Project Manager Health

"Bill" William L. Wilcox

Surprise, AZ

Phone: 623-***-****

E-Mail: ***************@*******.***

Executive Profile

. High achiever with strong leadership abilities. Communicate positively

with people at all levels of organizations to build strong team

environment.

. Analytical and perceptive. View problems from various perspectives and

evaluate viability of alternative solutions.

. Strong and extensive security background, HIPPA, SOX, PII, PCI, and ISG

consulting services.

. Strategic thinker and perceive possible future needs. In response to

changing technological needs, develop successful and innovative growth

strategies to expand.

. In addition to strong an healthcare background, especially attuned to

business startups, mergers, and turnaround environments

. Long-time champion of David Allen's Getting Things Done (GTD) management

process for both personal and departmental success.

Employment

VP Information Technology February

2008 - September 2010

Division Six Inc.

Alaska, New Mexico, and Texas

Division Six Inc. was a high-end IT support company, specializing in

emergency IT management support, with typical engagements from 1 to 3

months. Owners retired.

. Sat in on all new client sales to present our assessment along with

proposal to CEO's and Board of Director's.

. Acted as clients interim CIO for unexpected vacancy, or termination,

including finding their replacement CIO.

. Worked with IT mergers combining / integrating software, and hardware,

including their IT staffing.

. Preformed business process analyses and implementation plan for several

clients wile acting as CIO.

MIS Coordinator 2004 -

2008

The Wellness Coalition

Silver City, NM

The Wellness Coalition was created to deal with a Health and Human Services

grant to build a multi-payer system for healthcare in Southwest New Mexico.

. Created the RFP to find, and pick project database vender for three

million dollar grant.

. Provided high-end technical support for IS issues to organizations' IT

Managers.

. Network and infrastructure site development and internet access for the

partner agencies rural New Mexico.

. Build a networking group of technology leaders in South West New Mexico

and also the rest of New Mexico.

. Founding board member HIMSS chapter of New Mexico served as a board

member and president.

. Worked with the Border Commission, New Mexico Telecommunication

Commission, and the New Mexico Tele-health Commission.

. Negotiated and secured long term pricing with all high speed data

providers in New Mexico.

. Used my contacts to get Alaska direct pricing from Ground Control for

satellite high-speed data access for rural villages in New Mexico.

. Founding board member of the Gila (GRHIO) first implemented Regional

Health Information Organization (RHIO) in New Mexico, also board member of

the statewide Health Information Exchange (HIE) .

CTO Chief Technology Officer 2001 -

2004

DGW Inc.

Phoenix, Arizona

DGW Inc. is a private consulting company in Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico,

and Texas for CEO's specializing in discreet technical evaluation of

Information Systems administrators and staff, security systems

examinations, network infrastructure design, and hardware software cost

analyses.

. Constructed confidential reports for CEO's of their complete IS

infrastructure, to help them evaluate their current and future positions.

. Recruited and trained IT staff for assessment assignments.

. Organized and participated in white-operations with crew, of client

security systems.

. Procured and designed special tools for crews.

Information Systems Sr. Director 1998 -

2001

Lutheran Health Systems

Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, South

Dakota, and Wyoming

Lutheran Health Systems was tenth largest not-for-profit Health Care System

in the US.

Infrastructure consisted of AS/400's, IBM Desktops, Cisco, 3Com, Nortel,

and Bay Networks routers, switches, and hubs. Novell, Mac, Windows, Citrix,

and Lotus Notes operating systems. We used Cerner Millennium, PeopleSoft,

and SunQuest. lOX (GPMS), HBOc, PCN, PMS for ERP, PSA, finance, scheduling,

customer billing, records, and materials management.

. Direct the complete IS operations of Lutheran Health Systems computer

facilities with budget authority, for California and Nevada. Made up of

three hospitals, five clinics, two long-term care facilities, ambulance

systems, and mobile care systems.

. Manage the directors, IS staff, Tech-champs, and contractors to complete

facility and regional projects. As Sr. Director conducted and prepared

feasibility studies; including estimates of costs, time, and resources;

prepare statistical reports, and complete cost/benefit analysis.

. Group leader for Information Systems, Performance Improvement, JCAHO,

HIPAA, and Y2K committees.

. Present reports and conduct planning sessions with directors, doctors,

hospital administrators, local, state, and federal leaders on the computing

needs for all Lutheran Healthcare facilities.

. Pioneered the first Electronic Patient Records systems (EPR), within the

Luther Healthcare system.

Information Systems Manager 1994 - 1998

University of Alaska Anchorage

Alaska

. Directed the daily operations of the computer facilities. Delegated

technicians' work assignments and assisted in solving/troubleshooting

difficult hardware and software problems.

. Designed, installed and maintained total network solutions using multiple

NT servers, IBM AS/400's, Digital VAX/VMS, DEC Alphas, HP9000/3000s, CRAY

2, and broadband Ethernet and ATM networks.

. Managed planning of software/hardware releases, network schematics, and

capacity, reliability, and stability planning.

. Designed and tested tele-presence using audio and video conferencing for

telemedicine and tele-classrooms using fiber optic (including alpha testing

multi-wavelength single fiber over 2500KM), wireless, cable modems, and

satellite technologies.

. Design and install MS SOL interface to PeopleSoft for financial and

student records.

. Supervised and instructed faculty and staff on computer

hardware/software, Intranet/Internet solutions including how to create web

pages and databases for Intranet/Internet. Fun!

. Negotiated the purchase with Microsoft Licensing of the first ever

university-wide completely nonrestrictive Microsoft product licensing (any

Microsoft product on any machine anytime for any staff at work and at

home), for University of Alaska. This is now used by most Universities in

the USA.

. Organized all of the Schools, and departments within the university

information systems. When I started they all had independent IT personal

and budgets with purchasing authority. By the end of 4 years I had one IT

office and 1 set of staff with a unified IT budget with budget authority.

Sharing costs saved the University close to a million over the first year I

was there.

Business Association with 1993 -

1996

CASCO

Anchorage, AK

CASCO fabricated and designed racecars in Alaska.

. Designed and project manager for building an unlimited classification

road race car we called Mutant. This automotive project consisted of

building a vehicle from the ground up: design build, frame, suspension,

engine, brakes, steering, electrical layout, body construction and paint.

. Designer and taskmaster of this project I initiated and completed this

project within a very tight six-week time frame.

. I saw to it that every contributing member if they were an employee,

volunteer, contractor, or vender stayed on task and on time.

. Mutant took first place overall 1994 Alaska Fur Rendezvous Race,

. Designed and built frame/suspension on first, second, and third place

cars in 1993, 1994, 1995, and 1996...

EDUCATION:

Alaska Pacific University, Anchorage, AK

B.S., Mathematics, 1977

Graduate coursework in mathematics, and computer science

ORGANIZATIONS

Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS)

President and Chair New Mexico HIMSS, 2005-2010

Formed the Alaska Chapter HIMSS, 2010

Gila Rural Health Information Organization (GRHIO)

Chair GRHIO, 2007-2009

Mensa member 1967-1969

Triple-Nines Society member 1979-1981

One-in-a-Million Society member 1989-1991

Mega Society member 1991-1998

CERTIFICATIONS

Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)

Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE)

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