TECHNOLOGY LEADER

An innovative information technology executive offering a proven track record of success in building and enhancing enterprise SaaS/PaaS solutions while leading on/offshore teams in systems design, development, implementation, and support of global operations. Proven ability in analyzing all technology aspects of an organization to define strategic, cost-effective goals that align with short- and long-term corporate objectives, while supporting development, commercialization, and upgrades of game-changing products. Effectively recruiting, developing, and mentoring high-performance teams while adopting continuous improvement strategies, best practices, and expense controls.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Strategic Planning - C-Level Engagement - Budget Management - Performance Improvement - Team Building, Mentoring & Training - Leadership Development - Risk Analysis & Mitigation - Roadmap Design & Implementation - Product Management - Disaster Recovery - Enterprise Solutions - Policy Governance – HITRUST – HITECH – HIPAA – PCI - Regulatory Compliance - Cyber Security - Architecture Design - DevOps – ITIL - SaaS – PaaS - Cloud-based Services - Agile - SAFe - SDLC - CI/CD - Global Application Management - Infrastructure Design & Implementation - Quality Assurance – AI/ML

SELECT CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

• Led the technology M&A team through to acquisition by providing an in-depth understanding of the financial, operational management and regional strategic needs to the primary acquisition stakeholders and core technology team leads, pre- and post-acquisition. (Stericycle Communications Solutions acquired by Carenet Health - 12/1/2022)

• Embedded a 360-degree risk-based methodology approach to security in every technological aspect of the organization and collaborated with the CISO to ensure more robust security governance and efficient security operations (SecOps) where employed.

• Evaluated and led the implementation of missing or incomplete HITRUST (HIPAA, PCI DSS, NIST, and ISO), resulting in a scalable and more flexible approach to managing information security and compliance. Areas addressed included: Information Protection Program, Endpoint Protection, Wireless Security, Configuration Management, Vulnerability Management, Network Protection, Transmission Protection, Password Management, Access Control, Audit Logging & Monitoring, Third Party Assurance, Incident Management, Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery, Risk Management, Data Protection & Privacy.

• Spearheaded Tech Debt Advisory Group, implementing an effective solution in addressing and managing current and future tech debt issues, resulting in substantial savings and improved deliverables.

• Provided leadership in expanding 3DT Group’s market share from 30% to 45% while increasing profit margins 40%+.

• Architected and Managed the design, creation, and implementation of LAD. A Platform as a Service (PaaS) location-based service (LBS) solution designed for law enforcement agencies and qualified investigative firms, servicing 47 countries.

• Led the architectural design, UI/UX, Microservices and API designs for the My911 SaaS platform and application functionality of smartphone applications, My911/My911 Health. Supporting iPhone, Android, RIM, MS, and J2ME platforms. Offering features including impact management, OBD interface with airbag status monitoring, health and wellness, third-party emergency response center integration, traffic alerts, tracking, and unlimited notifications.

• Identified and introduced My911 product line diversification to achieve 65% increase in revenue and penetrate wider markets.

• Directed development and execution of the HealthEquity technology change management process, ensuring HEQs success and effectiveness in achieving profitability improving implementation growth factor 300% and enhanced bottom-line results.

• Defined, Architected and Drove the ongoing growth of internal technology Smart Tool’s at HealthEquity, resulting in annual savings of $375K.

CORE COMPETENCIES

Governance, Planning & Controls:

• Early Stage / Business Planning / Technology Roadmap / Product Management – (Stericycle/Carenet Health, 3DT Group, My911, HealthEquity, RxAmerica, Inimage Software)

• Change Management - (Stericycle/Carenet Health, HealthEquity, RxAmerica)

• SDLC / Software Architecture / DevOps / SaaS / PaaS / Portfolio Management / Architecture Management - (Stericycle/Carenet Health, 3DT Group, My911, Inimage Software, HealthEquity, RxAmerica)

• Policy and Procedure - (3DT Group, My911, Inimage Software, HealthEquity, RxAmerica)

• Business Management Liaison / SLA’s - (3DT Group, My911, Inimage Software, HealthEquity, MarketStar, RxAmerica)

• Performance Measurement / Reporting - (Stericycle/Carenet Health, 3DT Group, NASA, My911, Inimage Software, HealthEquity, MarketStar, RxAmerica, Sorenson Communications)

• Quality Assurance (QA) / Quality Control (QC) - (Stericycle/Carenet Health, 3DT Group, My911, Inimage Software, HealthEquity)

• Service Delivery / Infrastructure Management (ITIL) - (Stericycle/Carenet Health, 3DT Group, My911, HealthEquity, MarketStar)

