Resume of Senior Technology Executive

Title
Senior Technology Executive

Primary Skills
Program Mgmt Business Process Improvement Application Project Mgmt Technical Services Support System Engineering

Location
US-NC-Wagram

Posted
Mar-04-08


Professional Summary

Accomplished Senior Technology Executive with extensive information technology (IT) experience implementing products in the healthcare and manufacturing environments. Trench-hardened expert in managing cross-functional teams implementing new applications and maintaining business and clinical project portfolios. Skilled at aligning strategic business plans with IT plans to ensure company success. Seasoned in tactical and strategic aspects of IT, program management, as well as consensus building among diverse groups with conflicting business objectives.

? Executive Leadership
? Program Management ? Business Process Improvement
? Application Project Management ? Technical Services Support
? System Engineering

Career Highlights
• Served as Project Manager on a 16-month project to select a new Enterprise HIS/CIS vendor. This contract was in excessive of $20 million dollars and touched nearly every hospital department.
• Negotiated telecommunication contracts to replace Telco data circuits with microwave communication systems, resulting in operational cost savings between $10,000 -- 15,000/yr.
• Participated as a Speaker at the National Healthcare Summit 2004, at Amelia Island Plantation, FL. Presentation title was Hardware Considerations for Implementing an Electronic Health Record.
• Designed and implemented a wireless WAN infrastructure to remote sites in the healthcare system. This eliminated costly Telco circuit requirements and saved over $75,000/yr in recurring costs.
• Served as Acting Associate Medical Center Director (COO) during extended absences. This included providing operational oversight for all Departments and projects managed by the COO.
• Provided leadership to integrate a hospital operating an HBOC STAR information system into Intranexus ALLEGRA information system at the main campus. This integration resulted in a one-time savings in excess of $250,000 for software upgrades and $25,000/yr in recurring maintenance costs.
• Recognized as National Preceptor/Mentor for VA IRM Management Training Program.
• Provided management and oversight for construction of a Data Center and installation of all environmental and hardware systems.

Professional Experience
April 2007-Present Shoulders Corporation, Southbury, CT
Executive Consultant to Military Health Service, Department of Defense, Falls Church, VA August 2007 to Present
Scott A. Smith

The objective of this contracting effort is to provide skilled resources in support of the business functions and Executive Management of the Clinical Information and Technology Program Office (CITPO).
• Provide project management and engineering support that includes the management and oversight of vendors/contracts responsible for systems analysis, systems design, development, testing, implementation, operations, documentation, training, logistics, maintenance of application software, and production scheduling and monitoring for the CITPO systems.
• The tasks consist of analysis of technical System Requirement Specifications, System Interface Requirements, Development Testing and Evaluation documents to ensure contractors are meeting the contract requirements of the solicitation.

Executive Consultant to Veterans Health Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs April 2007 to August 2007
The objective was creating a new organization within VHA named: Product Effectiveness Group. This group is to function as an independent review and assessment team who is focused on increasing the effectiveness of IT products utilized within VHA to ensure a high return on government IT investments. This is accomplished through the following vehicles:
• Functional reviews -- Are the requirements defined, interpreted, and being developed as requested and useful for the target user group?
• Business case reviews -- Are the business cases of high quality with measurable benefits? How did selected products actually perform against their claimed return on investment?
• Customer satisfaction reviews -- How satisfied are customers with their IT healthcare support tools? What best practices should be repeated and what lessons are to be learned?
• Knowledge management/Lessons learned -- Received from the reviews and assessments (mostly near the end of the lifecycle) and provided as recommendations and best practices during the early lifecycle business case reviews and the functional review.

These are performed for selected products throughout VHA. The necessary repeatable processes and support tools are being defined, piloted, and established for steady state operations by VHA employees.


1999-Dec 2006 EMH Regional Medical Center, Elyria, OH 450-bed Med/Surg two hospital IDN
EMH is a Solucient 9-time Top 100 Large Community Hospital recipient.

