EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

• Self-motivated leader and WOW results-driven Director IT, CIO and PMO leadership professional accustomed to leading multi-million dollar capital projects, contract negotiations, company operations, all aspects of department leadership, clinical information technology, HIS, IT/IS over 20 years my focus has been on helping healthcare and technology organizations streamline business and technology processes and maximize operational efficiencies by providing leading edge systems implementations, project and interim leadership, PI and compliance.
• Led and directed cross-functional teams, clarify, understood and managed client expectations and needs to achieve client satisfaction. Proactively identified resolved, mitigated and escalated risks and issues adhered to organizational standard procedures and processes. Often tasked or required to manage large national, international and/or particularly complex, multifaceted projects or programs and provided oversight to other members of the project management group.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• MYSQL SQL Server
• VOIP/unified messaging
• Data Center Management
• Data/Internet security
• RFP, PI, BPR, PMO
• HTML, ASP, PHP
• Meditech, Cerner, Epic
• Meaningful Use Consulting
• ICD 9 10 PM
• eMAR, EMR, CPOE
• Systems Management
• ASIC Design
• ERP/MRP/globally
• SDLC, ITIL and Six Sigma
• HIM Leadership
• Sales-order processing
• Disaster recovery planning
• Supply chain management
• Data warehousing
• Medicare, Medicaid billing
• Financial systems
• Product management
• Risk management
• Project management

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

• Systems: WIN 2k/3k/8k, Windows 7 and 8, Linux Redhat, Fedora, SUSE, Ubuntu , HPCC Rocks .
• Hardware: HP, IBM, Dell, EMC, Cisco Routers, Cisco Switches, CSU-DSU, Packet Engines, Backup devices, Drive Imagers, SMS, SAN, DAS, Fabric, Fiber, Fibre, NAS, RAID, ISCSI, IDE, Brocade, McData, SATA, Qlogic, Emulex, Infiniband and Bridgehead.
• Software: Net Objects, HP Open View, MapInfo, Bridgehead, Checkpoint, Cisco-Works, Tivoli, IIS, Exchange, Outlook, Citrix, Peregrine, Link View, EDI, TIBCO, BIAR, Net-X-ray, Navashpere, SAN Copy, Mirror View, Snap Clone, PACS, Apache, Kronos, terminal emulators, fusion, Apache, SAMBA, Mercury Quick Test, Load Runner.
• Database: Microsoft SQL, MYSQL, MS Access, People Soft, Meditech, Prognosis, eClinical Works, GE Centricity, Vehracity, Greenway, Cerner, Epic, McKesson, AllScripts, Success EHS, Humphries,
• Languages: ASP, XML and VB 6.0, Visual C , Active X, COM , HTML, XML shell scripts
• Networking: DNS, WINS, DHCP, HOSTS, TCP/IP, IPX/SPX, SNMP, SMTP, FDDI, EIGRP, RIP, BGP, CDS, VPN, FTP, Telnet, Rlogin, Frame Relay, T1, PPTP, BB, DSL, ISDN, and WAP 802.11 a,b,g .

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Confidential

Senior Project Manager Healthcare

• Healthcare Technical Project Manager in a matrix environment creating project summaries and updates, interact one-on-one or with large groups conducting presentations, managing project phases with MS Project and customized matrix, variance, PERT and all other project artifacts maintained.
• Manage medium range to large projects with the State Health Plan and Disease Management.
• Guide a team of data analysts and BS's to meet client deliverables, manage client expectations and shape product delivery and work with external vendors and conduct discovery meetings.
• Develop analytic project plans and related staffing requirements review analytic work products from staff and provide direction as appropriate, develop and deliver internal and external progress updates and work with IT to develop data capturing efficiencies and testing plans.

