DAVID PIERCE, RN, BSN, ISE, BC 23741 Mabel Court, Brownstown Township, MI 48183 (734) 789-1442 (734) 576-3859

cell dp130f3a0@westpost.net SUMMARY Accomplished executive with a proven ability to develop and implement technical strategies that support patient care, business and financial objectives. Recogn ized as an expert in applying innovative technology concepts to improve patient care, asset management decisions and improved billing receivables. Respected leader, able to integrate existing systems or update technologies, whi le remaining focused on achieving patient care as well as revenue goals. Keep up -to-date with changes in the industry through continuing professional developmen t currently certified in Nursing Informatics. Areas of Expertise * Strategic/Tactical Planning * LEAN * Multimillion-Dollar Operating and Capital Budget Administration * Analytical and Financial Skills * Statistical Modeling and ROI Analysis * Strong team leader/member who excels in rapidly changing and stressful environ ments * Dynamic, articulate, analytical, well-organized self-starter * Five years progressive leadership experience in operating room management * Three years administrative leadership in Practice Management * Ten years experience in IT Management * Excellent written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM, Detroit, MI 07/06-01/11 Henry Ford Health System is one of the nation's leading health care providers, o ffering a seamless array of acute, primary, tertiary, quaternary and preventive care backed by excellence in research and education. Administrator, Surgical Informatics (7/07-01/11) Administrative responsibilities for high tech integration of Surgical Services w ithin the Health System. Oversight of systems standardization, business plans, budget and project management for integrating Surgical Information System across the Health System to 4 hospitals and 4 ambulatory surgery sites. Reported to t he Administrator, Surgical Services. * Roll out and support Surgical Information System(SIS) to 4 hospitals and 4 Amb ulatory centers within the Health System. * Implemented supply chain processes for billing which increased Net revenue by 3%. * Developed and managed $400M+ operations and $2M capital departmental budget. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (continued) * Developed business plan for managing health system wide Perfusion services whi ch are scheduled to save the system $200,000 annually. * Oversight of construction project to upgrade Central Sterile Processing for He nry Ford Hospital. * Oversight for construction and installation of Intra-operative MRI. * Facilitate the Recruitment and Retention committee for Surgical Shared Governa nce * Henry Ford Hospital, HIPAA Security officer. * Facilitate the rollout of LEAN education and projects in Surgical Services. EMINERE SOLUTIONS, LLC, Brownstown, MI 7/06-7/07 Created Eminere Solutions, a company focused on consulting for Healthcare Execut ives, dealing with strategic planning as it relates to the use of technology in the clinical setting. Projects have included: * Contract with Henry Ford Health System (HFHS) CNO, to provide assistance in st

rategic planning for Nursing as well as the System coordinator for the Surgical Information System (SIS). * Projects for the CNO include: o Expand usage of SIS and expanding to all of their OR settings corporate wide. o Planning for upgrade and rollout of a system wide Nurse Scheduling system (Opt ilink) o Rollout of a system wide patient education program (Krames on Demand) o Strategic planning for future projects and budgets EXCELCARE, Inc, Ligonier, PA 02/05-7/06 Excelcare, provides a clinical documentation system which is installed at forty hospitals throughout the US. The software facilitates documentation and evaluat ion of patient care by clinicians and incorporates Nursing, Standards of Care wh ich may be developed using NIC, NOC and NANDA developed methodologies. Director, Business Development Recruited to assist in developing Excelcare System in Australia. System develop ment expanded capabilities to allow for Patient Scheduling, Patient Billing, Car e Management for both inpatient and outpatient environments and regulatory repor ting to meet government mandates in South Australia, Australia. * Presented seminar for Nursing Executives on the importance of their role in te chnology expansion and development * Developed strategic plan for sales * Developed new model for setting benchmarks for documentation standards of care across customer facilities allowing for modeling changes in patient care relate d to accepted Nursing Standards * Associate member on a research project at the University of Iowa, designed to formulate relationships between the standard Nursing Languages of NIC, NOC and N ANDA. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (continued) HENRY FORD HEALTHE SYSTEM, Detroit, MI 07/82-02/05 Henry Ford Health System is one of the nation's leading health care providers. H enry Ford, a Michigan non-profit health care enterprise, recorded $3.47 billion in revenues in 2007 while providing more than $132 million in uncompensated medi cal care. The health system recorded $105.8 million in net income in 2007. More than 21,500 total Henry Ford Health System employees provide care during more t han 3.1 million patient contacts. Henry Ford health care providers perform more than 78,000 ambulatory surgery procedures each year. Henry Ford Hospital is a 9 03-bed tertiary care hospital also offers: a 17-story Outpatient Center; advance d inpatient specialties ranging from Neurosurgery to Cardiac Care; pioneering re search programs; 2000+ nurses; and 500+ staff physicians. Neurosurgery, Practice Administrator (11/02-02/05) Administrator for a top 100 department of Neurosurgery. Working with team of 15 Neurosurgeons 10 Research Scientists at 4 clinics. Responsible for oversight of operations and business plan for expansion and moving toward opening of new sta te of the art facility. Reported to COO, Henry Ford Medical Group. * Negotiation and oversight of contracted services that provided Neurosurgical S ervices for William Beaumont Health System and Oakwood Health System. * Process redesign that established care standards for individual specialties of each physician. * Developed business plans and budgets for research investigators which received NIH funding. * Developed business plan for Intra-operative MRI Account Manager for Covansys (1/01-11/020 Covansys, transitioned responsibilities for management of all Henry Ford Health

