Technologically sophisticated IT Director with demonstrated ability to provide IT leadership and direction as well as creative solutions to business problems. Solid history of ensuring availability and effectiveness of systems and applications. Proven ability to manage people and projects within time and budget constraints. Skilled leader with excellent hands-on technical skills and comprehensive experience of LAN/WAN/Microsoft/Unix/VMware/Citrix/EMC/Cisco/ technologies. Technical leader with demonstrated ability to work effectively with individuals at all levels and in all functional areas. Track record of tackling and solving tough business and technical problems. Experience managing full project life-cycle from requirements gathering to final implementation and client training. Hands-on experience managing complex IT environments in Manufacturing, Banking, Financial Services, and Clinical Laboratory. Specialties: LIS, EMR/EHR, HL7 Interfaces, HIPPA, HITECH, Meaningful use, GLP, AWS, Azure, Cloud Services.

Director of Information Technology @ Manage all Lab Operations across multiple locations in a highly dynamic, fast-paced, high volume, 24/7 environment. Responsible for managing support for critical Clinical Laboratory Information System (Orchard Soft Harvest/Copia - LIS) and infrastructure with zero allowable down time. Manage IT Operations in US, Guatemala and India. Manage relationships with EHR/EMR companies, Laboratory Instrument providers, Laboratory related Software and Hardware vendors, IT Infrastructure related vendors and other outside Labs and Resources. Manage multi-site High Availability Networks, Systems, and Processes From April 2012 to Present (3 years 9 months) Greater New York City AreaSenior IT @ Play key role in planning, design, build-out, monitoring, and maintenance of system/network infrastructure and operational enhancement. • Citrix migration projects from Citrix Metaframe XP to Citrix Presentation. • Initiated and managed server consolidation project to reduce Data Center foot print, lower TCO, increase server utilization, and provide increased operational efficiency utilizing VMware VI 3 enterprise. • Managed hands on implementation of VMware VI3 using ESX 3, and 3.5, Virtual Center Server, PlateSpin Power Convert and VMware Converter for P2V. • Successfully implemented full Disaster Recovery and BCP strategy that utilized solution from VMware, Cisco, EMC, HP and Citrix. • Implemented boot from SAN solution for all SQL and high visibility servers to provide high availability and full system recovery. • Provided High Availability solution for Virtual environment utilizing VMware Distributed Resource Schedule (DRS) and VMware HA. • Implemented full change control, SAS 70 compliant auditing and management procedures. • Managed companies ASP and SaaS offerings to provide clients with Citrix based web accessible CRM and AS/400 financial data applications. From 2006 to March 2012 (6 years) Systems/Helpdesk Manager @ From 2003 to 2006 (3 years) Senior Systems Manager @ From 2001 to 2003 (2 years) IT Manager @ From 1999 to 2000 (1 year)

Kartik Shah is skilled in: IT Management, IT Operations, Management, Healthcare Information Technology, Disaster Recovery, VMware, Project Management, Enterprise Architecture, HL7, VMware Infrastructure, Software Project Management, Virtualization, Cisco Technologies, SQL, Cross-functional Team Leadership