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Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area

• Responsible for a $32 million IT department with a staff of 120 supporting 700 employees and 260,000 members.• Over a two year period, reduced IT spend by $8 million annually while increasing service levels and capabilities.• Negotiated and implemented a $200 million outsourcing partnership to enhance strategic capabilities, maximize capital, and reduce the overall corporate cost structure by $10 million annually.

Gainesville, Florida

• Successfully led a team of 190 people in a $22 million project to upgrade the company’s core applications to meet ICD-10 regulatory requirements deadline.• Interim CIO for AvMed’s Information Technology organization.

Birmingham, Al.

• Led a team of 50 employees and vendors to successfully implement PeopleSoft Financials supporting over 100 hospitals across 26 states and over 10,000 employees. • Established an IT Audit function to assess, monitor, and report on IT system and security controls. • Collaborated with management to design and implement an Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) process to provide on-going monitoring and reporting to the Board of Directors. This included leading the development and implementation of an ERM reporting system to automate risk status calculations, workflow of approvals, and management reporting.

Boca Raton, Fl.

• Reported to the Audit Committee Chairman with responsibility for establishing and managing the internal and IT audit functions.

Atlanta, Ga.

• Managed both internal and IT audit resources for the medical supply, software, automation, and international business units.• Interim Senior Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer, McKesson Medical Management Group (MMG), from March 2002 through December 2002. Business unit provided support services and software to the healthcare industry with annual revenues of $186 million and operations in the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Puerto Rico.

Atlanta, Ga.

• Managed the design and implementation of accounting process and controls, organizational structure, and the implementation of SAP to support the creation of a new business unit.• Achieved annual cost saving of $1 million through the consolidation of the accounts payable process across multiple business units.

Atlanta, Ga

Birmingham, Al.

• Assumed management of a failed pharmacy system implementation and successfully implemented in less than sixty days to avoid a impending Y2K system failure of the legacy system. • Developed a restructuring plan for the IT organization resulting in annual cost savings of $2.5 million.

Long Beach, Ca