Michael Hebrank Email & Phone Number

Irving Tx

Vizient is the nation’s largest member-owned health care services company. It was formed by the combination of VHA, UHC, and Novation in 2015. In early 2016, Vizient acquired MedAssets thereby doubling its size. Vizient serves more than 3,300 U.S. hospitals, including all 15 of the US News Top Hospitals.Oversaw software development for all customer-facing company products, with annual operating budget of $45,000,000 and annual capital budget of $15,000,000. Led team of 150 staff and 70 contractors. Products included analytics solutions supporting member performance improvement initiatives in the areas of clinical outcomes, operational performance, nursing resource optimization, physician practice optimization, and supply chain optimization. Products utilized by more than 1,500 hospitals in U.S.Key accomplishments include:• Implemented Agile development practices across more than 20 development teams;• Instituted a formal project management office (PMO) across all development teams.• Successfully completed more than $10 million of software development work over the past year on critical strategic initiatives;

Greater Chicago Area

UHC is the leading consortium of U.S. academic medical centers, providing both supply chain group purchasing services and comparative analytics and performance improvement services to its members. Served as UHC's interim CIO for 9 months working for B.E. Smith. Joined UHC as permanent CIO in March 2011. In November 2013, was given additional responsibilities to manage UHC's product teams. Number of staff managed increased from 70 to 125 and operating budget was $25,000,000. Areas of responsibility increased from those of CIO alone to IT plus product management and support for all of UHC's products. Products utilized by more than 25,000 staff at member institutions.Key accomplishments include:• In 2014, UHC was named the #2 small company to work for in IT in the US by Computerworld magazine in its Best Places to Work in IT ranking;• Implemented an IT Steering Committee to provide oversight for IT investments and projects;• Saved $900K on major server and storage purchases by leading competitive bidding and negotiations;• Each year, conducted comprehensive internal customer satisfaction surveys. Customer satisfaction was routinely 95%+ across the board;• Achieved very high employee satisfaction ratings based on annual surveys conducted by HR utilizing an outside third-party survey firm;• Built a robust business continuity/disaster recovery capability which was tested quarterly;• UHC underwent annual HIPAA audits by a leading audit firm as well as stringent penetration tests by a leading security firm. UHC routinely received passing grades on these audits;

Baltimore, Maryland Area

Chief Technology Officer for a quantitative trading advisor in the financial services industry. Led all aspects of IT, including software development, market data, infrastructure operations, security, business continuity, and facilities management. Led team of 50 professionals, managing annual operating budget of $10,000,000 and annual capital budget of $2,000,000. Responsible for the development and support of the firm’s proprietary trading platform.Accomplishments included:• Implemented and supported an algorithmic trading platform that enabled the firm to successfully manage an additional $7 billion in assets under management; this translated into an additional $140 million/year in revenue for the firm;• Successfully managed the move of firm's corporate offices and data center to a new campus across town; this was a $10 million project;• Built a dedicated high-performance team of 50+ staff;• Built three data centers, one of which is both a disaster recovery and business continuity site;• Implemented, maintained and regularly tested the business continuity site;• Increased critical systems up-time to 99.99% by implementing ITIL best practices so systems were down less than one hour per year;• Virtualized 80% of 330 servers using VMware ESX, saving the firm $1,000,000 in capital costs; • Instituted mobile device strategy providing iPhones and other devices to key staff for secure remote Microsoft Exchange email and VPN access.

Baltimore, Maryland Area

GBMC HealthCare is a private, not-for-profit corporation that owns and operates Greater Baltimore Medical Center, a regional community hospital in Towson, Maryland. GBMC HealthCare also owns and operates Greater Baltimore Medical Associates (GBMA), and Gilchrist Hospice Care, the largest not-for-profit hospice organization in the state of Maryland.Accomplishments included:• Worked with IT Steering Committee to create a four-year $32 million IT strategic plan;• Created a high-performance service-oriented IT team of 50+ staff that achieved high customer satisfaction;• Saved $500,000 on PC workstation replacement costs by leading competitive bidding and negotiations.• Saved $300,000 in software support fees over three years by successfully renegotiating a legacy contract with Siemens Medical Solutions within the first year of joining the organization;• Saved the company $650,000 in capital costs on a major server and storage purchase through competitive bidding and process negotiation efforts;• In last year, responsibilities expanded to include leading Environmental Services, Food Services, and Security. Number of staff managed increased from 50+ to 375;• Led the health system's HIPAA compliance effort;• Implemented a state-of-the-art Cisco enterprise data network;• Led the selection process for and implemented the Lawson ERP suite;• Led the selection process for a new EHR and hospital information system;

Baltimore, Maryland Area

FICO (NYSE: FICO) is a leading analytics software company, helping businesses in 90+ countries make better decisions that drive higher levels of growth, profitability and customer satisfaction. The company’s groundbreaking use of Big Data and mathematical algorithms to predict consumer behavior has transformed entire industries. Accomplishments included:• Designed an Oracle data warehouse for The Associates Capital Management in 8 weeks.• Architected and built a large data warehouse, cleansing and combining data from 5 loan systems as part of a 7 month engagement valuing The Money Store’s loan portfolio for acquisition by First Union Bank.

Baltimore, Maryland Area

As the largest healthcare provider in Maryland and the Washington, D.C., region, MedStar’s 10 hospitals, the MedStar Health Research Institute, MedStar Medical Group, and other programs and services are recognized regionally and nationally for excellence in medical care. At Medstar, I was responsible for all application implementation and support for (at the time) a five hospital health system. Managed a staff of 70.Accomplishments included:• Led the procurement process for a suite of applications to replace the disparate applications utilized at five newly-merged hospitals;• Led the application implementation projects consisting of the Lawson ERP suite, Siemens Invision hospital information system products, best-of-breed Clinical Laboratory, Radiology, Pharmacy and Medical Records applications, and an interface engine to integrate all of the above;• Architected and implemented an enterprise data warehouse that contained data from the disparate transaction systems of five hospitals. Database was and still is used for consolidated reporting and decision support;

Baltimore, Maryland Area

This 10 year period occurred before Good Samaritan joined with other area hospitals to form Helix Health (later MedStar Health). Joined Good Samaritan Hospital out of college and over the course of 10 years was promoted 5 times, rising to become the head of the IT team. Started out as a Data Analyst and was promoted to Manager a year later in 1985. Became a Director a year after that in 1986 and Senior Director leading the entire IT team in 1993.

Ms, Computer Engineering

Bs, Applied Statistics