Employment
Chief Information Officer
April/2001 – December/2005- Mary Black Health System Spartanburg, SC
Responsible for all aspects of Information Technology and Telecommunications for this $400 Million integrated delivery system comprised of a 209-bed Acute Care hospital, four Medical Office buildings, two Urgent Care facilities and 32 Physician practices totaling more than 100 physicians. Mary Black is one of 53 Triad (of Plano, Tx.) hospitals.
Highly successful implementation of HR, Payroll, Materials Management and AP/GL during the conversion to Triad systems.
Headed the selection committee and spearheaded the vendor negotiations for our implementation of Fuji PACS.
Oversaw the technical portion of two MOB construction projects, 6 OR build-outs and multiple renovations.
Formed and headed the selection committee, including 5 physicians, in the selection of an Ambulatory Electronic Medical Record (EMR) System for the Physician's Group.
Redesigned the Wide Area network to move to lower cost, higher performance DSL/DS3 from ISDN, saving $3,000.00 per month.
Implemented 100 Mbps Metropolitan Area Network to Urgent care facility for PACS image capture and IP Telephony.
Oversaw the migration to new Physician Practice Management system with more than 300 users.
Implemented IP Telephony (both wired and wireless) on campus and via wireless bridging to two remote office buildings.
Reduced Tele-Comm expenses by more than $7,000.00 per month.
Renegotiated maintenance agreements which allowed us to make massive improvements in our technological sophistication while growing our operating budget no more than 3% over 6 years.
Redesigned Health System Intranet to include an on-line survey tool.
Member of Corporate HIPAA and SOX compliance committee. Authored Policies and Procedures.
Member of Corporate Strategic System Selection committee. Performed detailed system technical analysis for multiple vendor systems.
Authored Disaster Recovery Plan and Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) Documentation that became templates for the entire company.
Technical Support Manager
January/1999 – April/2001 - Mary Black Health System Spartanburg, SC
Oversee of all facets of a hospital IS environment. Project leader for software development. Administration of Windows NT, Unix, Novell, Lotus Notes and AS/400. Management of professional staff responsible for all hospital systems.
Recruited to lead the turn-around of the IS department
Updated 25 of 31 hospital IS systems for Y2K compliance, several multi-level upgrades.
Development of no fewer than 15 Client Server applications for departmental automation.
Responsible for 30% improvement in IS department approval rating.
Retained key IS staff, increased IS Staff accountability and job satisfaction.
Reduced overall cost of technology. Implemented new technology in a cost effective manner.
Independent Consultant
April/1993 - Dec/1998 Philadelphia, Pa.
Independent consultant, providing Local and Wide Area Network design, analysis, troubleshooting and implementation services. Software systems needs assessment, specification and development. Intermediary between Client and Software developer.
Designed and installed local and wide area networks from 10 users to over 3000 users.
Configured and deployed more than 80 Novel and Windows NT servers.
Clients included Banking, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Legal and Government.
Developed two complete software systems, many departmental applications and several EIS systems for clients.
Received commendation from the Mayor of The City of Philadelphia for work performed in designing the City’s Network Infrastructure.
Provided Technical and End-user training.
Employment cont'd
Unisys (Burroughs) Corporation
May/1981 - April/1993 Philadelphia, Pa.
Field Engineer, Sales Associate for Computer Room design and Build services, Pre Sales Engineer for LAN/WAN implementations.
Received several awards, totaling more than $4,000.00, from the company's Employee Suggestion Program.
Rookie of the Year as a sales person for Computer Room Design and Build division.
Certified Project Manager from Unisys' internal training program.
Advanced Certification in Project Design.
US Navy
1977 - 1981
Submarine Sonar Technician
Twice recommended for admission to US Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD by Captain.
Assigned as Leading Petty Officer of Deck Division, responsible for 8 subordinates.
Honorable discharge as E5 after four years
Skills
Project Management, Project Design | Needs assessment, Systems design | Creative developer using Borland’s Delphi | Web development (Linux, Apache, CSS, XHTML, PHP, XML) | Staff mentor, recruiting
Affiliations
Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) | Gerson Lehrman Group Healthcare council and Information Technology council | University of South Carolina Information and Management Systems Curriculum Board
Training
Formal Course-work
Digital circuitry and logic flow Navy 1979
Digital circuit design fundamentals Navy 1979
Cobol programming, basic Burroughs 1982
Pascal programming, basic Burroughs 1982
Cobol programming , intermediate Burroughs 1983
Fundamentals of system design Burroughs 1985
Software development life cycle Burroughs 1986
Local and Wide Area Network design Unisys 1990
Advanced Local Area Network design Unisys 1990
Project Management Unisys 1992
Project Design and Requirements Def. Unisys 1992
Self-Study
Linux System Administration
Cisco IOS configuration – Router, Switch, Firewall
Network Security Assessment
Delphi programming – Client/Server
SQL Query
Internet/Intranet Programming – HTML, XHTML, CSS, XML, PHP
LAN Packet Analysis - Sniffer
Open Source Network resource implementation – DNS, Radius, DHCP, Web Server, etc |
