Jerry Ceres's Email Addresses & Phone Numbers

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Executive Board Member @ Monmouth Council Boy Scouts Chief Technology Officer @ Strategic Workforce Solutions From March 2008 to March 2009 (1 year 1 month) Chief Technology Officer @ Strategic Legal Solutions From March 2008 to March 2009 (1 year 1 month) Managing Partner @ Acupuncture Wellness Center Business manager and partner for alternative health practice in Monmouth County, NJ. Specializes in acupuncture, massage, wellness counseling. Visit: www.AcupunctureWellnessCenter.com From July 2005 to August 2016 (11 years 2 months) Board Member @ Monmouth Ocean Health Information Exchange (MOHIE) Central NJ Consortium of Hospitals created to form an HIE for exchange of EMRs, under the ACA. From January 2012 to June 2016 (4 years 6 months) Neptune, NJCourse Director @ Monmouth Council JLT Built program, planned course, selected staff. Conducted staff development, marketed course. From 2001 to 2003 (2 years) VP, Information Systems/CIO @ Vitronics Inc Served on executive management team for startup technology firm handling everything from IT strategy development to systems architecture design. Responsible for business development, market assessment, client relation development, and needs assessments. Oversaw IT client services business, developed information network (multiple LANs, WAN, MAN), established HR policies and procedures, and provided business process re-engineering. Managed numerous client projects to include developing a comprehensive technology utilization and migration strategy for Army Research center and designing a computer-controlled closed circuit video surveillance system for use throughout Army research laboratories. Planned and implemented ERP system conversions for accounting, AP, HR, and procurement. Managed 80 personnel and $12M annual budget. From October 1982 to July 1990 (7 years 10 months) Software Supervisor @ Raycomm Ind Established software development business area. Responsible for project management of staff of 6. Developed "real-time" technique for generating contour lines on digital map system. Developed interface for several custom display devices (serial, parallel, and bus architectures). Designed interactive display software models for pilot and tank operator use. Designed and built prototype flat-panel/touch panel system for military environment. Developed post-processing software emulator to analyze target detection and location prediction. From 1978 to September 1982 (4 years) Executive IT Management Consultant @ PIR Consulting Innovative, solutions-driven Healthcare IT Executive with a talent for transforming personnel into high performance teams, implementing ITSM best practices and building a culture of collaboration. Experience aligning IT resources to corporate business requirements and strategies and transforming to high-reliability/high-availability organizations. Broad technical and business process knowledge: IT architectures, operating environments, networking and hosted/cloud services, HR processes, and back office best practices. Exceptional skills as a problem solver, with the proven ability to identify efficiency/cost saving opportunities. Strong business user requirements development and workflow analysis experience, client relationship management, extensive M&A and vendor management experience. • Business Process Reengineering (BPR) - analysis and examination of existing processes, intra-inter departmental dependencies and critical process identification and process improvement.• Technical consultant on enterprise architecture (EA), risk mitigation and disaster recovery, vulnerability assessments, back office operations.• M&A technology maturity assessment, discovery, planning and integration. • Legacy system planning, design, migration and validation.• Service management (ITIL) advocate- Incident, Problem, Configuration, Change ManagementI am a strong advocate for the client/end-user. I believe in, and live "continuous process improvement". How can we do it better? There is an opportunity behind each problem. What can we learn? Technical Director @ Meridian Health Responsible for strategic vision and operational technical direction for $2B organization. This includes Security, Data Center Operations & Call Center, Network, Telecom, all aspects of Desktop Support and IT Service Management. Role includes M&A systems/technology integration planning and implementation.Built the #1 Healthcare IT Department (as recognized by HealthCare IT News). From March 2009 to July 2016 (7 years 5 months) Central New JerseyDirector of IT / Chief Information/Technology Officer @ LVI Services Responsible for corporate data systems/center operations (24/7) & nation-wide network (40 sites). Implemented nation-wide sales force management platform w/ wireless Blackberry/PDA portal. Restructured and built high performance department deploying ITSM service desk (including vendor management and automated acceptance testing). Introduced change management controls, continuous process improvement (CPI) and formalized acceptance test criteria for quality assurance on all production releases. Performed operations risk management assessment, developed Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Plans moving from multiple, single point of failure architecture to a robust, fully redundant, high-availability collocation (outsourced vendor) data center (clustered message services, SAN with fiber channel access, high availability web services using .NET). Replaced aged security structure with best practice security systems, VPNs, firewalls and routers. Initiated company-wide VoIP rollout. From June 2007 to March 2008 (10 months) Chief Information Officer @ GEO-Centers Director of Corporate IT Operations & Chief Information Officer (2000 – 2006)$230M professional consulting services corporation acquired by SAIC in 2005Served as principal change officer providing strategic vision and leadership all IT initiatives during high growth (200 to 1200 employees) including sales and marketing. Oversaw IT department P&L, business continuity planning and execution, disaster recovery, systems integration, PMO, $5+ million operating and capital budget, operations for 20 sites, 15 full time professionals (Help Desk, Programmers, Database & Web Developers, Directors, and Managers) and multiple outsourced project teams. Managed corporate datacenter in a 24/7 high availability environment. Established formalized change management process, continuous process improvement, QA and acceptance criteria with full business unit/stakeholder partnership for major project rollouts. From January 2000 to March 2006 (6 years 3 months) Sr. Program Manager/Operations Manager @ GEO-Centers Responsible for mid Atlantic-based client (DoD, EPA) operations including business development, delivery of services, and performance management for a wide range of contracts (CPFF, CPAF, T&M, IDIQ). Managed all client engagements in mid-Atlantic region including several locations (total 70 technical consultants – 9 project managers, multiple sub-contractors). Responsible for client requirements analysis, formalization, QA, acceptance and life cycle support. Performed security assessments & operations reviews for federal agencies. From July 1990 to January 2000 (9 years 7 months) CIO @ SAIC Served as principal change officer providing strategic vision and leadership over enterprise architecture and all IT initiatives. Oversaw IT department P&L, business continuity planning and execution, systems integration, technical projects, $5+ million operating and capital budget, operations for 20 sites, 15 full time professionals (Help Desk, Programmers, Database & Web Developers, Directors, and Managers. From 2005 to 2006 (1 year) Sr. Systems Programmer/Analyst @ Prudential Insurance _____ILLEGAL_CHAR_SSSTART149ILLEGAL_CHAR_EEEND_____ Developed production Auto Systems modules and maintained production systems._____ILLEGAL_CHAR_SSSTART149ILLEGAL_CHAR_EEEND_____ Responsible for software analysis and streamlining of processes to reduce production process time._____ILLEGAL_CHAR_SSSTART149ILLEGAL_CHAR_EEEND_____ Designed replacement modules to improve performance, reduce production time using COBOL and assembler in IBM mainframe environment. (and JCL) From October 1977 to October 1978 (1 year 1 month) Technical Director @ Hackensack Meridian Health Responsible for operational technical direction for $4B organization. This included Security, Data Center Operations & Call Center, Network, Telecom, all aspects of Desktop Support and IT Service Management. Role included M&A systems/technology integration planning and implementation for 7 hospital system.Successfully implemented EPIC Ambulatory EHR in 90+ physician practices. From July 2016 to June 2018 (2 years) Neptune, NJ