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Good Samaritan Hospital - San Jose

• Directs IT operations and enterprise strategy for Good Samaritan Hospital (440 beds) located in the heart of Silicon Valley, serving as the primary interface between the C-suite and IT operations. Manages 20+ staff.
• Manages ticket prioritization, IT projects and vendor relationships in support of enterprise operations and strategic planning.
• Oversees IT security for enterprise data and network infrastructure ensuring confidentiality, integrity and availability of systems.

• Led IT Department of 51 dedicated staff (4 direct/47 indirect) supporting 2,500 clinical and business end-users. Oversaw all IT operations and projects for a 220 bed medical center and regional healthcare network.
• Directed IT operations encompassing IT security, HL7 integration, biomedical device integration, network, datacenter, electronic medical record, clinical and business applications, help desk, telephone (VoIP).
• Reduced cyber vulnerabilities and strengthened overall defense posture through implementation of robust endpoint protection, regular phishing exercises, new network firewall, and enhanced intrusion detection systems.
• Directed project managers and took extreme ownership over critical projects and IT implementations that were essential to the enterprise including cyber resiliency, digital adoption, virtual workflows, telemedicine.
• Strategically led the technology lifecycle for IT systems by developing a governance process for IT contracts and aligning it with the 5 year enterprise strategic plan.
• Worked closely with the compliance department and established up to date IT policies and procedures that drove compliance throughout the organization and ensured accordance with HIPAA, SOC 2 and the CURES Act.

San Fransisco General Hospital

• Concept-to-Delivery architect of largest IT project in the history of the County of San Francisco; directed the strategic planning, scoping, contract negotiation and implementation of the Epic electronic health record.
• Directed the bio-medical device deployment and integration and stood up a team of two project managers and four analysts to ensure that hemodynamics, diagnostic imaging and echo cardiogram software was successfully.
• Directed project managers and analysts to provision test environments, ensure network readiness, established interface connectivity, conduct full software development lifecycle testing, train end users, staff the.
• Worked closely with UC San Francisco (UCSF) doctors to optimize functional requirements around best-practice clinical workflows for electronic health records.
• Negotiated the largest IT contract in the history of the County in addition to 70+ contracts with a total cost of $230 Million, negotiating aggressive timelines and SLAs that ensured expedited go-live and fast response.
• Evaluated, implemented and oversaw system security and backup procedures in accordance with regulatory requirements and HIPAA compliance.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Program Manager - System Migration and Data Integration / San Francisco General Hospital Rebuild – 2014 to 2016
• Served as IT program manager for the construction of a 400+ bed level one trauma center (San Francisco General) and ensured that all clinical applications went live including the EHR, biomed devices, PACS, lab, and.
• For 2.5 years led IT teams to successfully conduct network onboarding into data center, configuration of all hospital applications, integrated testing, training, cutover, go-live and transition to operational support.
• Provided recommendations to senior leadership and carried out executive strategy over nurse informaticists, vendors, network engineers, project managers and analysts over the course of the construction of the.
• Excelled in several high profile project manager roles for Silicon Valley customers involving IT systems upgrades and implementations for San Francisco Health Plan, Varian technologies, and Hortonworks.

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Master Of Science, Management Information Systems

Bachelor Of Science, Business Management Economics