Professional Summary
Solutions-oriented Information Technology Director with 20 years of success directing a broad range of corporate IT initiatives. Committed to quality and service excellence with aptitude for launching new technology operations, including client and vendor relationships, policies and procedures, budgeting, business process, and SLAs. Demonstrated capacity to implement innovative software programs that drive awareness, decrease exposure and strengthen organizations. Experience in Enterprise Software Development (SDLC), and maintaining enterprise infrastructure and Operations.
Areas of Expertise
Strategic I.T. Planning
Enterprise Architecture Planning
Leadership & Talent Management
Budgeting & Cost Control
Clinical Data Modeling
Infrastructure Deployment
Vendor Relations
Data Center Management
Meaningful Use
Systems Integration
Agile Methodologies
Systems Security & Disaster Recovery Planning
Software Development Life Cycle
Software Development/Web Development
Education
MBA: Business Administration
University of Phoenix
Bachelor of Science: Computer Information Systems
DeVry University
Bachelor of Science: Mathematics
Pittsburg State University
Professional Experience
Software System/Engineer Consultant
Banner Health October 2005 - Current
Manage and coach teams on agile software development practices.
Lead cross-functional teams of software engineers and Software QA’s and Database Administrator’s.
Project lead that implemented system wide Systoc EMR application throughout Banner Occupational Health systems.
oCreated Disaster Recover plans and built the infrastructure of the application.
oCreated custom HL7 interfaces
oCreated custom JavaScript’s PDF patient interactive forms for the EMR application.
Banner Core team member. Created custom CCL and open engine interfaces for Cerner applications.
Worked with Cloverleaf (interface HL7 engine) to create custom interfaces into Cerner.
Created custom backend scripts in Perl, vbscript, and php.
Created custom applications/software for hospital departments where it was not feasible to buy an out of box application.
Creating automated processes to support the pilot and deployment of a system wide Windows upgrade, providing recommendations necessary to support the deployment, updating and improving the efficiency of the Microsoft Active Directory (AD) infrastructure, managing the modernization of the Windows based print server system, while providing technical leadership and guidance to the deployment and project teams related to application compatibility and functionality.
Founder/President/CEO
Old Gold Creations & Consulting, LLC 2015 - Current
Responsible for writing custom code to meet user website specifications.
Responsible for managing customer websites.
Created websites using WordPress and custom HTML/CSS code.
Providing Network/PC security
I.T. Software/Infrastructure Consulting
Software Engineer
Cerner Corporation 2001 - 2005
Responsible for writing code to meet user interface specifications.
Visual Basic, CCL) Responsibilities included: Participated in Technical and Design reviews for new
enhancements of applications.
Providing input to functional design.
Internationalization of Code.
Created custom CCL scripts to interact with VB programs in order to retrieve data from Databases.
Medical Device Interface "Application Developer".
Debugging code on client systems and recommending code changes.
Very efficient with working with HL7.
Member of the Foreign System Interface Support team (FSI) for Cerner's Health Network Architecture
Classic code. HNAC).
Mathematics / Computer Instructor
Wyandotte High School
Board of Education -- Kansas City Kansas Public Schools 1996 – 2001
Instructed classes in the following: Pre-Calculus, Trigonometry, Algebra, and Geometry. Conducted courses in Microsoft Office, PowerPoint, Access, Excel, Outlook, and basic keyboarding. Taught extensively in Excel with writing functions. In these classes I've designed different types of Tests, worksheets, and instructional presentation materials. Lectures and homework were designed to reflect emphasis on business, scientific and mathematical studies.