Functional Skills
Crisis Management
Strategic Planning
Accounting
Vendor Management
Health Informatics
Agile Software Development
Financial Management
Data Management
Business Intelligence
Information Security Management
Incentive Management
Communications
Supply Chain Integration
Systems Integration
Finance Transformation
Software Skills
Storage Area Network (SAN)
Salesforce
Firewall
Encryption
Sector Experience
Business Services
Financial Services
Healthcare
Social & Public Sector
Technology
Languages
Mandarin
Notable Clients
cleveland clinic
MGAC
michigan state university
Samaritan Healthcare
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Experience
SAMARITAN HEALTHCARE
Information Technology
Virtual Chief Information Officer (Contract
7/2024 - Present
• Advisor to Board, CEO and senior leadership team on optimization of technology systems and infrastructure
• Lead technology design for greenfield hospital development
• Lead technology design for greenfield hospital development
Legacy Community Health
Information Technology
Chief DigitalOfficer
5/2022 - 1/2025
• Led the strategic execution of all digital PMO initiatives across the enterprise.
• Led the technology strategy for the startup phase of CareSource Bayou Health, ensuring seamless integration of technology, operations, and compliance frameworks for Medicaid managed care.
• Founded Legacy Innovation Systems, a for-profit entity fostering innovation and growth.
• Drove cultural shift towards data-driven decision-making, implementing business intelligence tools and dashboards used by 90% of the leadership team for daily operations.
• Responsible for designing a scalable and secure technology infrastructure to support Medicaid and value based care models, optimizing claims processing, member engagement, and provider network performance.
• Redesigned IT organizational structure, creating Centers of Excellence for innovation and reducing operational costs through improved resource allocation
• Led successful implementation of a new enterprise-wide Electronic Medical Record (EMR) syst
• Led the technology strategy for the startup phase of CareSource Bayou Health, ensuring seamless integration of technology, operations, and compliance frameworks for Medicaid managed care.
• Founded Legacy Innovation Systems, a for-profit entity fostering innovation and growth.
• Drove cultural shift towards data-driven decision-making, implementing business intelligence tools and dashboards used by 90% of the leadership team for daily operations.
• Responsible for designing a scalable and secure technology infrastructure to support Medicaid and value based care models, optimizing claims processing, member engagement, and provider network performance.
• Redesigned IT organizational structure, creating Centers of Excellence for innovation and reducing operational costs through improved resource allocation
• Led successful implementation of a new enterprise-wide Electronic Medical Record (EMR) syst
Luye Medical Group (Cleveland Clinic Connected)
Information Technology
Chief Information Officer
2/2019 - 8/2020
Luye Medical Group and internationally renowned Cleveland Clinic have formed a strategic collaboration to bring value-based and patient-centered healthcare to Shanghai New Hong Qiao International Medical Center. Luye Medical is the inaugural member of the Cleveland Clinic Connected international program, which allows for patients around the world to connect with Cleveland Clinic's best practices and leading-edge technology, to improve patient care delivery in the U.S. and around the world. Hospitals in the Cleveland Clinic Connected program can access best practices and protocols created by Cleveland Clinic experts and used at Cleveland Clinic locations worldwide.
Chief Information Officer
● Leading the pre go-live strategic planning for all digital initiatives in the enterprise for the two hospitals that is expected to open in Q2 2021 and Q1 2024.
Chief Information Officer
● Leading the pre go-live strategic planning for all digital initiatives in the enterprise for the two hospitals that is expected to open in Q2 2021 and Q1 2024.
Harris Health System
Information Technology
Chief Information Officer
1/2004 - 1/2020
Harris County, Texas. It is the first accredited healthcare institution in Harris County to be designated as an NCQA Medical Home and one of the largest in the country. Harris Health System is a public academic medical center with partnerships at Baylor college of medicine, and University of Texas, Houston.
Children's Mercy Hospital
Information Technology
Chief Information Officer & Chief Digital Officer
3/2016 - 2/2019
Children's Mercy is the only free-standing children's hospital between St. Louis and Denver. It provides comprehensive care for patients from birth to 21
● Children's Mercy is consistently ranked among the leading children's hospitals in the nation and was the first hospital in Missouri or Kansas to earn the prestigious Magnet designation for excellence in patient care from the American Nurses Credentialing Center.
Chief Information Officer & Chief Digital Officer
• Within 7 months established an enterprise digital strategy that is aligned with the organization's strategy in order to set the priorities and timeline.
• Rebuild and recruit the department senior leadership team.
• Collaboration with the research institute on creating an enterprise technology portfolio to support the research mission of the organization.
• Developed an IT security program including the design of a 24x7 security operation center, implementation of the next generation firewall, and implementing other t
● Children's Mercy is consistently ranked among the leading children's hospitals in the nation and was the first hospital in Missouri or Kansas to earn the prestigious Magnet designation for excellence in patient care from the American Nurses Credentialing Center.
Chief Information Officer & Chief Digital Officer
• Within 7 months established an enterprise digital strategy that is aligned with the organization's strategy in order to set the priorities and timeline.
