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Division Director, Research and Collaboration Systems 2008 - Present

Director, Web Strategies 2007 - 2008

Director, Research Information Services 2002 – 2008

Rapid progression through increasingly responsible positions at this major research university and 560 bed hospital with over $300 Million in research funding, 730,000 patient visits and schools of Medicine, Nursing, Dentistry and Pharmacy.  Originally recruited to establish a new unit supporting research information system needs, the role expanded to include responsibility for all OHSU activities on the web and finally the formation of a new division within the Information Technology Group incorporating both the Web and Research units along with a third unit responsible for collaboration and workflow systems. 

Expertise Management and Collaboration - Created a system of expertise repositories for researchers, physicians and educators managing CV’s, biosketches, publications, funding, internal and public profiles.  Introduced Web 2.0 and semantic technologies to facilitate collaboration.  Created a web-based “technology portal” to promote technologies available for licensing and manage material transfer agreemenh0 h0 ts.  Lead institutional participation in the InCommon Federation for multi-institution collaboration.

Research Support – Created comprehensive Electronic Research Administration infrastructure managing the full research lifecycle from all perspectives, including compliance, finance, reporting and disclosure.  Advised laboratories and research centers on application of information technologies to facilitate research.  Directed the integration of the EPIC electronic medical record with the clinical research enterprise.

Information Systems – Responsible for all information systems supporting the management of the University IT infrastructure including change management, request management, ticket tracking, cable and telecom management and project tracking.

Web and Intranet - Instigated and directed the successful execution of a full redesign of the institutional web presence and strategy.  This included creating visual identity guidelines, a unified information architecture, a multi-tiered, content management system-based infrastructure, enterprise search and web analytics and migrating legacy content and applications to the new environment.

Organizational Development and Restructuring – Lead the creation of three new departments including Research Information Systems, Web Strategies and Business Operations tools, culminating in a new division Research and Collaboration Systems.  Member of the OHSU Leadership Team, an advisory council assisting in the development and execution of institutional strategy, including two major organization-wide restructures. 

Adjunct Faculty, Department of Applied Information Management

Lecturer in Masters level courses in Applied Information Management delivered in both classroom and distance learning settings.  Developed online course offerings including discussion forums, distributed team projects and peer-review mechanisms.  Also mentor and advise students on “capstone” projects.

Courses developed and taught include:

• Managing Information Assets (required core course)
• Information Design Trends (required core course)
• Semantic Web
• Taxonomies
• Enterprise Document Management
• Metadata

Director of Information Management 2002
Senior Information Engineer 2001

Responsible for all corporate information systems including the design, implementation and maintenance of all OLTP, Data Warehouse, Business Intelligence and corporate portal systems. Leadership of the Information Management Group, a cross-functional team of DBAs, data modelers, system administrators and analysts. Responsible for end-to-end support of development teams and quality assurance testing from initial research and development to final production deployment. Final authority for evaluation and adoption of all Information Management technologies. Major projects and accomplishments include:

• Developed and directed implementation of corporate Information Strategic Plan
• Established internal Digital Asset Management and Information Quality policies and procedures including metadata architecture governing all corporate data assets.
• First ever recipient of CenterSpan“SuperStar” award for outstanding contribution.

Senior Architect & Project Leader

Functioning largely as an internal consultant leading architecture and modeling efforts, technology evaluation, solution development and process reengineering, often serving as interpreter and mediator between management, engineering and executives.  Responsible for major architectural IT initiatives for both internal and external clients. 

• Architect and Project Leader for complete re-engineering of enterprise data management systems.  Architected and directed development and deployment of the Acxiom Data Component Architecture governing all data acquisition, processing, storage and manipulation within Acxiom. 

• Lead system design and implementation efforts for external clients including Chase, Fidelity, Merrill Lynch, American Express and Blockbuster among others. 

• Developed and deployed web-based system to support compliance with the Graham-Leach-Bliley act and other privacy laws by Acxiom’s customers in the financial industry.  Responsible for requirements gathering, including analysis of pertinent legislation, evaluation of pertinent technologies and vendors, development of the architecture and implementation of the solution 

Research Associate          

Director and principal architect of the Pennsylvania Education Network Digital Object Repository (PEN-DOR), a statewide, multi-media digital library project.  Conducted research in distributed digital library architectures, object database design, resource identification and discovery in distributed systems, and user interface design.  Managed four Ph.D. level and three Masters level research assistants.  Also responsible for budgeting, reporting and frequent public presentations.

Database Applications Developer