James J. McKenzie
***** ****** *** **** *, Apt. *07 Wesley Chapel, Florida 33544• H: 813-***-**** C: 813-***-****
CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER
An experienced technology leader in both higher Education and Healthcare
Professional History
University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida
Asst. Vice President of Technology/Chief Information Officer 2005-
PRESENT
Senior Director of Network Services
1996-2005
• IT leader for 500 physician Practice Management Group, including imaging and surgical
centers
• IT leader for Colleges of Medicine, Nursing, Public Health, Pharmacy, Physical Therapy
with approximately 13,000 faculty, staff and students
Expertise includes management of Networking, Application Development, Digital Media,
Training, Instructional design and Desktop support teams, to 14,000 customers
internationally. Management scale level: $ 14 million dollar budget and over one hundred
staff members. Member of AAMC Leadership Institute, HIMSS, AAMC GIR, James
Madison CM Mentor
Notable achievements during last five years
• Implemented full Electronic Health Record using Allscipts v. 11Enterprise and
GE Centricity Suites, including RIS/PACS, Viewpoint and Perioperative surgical
systems. EMR implementation reduced personnel costs 36 percent
• Designed and implemented SAP/Business Object data warehouse
• Designed and implemented Moodle platform Learning Management System
Designed and implemented PeopleSoft CRM system including HR, finance and
accounting, purchasing and more, over five years will improving SLA service
levels and value to organization
• Qualified organization for four million dollars in “Meaningful Use” funds
• Won 2008 and 2009 awards as the highest rated department head
• Founding mentor of USF Health Leadership Institute.
• Worked as “turnaround CIO”, successfully consolidated several dysfunctional
groups and disparate work cultures into one successful team, taking department to
the next level
• Personally led successful project to become the world’s first site to successfully
implement a production Electronic Health Record on I-Phones and I-Pads, enabling
organization to qualify for $ 14 million in federal economic stimulus funds, and garnering
world-wide publicity for “Paper-free Tampa Bay” project.
Raytheon E-Systems, St Petersburg, Florida
1995-1996
Asst. CIO/Director of Telecommunications and Information Technology
• Designed and implemented a new $ 6 million Network Operations Control Center and
Advanced Technology Lab for defense Top Secret level black box projects.
• Instituted sweeping dramatic change to professionalism: change control, Service Level
Agreements, performance metrics for performance,
• Led successful certification task force to certify IT shop as ISO 9001 compliant.
Management scale level: fifty-four network, application development and support personnel,
and budget of eight million dollars
Anchor Glass Container Corporation, Tampa, Florida
1993-1995
Asst. CIO/Director of Technical Services
• Successfully rebuilt culture of IT group after two corporate bankruptcies
• Led I.S. integration team with primary corporate partner Bacardi, saving a $ 65 million
dollar account for the company.
Responsible for all network, support and communications functions. Management scale: twelve
staff members and budget of three million dollars.
University Community Hospital, Tampa, Florida 1992-1993
Data Center Operations Manager/ Network Manager
• Led and completed major systems change, migrating hospital from mainframe environment to
distributed networking platform
Managed budget, reconciliations, expenditure controls, personnel review assessments and staff training.
Management scale: three network staff members, ten data center staff members. Budget responsibility of
one million dollars.
Verizon (GTE Data Services), Temple Terrace, Florida 1988-1992
Senior Systems Analyst/Premise Network Manager
• Improved system uptime percentages, while doubling primary premise network scale in two
years, improving corporate communications
Time Warner, Inc., Tampa, Florida
1987-1988
Manager Advanced Technology group
• Designed and installed network for American Family Publisher Sweepstakes/Dick Clark/Ed
McMahon campaign
• Designed, created and installed Time’s “Traffic Cop” management system that integrated all
graphics and text for Time, People and Sports Illustrated magazines.
Education
B.S. Computer Information Systems St Leo’s University cum laude
M.A. U.S. History University of South Florida