Julie Berry's Email Addresses & Phone Numbers

📖 Summary

Chief Information Officer @ Steward Health Care Boston, maVice President and Chief Technology Officer @ Steward Healthcare 500 Bolyston Street, Boston Ma.Corporate Director Technical Services & Operation @ Partners HealthCare System, Inc. From 2009 to July 2011 (2 years) VP, IT Operations & Security Delivery @ BCBSMA strategic/operational leadership to a staff of 300, responsible for providing datacenter mgt, prod support, email/desktop services, telecom, security compliancy, architecture, testing, & web services.Directed 100+ million dollar operating budget introducing new technology while remaining within financial targets.Delivered enterprise solutions to support corporate initiatives.Negotiated large scale enterprise license agreements.Collaborated with Information Security Officer to develop & implement a corporate security program that raised awareness; enforced policies; & met certifications.Reduced business outages 40% by implementing technical solutions, metrics for outsourcers, & monitoring trends.built & led a results-oriented team delivering concierge service.Designed & implemented a 3-year PC refresh cycle, providing benefit & cost predictability.Maintained relationship for global strategic partners increasing efficiency & containing costs. From May 2003 to September 2008 (5 years 5 months) Director Systems Engineering @ Houghton Mifflin Led team of 30 providing production support, database administration and systems engineering for 9 divisions. Prepared and maintained a 4 million dollar budget for the infrastructure group within Corporate IT  Provided Business Cases and Cost Analysis for improvements to IT infrastructure in the areas of High Availability, SAN/NAS Storage, and leveraging a secondary datacenter for disaster recovery.  Developed and Implemented a Corporate IT security policy that lowered the risk to potential vulnerabilities. Maintained relationship with web hosting vendor Digex, which provided stability of our websites and increased adoption of eCommerce initiatives. Completed vendor negotiations for large hardware and software solutions that yielded increased corporate discounts. Instituted Policies and Procedures in order to provide Enterprise solutions that leverage synergies between Publishing Divisions that resulted in increased productivity and improved customer support From 2000 to 2003 (3 years) Manager of Internal Systems/ Performance testing @ Lightbridge Management of the performance testing infrastructure that validated scalability, reliability and resource usage. performance testing utilizing HP (Mercury Interactive) LoadRunner leveraging simulation to predict the eventual real effects of alternative conditions.Provided recommendations for application and system tuning based on performance results. Led internal System Management staff; including training, project delegation and career development that had positive affects on staff retention.Determined department measurable goals to be used in performance reviews and company incentive programs that better defined roles and how they map to the corporate goals.System management for over 100 nodes in two Data Centers (platforms include IBM/AIX, DEC/VMS, HP/HP-UX, SUN/SOLARIS and NT) that met the needs of engineering, quality assurance and client services areas. From 1994 to 2000 (6 years) System/Network Manager @ Novasoft Management of all aspects of system, database and network administration focusing on production deliver and end-user customer support. Network and system management for 40+ nodes that met the needs of product development.  Managed the code deployment process from Engineering to QA that improved the stability of final product. Pre and post-sales on-site technical support for Clients that led to improved customer experience and satisfaction. From 1993 to 1994 (1 year) Member of the Technical Staff @ TASC Member of the Technical Staff (MTS)An individual contributor on the engineering staff focusing on system management, database support and security compliancy of guidelines set by the Department of Defense From 1988 to 1993 (5 years)