Over the last decade, healthcare has evolved beyond the traditional doctor-patient care model into a booming Healthcare Industry. Consumers are smarter and better informed, thanks to data informatics and technology that puts personal healthcare information in the palm of your hand. The pace of this radical transformation is accelerating and requires a multi-disciplinary approach to manage the future for hospitals, health systems, and other healthcare-related organizations. It requires strategic thinking to keep the Healthcare juggernaut operating efficiently. Strategic thinking is a cooperative critical skill for all healthcare leaders. Healthcare strategists—spanning the gamut from planners to marketers, communicators, physician strategists, technologists, and business developers—play a central role in helping their organizations manage the constant and complex forces of change to both shape and successfully execute the strategic vision. Regardless of title or role, the future belongs to those who can discover, plan for, communicate, and adapt to the evolving healthcare landscape.

Accomplished senior cybersecurity professional supporting business initiatives, elevating cyber competencies and disciplines in the following areas:* Problem solving over constant evaluation and alignment of cyber solutions with company strategic goals* Advancing strategic cyber vision and application through education, auditing, and maturity modeling* Implementing technology with minimum disruptions to service* Maintaining formidable cybersecurity, incident response, and disaster recovery/business continuity plans and operationsDriving efficiencies in HIPAA privacy and security policy, utilizing maturity models, identifying deficiencies and leading the charge to heighten the maturity of the organization. Contributions to healthcare reform include IGI-Global publication, “Maturing an Information Technology Privacy Program: Assessment, Improvement, and Change Leadership.”

It was my privilege to participate and lead others in distinctive operation assignments worldwide. Directed aircraft maintenance operations and air transportation logistics. Joined by selfless military professionals to lead the best Air Force on earth into multiple deployment locations under U.S. Central Command.