• Rebuild and recruit the department senior leadership team.
• Collaboration with the research institute on creating an enterprise technology portfolio to support the research mission of the organization.
• Developed an IT security program including the design of a 24x7 security operation center, implementation of the next generation firewall, and implementing other t
UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER
Information Technology
Chief Information Officer
8/2013 - 2/2016
The University of Mississippi Medical Center is the state's only academic health science center. UMMC includes six health science schools: medicine, nursing, dentistry, health-related professions, graduate studies and pharmacy. Enrollment in all programs is more than 2,800 students. Four specialized hospitals on the Jackson campus include the only children's hospital in Mississippi, a women and infants' hospital, and a critical care hospital. UMMC offers the only Level 1 trauma center, the only Level 4 neonatal intensive care nursery, and the only organ transplant programs in the state, in addition to many other referral services. University Physicians, the faculty group practice of the School of Medicine, includes 500 doctors, many of them among leaders in their field, who care for patients in the university hospitals and in clinics on campus, around the Jackson metro area, and in outreach clinics around the state. UMMC has more than 9,100 full- and part-time employees and an annual b
Cleveland Clinic Abu
Operations
Senior Director, IT Operations
3/2011 - 7/2013
In the summer of 2006, Cleveland Clinic was selected to operate Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi (CCAD) over a 15-year period under a partnership between Cleveland Clinic and Mubadala Development Company. Scheduled to be operational in 2015, CCAD will include a multi-specialty tertiary center and adjacent clinic. CCAD will initially open in Spring 2015 with beds and ultimately become a 364-bed enterprise, scalable to 490 beds. As an integrated clinic-hospital design managed under Cleveland Clinic's physician leadership and group practice model, CCAD will serve local and international patients in an environment that combines excellent amenities with world-class medical care.
Senior Director, IT Operations Led the contractual and vendor management for the IT outsource model of using a master systems integrator. Shaped the internal and external team focusing on delivering technology for a world-class organization. Managed a $60M budget and planned a parallel implementation and integration of
Senior Director, IT Operations Led the contractual and vendor management for the IT outsource model of using a master systems integrator. Shaped the internal and external team focusing on delivering technology for a world-class organization. Managed a $60M budget and planned a parallel implementation and integration of
AHMC Healthcare
Corporate Strategy & Development
Corporate Chief Information Officer
6/2007 - 3/2011
AHMC Healthcare consists of 6 comprehensive acute care facilities. The system has 1,023 total beds, with over 76,000 patients seeking care through ERs and over 200,000 total patients treated annually. AHMC has over 6,500 employees and 2,500 physicians.
Corporate Chief Information Officer Responsible for all Information Technology operation at AHMC healthcare system (7 hospitals). Led the technology standardization for the health system and was a key leader in all mergers and acquisitions transactions. Managed a team of 5 directors with a total staff of 150 operating under a matrix environment at corporate office. This role had to work closely with the regional and individual hospital executive team (CEO, CFO, COO, CNO).
● • Led the mergers of two hospitals (San Gabriel Valley Medical Center and Anaheim Regional Medical Center) and standardized on the technology platform for the system. Both hospitals went live on a new HIS system on the first day of acquisition saving the health syst
Corporate Chief Information Officer Responsible for all Information Technology operation at AHMC healthcare system (7 hospitals). Led the technology standardization for the health system and was a key leader in all mergers and acquisitions transactions. Managed a team of 5 directors with a total staff of 150 operating under a matrix environment at corporate office. This role had to work closely with the regional and individual hospital executive team (CEO, CFO, COO, CNO).
● • Led the mergers of two hospitals (San Gabriel Valley Medical Center and Anaheim Regional Medical Center) and standardized on the technology platform for the system. Both hospitals went live on a new HIS system on the first day of acquisition saving the health syst
Prime Healthcare
Information Technology
Director, Information System
5/2005 - 6/2007
Prime rescues financially distressed hospitals, saving thousands of jobs, turning them into thriving community assets and providing access to quality healthcare care for the communities they serve. Prime currently owns and/or operates 29 acute care hospitals in nine states. It is one of the nation's leading healthcare service providers with more than 30,000 employees and staff.
● Director, Information System – Sherman Oaks Hospital
• Led technology infrastructure redesign. This was a critical step to accommodate the latest technology and applications such as point of care and PACS.
• Automated radiology transcription process through deploying voice dictation service campus wide, achieved a savings of $1.2M.
• Led the initiative in automation in supply chain with the installation of supply dispensing machine throughout the hospital including the OR. This allowed the hospital the ability to track input and output of the high dollar inventory to reduce any unnecessary expenses and was
● Director, Information System – Sherman Oaks Hospital
• Led technology infrastructure redesign. This was a critical step to accommodate the latest technology and applications such as point of care and PACS.
• Automated radiology transcription process through deploying voice dictation service campus wide, achieved a savings of $1.2M.
• Led the initiative in automation in supply chain with the installation of supply dispensing machine throughout the hospital including the OR. This allowed the hospital the ability to track input and output of the high dollar inventory to reduce any unnecessary expenses and was