• Security / Data Mgt. / Data Quality / Data Integrity / Disaster Recovery - (Stericycle/Carenet Health, 3DT Group, My911, Inimage Software, HealthEquity)

• Sourcing Mgt. (legal and contract) - (Stericycle/Carenet Health, 3DT Group, My911, Inimage Software, HealthEquity)

PROFESSIONAL OVERVIEW

VP, APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT AND CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE CARENET HEALTH INC. SAN ANTONIO, TX 2022-2023

Carenet Health (COMSOL acquisition 12/1/2022) is a comprehensive consumer/patient engagement platform, providing 24/7/365 support through clinical health, telehealth, online scheduling, and advocacy solutions focused on patient experience. Managed multiple direct reports, overseeing multiple Agile teams (USA/Canada remote and off-shore), including: Product Owners, Business Analyst, Project Managers, Developers (Front-end/ Back-end), DevOps, Architect’s, and Automated Quality Assurance (QA), supporting x4 SaaS Enterprise solutions on AWS and Azure.

• Successfully led the transition and implementation of PCI-PAL along with AT&T, Windstream and Lumen, ultimately allowing for the transition of a traditional based call-center to remote based agent call-center.

• Established IT annual budget in accordance with projected technology roadmap, resulting in the core value for the Comsol/Carenet acquisition.

• Led the evaluation and continued implementation of HIPAA, PCI DSS, NIST, and ISO technology guidelines, controls, processes and solutions to mitigate business risks for x4 enterprise SaaS solutions across multiple platforms (AWS, Azure and on-premise).

• Strengthened the software development lifecycle (SDLC), project and product management methodologies (PMP, SCRUM/Agile), user acceptance testing (UAT), Automated Quality Assurance (QA) and business analysis.

• Fostered cross-functional and cross-team collaboration and consistency by working closely with product design, engineering, clinical care/leadership, client success, and business leaders.

• Drove continuous improvement (productivity and quality) including the creation of microservices, restful API’s and containerized Kubernetes, resulting in improvement in how engineering planned and delivered large-scale technology programs and services.

• Managed the planning and execution of product strategy & roadmap across multiple products, providing end-to-end communication solutions to Health Systems including integration with EPIC, Cerner, Meditech, CVS, Walgreens, Athena, NextGen, eClinicalWorks (ECW), HL7 conforming platforms.

• Fostered strong relationships, internally (cross-team, Precision partners) and externally (customers, vendors, etc), acting as the main point of contact when required for project-related communications to ensuring project success.

• Successfully lead x2 key legacy SaaS solutions conversions, applying current digital technology design, build and operations capabilities and requirements, leveraging Agile product methodologies.

• Led the technology M&A team through to acquisition by providing an in-depth understanding of the financial, operational management and regional strategic needs to the primary acquisition stakeholders and core technology team leads, pre- and post-acquisition. (Stericycle Communications Solutions acquired by Carenet Health - 12/1/2022).

• Managed the required security and access controls, including: SSO, RBAC, PAM, MFA, Access Policies & Governance Password Management and Reporting & Auditing, ensuring the absolute protection of patient data across all platforms.

• Streamlined vendor cost controls by instituting stronger KPI’s within vendor management team.

• Led the discovery and implementation of new forward-thinking AI technologies that yielded competitive advantages and enhanced internal and client facing KPI’s.

EVP TECHNOLOGY 3DT GROUP INC. DALLAS, TX 2016-2022

3DT Group, a SaaS solution technology company, targeting a mission critical life-saving loophole in first-line emergency response services. Managed the architectural design, functionality, process and implementation of critical highly sensitive data (HITRUST, HITECH), high performance, scalable, location-based service enterprise solutions (SaaS) supporting 47 countries. Advising the CEO on balancing short-/long-term holding strategies to maximize market presence. Driving high-quality product development in designated sales pipelines.

• Expanded market share from 30% to 45% in two years while increasing margins by 40%+ during the same period.

• Introduced blockchain technology enhancing the security and efficiency of all SaaS solutions offered by 3DT.

• Incorporated technology guidelines, controls, processes and solutions to mitigate business risks.

• Defined, Developed, Managed and Executed the product and capabilities roadmap tailored to improve delivery, drive growth, proposal of successful bids, meeting near and long-term financial objectives and ultimately a thoughtful and high-quality experience for our clients/customers.

• Led the design and implementation of an enterprise-wide disaster recovery and business continuity plan.

• Directed high-performing teams in delivery, reporting and risk mitigation of roadmap priorities with precision communication of strategy throughout the project life cycle.

• Established a comprehensive enterprise information security program to ensure the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of relevant data. Ensuring that all systems and processes were compliant with HIPAA, PI and other applicable legal and policy requirements.