System IT resources in an outsourcing arrangement. Challenged with strengthening client/vendor relationships, identifying client strategic imperatives and influ encing decisions associated with their capital request/purchasing process. * Established Project Management Office(PMO) and web based project intake proces ses to allow for improved communication with customers and IT. * Added additional reporting capabilities within PMO structure to allow customer to have automated status updates. * Project management to upgrade, test and migrate the Pathology, Sunquest applic ation from one data center to the central corporate data center * Establish role of HIPAA Security officer Director, Information Technologies (7/98-1/01) Promoted to expand support to the entire Hospital and Clinics located on the cam pus. Responsible for supporting the Network infrastructure for the campus, whic h included 20 servers, 5000 PCs and 1200 printers on a campus with 6,000 employe es. Executed software implementations including requirements gathering, process design, development of data conversion, communication procedures and user accep tance testing. Reported to, VP for Patient Care Services. * Established the Henry Ford Hospital, strategic plan for Information Technologi es. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (continued) * Instrumental in developing EMR Documentation system to include process for pat ient discharge from inpatient encounters * Establish service level agreements which included process and procedures for o Network support and maintenance o LAN administration o Application support o User support and Education * Played a key role in process redesign for CPOE in all areas for inpatient orde rs * Developed annual process for managing IT Capital initiatives * Responsible for assuring year 2000 compliance for all supported systems Manager, Nursing Information Systems (7/95-6/98) Promoted to expand network and computer system for Nursing to other areas under Nursing reporting structure. Challenged with improving IT customer support to a dditional areas within the Henry Ford Hospital structure. Typical projects invol ved automating healthcare processes via transforming highly paper-intensive busi ness to electronic data management. * Developed strategic plans for Nursing technology * Instrumental in developing evaluation for Care Standards and Acuity reporting for the Department of Nursing. * Involved in improving quality of care processes and hospital operations for an nual Quality Expo, using Demming, PDCA methodologies * Lead projects to integrated Nursing documentation system with HFHS' electronic medical record(EMR) system * Developed application that allowed for On-Line access to policies, procedures and job descriptions * Spearheaded efforts to improve the EMR system capabilities that would facilita te inpatient care and documentation by automating input forms. Analyst, Nursing Information Service (1989-1995) Critical Information Specialist (1988-1989) Nursing Supervisor (1987-1988) ICU, Staff Nurse (1982-1985)

EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS University of Michigan, Dearborn, MI * Bachelor of Science in Industrial & Systems Engineering May 1995 Oakland University, Rochester, MI * Bachelor of Science in Nursing April 1982

Registered Nurse * Currently licensed to practice in Michigan ANCC, Board Certified * Nurse Informaticist TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE Methodologies: HIPAA, Lean, HL7, ICD-9-CM & CPT Coding Software: Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Word, Visio, Project 2007, VMware Fusion, C rystal Reports, Adobe Development Suite, Final Cut Pro Operating Systems/Platforms/Protocols: Vista, NT, XP, UNIX, HTML, XML, TCP/IP, S QL, MySQL, Citrix ICA, MAC-OSX Server, Windows Server 2005, .NET, ASP, PHP, Industry Applications: Surgical Information Systems(SIS), Eclipsys, Cerner, Opti link, Excelcare, Krames, Novell PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS * American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE) * American Nurse Informatics Association (ANIA)

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