Nate Szejniuk
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(Military Occupation Specialty Code: 8432/8404) / HMC(SW/AW), USN (Ret)
Summary of Qualifications: Programs management generalist. Skilled programs and projects manager with more than 30 years combined military and post-military experience reviewing, evaluating, analyzing and recommending courses of action in diverse operational environments. Proven strategic planner, records manager, data / technology quality manager, operational logistics (medical and disaster response focus) manager. Managed personnel issues for nimble operational medical teams (<10 people) to mass volunteer respondents (> 300 people) during disaster operations. Uses multidisciplinary / multicultural communications skills to affect systems leadership to achieve positive change.
Career Next Steps: Use my enjoyment of critical and creative thinking to explore new ways to solve old problems via more efficient and effective collaboration across an organization.
Education: Bachelors of Science in Environmental Health Sciences (focus Public Health) from East Carolina University (ECU)-1999. Master’s work in both Occupational Health and Safety (ECU) and Teaching (Liberty University).
Automated Systems: Global Systems Administrator, adept with MS Office Suite (including Outlook), Blog, Twitter, self-taught web-design, and other automated platforms awareness and capabilities.
Professional Summary: General Medical Services, Field Medical Operations and Preventive (Public Health) Medicine (Occupational Health & Safety) Specialist [Chief Hospital Corpsman, US Navy (ret), with > 20 years of experience.] Served in a number of operational, administrative and health programs compliance positions that also included integrated medical and logistics management, plus disaster/humanitarian response management.
My post-military, 1996 forward, experience includes consulting: environmental health and safety; strategy management; and, healthcare-based disaster preparedness / continuity planning.
(2011 – Present) Special Assistant, Public Health Support Services, to the President of Insightformation a leading edge strategy-aligned management firm providing direct support, primarily to healthcare clients, regarding strategy management via the InsightVision strategy-aligned management platform as a Global Systems Administrator. Supports industry education regarding how to facilitate / serve as Collective Impact Backbone Organization and company internal objectives regarding business development via market research and outreach.
(1996 – Present) Independent Health /Safety, Disaster Preparedness and Production Improvement Consultant. Clients have included: Grady-Whites Boats in Greenville, NC; NC Carolina’s Turkeys in Mt. Olive, NC; Caldwell Fabrications, in Greenville, NC; Metrics, Greenville, NC; The Redwoods Group, Raleigh, NC; Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, NC; and, Center for Healthcare Emergency Readiness (CHCER).
(2006 – 2007) Security & Preparedness Director McLeod Healthcare System Florence, SC. Hired to lead
redesign of security infrastructure and improvement of preparedness planning & coordination, including working with frontline service vendors such as AVP, Inc. and Johnson Controls to improve general security operations including installation of an advanced child and infant security system and response protocols as part of an integrated disaster response process. This included oversight of $1.5 M personal/equipment budget and > 45 armed security officers.
(2003 – 2006) Disaster Management Coordinator for the University of North Carolina Health Care System (UNCHCS) Level-1 Trauma Center. This community-based emergency response program covered the
Chapel Hill and Orange County, NC metropolitan area. Managed several Bioterrorism grants that increased various response capacities including medical centric decontamination for the UNCHCS. Served on North Carolina Hospital Association Bioterrorism Working Group regarding collective efforts to create policy and protocols for healthcare preparedness. Oversaw installation of CHEMPACK and development of the ZUMRO enabled mobile decontamination system. Evaluated, coordinated, developed a number of bioterrorism exercises. Also, served on Hospital Incident Command System (HICS) National Working Group to help revise and extend national policies and unify standards regarding healthcare-based disaster response processes. Served as a facilitator at the Center for Domestic Preparedness NOBLE Training Center in Anniston, Alabama on both the HERT (Hospital Emergency Response Team) and HLC (Healthcare Leadership) courses. Have supported ICS 300 and 400 operations.
(2009 – 2012) Part-time Human Anatomy & Physiology instructor in Health Science education (2 year
programs supporting career fields in pre-nursing, pharmacy technicians, health records management
specialists, and other healthcare fields for students at the Charlottesville campus of National College (now
American National University - ANU).
(1975 – 1996) US Navy, assignment with various operational units (e.g. USS Coral Sea, USS Inchon, USS Iwo Jima, USS Charleston, 3rd Force Services Support Group, 3rd Medical Battalion / Group Surgeon – Okinawa, Japan) and fixed medical facilities (e.g. Naval Aerospace and Regional Medical Center – Pensacola, FL; Naval Hospital – Portsmouth, Va.; and United States Naval Hospital-Yokosuka, Japan) to name a few. Served as Administrative Manager for Surgical Support Team #5 sustaining a C-1 (100% – maximum preparedness to respond) performance standard to support military medical and humanitarian response operations (e.g. Hurricane Fredrick; Kobe, Japan Earthquake; etc.). Fleet Liaison Coordinator (aka Appointments Manager) for Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, Virginia (scheduling >1000 appointments/ month for over 30 individual clinics form Orthopedics to Dermatology) in a high operational tempo reducing appointment NO SHOWS by > 75%. Experience also includes serving as a lead team member for both Environmental Health and Industrial Hygiene Survey (EHS / IHS) teams that evaluated and provided corrective action reports/briefings to senior operational managers responsible for oversight of these activities. Other general duties have include EMR Management and management of other high level programs.
Articles Written:
2008 - Inside Homeland Security (http://www.abchs.com/xsecure/chs/pdf/archives/IHS_V5_I5.pdf) entitled Hospital Incident Command Systems (HICS) and Homeland Security (HLS): The Need for Continued Quality Improvement.
Other Volunteer / Related Experience: I have a volunteer for many years as shown below –
(1976 – Present) Scouting (various unit, district, council and national roles) engaged in youth and adult leader development. Eagle ‘72 w/ palms. District Award of Merit. Served on three National Scout Jamboree staffs. Also services as counselor for Sustainability, Environmental Science and Public Health merit badges.
(1977 – Present) American Red Cross (various roles as a CPR, First Aid, Disaster Services, Aquatics
instructor; plus, roles as a shelter operations manager, a disaster relief warehouse distribution center manager (Hurricane Floyd- Pitt County, NC) and EOC liaison officer. Received Volunteer of the Year Award for service during 1999.
(1992 – Present) Coach for (U14) youth soccer and scholastic chess for kids from 1st – 12th grade. Since 2008, this includes developing a 501c3 K-12 chess education program in Charlottesville City / Albemarle County, Va. See website - www.playingaceschess.org to learn more.