James H. Connors

adljy6@r.postjobfree.com

262-***-****

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sr. IT Director of Technology, Reading Hospital, West Reading, PA

Large (750 bed) Teaching Hospital March 2012 –

Manage a staff of thirty-eight IT professionals.

Responsible for all data and servers (2,500+ \ 97% virtualized).

Designed and maintain two primary data centers.

Assist with the health systems marketing efforts.

Represented the IT Department on all construction projects.

Support sixty-two remote sites.

De-commissioned Cerner EHR and backed up all legacy data to fast storage.

Manage all firewall rules and security settings on various appliances.

Support Epic EHR at the facility.

Secured Most Wired status for the health system 2014, 2015.

Manage the Help Desk facility and all field support 7x24x365.

Provide technical assessments of recommended/requested projects.

Serve as technical liaison between hospital executive team and IT Department.

Develop the enterprise IT Technology budget (capital and operating), maintain same.

Virtualized the server farm for HA.

Implement and maintain ITIL standards\best practices to all technical projects and configurations.

Implemented and maintain Vocera.

Develop and maintain interfaces to the Epic EMR.

Implemented and supported GetWell Network application software and hardware

Implemented and maintained Epic 2012,2014, and 2015 EHR

IT Director, Agnesian Healthcare, Fond du Lac, WI,

Medium size critical care hospital system Outsourced IT Dept. ACS May 2007-March 2012

Responsible for all data and voice assets, including security..

Support all applications at the two hospital facility.

Implemented Citrix upgrades..

Project lead for Cerner PACS implementation.

Implemented and managed the Help Desk facility.

Designed wireless networks for twenty-three remote clinics.

Re-designed hospital MDF.

Managed and mentored a staff of twenty-seven professionals.

James H. Connors

IT Director, Quest Diagnostics, Inc., Wood Dale, IL March 2003-

Leading clinical reference laboratory in the US. May 2007

Managed a staff of twenty-three to thirty technology professionals.

Directly supported marketing efforts with physicians/clinics/hospitals.

Responsible for HIPAA compliance in relationship to technology.

Developed technology procedures and processes for a clinical reference laboratory.

Initiated and maintain a regional tech support team facility.

Supported 2300 clients throughout a seven state region.

Developed and implement client/vendor interfaces (major health care enterprise systems).

Facilitated development and management of a budget of $3.7 million.

Responsible for the implementation of technical enhancements to enterprise systems.

Maintained all business unit voice and data assets supporting 1700 local employees.

Interfaced daily with laboratory and client health care professionals.

Director of Technology, Libertyville CHSD128, Libertyville, IL February 1997-

Large, multi-campus suburban high school district. March 2003

Designed and Re-engineered the District’s 1900 node LAN at the original Libertyville HS.

Conducted contractual negotiations with a variety of hardware and software vendors.

Managed the PeopleSoft Payroll/HRIS implementation.

Recruited and reorganized the District’s Computer Support Services Department/Help Desk.

Designed and implemented at 1700 node Novell network in a new District high school

Developed the District’s first Strategic Technology Plan and comprehensive Business Plan.

Interfaced with all levels of the District board, administration, staff, students and community.

Re-engineered and maintained the District’s telecommunications system.

Created and implemented project work plans for the People Soft HRIS implementation.

Initiated RFP’s and interfaced with a variety of hardware and software vendors.

Responsible for a District technology budget of up to $2.25 million.

Developed and conducted detailed system testing processes.

Managed the implementation of the ORACLE G/L

Chaired the district building construction committee.

Developed and maintained the departmental quality assurance program. Present to and advise the laboratory senior leadership team.

Provided leadership to major capital initiatives including the replacement of two complete telephone systems and major upgrade to the laboratory and imaging system

James H. Connors

Director of Management Information Systems St. James Hospital and Health Centers, Chicago Heights, IL.

Two facility hospital system with 6oo beds. Part of the Sisters of St. Francis, July 1993-Feb. 1997

Re-engineered the entire Hospital’s LAN and WAN to twenty-three remote clinics/physicians’ offices.

Installed a suite of enterprise application software packages using a project life cycle methodology.

Managed a department of 23 staff members in an IBM mainframe and LAN/WAN client server environment providing 7/24 service.

Developed and managed the medical Center’s Help Desk facility.

Interfaced with all levels of hospital medical, business, board of directors and administrative staffs.

Managed the connectivity of twelve remote, area clinics to the main network.

Implemented People Soft HRIS application software in a mid-range and mainframe environment.

Establish and maintain MIS standards.

Re-engineered and maintained the Hospital’s telecommunications systems.

Manage an MIS capital budget of $1.4 million.

Provided data processing expertise to the hospital’s board of directors and executive management.

Conducted contract negotiations with a wide variety of hardware and software vendors.

Manager of Quality Assurance and Implementations Fermi National Accelerator

Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, Batavia, IL,

International renowned physics/physical science research facility. Jan. 1990-July 1993

Developed and implemented site wide, comprehensive data processing standards.

Authored formal requirements definition documents.

Developed detailed program coding specifications.

Developed, tested and implemented program code.

Developed and conducted user data processing training classes.

Developed user training materials and user guides.

Conducted contract negotiations with various hardware and software vendors.

Developed and conducted detailed system testing processes.

Managed the implementation of the ORACLE G/L in a DEC environment.

Managed the People Soft Payroll/HRIS implementation. Developed and maintained the departmental quality assurance program

James H. Connors

EDUCATION:

University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, BS Education\Math

Chicago State University Graduate School, Chicago, IL, MA Program

Myriad Technical / Project Management Classes and Seminars

CERTIFICATIONS:

Six Sigma Green Belt

MCSE

TECHNICAL ENVIRONMENTS:

Cerner

IBM Mainframe

MSServer20xx

VMWare

Vocera

GetWell Network

Sequel Server

SharePoint

SQL

ORACLE

McKesson Suite of Applications

Meditech

NextGen

Epic EMR

ITIL

HealthLand

MS Windows XP, 7, 10

MS Office

Contact this candidate