Confidential

Meaningful Use PM / Disaster Recovery Consultant

• Provide proactive disaster recovery consulting to CHW, Texas Health Resources, and many other healthcare systems including systems design, deployment, implementation and documentation.
• Performs data analysis of facility compliance, creates documentation of compliance issues and develops strategies for improving performance. Participates in the evaluation of the HITECH Act and applicable regulations notifies providers of regulatory changes that could impact processes, procedures centered on MU stage 1 and stage 2.
• Ensures a standardized and consistent approach relating to Meaningful Use compliance and implementation, including the development of the appropriate strategies, plans, and reports and facilitating effective communication among all team members and leadership. This ensures a methodical understanding of needs, expectations and requirements.
• Provide Meaningful use project management to over 122 providers and 3 CAH's in Mississippi.
• Provides ongoing data collection for the measurement, assessment and improvement of core, menu and clinical quality measures and conduct MU audits.

Confidential

Interim CIO/PMO

• Proactively managed a diverse array of business, financial and clinical systems team of 13 to optimize system performance and functionality and minimize disruptions to departmental operations.
• As Meaningful Use subject-matter expert, participated in the implementation of MU requirements, analyzed regulations, reviews HITECH configurations, and assesses impacts to clinical process workflow. Creates documentation for the field on the operational and clinical aspects related to Meaningful Use for the organization and conduct MU audits and manage ICD-10 project.
• Responsible for the development of project plans, including schedules and budgets for EHR and CPOE implementations. Identifies needs and develops appropriate training programs for users. Measures variances from project plans and take or recommends corrective actions, as needed. Over see implementation of EHR and testing plan.

Confidential

CIO/PMO Director Contracting Trizetto, Catholic Healthcare

• Manage and implement CareAdvance, projects for supply chain management, healthcare systems management and operations, Lawson software, and EDI Platform. Responsibilities include maintaining three WAN/LAN networks and a lab using management methodology for IT, budget analysis, user requirements, communication of project status, schedule development, and tracking.
• Establish goals, objectives, and policies. Develop and implement programs to ensure attainment of business plan for growth, profit, and branding. Implement cost-savings rules based software solutions. Primary liaison with client, Leads and directed cross-functional team leaders and third parties/vendors managed project contractual deliverables supervised progress via metrics monitored and ensured adherence to the contractual agreement time, quality/scope, and cost deliverables led presentation of internal project status reviews and held accountable for action item follow up proactively identified, resolved/mitigated and escalated risks and/or issue.
• Responsible for assuring the overall maintenance and/or new implementations of the hospitals Health Care Information System HCIS , hardware and software deployment teams, project teams and effectively using and recommending vendors including RAM, Trizetto, Ingenix, McKesson, HSS, IBM, Dell, EMC, HP.

Systems Senior Healthcare Project Manager

Confidential

• Primarily responsible for implementing HCIS systems, EMR, MM, BAR, PACS, RIS, communications and archiving solutions within the USA, Canada and Mexico for hospitals, clinics nursing homes and pharmacies.
• Established a solid record of supplying superior system solutions to a wide range of health plans serving the Medicare, Medicaid, HMO, Commercial and Federal Health Programs with a solid SDLC operation.
• Served as the BPI project manager and technical project leader on over 300 healthcare related implementations, assuring that customer expectations are exceeded.
• Systems implemented include Meditech PHA, MBO, EER, NUR, , Epic, McKesson, CareAdvance, Cerner Millennium, Philips and GE PACS, and proprietary systems to over 120 hospitals, clinics and pharmacies.
• Secondary responsibility for HCIS technical pre-sales activities, assisting the Company's Health Application Sales Support Consultant EM , systems architects and engineers to clinical office and hospital end users.

Confidential

• Contracted to manage HIM-IS division medical claims systems HW and SW software Project as a CIO, HIM and Project Manager trained and handed off newly implemented system to permanent staff upon project closure Managed 4 Meditech HIM implementations and infrastructure deployments.
• Served as the full time senior administrator for the clinical and technical support division carried out tasks assigned by the Executive Committee and its Chair investigated, and designed new HIM technical features to stabilize or exploit existing technology investments, managed 23 person team of engagement managers, clinical analysts, medical coders, business analysts computer and network engineers and super users.
• Managed project costs Ensured adherence to company SOP, policies and guidelines at the project level Assumed project leadership role in compliance at project level to organizational processes and systems such as CTMS, ART, eTMF, PSR etc., including escalation to relevant functional and operational management Participation and attendance in bid defense process Mentoring of other members of the project management team or functional leads, as required Provided feedback on project team member's performance to respective line-managers.