Joseph Meier Email & Phone Number

Harrisburg, Pa

Advise, guide, mentor, and provide Chief Information Officers (CIOs), C-Level executives, and IT senior leaders with best-practice research and industry insights to optimize their organizational performance and market position. Diagnose member organizational, process, and technology pain points, ideate around service and innovation opportunities, and deliver customized partnership plans and roadmaps that develop/enhance their organizational capabilities, and improve their decision making and risk management.

Harrisburg, Pa

Harrisburg, Pa

Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States

Member of IT executive leadership team reporting directly to Senior Vice President & CIO. Directed IT governance functions for Penn State Health System and affiliated Penn State College of Medicine, an integrated multibillion-dollar academic health system and affiliated medical/graduate school comprised of multiple hospitals, research centers, and affiliated institutes, with shared mission of patient care, medical education, and research. Founded/directed team of 30 staff representing inter-related IT governance practices to drive transparency, value, and effective performance from $165M IT investment portfolio. Responsible for: IT strategic planning, IT business management (ITBM), business relationship management (BRM), portfolio management, program/project execution, IT service management (ITSM), vendor management, risk management, and staff engagement.

+ Provided technical leadership and support services for all enterprise Internet/Intranet portals.+ Led strategic direction, development, data analysis, data management, and data quality activities for person identity management system including 18,000 workforce members & students, which represented foundational technology for role-based computing, information security services, and various IT security controls.

Directed implementation and operational support for academic management systems, learning management systems, and medical student web portal for 450 medical students and 9,000 new student applications annually.

Provided technical leadership for IT applications supporting Finance, Human Resources, and Supply Chain business workflows; team custom-developed innovative budgeting & staff performance management system.

IT Design Review Board: Co-founded/co-chaired committee that developed IT enterprise architecture standards & design reference frameworks applied to proposed IT infrastructure projects. Improved technology alignment, understanding of business patterns and innovation opportunities, and evaluation of emerging technologies.

+ Completely transformed organizational & technology aspects of IT Infrastructure services after corporate demerger. Responsible for IT systems development and reliable operations of voice/video/network services, Internet and collaboration services, and end-user computing services for 15,000 users. Implemented new enterprise phone and email services. Developed new job functions and team structure, facilitated technical skills assessment, and conducted intensive staff recruitment, coaching, and mentoring activities.+ Directed IT Infrastructure preparations for the Year 2000 Project.

Danville, Pennsylvania, United States

Reported to Vice President & CIO as IT liaison to regional executive team serving a six-county region of Pennsylvania.

Danville, Pennsylvania, United States

+ Corporate Demerger: Directed successful separation of enterprise technology infrastructures during demerger of Penn State Geisinger Health System (PSGHS) - including ~50 enterprise systems and 20,000 users - within unprecedented 6-month timeframe; garnered national spotlight.+ Directed Internet/Intranet web portal design/support; awarded $6M for strategic eHealth initiative.+ Assembled/directed IT support services division responsible for selection of IT solutions and IT operations for administrative, research and teaching needs of faculty & students. + Directed technology aspects of hospital participation in first PA state-wide Telemedicine Initiative (PA KEYNet).

Graduate Coursework, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Computer Science (Math Concentration), Magna Cum Laude