Director of Information Technology and Telecommunications
Program Manager for all corporate information technology and telecommunications activities for an Integrated Delivery Network comprised of two hospitals, three physician practices, Imaging Center, Emergency Department, Home Health Agency, Central Business Office, and Fitness Center. Directed all data, information processing, and telecommunication activities, including Clinical applications support, telephone systems, local area networks, office automation, client servers, data entry services, systems development, and maintenance contract management.
• Served as Project Manager for the selection search team to procure a new hospital information system (HIS) where vendor of choice was GE/IDX Corp. Provided leadership to consultants and hospital staff in a $20+ million search for a new HIS, Clinical Information System, Emergency Department, Document Imaging and ancillary applications.
• Participated in Contract negotiations recommending terms and conditions for a new contract for General Financials, supporting General Ledger, Accounts Payable and Materials Management. Provided oversight during the implementation of McKesson Pathways Financial Management system that began September 2005; completed April 2006. Implementation was completed on time and under budget.
Scott A. Smith

• Provided program management for HIS contracting duties of Siemens, Cerner, GE Medical Systems and other vendors providing services to the healthcare system.
• Participated with Senior Management in development of a strategic plan for corporate IT. Developed a strong vision that focused on proper planning and implementation to ensure the success of the IT Strategic Plan.
• Served as Program Manager for Information Security that was responsible for all HIPAA regulations. Worked closely with the Corporate Compliance Officer to ensure Policies and Procedures met Congressional mandates.
• Prepared, administered and managed operating budget of $3.5 million and capital budget of $3-5 million annually.

1983-1992 VA Medical Center, Danville, IL 550-bed General Med/Surg/long term care hospital
1992-1999 VA Medical Center, Cleveland, OH 700-bed General Med/Surg/long term care hospital
This is a two-hospital Acute Care/Psychiatric and Mental Health system.

Chief, Information Resources Management/CIO
Provided Program Management for all information technology and telecommunications activities for the Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals. Managed overall automation of hospitals as well as implementation of VA DHCP and VISTA electronic medical record systems. Developed local policy, and coordinated integration of national policy into IT program.
• Provided technical support for implementing a telemedicine pilot between Cleveland tertiary care center and community-based clinic with VA Medical Center.
• Developed new architecture and installation procedures for converting the VA hospital system from VAX hardware to DEC Alpha hardware, with less than 30 minutes of downtime. This procedure was a pilot supported by the national VA Office of Information in Washington, DC to be used for future medical center conversions.
• Served as Project Manager for the implementation of the VA VistA electronic health record, including, Patient Registration/ADT, Scheduling, Pharmacy, Laboratory, Nursing, Mental Health, to name a few. Participated with the VA National Headquarters to provide Computerized Patient Record System (CPRS) certification training for contractor staff. VA Cleveland was used to train and certify contractor staff to train all medical center staff throughout the VA Health System.
• Provided leadership for all data, information processing, and telecommunication activities, including telephone systems, local area networks, clinical automation, client servers, data entry services, systems development, and maintenance contract management.
• Responsible for all operating and capital budgets, and HR related duties including performance appraisals, career planning, and individual performance plans.
• Provided computer assisted systems support, utilizing the latest techniques, equipment, training, and facilities, in an effort to achieve goals.
• Performed contract negotiation for hardware investments, of $3-4 million, for six Ohio hospitals. The hardware was used to automate multiple functions within the medical centers as those IRM Services deemed appropriate.

1981-1983 Raybestos Industries, Crawfordsville, IN

Systems Analyst
• Provided analysis and programming tasks for various corporate departments. This included programming necessary reports and searches and implementation of COTS products as required.
• Analyzed and executed converting the labor and payroll system, consisting of more than 900 programs, involving over 600 employee payroll records, from RPG II to COBOL.



Scott A. Smith

1978-1981 Duncan Electric, Inc., Lafayette, IN

Programmer Analyst
• Provided analysis and programming tasks for various corporate departments. This included converting from a card reader based environment to a real-time, database environment using COBOL.

Education
Bachelor of Science, Marketing; Minor in Mathematics, Computer Science
Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN

Affiliations
• Member of Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS)
• Member of Information Systems Security Association (ISSA)

Other
• Attended numerous management training seminars and programs.
• Willing to travel.


References available upon request

Certifications
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