VP of Technology

Marcelo Yezzi

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Fort Myers, FL 33919

Cell 239-***-****

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https://www.linkedin.com/li/marceloyezzi

CAREER SUMMARY

Managerial and hands-on experience in customer-focused, technologically challenging, and fast-moving health care business arena. Dynamic leadership skills with strong project management, budgeting, team building, M&A, and planning successes. Strong communicator noted for transforming IT organizations, enhancing revenue, and cutting costs. Bilingual in English and Spanish. AREAS OF KNOWLEDGE

• Budgeting • Radiation Oncology clinic operations • Doctor practices • HIPAA • PCI • Mergers and Acquisitions • Server Infrastructure • Networking and Telephony infrastructure • Virtualization • Datacenter Operations • Security

WORK EXPERIENCE

21st Century Oncology, Fort Myers, FL 9/2000 – Present Specialized healthcare group operating more than 150 freestanding radiation oncology clinics and over 200 physician offices in seventeen states and eight Latin America countries with annual revenues exceeding $1B. VP of Technology (9/2016 – Present)

Responsible for all aspects of IT Infrastructure: Datacenter operations, 1700+ servers, 6000+ node network, 12M budget. Leading a team of 14 professionals, including two managers. Report to the CIO Accomplishments:

- reduced telecom expenses by over 1M

- introduced the use of Office 365, reducing costs of licensing and improving collaboration

- reduced auxiliary backup copy costs by 70% by re-negotiating cloud storage contract

- reduced Microsoft SQL server licensing costs by creating a VMware cluster for SQL exclusive use

- re-negotiated EMC storage system maintenance cost, reducing it by 30%

- reduced the cost of adding nodes to main VMware cluster by adopting new server technologies

- designed fully redundant billing system infrastructure

- implemented PCI compliant pharmacy and Corporate Collections operation.

- Increased perimeter security in all 400+ offices by adopting next generation firewalls

- Developed corporate-wide PACS system

Director of Clinical IT Infrastructure (6/2010 – 9/2016) Responsible for the operation of 150 Radiation Oncology clinics with 50 hub offices (operating as datacenters) running SQL server, Citrix farms and regional domain controllers serving over 2000 users and treating 3000 patients per day.

Accomplishments:

- Adopted non-stop server technology, bringing SQL server downtime to 0

- Adopted virtualization in the hub office, reducing infrastructure costs and increasing productivity

- Introduced on-call system administration rotation, increasing service offering and creating a predictable support structure

- Standardized the hub office server infrastructure

- Increased radiation oncology application security by adopting a new security model applied to servers

- Introduced the use of standby generators, initially adopted for large hub offices. System Services Manager (8/2004 – 6/2010)

Responsible for the servers of all radiation oncology and doctors’ practices including SQL and Citrix. Accomplishments:

- Adopted Citrix, whenever possible

- Selected alternate datacenter for disaster recovery

- Developed and implemented the company’s disaster recovery infrastructure Clinical Systems Specialist (9/2000 – 8/2004)

Responsible for providing support to a specialized group of people using complex systems used to create radiation treatment plans. Also responsible for improving their systems availability. Accomplishments:

- Reduced time to resolution of problems by adopting remote access technologies

- Reduced company-wide planning system upgrade times from months to weeks and reducing upgrade costs by eliminating travel and performing upgrades remotely The Hartford, Buenos Aires, Argentina 7/1997 – 8/2000 Argentinean branch of the US based insurance company providing life insurance and retirement accounts to customers in Argentina and Uruguay

Technology Supervisor

In charge of server, workstation and network operation, supporting over 400 users in 8 locations Accomplishments:

- Reduced connectivity costs to the branch in Uruguay by eliminating point-to-point connection and replacing it with internet based lan-to-lan VPN

- Developed and implemented helpesk system, including the application used by the helpdesk agents

- Reduced long distance costs by adoption Voice over Frame Relay technology (precursor to VoIP)

- Enabled remote office integration by the use of local cache server and phone based internet connection

Softnet, Buenos Aires, Argentina 6/1996 – 7/1997

Pre-sales engineer

Tecnet, Buenos Aires, Argentina 12/1995 – 6/1996

Post-sales engineer

Banco del Sud, Bahia Blanca, Argentina 6/1989 – 12/1995 Telecommunications specialist

EDUCATION

Universidad Nacional Del Sur, Bahia Blanca, Argentina 1981-1989 Completed 12 semester course in Electrical Engineering, focusing on digital systems and telecommunications

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