchmarking maturity model and targeting CIS-20 compliance in 2020.

Oversight of Tier2/Tier 3 infrastructure support of 45 eClinical Works instances co-located in a remote datacenter delivering EMR application thru Citrix and RDP on a private WAN. Focused on DLP to ensure HIPAA compliance. Delivering a solution that allows recipient self-service.Managed 2012 virtualized infrastructure consisting of 190 servers, and 6 Citrix Xenservers, and 28 Xenapps. Including Exchange 2010, Shareplace 2010.Modernizing Nagios alerting system to better manage application delivery by focusing on response times and end2end application monitoring.Delivered the next generation CPOE interface for the member Association. Allowing all Labs/Xrays/Notes to be electronically delivered as discrete data elements into the MySQL backend.Support DW ETL activities by instituting global changes across all instances.

Member of the compliance committee, focused on Smart device BYOD security, ePHI education, and Technology Use guidelines, adherence to HIPAA, HITECH, and Mass Breach compliance, including risk compliance audits. Oversaw the transition to a “Lean” culture including the alignment of Hoshin True North metrics using VSA, RIE, MDI board methodologies, and A3 problem solving to eliminate waste and increase efficiency.Transitioned the organization from manual film workflow to digital images automation, and currently oversee an HL7 RIS/PACs solution with Umass. EMR Application sends orders and receive results (ORM/ORU) securely to an outside organization’s RIS/PACs system. Support over 17,000 studies a year and integration includes X-Ray, CT. Defined SLA requirements to meet business requirements.Managed Clinical Web portal integration projects that provides a secure view into affiliated hospital Electronic Medical Record (EMR) applications to allow Providers and clinical staff instant remote view into the patient chart without the need for application credentials. 90% reduction in “clicks” for Providers and clinicians, and no outside organization entitlements to manage.

Responsible for overall planning, organizing, and execution of all IT functions. This included directing all IT operations and strategic initiatives to meet customer requirements as well as the support and maintenance of existing infrastructure, applications, and development of new technical solutions.Recommended, planned, and oversaw the New York office expansion from 6K sq. ft. to 23K sq. ft. Involved in the coordination of 3rd party leased-lines, trading floor build-out, and design of a new 1K sq. ft. Datacenter including UPS, A/C, power, and structured cabling. Relocation was successfully completed over a weekend; the firm was on-line and able to trade on Monday.Recommended, vetted, and implemented a Cloud Provider (MindSHIFT) with an emphasis of out-sourcing infrastructure monitoring, “tape-less” system backup, and OS/network device patching. Eliminated tape storage expenses, met data-at-rest encryption requirements, and improved infrastructure monitoring to pro-active effectiveness.Oversaw the business requirements to meet recovery time metrics for the 2nd generation VMware platform based on ESX 3.5 (4GB Fiber Channel based). Design includes PCI-X based servers with 64GB memory and SAS 15K drives. Upgrade includes new back-end Compellent controllers. The projected CapEx 190K investment yielded 126K in CapEx savings in avoided server hardware and utilities through continued consolidation.Launched the YearUp.org apprenticeship program in the Boston and New York offices. This program provided a cost-effective means to increase Helpdesk efficiencies related to daily Installs, Moves, Adds, Changes (IMACs).

Responsible for corporate information technology infrastructure and system operations. Cross functional team leadership: Collaborated with the Chip design team in the creation of a verification infrastructure based on RedHat Linux ES, and Platform’s LSF application. The solution provides maximum utilization a compute-server farm based on Dual-Opteron processors averaging as high as 1000 batched regressions run over a weekend. H/A availability: Increased ISP connection capacity by 100% including redundant connections that provide load balancing and automatic failover. Solution is scalable to 144MB and included wireless ISPs.H/A availability: Created 6-license servers quorum for license management that support Unix/Windows applications used in Firmware and Hardware Design. Applications severed include: Magma, Mentor, Novas, Silos, ARC, ARM, OrCad.

Founded firm to provide consultation for residential and small business intranet solutions. Drove customer processes to define solution requirements emphasizing best practices and value analyses. Educated clients on disaster recovery issues and provided them with plans and procedures for mitigating data loss. Designed and implemented secure networks including secure Wi-Fi solutions based on MAC and WEP security implementations.

Operations: Managed a 4500 sq. ft. Datacenter with 2 MainFrames along with 300 Unix and Windows servers. The Mainframes were attached to: StorageTek HSM, DASD, Escon, Bus&Tag connections. The network included: Token Ring, CDDI, FDDI, Fast Ethernet, ATM and NAS storage devices. Environment included 70 tons A/C, Halon system, raised floor, MDF, UPS. The operation supported 200 individuals participating in Operating System development and ecommerce for Hitachi's Software Development Center in Japan. Directed Epartners in the conversion from Siebel/Oracle to SalesLogix for Support. The initiative resulted in a single SQLserver database to support both the Sales/Marketing and Customer Support departments, and saved $137K in annual operating costs.Established staffing arrangement with Interliant IT consultants to augment in-house resources thereby minimizing organizational perturbations.Shifted the IT departmental focus to analyzing applications to meet business needs thus building an in-house core competence in business application development.