As a global director, I advise and work with account teams and clients in several countries on digital transformation strategies and cloud adoption methodologies. As a result the account teams become educated and the clients ultimately become successful. I create and deliver high quality solutions to clients focused on digital transformation and deliver workshops and trainings focused on new technology platforms and modernization.As I assist clients along their modernization and transformation journey they are gaining an understanding of how to develop and implement strategies and ensure the outcome is aligned with and addresses the business and IT challenges.

The Kyndryl Technical Specialist profession helps Kyndryl attract and retain top talent by offering a formal career path, from early professionals through executive level. It also provides employees with a positive, conducive environment in which to grow their skills and steer their career. This profession is valuable for employees, managers, Kyndryl and customers.

The Healthcare & Life Sciences Guild enables all of those who have an acumen, experience or an Interest in the Healthcare/Life Sciences industry to share ideas, collaborate on projects, get engaged and involved with others. It’s an opportunity to partner with industry leaders to grow their industry expertise and eminence. This guild creates a vibrant community of industry members that our clients can tap into to advance their HCLS agendas as well as help Kyndryl leadership grow externally throughout the industry. And most of all it's simply an opportunity to be part of something bigger than yourself.

As a Sales Leader in the Federal Space and a Healthcare/Life Sciences & Privacy Professional, I am focused on the United States Federal Agencies, such as VA (Veterans Affairs), HHS (Health & Human Services), CMS (Center for Medicaid/Medicare Services), etc. My goal is to create and maintain focused, valuable and strong trusted client relationships at all levels within the agencies. I design and make recommendations for Healthcare/Life Sciences & Privacy solutions, while applying my broad technical skills, industry knowledge, business expertise and leveraging my industry acumen.This leverages Kyndryl's offerings to meet the client's business needs, solve challenges, and enable growth. I lead, encourage and drive customers to design and deploy solutions based on Kyndryl and industry technologies. These Kyndryl and industry technologies span Cloud, Artificial Intelligence, Mobile, Social, Privacy and Security technologies. The ultimate goal is to increase customer business value & dominance.

As an Executive Healthcare/Life Sciences, Client Technical Leader & Professional, I am focused on Kyndryl's largest, most important and most complex Healthcare/Life Sciences customers in North America. My goal is to create and maintain focused, valuable and strong trusted client relationships at all levels within the client. I design solutions and make recommendations for Healthcare/Life Sciences clients while applying my broad technical skills, industry knowledge, business expertise and leveraging my industry acumen. This leverages Kyndryl's offerings to meet the client's business needs, solve challenges, and enable growth. I lead, encourage and drive customers to design and deploy solutions based on Kyndryl and industry technologies. These Kyndryl and industry technologies span Cloud, Artificial Intelligence, Mobile, Social, Privacy and Security technologies. The ultimate goal is to increase customer business value & dominance.

The Open Group is a global consortium that enables the achievement of business objectives through technology standards. This diverse membership of more than 800 organizations includes customers, systems and solutions suppliers, tool vendors, integrators, academics, and consultants across multiple industries. As the Supplier Member representative for the Open Group board, I am a channel for two-way communication between the members of the Open Group and The Open Group Governing Board.

The Open Group Professional Certification (Open Professions) Program provides a globally recognized credential enhancing your value and visibility as a professional, while enabling your organization to adopt best practices within its career model. It is a program that provides experience-based certification that has no examination requirement and:- Provides a career framework with certification already used and recognized by world leading organizations- Provides an objective, reliable measure of candidate capabilities and qualifications- Ensures a more efficient and successful recruiting process with consistently positive results- Enables organizations to formalize and recognize career progression- Helps identify the best candidates for critical roles and responsibilities

As a Chapters Task Force leader, I make connections within our global organization focusing on engaging, growing and strengthening the HIMSS Chapters. Our 58 chapters in the U.S., Canada and India are on the front line of healthcare, providing members with space to unite and make a positive impact locally.Chapters Task Force leadership includes:- Making valuable connections. Networking with fellow members in our community to solve local problems.- Exploring learning opportunities. Accessing targeted education programs, researching webinars and local events, and collaborating and innovating with experts in our regions.- Providing expertise and influence. Bring your passion and experience to a volunteer leadership role in your chapter, and share your ideas to transform health locally.- Be an Advocate for change. Reach out to local, regional and national decision makers on key health information and technology policy and advocacy issues.

