Thomas Burleigh, Chss, Chp Email & Phone Number

Austin, Tx, Us

Austin, Tx, Us

Dublin 2, Ie

• Reduced overall incident volume by nearly 80% since start of Accenture BPO contract for hundreds of HIPAA incidents of various size and impacts.• Trains and supervises assigned team to assure continued compliance with reporting requirements.• Informs leadership on matters relating to HIPAA compliance involving the organization or the Texas Health and Human Services Commission client.• Often a key leader or participant involving various TX-HHSC State Action Requests, Corrective Action Plans, or other urgent matters involving TX-HHSC.• Successful annual employee refresher training with 100% participation accountability each year.• Performed Root Cause Analyses and developed Corrective Action Plans to address past HIPAA violations (before start of employment) and prevented up to $10 million liquidated damages.• Successful annual TX-HHSC HIPAA, SSAE-16, and / or OIG audits.

Ridgeland, Mississippi, Us

• Provided HIPAA and IT knowledge and expertise for various clients’ projects.• Conducted gap analysis and upgraded regional auditing firm's HIPAA walk-through and security controls testing process.• HIPAA Security walk-through reviews and reports for two hospital organizations with multiple campuses and clinics. Review, testing, and findings reports for aforementioned client's HIPAA policies and supporting evidence documentation.• Engaged with state-wide medical records service as HIPAA expert and de-facto compliance officer. Reviewed client's past and current incident documents to assure due diligence regarding the HIPAA Breach Notification Rule. Provided HIPAA expert consulting reviews of project in progress by client's IT consultant.

Lafayette, La, Us

• Full responsibility for HIPAA and Sarbanes-Oxley policies, audits, and other IT functions collaborating with leadership and committees. Supervised subordinates, vendors, and committee members.• Developed policies implementing HIPAA Security, HITECH, and Breach Notification Rules. • Established SOX IT controls and implemented Aline4SOX system for the 2005 NASDAQ IPO. Assured successful annual testing with independent internal and external auditors for annual SEC assertions. • Developed HIPAA training programs on learning management systems and published company newsletters.• Decentralized Request of Information processing and managed 3rd party outsourcing. • Project manager for Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) and Identity and Access Management (IAM) implementations. • Developed documentation management sites for acquisition due diligence ROI management. • Implemented and supported for WebEx and InterCall conferencing services.

• Full responsibility for I/S department's development, operations, capital & cost center budgets, research, development, conversions, implementation, supervision, and support.• Successfully prepared organization for HIPAA Privacy, Security, and TCI Rules.• Supervised subordinates, vendors, and committee members (including fellow management).• Expanded IT infrastructure from a fiscally-focused system to an enterprise-wide operations system. • Established organization's Ethernet WAN and Internet presence.• Led Charge Master and Year 2000 Committees. Back-filled various duties of the CFO, COO, Human Resources, Business Office Managers, and Payroll Operations Manager. Performed all aspects of payroll production for several years and re-engineered entire payroll operation to a distributed multi-department operation.

• Officer in charge of over 30 personnel and over $1 million of vehicles and equipment.• Held SECRET security clearance. • Operation Desert Shield / Desert Storm (1989-1990).

• Data processing operations; report printing and distribution.• Order Management System; Production Control System and Job Control Language setup.• In-house user support and many various in-house programming projects.

• Programming projects including language conversions, general ledger and payroll software.• Weekly system backups and production duties.• Point-of-contact for customer’s user support.

Gs - Applied Science, Computer Science, Business

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science