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Commissioning Source:
Direct Commission, Aug 1983
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Retired in December 2012, went to work for Northrop Grumman as their Chief Medical Officer until March 2015. Then went to WellPoint Military Care as Director, Healthcare Optimization. Currently the CEO of 3C Veterans Solutions.
Military Experiences
Sep 2008 - Dec 2012
Dental Operations Officer
Oversaw more than 100 clinicians and allied health professionals providing dental care for United States Marine Corps recruits, and supporting Navy Dental Corps’ mission of ensuring combat dental readiness while optimizing individual dental health.
• Delivered single-handedly over $20M of clinical care, improving dental health over 50%.
• Forged critical relationships with local, regional, national and international dental, medical, military,
and governmental senior leaders, supporting National military mission.
Sep 2005 - Sep 2008
Chief Information Officer
Managed staffing, budgeting, development, design, and integration of software and hardware systems at training centers across US for over 4K staff and students. Provided tools necessary to transform education of all joint service military medical professionals and leaders.
• Reduced network downtime over 31% with directorate of 20 personnel and budgetary oversight
exceeding $37M.
• Spearheaded integration of 8 separate schoolhouses into single entity, saving $1.8M during 1st year of
implementation and over $500K annually.
Dec 2002 - Sep 2005
Director
Directed simultaneously, 2 separate Directorates with 120 personnel including 43 Program Managers with worldwide control of all computer programs in Navy Medicine MTFs and ships supporting over 3M beneficiaries, with budgetary oversight exceeding $20M.
• Produced interactive modification to DoD’s 3rd Party Payment system between MTFs and TRICARE,
resulting in recoupment of over $5M per year.
• Designed scientific and technology roadmap, investment strategies and new business proposals
including appropriate medical considerations for clinical information systems and health information exchange, accepted as standard in private sector and DoD.
Jun 1998 - Dec 2002
Project Manager (Military)
Served as Project Manager of Armed Forces Health Longitudinal Technology Application (AHLTA), Dental Functionality (computerized patient record for Department of Defense, $1.2B program).
• Chaired Tri-Service Presentation Layer Integrated Product Team (IPT), producing Department of
Defense graphical user interface (GUI) for computerized patient record.
• Envisioned and transformed clinical modifications to World Health Organization’s International
Classification of Disease, Version 10, Dental Appendix, currently used in all computerized dental
transactions worldwide.
• Authored world’s 1st Dental Information Model; structured and encoded representation of dental information supporting human review, decision support applications, statistical analysis, and natural-language processing.
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