Healthcare IT Leadership

Leading infrastructure, cloud, and AI teams for enterprise health systems.

I'm the System Director of Technology at Riverside Health System, leading a 16-person team across infrastructure, cloud, application engineering, and applied AI. I build teams that deliver — moving Epic to the cloud, standing up enterprise AI capability, and hardening systems against disruption.

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16
Engineers Led
$2M+
Annual Savings Delivered
0
Team Turnover, 3 Years Running
AWS + Azure
Multi-Cloud Leadership
Leadership Focus

Where I add the most value

Leading infrastructure, cloud, and application teams inside a health system built the operational discipline behind every one of these focus areas — where technical depth in Epic and AI meets enterprise-scale execution.

EHR Leadership & Optimization

Directing infrastructure and application teams behind enterprise Epic environments — from endpoint strategy to disaster recovery to platform modernization.

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AI Strategy & Implementation

Leading enterprise AI adoption — from on-prem inference capacity to AWS Bedrock, RAG, Knowledge Bases, and agentic workflows built for a clinical environment.

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Governance & Risk Advisory

Helping organizations build change-control and audit-trail governance, and advising legal teams on how EHR systems actually capture (and hide) information.

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Data & Interoperability Strategy

Guiding teams through FHIR, Epic's App Market, and flat-file extracts to design integrations that hold up in production, not just in demos.

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About

From Epic architecture to running the technology organization

I've spent my career at the intersection of clinical operations and enterprise technology — first as a hands-on Epic architect and consultant, then as an advisor to a CMIO, and now as the System Director of Technology leading infrastructure, cloud, and application teams for a mid-sized health system.

A clinical background gives me credibility with operational leaders; a technical one gives me credibility with my own engineers. That combination is what I bring to every team I run.

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Quick Facts
  • Current RoleSystem Director of Technology
  • Team16 Engineers, Admins & DBAs
  • CredentialsMS-IS, BSN, RN
  • CloudAWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional
  • Based inVirginia

Let's talk about your EHR program.

Whether it's implementation leadership, governance design, or an interoperability roadmap, I'd love to hear what you're working on.

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