Profile

Strong global IT leader with fifteen years of extensive experience in all facets of Information Technology: Infrastructure, Operations, Data Center Management, Project Management, Technical Support, Client Services, Business Continuity and Relationship Management. Customer and business focused in developing strategies to lead the business in meeting long and short-range company goals. Highly motivated, dedicated and results-driven, possessing the ability to work closely with all levels of the organization. A valued leader with the necessary skills for developing teams and strategic relationships and able to empower and motivate individuals to outperform while leading the business.

Professional Experience

Confidential

Marlborough Massachusetts

• Optos is a leading medical technology company for the design, development, manufacturing and marketing of retinal imaging devices.Confidential
• Reporting to the CEO, I am responsible for all aspects of IT in both the United States and overseas. Confidential
• Manage a global team of 14 consisting of Application Development, Infrastructure, Database Administration and Web Design.
• Responsible for developing and supporting the core business applications in use: Microsoft Dynamics CRM and GP, Sharepoint and EpiServer
• Directed the build of a custom sales management system to give the sales force complete view of the customer from any internet based PC. Achieved 100 compliance in 30 days.
• Created a custom billing system to track usage of retinal imaging devices into customer invoices.
• Reduced IT budget by 15 through vendor relations and negotiations in Telecommunications and server virtualization using VMware.
• Implemented internal Help Desk system to track and analyze trends for IT support.
• Enacted Disaster Recovery infrastructure allowing redundancy of core applications amongst various sites.
• Transitioned Network connectivity to global private network MPLS using Verizon Managed services.
• Installed global video teleconference system and VoIP telephony using MPLS connectivity.
• Created cloud based secure data storage for HIPAA related retinal images that allow viewing access over the internet.

General Electric Healthcare Confidential

Confidential is renowned for innovative information technology that truly transforms health care delivery. GE Healthcare provides a suite of proven, advanced solutions that span the entire care spectrum from independent physician practices, to academic medical centers, to a large and complex integrated delivery networks.

Program Manager

Responsible for completing the integration and acquisition activities of IDX Systems by GE Healthcare. Activities included but were not limited to: Budget planning, Business Intelligence, Infrastructure and Cost Reductions.

IDX Systems Corporation Confidential

IDX Systems Corporation was a leading provider of software, services and technologies for healthcare provider organizations. IDX provided seamless, efficient access to the broad and complex information associated with patient care and the business issues that surround it.

Director IS Development Data Center

• Reporting to the Senior VP/CIO, this position is responsible for Infrastructure and Service Support of all locations in the United States and United Kingdom. Management of functional areas include: Enterprise Business Servers and Applications: Oracle, PeopleSoft, Lotus Notes, Messaging, UNIX and VMS administration. Work closely with other Business Manager's to ensure business alignment with Networking and Telecommunications organizations. Additional responsibilities include participation in strategic development of IDX IT Corporate Strategy and SOX Compliance. Annual IT budget
• Globally manage 24 direct reports supporting 500 Mission Critical Servers on an International Network.
• Responsible for developing business processes to support patch management, hardware and operating system upgrades and a Disaster Recovery Strategy.
• Managed a team of Oracle DBA's to support the global implementation of PeopleSoft's ERP solution successfully migrated developers' code into production environments.
• Acted as Information Technology Integration Leader through acquisition of IDX by GE. Integrated HR applications, Business Intelligence, ASP, Infrastructure and Contracts Synergies.
• Led a team responsible for internal IT SOX compliance. Created COBIT matrix used to track key controls in IT environment.
• Developed strategic relationships with H-P, Dell, and IBM for Enterprise Server and Storage Acquisition, Services and Support.
• Developed strategic relationships with Sales, Network Operations, Telecommunications, Service Support and Finance.
• Negotiated numerous contracts with customers and third party vendors.
• Created a variance tool to track budget progress.

Data Center Manager

• Built and expanded a corporate e-mail system Lotus Notes including virus protection and spam filtering, load balanced across multiple internet gateways.
• Deployed a corporate wide collaboration tool Lotus Notes .
• Managed a group of eight developers, support analysts and system administrators.
• IT representative on Y2K compliance program.