John Fitzpatrick Email & Phone Number

Kansas City, Missouri Area

Lead initiatives in learning, collaboration, and program management for in-community digital health strategies with KC Digital Drive's Health Innovation Team and Code for KChttp://www.kcdigitaldrive.org/http://www.codeforkc.org/

~ Redefining business development.~ Applying a constituency-based approach to vision, leadership, culture, strategy, and business relationships in order to conceive, conduct, and close significant new initiatives for business growth.~ Seeing and seizing new opportunities.~ Enabling small teams to achieve big things.~ Maintaining special focus on.

North Kansas City, Missouri

Responsible for strategic relationship development.

Responsible for strategy and sales of company’s primary business line.~ Transformed market position from high-function systems management solution to high-impact assurance services for electronic health records through analytics.~ Re-established direction and visibility of sales team in addressing substantial market shift and completely new buyer profile.~.

Responsible for core business of innovative not-for-profit supporting safe water programs in developing world. (Now "Water.org" after merger with Matt Damon's "H2O Africa" organization.)~ Managed & Developed integrated programs through 14 local partner organizations in 5 countries and WaterPartners’ offices in 3 countries, along with support/delivery.

Key relationship management responsibilities with then-largest client of leading Health Information Technology firm.~ Transferred to this implementation role to assist with then-most complex project in company’s history.

Founding member of Cerner’s "New Ventures" team in the US market, especially in physician services, leading to a multimillion-dollar acquisition and extension of services into a new practice domain.

Founding co-leader of team for Cerner’s prime bid in UK Government’s “National Programme for IT for the National Health Service” (ultimately, "Connecting for Health"), an initiative originally dedicating the equivalent of over $10 billion to just 7 contracts (2 national, 5 regional).~ Drove bid response which made Cerner the only company to qualify as a.

Strategic relationship, planning, and negotiating role, serving as primary resource for client, partner, and branch relationships in all non-US geographies.~ Led and/or sealed Cerner’s entry into multiple geographic and domain markets outside the US.~ Negotiated exclusively at Executive, Board, and Ministry levels.~ Drove consensus-building that won.

~ Co-led shift of account management role from product support to professional relationship management (by 1994, sales back into installed base reached 73% of total company revenues).~ Managed diverse accounts - from small community health organizations to growing regional health networks to prestigious university hospitals~ Established cost-of-ownership.

Founding member of vanguard team that established European Division of Applied Communications, Inc. (See below.) ~ Led all day-to-day operations in Spain, with focus on business development.~ Disengaged non-performing distributor within days of taking up post.~ Salvaged contracts and grew relationships with several of the world’s largest financial.

Leader for all engagements and service with some of the largest financial entities in the United States and world. The company (now ACI Worldwide) was the leading provider of electronic funds transfer and point-of-sale (EFT/PoS) solutions in the US, an early innovator in network switching and 24/7 on-line transaction processing (OLTP), and had just become.

~ Convinced Holy Cross Fathers to re-establish Lay Associate social service role in East Africa.~ Created and followed intensive, self-directed, 6-month training and orientation program in preparation for Africa assignment, including 1-month intensive study in African history and culture with A. Peter Walshe, renowned development professor.~ Completed.