Employment History
MedCath Inc. (Nasdaq:MDTH) Charlotte, NC
2003-Present Director Technical Services
2000-2003 Manager Technical Services
MedCath is a national provider of cardiovascular services consisting of 13 hospitals with 727 licensed beds, 16 cath labs and 12 mobile heart cath units operating across the United States.
Managing a department of 39 technical professionals including corporate staff of 11, and field support consisting of 13 I.S. Managers and 15 LAN Administrators. Report to the Chief Information Officer.
Managed Areas:
HIS System Admin Office Automation LAN/WAN Interfaces
Network Administration Web Development Operations Help Desk
Telephony Applications Support Business Continuity
Major initiatives/accomplishments:
Increased efficiencies of department as MedCath opened 6 hospitals from March 2001 to March 2004 and grew from 150M in revenue to 590M while Tech Services only added 5 FTEs.
Increased service levels provided by Technical Services by over 60% during the first year of engagement.
Managed departmental budgets and reduced operating expenses on an average of 38% year over year and reduced capex by 22%.
Chief Architect for network infrastructure, LAN/WAN and Telephony services for all new facilities including managing RFP processes.
Replaced entire WAN infrastructure increasing service capacity to each facility eight fold, added redundant paths to each facility and reduced average monthly telecomm expenses by 12%.
Provide on-going system administration services for HIS systems including McKesson HBOC Star and Quadramed Affinity systems and Cloverleaf interfaces.
Designed new data center & managed the consolidation of 3 smaller data centers into the newly built one.
Deployed enterprise wide web access monitoring and site blocking system as well as enterprise wide help desk management system.
Implemented MedCaths first disaster recovery plan.
Presbyterian Hospital / NovantHealth, Charlotte, NC
1999-2000 Network Operations Manager
1996-1999 Project Manager / Network Operations Supervisor
1995-1996 Network Administrator
1991-1994 Network Coordinator
NovantHealth is a hospitals network with 1971 licensed beds, including: Presbyterian Hospital, Presbyterian Hospital Matthews, Presbyterian Orthopedic Hospital, Nalle Clinic, Forsyth Medical Center, Thomasville Medical Center as well as 30 physician offices, 10 outpatient facilities, a radiology imaging center and a reference laboratory located throughout North Carolina. Managed a staff of 29 direct reports. Reported to the Chief Technology Officer.
Major Initiatives:
Achieved 100% Y2K compliance five months ahead of schedule.
Deployed first email system to facility in 1994
Introduce Internet service to facility in 1995
Deployed first Intranet to facility in 1995
Lead multiple system wide system upgrades including Y2K
Centralized 14 geographically dispersed systems to centralized data center
Continuous process improvement resulting in savings to organization in excess of $350,000 over 12 months and sustained savings of $175,000 per year
Accunet Inc. Charlotte, NC
1988- 1991 President and Chief Executive Officer
System integration and consulting firm headquartered in Charlotte NC with offices in Asheville NC, Medford, NJ and Irvine, CA. Managed 17 FTEs including CFO and COO. Focus areas included local and wide area network design, development and deployment using best practices. Reached over $1M revenue at time of acquisition by regional telco.
Computer Academy/ Centrum Business Systems, Charlotte, NC
1988 Computer Training Manager
Coordinated classes, instructors and curriculum
Installed new hardware and software and Configured systems/networks
After course comprehensive telephone support
Royal Insurance (NYSE:RSA) Charlotte, NC
1986 1988 Forms Production Specialist
Designed, created and maintained production of companies 8000 active forms, custom layouts, newsletters and monthly publications on PC and Macintosh platforms.
Innovated new forms production methods using computers rather than typographical equipment that reduced production time and increased volume by as much as 70%.
Auxiliary Work Experience
Media Max Inc. Charlotte, NC
1993-1994 Owner
Internet service provider for the Carolinas
Education:
May 1985 The School of Visual Arts New York, NY
Bachelors Degree in Design
Published/Reviewed/Media
2000-2004
Online: Authored and maintain TheWholeWideWeb.com Internet portal
June 16, 1999
Article: "Clean bill of health: NovantHealth deploys BackOffice Server for mission-critical applications" published by Microsoft.
June 7th, 1999
Article: "BackOffice Rollout May Take Time" published in Information Week magazine.
May, 1999
Article: Subject of six page Microsoft "Customer Solution Overview" published by Microsoft. Also appeared on Microsofts Web site www.microsoft.com and on Microsofts TechNet CDROM. Case study outlined deployment of Microsoft BackOffice 4.5 at NovantHealth.
May 1998 to May 1999
Online: Moderator for Usenet biz.marketplace.computers.workstation Internet newsgroup that provided support/mentoring for users of midrange computer systems. (I.e. Sun, Silicon Graphics and RISC systems)
November 1995
Article: Rebuttal review for Intel Storage Express in Network Computing Magazine
August 1995
Article: "Finding a Cure for ISDN: Communications Week
1998
Radio: Wrote and delivered the "Tech Corner" report on 1110 WBT Radio during "Charlottes Morning News" on weekends. Website for report at www.joeventura.com
1994
Radio: Guest on a series of talk shows on WBT Radio with Mike Collins whos purpose was to provide forum for listeners to phone in, ask questions and seek advise on the subject of computers and technology
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