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Chicago, Il, Us

Burlington, Massachusetts, Us

• Strategically overhauled cybersecurity framework, enhancing regulatory compliance, risk mitigation, and incident management, thereby significantly increasing organizational resilience against cyber threats.• Elevated cybersecurity capabilities by leading team development and deploying cutting-edge security technologies, including CyberArk, Crowdstrike Falcon End Point Protection, Rapid7, Asimily, ProofPoint, and Azure solutions (Sentinel, AD).• Enhanced vendor and third-party risk management, fortifying the security perimeter and minimizing exposure to external vulnerabilities.• Championed comprehensive cybersecurity awareness and training initiatives, significantly boosting staff proficiency in identifying and mitigating potential cyber risks.• Provided strategic security direction, aligning security initiatives with organizational goals through adept budget management and cost-efficiency strategies.• Decreased cybersecurity insurance premiums by advancing the security posture.• Achieved zero financial loss, data exfiltration, and infiltration while successfully defending against sustained, multi-approach cyber attacks.• Decreased cybersecurity insurance premiums by significantly enhancing the organization's security posture.

Burlington, Massachusetts, Us

• Strategic Technology Visionary: Spearheaded the development and execution of a forward-looking technology strategy, aligning IT innovations with corporate objectives to drive growth, enhance operational efficiency, and bolster competitive advantage.• Cloud Infrastructure and Operations: Established a Cloud Center of Excellence (CCOE) to deploy the first Epic EHR system on AWS, achieving full availability, data durability, cost optimization, and ransomware resistance. This initiative resulted in a staffing efficiency ratio of 1:3 compared to traditional on-premises models. Migrated over 180 third-party applications to AWS and Azure, including PACS, Cloverleaf, AD Domain controllers, and Exchange.• Vendor and Partnership Management: Led outsourcing contracts that decreased the IT OPEX budget by $4M annually for End User Technology (EUT), Service Desk, on-premises network, server, and storage.Agile Development and Continuous Delivery: Increased infrastructure work-in-progress (WIP) limits by 200%, reduced deployment time, and enhanced the scope and quality of deliverables.• Team Leadership and Talent Development: Built and led a high-performing IT team of over 225 professionals, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement, while enhancing team capabilities through targeted development programs.• Budget Management and Cost Optimization: Decreased the FY23/FY24 IT Division budget by 20% while increasing services, quality, and timelines.• Data-Driven Decision-Making: Implemented advanced data analytics and business intelligence solutions to provide actionable insights, driving data-informed decision-making across the organization and improving performance metrics by 40%.

• Successfully led full migration of on-premises Exchange servers to Microsoft 365, consolidating multiple domains into single, streamlined instance, enhancing operational efficiency, and reducing IT overhead.• Optimized IT Project Management Office (PMO), implementing best practices and methodologies that increased project delivery efficiency and improved stakeholder satisfaction.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

• Transformed and led IT PMO, directing 30+ project managers across 350+ annual projects with $120M budget, effectively internalizing $7.6M in consultancy services into in-house operations, showcasing strategic leadership, cost-efficiency, and strong capability in rescuing underperforming projects and stabilizing failing IT infrastructure systems.• Achieved $16.5M in savings over five years and improved project delivery speed by 30% by implementing 'just in time' resource management strategy, optimizing resource efficiency, and significantly cutting expenses.• Concentrated on aligning resource allocation with demand, managing risks, ensuring project delivery meets quality and scope requirements, leading organizational changes, maintaining budget control, and specializing in rescue of critical programs and stabilization of at-risk IT infrastructure, demonstrating comprehensive approach to IT project and program management.

My wife and I have founded and operate a humanitarian outreach charity that servers 75 to 100 people weekly who are experiencing homelessness within the West Side and Loop of Chicago. The mission of this charity is to incrementally improve the lives of people who are homeless relating to their medical care, nutrition, hygiene and dignity.The vision of this outreach is to provide services that would raise the quality of life for a homeless person by increments of three hours, three days and/or three months by addressing immediate lifesaving needs; items and services for short-term safety and self-worth; and navigating paths for sustainable success.The core values of this service will be guided by the believe that all people merit basic humanity outreach.

Madison, Wi, Us

• Accountable for developing and executing PMO and Enterprise/Project Portfolio (EPPM) strategy, aligning strategic objectives to deliver projects on time and within budget, while maintaining comprehensive cross-technology perspective and leading teams through established processes.

Madison, Wi, Us

• Led seamless transition to ICD-10, overseeing remediation of 135 applications and implementing strategic upgrades that not only enhanced billing accuracy but also increased revenue by 26% through coding specificity, ensuring stakeholder satisfaction and setting stage for continuous operational improvement.

Boston, Ma, Us

• Assisted in formation of EPIC EHR builder teams for inpatient and outpatient systems to full 100% certification completions.• Directed design and build of EPIC EHR across ambulatory services for 850 providers in 60 sub-specialties and 180 departments, transitioning from GE Logician and serving over 2,000 users.• Assisted in Epic Facility Build and managed Ambulatory 25% build complete milestones

South Lake Tahoe, Ca, Us

• Spearheaded full lifecycle of two major enterprise implementations: 2001 EPIC Ambulatory system and 2007 GE Centricity EHR and Practice Management system, demonstrating comprehensive project leadership from inception to completion.• Oversaw Ambulatory IT Portfolio, ensuring strategic alignment and effective management of technology initiatives to support healthcare operations.• Established IT Project Management Office (PMO) for Enterprise Programs and Projects, laying foundation for structured project management practices and enhancing organizational project delivery capabilities.

I was an offsite contractor working on data abstraction and query design in SQL Server and Oracle 9i SQL PLUS. These extractions were for GE Centricity and EPIC EHRs.

• Chief Application Architect and CTO for National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Pregnancy and Perinatology Branch (PPB) Research Electronic Health Record: W.I.N.D. (Women's Infant Neonatal Database) system.• As Chief Application Architect, developed and implemented strategic vision for application architecture aligned with organizational objectives, involving design of integrated systems, establishment of governance standards, and oversight of application development to ensure compliance with business, security, and technology requirements. Led and mentored multidisciplinary team, fostering innovation and continuous improvement.• Engaged with stakeholders across business, IT, and external partners to negotiate technology decisions, managing resources and budgets efficiently to deliver scalable, robust applications. Stayed ahead of technology trends to drive innovation, evaluated new technologies for competitive advantage, and managed risks to ensure business continuity.

East Lansing, Mi, Us

I was the application engineer and db administrator for the National FINS Research Protocol. These duties including the development and deployment of a comprehensive reproductive endocrinology and infertility database application.