(became co-Chair in January 2024)The HIMSS Cybersecurity Committee provides insights into how cybersecurity is essential for healthcare organizations, along with resources that explore common cybersecurity issues.Our committee members are thought leaders who help organizations implement strategic initiatives to promote the privacy and security of healthcare information and management systems.We provide resources that:- Encourage networking and professional advancement between peers and experts- Provide guidance on best practices for protecting health information- Improve processes and technologies for protecting healthcare systems from cyberattacks- Advance educational and professional opportunities.Cybersecurity in healthcare involves protecting electronic information and assets from unauthorized access, use and disclosure. It has three goals: protecting information confidentiality, integrity and availability―also known as the “CIA triad.”

The global TIGER (Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform) initiative is led by the HIMSS TIGER International Task Force, which is charged with providing domain expertise, leadership and guidance to activities, projects and collaborations within the global health informatics community.

This Committee is responsible for the development, administration, and governance of HIMSS credentialing programs and activities. Specifically, the Committee oversees core credentialing decisions and all important aspects of HIMSS' credentialing programs and activities, including: strategic oversight of the Certified Associate in Healthcare and Information Management Systems (CAHIMS) and the Certified Professional in Healthcare and Information Management Systems (CPHIMS) programs; definition of eligibility criteria; exam scope and content; recertification criteria and process, test development, and scoring of assessment instruments; granting of certification; marketing and promotion; and ethics and professionalism, including complaints against certificants.

KnowledgeNet Chapters bring the local privacy community together through free educational meetings and networking activities. Chapters give members opportunities to meet peers in their local area, learn something new, and earn free continuing privacy education (CPE) credits.KnowledgeNet Chapter Chairs are expected to:- Organize quarterly educational meetings for local members featuring a relevant topic and engaging presentation or discussion-- Organize at least one educational meeting annually that aligns with an IAPP Section; including, -Diversity in Privacy, Privacy Bar, Privacy Engineering, and Women Leading Privacy-- Hold at least one virtual meeting annually- Organize at least two casual networking activities for local members and guests-- Coordinate with a Young Privacy Professional if there is one in your area- Secure a knowledgeable speaker or diverse panel- Work with local organizations to donate meeting space or find an approved virtual platform- Guide new co-chairs and engage with other chapter volunteers and members- Be advocates for the IAPP in their local chapterKnowledgeNet Chapter Chairs are required to:- Serve a two-year term- Attend and actively contribute to planning- Promote their local chapter activities through social media and personal networks- Promote the privacy profession by ensuring their chapter’s meetings and activities meet member needs

The International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) is a resource for professionals who want to develop and advance their careers by helping their organizations successfully manage these risks and protect their data. In fact, we’re the world’s largest and most comprehensive global information privacy community. The IAPP is the only place that brings together the people, tools and global information management practices you need to thrive in today’s rapidly evolving information economy.

The National Black MBA Association's Vision is to increase the number of successful African American professionals in the business community. The Chicago Chapter NBMBAA is a professional Organization that serves as a resource for communicating information and ideas among Black Executives, Entrepreneurs, Educators, and Students in the Chicago area who are interested in improving the effectiveness of Black businesses and Black business professionals. As a Communications Leader, I conduct official correspondence of the organization, and help ensure our membership remains abreast of all updates and events.

The National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) is one of the largest student-governed organizations based in the United States. NSBE, founded in 1975, supports and promotes the aspirations of collegiate and pre-collegiate students and technical professionals in engineering and technology.With more than 600 chapters and more than 24,000 active members in the U.S. and abroad, NSBE’s mission is “to increase the number of culturally responsible black engineers who excel academically, succeed professionally and positively impact the community."

