Neil Falk Mba Email & Phone Number

Edmonton, Ab, Ca

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Frederick Haultain Building

Atco Pipe And Liquids

Alberta Advanced Education

Saskatchewan Childrens Hospital

Saskatoon Health Region

Prince Albert, Saskatchewan

Develop and maintain the Organization Information Systems Plan including strategic goals and objectives for information systems. Plan for, organize, and implement many information system processes automated or otherwise.Develop strategies to align with Provincial directions to Implemented effective solutions for patient care, finance, network infrastructure, office automation.Contribute to the development and implementation of the mission, vision and values. Embracing and leading… Show more Develop and maintain the Organization Information Systems Plan including strategic goals and objectives for information systems. Plan for, organize, and implement many information system processes automated or otherwise.Develop strategies to align with Provincial directions to Implemented effective solutions for patient care, finance, network infrastructure, office automation.Contribute to the development and implementation of the mission, vision and values. Embracing and leading cultural change and service excellence within Information Services. Show less

Information Technology Management , Project Management, Strategic Planning Consulting firm

Stabilized network reliability with implementation of dual Cisco 6509 core routersDue to Ministry legislation creation of a new security policies – created a new policy set to meet the requirements of portions of ISO17799 and ISO20000. With the creation of an over arching security governance policy we created a security framework that covered our requirements. Yearly review of security policies to keep current. Privacy under the Health Information Act being strict required… Show more Stabilized network reliability with implementation of dual Cisco 6509 core routersDue to Ministry legislation creation of a new security policies – created a new policy set to meet the requirements of portions of ISO17799 and ISO20000. With the creation of an over arching security governance policy we created a security framework that covered our requirements. Yearly review of security policies to keep current. Privacy under the Health Information Act being strict required implementation of an incident tracking system to track possible breaches of confidential information. Creation of operating and capital budgets in consultation with executive team in excess of 10,000,000.Creation of a Portfolio project management intake process A member on the Senior leadership team representing Information Systems. Created new change management policy to address frequent service interruptions due to incomplete testing of new patches or code changes. Addressed active directory problems by creating new operating procedure around object creation and deletion. Ongoing auditing was established to maintain Active directory. Lead a team of 17 IT staff, 10 information management staff, and 62 health record and registration staff.Participated on the Rural Shared system initiative with 6 other CIO’s to give guidance to a single clinical system for the 7 regions. Provided CIO leadership for a provincial Information Privacy and Security team with members from 7 health regions.Created vision for Information Services for East Central Health Created a centralization and virtual server strategy Developed operating and service level agreements. Show less

Hamilton ONMaintained the financial systems from Meditech for the organization - Required patch management oversight with vendor management for code change and updates. Worked with clients for requirements gathering - as changes to financial systems were required I worked with the accounting team to document requirements for requested changes.Managed a Central dictation project to add multiple sites to an existing application - with the creation of Local Health Information… Show more Hamilton ONMaintained the financial systems from Meditech for the organization - Required patch management oversight with vendor management for code change and updates. Worked with clients for requirements gathering - as changes to financial systems were required I worked with the accounting team to document requirements for requested changes.Managed a Central dictation project to add multiple sites to an existing application - with the creation of Local Health Information Networks in Ontario Hamilton Health Science started providing service to other hospital organization. This required project management to add these facilities to existing application.Managed the warehousing applications - warehousing within Hamilton Health Sciences was managed by a third party. Hamilton Health Science kept ownership of all software and hardware within this contract. Managed relationships between the warehouse vendor and our applications vendor while maintaining systems.Managed the implementation of a carousel inventory system - Hamilton Health created a JIT replenishment cycle which included a product cart top up. Carousels were implemented with an automation system to link inventory picking and restocking. This replenishment cycle created better utilization of stock and lowered the spoilage rate of product due to date dependency.Created project documentation - business needs assessments, project charters, project plans, project updates, project completion reviews.Lead Project teams for application implementation. Show less

Created a consulting company with a contract with Regina Qu'Appelle to help in the implementation of a call center for health information. The duties within this contract were to create an automated delivery method for new operating system loads on desktops and servers for Healthline. Implementation of a system to address corrupt software in a timely manner. Implemented the deep freeze system to address software conflictions due to downloaded applications and business software. Created… Show more Created a consulting company with a contract with Regina Qu'Appelle to help in the implementation of a call center for health information. The duties within this contract were to create an automated delivery method for new operating system loads on desktops and servers for Healthline. Implementation of a system to address corrupt software in a timely manner. Implemented the deep freeze system to address software conflictions due to downloaded applications and business software. Created an unattended install process for the corporations to create new images from - due to staff change and hardware change managing the images within the organization was difficult. I created a procedure for unattended installation of the operating system with standard software and registry polices so the creation of a new image was shortened from 4 hours to 25 minutes. Research and Development - was asked to lead research for new software and hardware for the organization. I made recommendations on new software, hardware to meet business requirements. Show less

Created vision for information Systems - created 3 and 5 year plans Implemented a Meditech systems to address clinical systems deficiencies. Stabilized network operations - The day I started with Powell River Health the main NDS server failed due to hardware. I rebuilt the NDS structure and upgraded to the latest Novell operating system. I lead the migration of the rest of the server infrastructure to Novell 5. Created operational and capital budgets in consultation with Senior… Show more Created vision for information Systems - created 3 and 5 year plans Implemented a Meditech systems to address clinical systems deficiencies. Stabilized network operations - The day I started with Powell River Health the main NDS server failed due to hardware. I rebuilt the NDS structure and upgraded to the latest Novell operating system. I lead the migration of the rest of the server infrastructure to Novell 5. Created operational and capital budgets in consultation with Senior LeadershipImplemented a backup system to address the lack of backup procedure.Implemented a new virus system to centrally manage virus updates.I lead a dictation project to address the needs of another Health region and thus share service and mitigate costs associated with the system.Lead requirement gathering sessions with diverse groups of departments and cross section of staffing levels within the team. Managed a team of three IS staff for day to day operations. Show less

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Master Of Business Administration

February 12 2014 Graduate

Graduate Diploma; Phase 1 Of Mba, Business Administration

Diploma, Business Information Systems

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