PROFILE

Health Information Technologies Integration Strategic Planning

Information Technology Management Professional with 15 years in health care, with diverse expertise in planning, developing and implementing cutting edge information solutions to address the business needs of health care institutions. Proven ability to bring the benefits of IT to solve health care business issues while managing costs and risks. Provide strategic direction to senior management on technology.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

CONFIDENTIAL

CONFIDENTIALis a respected privately-held, for-profit, multi-site long term care organization, offering skilled nursing and rehabilitation services throughout CONFIDENTIALConnecticut, Vermont and CONFIDENTIALmanages the care of more than 4,400 patients with estimated total revenue of 500 million.

Director of Information Systems

• Responsible for the management and operation of all aspects of information technology for 25 multi-site long term care facilities with 7000 employees, with oversight for the network infrastructure, clinical/billing systems, ERP/ financial, payroll, and physical therapy/home health systems.
• Manage IT team that execute operations for hardware and software support services, network management, disaster recovery, security, end-user support and application development.
• Lead and enable the business strategy of the company through technological advances, business process improvement, innovative solutions and the implementation of large enterprise systems.
• Achieved significant cost savings and increased WAN speed, utilizing Sonicwall VPN technologies and Terminal Services.
• Developed IT strategy and execution of an enterprise-wide disaster recovery and business continuity plan.
• Project lead for implementation of ADP Payforce for 10 facilities.
• Spearhead the data migration clinical/billing, payroll and network integration of newly acquired facilities.
• Introduced Video Conferencing technology Polycom , allowing for greater collaboration, time management and cost savings
• Facilitate the centralized support of ADT/MDS/Billing Reliable , AP/GL Great Plains and payroll processing systems.
• Technical liaison to Sigmacare, providing EMR's to several NHCA facilities.
• Coordinate with the Director of Corporate Compliance to ensure the full compliance with the HIPAA privacy requirements
• Experience with vendor selection, RFP generation, and contract negotiations.
• . Deployed multiple server applications: Exchange 2003, Blackberry BES and Terminal Services.
• Order and approve all computer and networking equipment for corporate and facility locations.

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Systems Administrator

Provided support for all AIX/RS6000 functions for a 527-bed nursing home facility in a NT/NetWare 4.11 environment. Executed daily AIX/RS6000 routines for security, printing, file systems, tape backups and scripting. Supported the nursing home ADT/MDS/Billing system American Heath Care . Served as network and NT/NetWare administrative backup and assisted in network security. Performed general help-desk activities: network, hardware and software issues. Liaison to the Finance department to test billing charges for the RUGSIII case-mix project. Coordinated the migration of American Health Care ADT/MDS/Billing system from a System/36 to a RS6000 emulation . Installed Checkpoint Firewall NT /Websense Proxy software and setup a IIS4 Web Server NT . Integrated printer control and report viewing functionality into ADL. Y2K upgrade of AIX 4.14 to 4.3.2 - both hardware and software. Tested ADT/Billing system updates prior to committing to the production environment. Recommended and implemented RS6000 and PC hardware/software technologies to meet the growing needs of the facility.

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Network Administrator

Managed IT and network functions of a Novell NetWare 3.12 and AIX/RS6000 infrastructure. Maintained and supported the integration of all LAN and AIX functions - adding network printers, print queues, updates, and tape backups. Provided Reliable ADT/Billing support. Assisted in the submission of PRI's and MDS 's. Supported departmental data processing management and provided technical advice on hardware and software evaluations. Aided in the generation of the various internal and external audit reports for the finance department.

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Systems Administrator

Administration of all the technical aspects of PC hardware and software on a Novell network. Installed and supported software applications on the network. Recommended and implemented the software needs including: Contact Management, Billing, and Skiptracing. Trained professional staff to utilize software applications in the LAN environment. Utilized skiptracing techniques to locate and validate debtor information. Performed lead analysis on prospective clients. The analysis resulted in deciding the best advertising sources.

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

• Certifications: MCSE Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer with electives in TCP/IP
• MCP Microsoft Certified Professional Internet
• CNE Certified Novell Engineer - Netware 5 and NetWare 4.1 Administration
• Hardware: Dell /HP Servers, Upgrading PC hardware, IBM RS6000 UNIX , Print Servers, HP LaserJet printers,
• Laptops, Blackberrry's, wireless routers, scanning technologies.
• OS : Windows Server 2003/08 ,Exchange 2003, Win7/XP-Pro, AIX 4.3.2 UNIX , NT 4.0, Novell NetWare 4.x/3.x.
• Networking: Sonicwall VPN, Cisco routers, SSL VPN, Active Directory, WAN technologies T1, Fiber , ODBC.
• Applications: BES BlackBerry , Enterprise Treo Server, Terminal Services, Office 03/07/10, PCanywhere, VNC,
• Backup Exec, VMWARE, SQL Server, Barracuda email Spam, Monarch data mining , MS Dynamics GP ,
• ADP Payforce.
• Health Care Apps: Reliable Health Care- Charts/Visual, Sigmacare, Smartlinx Time Attendance, ADL, American Health Care.