As a Healthcare Advisor & Professional within the NSBE organization, I am fully committed to leading and driving and helping NSBE accomplish the following objectives:- Stimulate and develop student interest in the various engineering disciplines- Strive to increase the number of minority students studying engineering at the undergraduate and graduate levels- Encourage members to seek advanced degrees in engineering or related fields and to obtain professional engineering registrations- Promote public awareness of engineering and the opportunities for Blacks and other minorities in that profession- Function as a representative body on issues and developments that affect the careers of Black Engineers- Innovative project ideas are generated and implemented throughout the year on the chapter, regional and national levels. NSBE activities include tutorial programs, group study sessions, high school/jr high outreach programs, technical seminars and workshops, a national communications network (NSBENET), two national magazines (NSBE Magazine and NSBE Bridge), an internal newsletter, a professional newsletter (Career Engineer, a supplement in NSBE Magazine), resume books, career fairs, awards, banquets and an annual national convention.NSBE Professionals seek to “inspire the next generation of technical professionals and serve as a catalyst for transforming the culture of engineering.” This is goal is achieved by empowering our members to grow technically, academically and professionally.The Healthcare Innovation Special Interest Group's Mission (HISIG) is the CARE Strategy:- Connect NSBE members interested in Healthcare Innovation with Healthcare Professionals in Academia, Government, and Industry.- Advance Healthcare Innovation through R&D and Commercialization.- Recruit & Retain members interested in Healthcare Innovation.- Educate & Expose members and the Black community to Healthcare Disparities, Innovations, and Careers.

INROADS is the nation’s largest nonprofit source of paid internships for diverse, high performing, undergraduate students. Companies that value diversity as an essential component of good business partner with INROADS to develop diverse managerial talent to fuel their businesses both today, as well as, in the future. As a talent-focused organization, the mission of INROADS is to deliver innovative programs and creative solutions that identify, accelerate, and elevate the development of underrepresented talent throughout their careers. INROADS creates unique, one-on-one relationships with each Intern to foster an environment that allows for a great fit with its various corporate partners. By providing the skills, relationships, and network needed transforms leaders – not only for corporate environments, but for their communities and the world at large.

We are a diverse group of experienced healthcare professionals working in the greater Illinois. We work at hospitals, corporate health systems, consulting firms, vendor organizations, universities, and a wide variety of other organizations. Many of us are the decision makers in our organization. Our members range from CEOs, CIOs, and other senior executives to analysts and students. We have technical members and clinical members.As the Professional Development Chair for the HIMSS Greater Illinois Chicago Chapter, I am a leader and advocate for recruiting, maintaining and advancing the level of membership of our members from basic to Senior to Fellow to Lifetime and ultimately to Lifetime Fellow membership.

As an Executive Cloud Architect, I am responsible for creating and managing end-to-end migration solutions, modernization solutions and transformations for IBM's largest and most complex accounts across the Americas. I'm also responsible for the overall Cost, Solution Quality and Deliverability of these solutions. Additionally I partner with Account teams and other Service Lines to ensure all related aspects of the solution are solutioned properly, eliminating gaps in IBM scope against Customer requirements. Finally I explain the solution, risks and reasoning for costs and mitigate business and delivery risk within the solution. This is all accomplished while creating & maintaining strong, trusted client relationships at all levels within the client's business.

As an Executive IT Architect/Cloud & Cognitive Technical Leader I am focused on IBM's largest Healthcare/Life Sciences customers in North America. My goal is to create and maintain strong, trusted client relationships at all levels within the client's business. I architect/design solutions and make recommendations for Healthcare/Life Sciences clients. I position IBM's offerings to successfully transform clients to Cloud & Watson/AI. Additionally I assist clients with building cloud native applications, modernizing their existing applications & IT, and predicting better outcomes across vast data sources. My recommendations leverage IBM technologies, architectures, integrated solutions and offerings to meet the client's business needs, solve challenges, and enable growth. In short, I help IBM Healthcare/Life Sciences customers design and deploy solutions based on IBM technologies. These technologies focus on Cloud and Cognitive/AI. The ultimate goal is to increase customer business value.

As an Executive IT Architect/Client Technical Leader I am focused on IBM's largest Healthcare/Life Sciences customers in North America. My goal is to create and maintain strong, trusted client relationships at all levels within the client's business. I design solutions and make recommendations for Healthcare/Life Sciences clients while applying my broad technical skills, industry knowledge and business expertise. These recommendations leverage IBM technologies, architectures, integrated solutions and offerings to meet the client's business needs, solve challenges, and enable growth. In short, I help IBM Healthcare/Life Sciences customers design and deploy solutions based on IBM technologies. These technologies span Cloud, Analytics, Mobile, Social and Security. The ultimate goal is to increase customer business value.