• Led core management team that drove adoption of Agile utilizing the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).

• Uncovered and introduced groundbreaking system efficiencies that slashed annual costs and led to dramatic increases in productivity.

CISO/CTO MY911 INC. DALLAS, TX 2009-2015

My911 a public emergency solution provider offering an award-winning life-saving emergency CMS Software as a Service (SaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) for smartphones, securely managing HITRUST and HITECH data in real time. Bringing to market a high-performance cloud-based SaaS platform for complete enterprise hierarchy access and user management, license fulfillment, health and wellness support, and cyber alerting.

• Directed the design, planning, implementation, and maintenance of the computing infrastructure that supported My911’s operations and business applications.

• Managed and defined the key product deliverables ensuring services and deliverables secured leadership position in the global market.

• Established a comprehensive enterprise information security program to ensure the integrity, confidentiality and availability of relevant data. Ensuring that all systems and processes were compliant with HIPAA, PI and other applicable legal and policy requirements.

• Established metrics for managing IT effectiveness and for measuring the impact of IT on the business.

• Maintained oversight of all IT projects, ensuring that commitments are properly planned, staffed, monitored and reported.

• Strategized implementation plans, estimating effort, and cost and managing progress, mitigating risks and resolve issues throughout the project life cycle and SDLC on multiple, concurrent system initiatives.

• Optimized a $10M+ annual budget and multiple teams of project managers, developers, analysts, and quality testers onshore and offshore.

• Enhance vendor management system comprising budget and staffing for multiple Vendor relationships.

• Identified and introduced product line diversification to achieve 65% increase in revenue and penetrate wider markets.

• Directed technological improvements, reducing waste and business bottlenecks.

• Maintained P&L and shouldered corporate fiscal responsibility.

• Coached and guided senior managers to improve effectiveness and policy enforcement, resulting in improved employee job satisfaction and higher performance levels.

CISO/CTO HEALTHEQUITY INC. DRAPER, UT 2007-2009

HealthEquity a NASDAQ listed company administering Health Savings Accounts (HSAs). As one of the key Change Management Executives, responsibilities included overseeing the management of technology functions for SOA: Service Oriented Architecture, including inter-departmental technology operations, onshore and offshore development, call center operations, Tier 4 multi-location, multi-grid data centers, telephony systems, helpdesk and technical support, infrastructure, project management, implementations, disaster recovery, budgets and P&L, resource management, corporate security, policy and procedure, presentations, contract negotiations, Sarbanes- Oxley and SAS70 audits.

• Managed human resources and budgeting for onshore, offshore, in-house, and remote personnel, including engineering, IT, implementation, datacenters, and call center operations.

• Successfully converted company’s legacy system, yielding annual multi-million-dollar savings.

• Introduced and enforced the continuation of ITIL and its supporting process for HealthEquity.

• Defined and managed the design and implementation of the corporate IT security, operational policies and procedures, and companywide disaster recovery best practices.

• Established and enforced IT policies, processes, portfolio management, development standards and methodologies.

• Oversaw all IT vendors and managed service agreements for computing, telecommunications, IT services, and equipment.

• Developed and managed IT operational budgets that met prevailing objectives and constraints, as per HealthEquity’s capital plan and budget.

• Headed the design and implementation of an online and handheld EMR system supporting corporate HSA programs.

• Directed development and execution of the HEQ technology change management process, ensuring HEQs success and effectiveness in achieving profitability, improved implementation growth factor 300% and enhanced profitability.

• Led HealthEquity Technology presentations and analysis, winning RFPs while acquiring all of the health savings business of American Express, Optima, and AETNA. Total book of business exceeded 500,000 lives.

TECHNOLOGY CONSULTANT USA NATIONAL 2004-2007

(Clients: RxAmerica/Longs Drugs, NASA, BlueBank, MarketStar, Sorenson Communication, Farmers Insurance)

VP, ENGINEERING INIMAGE SOFTWARE INC. HOUSTON, TX 1994-2004

SOFTWARE ENGINEER LOS ANGELES, CA 1984-2004

(CLIENTS: DISNEY, MARTIN MARIETTA AND SOLAGLAS)

EDUCATION & CREDENTIALS

Bachelor of Commerce - UNIVERSITY OF WITWATERSRAND, SOUTH AFRICA

Electronics & Instrumentation Diploma - ELECTRONIC TECHNICIAN KEMPTON PARK COLLEGE, SOUTH AFRICA

Computer Programming Courses – MAPPER 4GL SPERRY, ORANGE COUNTY, CA

ITIL V3 - PINK ELEPHANT ROLLING HILLS, IL

MCSE – MICROSOFT

WEBSITE

https://www.linkedin.com/in/larryhurwitz

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