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Indiana, United States

Tucson, Arizona

Interim CIO at CPES providing IT advice and guidance for outsourced IT services. Conducted assessment and vetted outsourcing options. Assisted transition of Help Desk, network operations and computing resources to remote and cloud operations.

Northwest Indiana And Phoenix Az

Keeping an eye on Healthcare and Healthcare IT...when not enjoying family, fishing and Muscle Cars.

Greater Chicago Area

For Hospital in San Francisco Bay AreaProject manager for ICD-10 Implementation

At two New York State hospitals• Provide mentorship, strategy development, regulatory and security guidance and project management.• Lead completion of Stage 1 Meaningful Use Attestation including successfully passing CMS ARRA audit by Figliozzi and Company and a New York State Medicaid audit.• Developed and led the successful second year attestation program in 2013 and implemented the Stage 2 program for 2014.• Conducted 2013 Stage 1 Risk Assessment and 2014 Stage 2 Risk Assessment.• Provided mentorship for new IT Director, HIPAA security officer and IT security specialist.• Interim Manager of IT Clinical Applications group supervising Invision programmers, CVE maintenance, and Physical Therapy and other Assessments and physician order set development.• Co-project manager for Siemens Invision CPOE implementation.• PM for McKesson Horizon Patient Folder cold-feed interface project.• Write IT Policies and lead mitigation projects for deficiencies identified in Risk Assessments.At a non-profit research organization, Manhattan NY supporting research through a medical data registry of clinical intervention data from many university Medical Centers. • Trusted advisor to CEO responsible for monitoring IT Security and IT technology activities including creation and oversight of IT vendor implementation of an IT Strategic Plan.• Integrated IT Security and HIPAA Policy and Procedures within all projects and activities.• Oversight of Information Security procedures and habits of database software vendor.• Ongoing IT security and HIPAA advice to CEO.At hospital systems in New Jersey and Ohio• Conducted assessment and documented requirements for two-hospital system in Trenton, NJ, for selection of an electronic medical record (EMR) system.• Assist with ICD-9 to ICD-10 (International Diagnostic Codes) assessment for a hospital in Ohio.

Reporting to Hospital CEO, responsible for finalizing projects to improve the hospital infrastructure, disaster recovery posture and data center operations. Established formal Project Management process. Manage Request for Proposal (RFP) and contracted to outsource IS Services and contracted for McKesson Remote Hosting of Paragon applications.

Interim Chief Information Officer at Beaver Dam Community Hospitals, Inc. in Beaver Dam, WI, responsible for implementing targeted turn-around projects for hospital infrastructure, disaster recovery, data center operations, and Information Systems (I/S) services.

A not-for-profit in Northwest Indiana with 800 beds, $750M annual revenue, 42,000 admissions, 358,000 outpatient and 82,000 ER visits, 4500 employees. Three Hospitals, plus Clinics, Physician Offices, Home Health, Fitness and Performing Arts centers, Senior Living, Joint Ventures. Joined prior to merger of three hospitals in October 2001. JCAHO accredited with quality designations including Top 50 Health Grades Hospital; Top 5% Clinical Excellence, Top 5% Patient Safety. Annual IT Capital budget from $12M to $25M based on planned purchases. Expense budget of $14M.• Built and fostered IT Department from three IT groups into one Department of 83 FTE’s .• Led Acquisitions, contracts negotiations and implementations of clincal, financial, ERP applications.• Implemented hospital wired and wireless (public and private) networks; Built Microwave and fiber-optic wide-area network.• Contracted and tested off-site Disaster Recovery and then returned to in-house DR when infrastructure was sufficiently mature.• Created Information Security Program supporting HIPAA, HITECH and financial audits.• Grew IT Help Desk from 3 computer operators to 24X7 coverage with customer ranking above national healthcare averages.• Established IT Governance Council for IT operations, priorities and budgets. • Developed Indiana Health Information Exchange requirements.

Provide complete IT services for a not-for-profit integrated delivery network, serving 13 hospitals, home health agencies, a regional laboratory, and physician organizations. Reporting to the Sr. Vice President/CIO, oversees all information systems operations with a $50M budget, 9 direct reports over 180 data center and 70 hospital IT personnel at 13 locations in Indiana and Illinois. • Initiated three-year program to renew the organization’s culture, resource management, and structure.• Instituted a Project Management Office.• Formalized business continuity and disaster recovery planning.• Reorganized hospital-based staff to improve service and to provide customers a management point of contact at each location and redefined hospital IS Directors roles.• Oversaw significant growth of Internet and intranet applications.• Oversight of multi-million dollar hospital information system and mainframe replacements. • Grew and improved video-conferencing services.• Successfully prepared for Year 2000.

Opened a new office and business opportunity for IBM Global Health Services in Falls Church, VA, to serve the Department of Defense (DOD) Army, Navy, and Air Force Healthcare market.• Established cooperative agreements with non-IBM business partners in Washington, DC area focused on Department of Defense services.• Developed and executed a DOD customer Call Plan that resulted in business for IBM in four Army and Air Force Medical organizations.• Oversaw completion of 5000 Sq Ft Office area including office facilities, data network infrastructure and telephone system.

Provide centralized technology services for 45 Army hospitals and research organizations. Provided classified data processing to government agencies. Post-merger resources included $45M operations budge, facilities in three cities, and over 600 employees.

Provide IT services to the US Army Medical Department including over 45 facility-based local area networks, 40,000 email users, and 250 video conference sites for users of the Army Medical Department in the US and overseas. Responsible for $33M budget and 450 contract and permanent employees.

Corporate-level plans and policy office reporting to the Deputy Surgeon General of the Army at the headquarters which oversees all Medical activities of the Department of the Army.

Led administration, human resources, budget, safety, public affairs, logistics, and building operations supporting 500 personnel and a 40-year-old building housing offices, research laboratories and animal care facilities. Retained CIO responsibilities.

AFIP provides reference pathology testing for customers worldwide by world-renowned pathologists and was the first repository for DNA samples of US service members. Provided complete software, LAN, Internet, and client/server support for Pathology and administration.

Fitzsimons is a 500-bed regional medical center and teaching facility. It is also an Army community on a one-square mile campus. Provided complete medical and administrative IT support, communications systems, and IT policy oversight for three regional hospitals. Also provided medical photography, motion picture production, closed circuit television, video conferencing, and satellite reception and broadcasting to the community.

General responsibilities for corporate planning, policy development, and legislative coordination for medical information systems at the corporate headquarters of the Army Medical Department and the Pentagon.

Project manager for prototype Human Resource systems, including analysis and development of interfaces to medical reporting systems, Staff of seven senior analysts. Obtained MS degree in Computer & Information Sciences from Purdue University.

Commander of a field unit delivering emergency treatment and ambulance evacuation of sick and wounded soldiers with 77 medics and doctors.

Masters, Computer And Information Science

Mba Studies, Business

Bachelors, Chemistry

Activities and Societies: Army ROTCLeadership roles in ROTC Detachment ending as Student Commander Senior year.