As an Executive IT Architect/Client Technical Leader I am focused on IBM's largest Distribution/Retail customers in North America. My goal is to create and maintain strong, trusted client relationships at all levels within the client's business. I design solutions and make recommendations for Distribution clients while applying my broad technical skills, industry knowledge and business expertise. These recommendations leverage IBM technologies, architectures, integrated solutions and offerings to meet the client's business needs, solve challenges, and enable growth. In short, I help IBM Distribution/Retail customers design and deploy solutions based on IBM technologies. These technologies span Cloud, Analytics, Mobile, Social and Security. The ultimate goal is to increase customer business value.

As the VP of the North American Emerging Technologies team for Service Assurance at CA Technologies, I lead a team of technology experts who work closely with clients and partners to successfully deploy and implement the CA Datacenter Solution platform. We are responsible for everything from Capacity Management planning of hardware systems to identifying the datacenter carbon footprint. Our complex platform lends itself to not only new datacenter builds but also large-scale datacenter restructuring. Additionally my team is responsible for enabling our sales field teams for newly acquired solutions by the CA Service Assurance business unit and integrating the messaging and functionality into our overall product portfolio.

As the VP of Solution Strategy of North America for Service Assurance at CA Technologies, I lead CA's Service Assurance North American sales force with a focus on Healthcare and Retail vertical markets. I work with CA's largest clients across North America in the Healthcare and Retail space to create solutions for clients, in addition to fostering partner relationships. My client list includes Healthcare Payers, Providers, Pharmaceuticals, Retailers and Food Retailers. Additionally I partner with Vendors in the Healthcare space on behalf of the clients to help create customized solutions to meet the client's needs.

As the VP of Technical Sales for North America for Service Assurance, I was responsible for merging 3 distinct businesses (Wily APM (Application Performance Management, CAs Infrastructure Management, and NetQoS Technology) to form a single entity known as Service Assurance. I led an organization of 100+ Technical Consultants to support the sales and growth opportunities of the Service Assurance business. My organization was responsible for the entire sales cycle up to the hand-off to the services/deployment team. I staffed every opportunity with qualified pre-sales resources while managing to exceed my quota.

As the Director of Technical Sales for the Wily APM Business I lead a team 50+ Technical Consultants supporting the sales and growth of the Application Performance Management market. My organization was responsible for the entire sales cycle up to the hand-off to the services/deployment team. I staffed every opportunity with qualified pre-sales resources while managing to exceed my quota.

As the Pre-Sales Manager Wily Technologies I lead a team of Technical Consultants supporting the sales and growth of the Web Application Performance market. My team was responsible for the entire sales cycle up to the hand-off to the services/deployment team. I staffed every opportunity with qualified pre-sales resources while managing to exceed my quota.

As a Pre-Sales consultant for Wily Technology I am responsible for presenting, demonstrating, and performing product trials for prospects and business partners using wanting to use the Introscope Software Solution. The Introscope software solution includes but limited to, the ability for enterprises to monitor the performance and availability of their web applications in Development, QA/Test, and Production environments. The web applications can be either Java-based or .NET-based and the DEV, TEST, and PROD teams can all collaborate during their SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle).

As a Global Pre-Sales Consultant for MetaSolv Software Inc, I am responsible for presenting, demonstrating, and performing software product trials for prospects and business partners wanting to use the MetaSolv Solution Software. I work with MetaSolv's largest global clients partners across, NorthAmerica, Caribbean, Europe, Asia, and South America. This software solution includes but limited to, the ability for companies offering telecom business services such as phone service, data service (DSL, etc) to sale, manage, and provision telecom services for their customer base.

As a Tivoli PreSales consultant I am responsible for presenting, demonstrating, and performing software product trials for prospects and business partners using the IBM Tivoli Framework Solution. This Framework solution includes but limited to, the ability for enterprises to manage users, security, servers, network, storage, and databases across their entire company. I also often engage with IBMers in other business units to perform joint Proof of Concepts and Trials.

While at MCI I was responsible for designing and implementing enterprise wide networks. I was the technical administrator for the Microsoft and UNIX platforms for hosting large-scale applications. I also deployed network and email tools such as HP Openview, Cisco Works, BMC Patrol, and Microsoft Exchange. Additionally I was involved in migrations from single point-product solutions to network-based architectures.

While at Ameritech I was responsible for managing Call Center Technologies implementing a Call Center for the Cable division of Ameritech (Americast). I managed and supported the Call Automation systems, Teloquent(ACD), Periphonics(IVR) and TeleCenter System/Workflow manager. I was also involved in the DataCenter operations within the Call Center, with respect to fundamental network monitoring and application administration.