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Director of Information Technology @ Provide organization IT strategic vision. Responsible for leading, planning, integrating and directing MPTF’s information technology and computer networking environment. Manage vendor relationships and outsourced service providers. Oversee the organization’s infrastructure engineering, design, and support as well as all software applications. Advise Executive Leadership on current and future information technology requirements to support MPTF operations. From September 2012 to Present (3 years 4 months) Director Enterprise Technology Services, California / Interim CTO for CA @ Responsible for establishing and delivering strategic technical vision and service delivery of technology infrastructure to the California region. Includes 5 acute care hospitals and more than 50 clinics and outpatient centers. Lead the strategy for technology platforms, partnerships, and external relationships. Build, and manage cross discipline technology team including network, server, storage, and voice. Oversee special projects, established and enforced technical standards. Develop technology contingency plans. Collaborate with Executive team to assess and recommend technologies in support of strategic direction and growth objectives. From June 2010 to September 2012 (2 years 4 months) Information Systems Site Director @ Responsible for communicating hospital needs to Regional Information Systems teams. Central point of contact for all projects, requests and escalations related to Information Systems for Tarzana Hospital. Instrumental in the transition of the all the IS infrastructure, applications, and end user devices to the Providence network. Encompassed overseeing installing new hardware for networking, servers, desktops, connectivity for WAN and LAN upgrades. From September 2008 to June 2010 (1 year 10 months) Director, Information Systems / CIO @ Responsible for recruiting, hiring, developing and leading the information technology team. Responsible for establishing and monitoring departmental budgets, and evaluating overall Information Technology operations; overseeing the design and implementation of new applications and changes to existing computer systems and software; and evaluating and procuring new hardware and software to meet company needs, includes approving vendor proposals and contracts. From September 2006 to September 2008 (2 years 1 month) Manager, Information Systems @ From April 2001 to September 2006 (5 years 6 months) Server Support Analyst @ Responsible for NT and Novell server operations for the Universal City location and also remote sites across North and South America. The environment consisted of over 800 servers, predominantly NT 4.0. Built, configured and maintained servers for various applications including e-mail, file and print share, directory service, database and web hosting. Tested specified and recommended hardware for the organizational needs of the company. Directly responsible for tape backup and restore requests utilizing Backup Exec and Arcserve. In addition, served as second level support for server related issues from the helpdesk. Developed a tape management system to reduce the time spent manually inventorying backup tapes. Participated in the pilot for the Active Directory / Windows 2000 migration From February 2000 to April 2001 (1 year 3 months) Craig Witmer is skilled in: Healthcare Information Technology, HIPAA, Enterprise Software, Information Technology, Integration, Process Improvement, EHR, Leadership, Servers, EMR, Active Directory, Healthcare Consulting, Revenue Cycle, HL7, Disaster Recovery