Resume - JOHN J. BLOOMER http://john.bloomer.com 38 S Lakeside Dr. W - Medford, NJ 08055 - 609-314-7516 (cell) John@Bloomer.com Cross Functional, Engineering Leader - Improves Strategic Alignment - Brings Profitable Growth EXPERTISE SUMMARY Innovative, senior-level business and technology leader with numerous quantifiable successes across technology product, service and consulting companies. Skilled in management of product & service life cycles. Adept at leveraging technology to accelerate growth, improve cost structure. Expert at applying tools like Six Sigma, LEAN, TQM, CAP and WorkOut to fuel product/services growth, gain market share and drive corporate turnarounds. Strong financial, analytic skills. Significant M&A successes. Energetic, collaborative team leader; patented, published EE, Computer Scientist that is a proven business and technology strategist. EXPERIENCE CTO, IS OPERATIONS OFFICER 2008 to present New Hanover Regional Medical Wilmington, NC, 2009 Chief Technology and IS Operations Officer of dominant $1.4B regional integrated community healthcare system helping to boost margins to 3%+. * All day to day IT project, infrastructure and operational responsibilities. * Strategy & planning for their continued evolution to paperless hospitals and clinics. CIO, VICE PRESIDENT 2005 to 2008 Virtua Health System, digital healthcare technology, inter-disciplinary strategist; mission critical systems, infrastructure ownership * Successful planning, funds raising, initial execution of a multi-year plan to take Southern NJ's largest healthcare provider to paperless, filmless, wireless care for improved outcomes, patient and clinician safety, quality, satisfaction and cost. * The $100M, 4 year plan reengineering processes, applying technology, biomedical & imaging is on track. Includes building new facilities and JVs. Collaborating with Board, senior management. 140 staff, > $30M capital, operating budgets. * Supporting, enabling the most profitable NJ healthcare system two years running with gaining national prominence in patient satisfaction, safety and quality. Technology delivered 25% increase in home health margins, 10% volume increases in EDs. MANAGING DIRECTOR, CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER 2001 to 2004 Novar, p.l.c. now a Honeywell company - P&L responsible for US and Global Controls products, services within $1B Intelligent Building Solutions division * Led development, operations for US companies of UK-held building automation and controls group. Grew revenues and margins organically by nearly 10% per year, gaining share in shrinking markets. Acquired and successfully integrated two companies, adding $25M of revenue, $10M in profit. Double business turnover in 5 years. * Built Global Product Management and key development best practices necessary to move the company from commodity electronics to software and services on open platforms. Enhanced global product management and lifecycle processes to support division's $100M+ revenues with less than 300 staff. Doubled product vitality, setting precedent by beating budget and schedule. Introduced TQM and Six Sigma initiatives such as Quality Functional Decompositions (QFD) and Voice of the Customer to set, prioritize and manage strategic business goals. Led US factories to ISO 9001-2000 certification. CONSULTANT - John Bloomer Consultants, Inc., assignments including 2000 to 2001, 2004, Present Healthcare IT Strategy Consultant – partnering with Affinitee Group, Pivotal Healthcare Solutions servicing the mid-Atlantic region CxO, Board Member, Exordia / Global Television, Business planning, leadership, fundraising Networking technology start-ups * CTO, Board Member - sevenEcho, VRSurgeon, CribNotes Software - Private Equity research, leadership * CEO/Founder Exordia, Inc. focused on developing Internet acceleration products and services. * Guided start-up of a Silicon Alley-based software business devoted to leveraging its messaging products as personal and enterprise communications tools for wireless, video, and audio collaboration. * Kreischer Miller – SOX business process auditing (2004) CTO, Vectrix Inc., technical, operations lead in right-sizing a private, $25MM Hicks-Muse Internet consulting business * Managed restructuring of business to focus on core competencies. Right-sized non-strategic elements of the organization and infrastructure. Renegotiated contracts realizing $5MM/yr. in savings, rescued under performing key accounts, increasing value to over $6MM. Prior to selling-off the five business units, improved combined gross margins to 20% from the prior year's -15%. Major work force reductions engineered & executed. * Directed technical staff of 80 and all product development activities for custom-designed and pre-packaged software and services. Instituted customer-focused product life cycle process, customer engagement process with defined service levels and overall accountability. Implemented a cost-benefit based decision-making process to identify profitable projects and avoid multi-million dollars in capital expenditures for unprofitable new ventures. Identified and attacked key metrics related to product development, ROI, process flow, and project scheduling. VP, PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT, BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT 1999 to 2000 Enron Broadband Services - built, ran, delivered and sold innovative new network and communications services * Drove business redesign, identifying and focusing down the division on profitable products and services in Bandwidth Trading, Bandwidth Sales, and Media Streaming markets. Exited initiatives to drive first year profits. Day to day management of engineers and product managers in Portland, OR and Houston. * Identified and executed two key acquisitions valued at $85MM plus additional profitable equity investments. Forged strategic partnerships with synergistic companies including Blockbuster, broadcast and cable networks, to deliver digital programming over satellite, DSL and fiber optic lines. GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY - assignments including: 1983 to 1999 SR. VP AND CIO, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 1997 to 1999 Colonial Penn Insurance, change agent driving technology and process controllership and rightsizing in a GE acquisition; IT and operations ownership for a $1B+ book of direct marketed property & casualty insurance * Controlled $30MM budget, staff of 250 (including mainframe DP, midrange, desktop services, and legacy), technical infrastructure for multiple call centers, and product development activities for all software and system requirements including web e-commerce, folding the company, management and processes into the GE culture. * Delivered ROI-focused GE Best Practices, including multi-generation planning, business initiative prioritization and product rationalization through cost-benefit and competitive analysis. Six Sigma Greenbelt mentor. * Realized over $12MM in savings from strategic outsourcing of mainframe, midrange, and desktop management. Reduced call center transactions from $1.15 to .20¢/per by moving 5% of the renewal business to the Internet. * Analyzed existing products/pipeline, reviewed monthly cost/benefit analysis for each product in development, instituted tracking and accountability tools, and tabled unprofitable initiatives. DIRECTOR OF TECHNOLOGY, ACTING CEO 1996 to 1997 Global Energy Services, technical, business ownership for innovative new GE Capital/Power Systems deregulated services venture * Built technology team to design, integrate, and manage utility information systems, including Internet-based, automated meter reading, and customer information and billing services requiring software, networking, and meter reading component development. * Selected by the Board as CEO to develop an exit strategy for the joint venture in a declining industry, negotiated closure to contract commitments, oversaw absorption of services & product lines into 3 GE operating companies and managed the effective shut down of the business. GE Power Systems, drove M&A rationalization activities, managed product line, established quality business processes in acquisition * Identified key acquisitions and equity investment opportunities, and led multi-generation product planning of GE Power Programs in the retail and deregulated power industries as part of corporate M&A team. * Technology Director, Product Manager within GE EMS (Energy Management System) portfolio of companies, covering Harris Controls acquisition. Facilitated change management initiatives including the realignment of products and services, the implementation of GE Best Practices (Six Sigma, Work-Outs, MGPP, NPI, etc.), and the development of structured product life cycle processes to accelerate delivery times. * New Product Introduction Manager within GE Electrical Distribution & Control with commercial, product line oversight * Included ownership of development and execution of the Automated Meter Reading components and system using Multi-Generation Product Planning (MGPP) and New Product Introduction (NPI) organizations for line of communicating C&I meters, software. VP, CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER 1994 to 1996 GE - NBC, designed, execution of NBC Cable Ventures roadmap for technical, operations move to digital content * Responsible for technical development of NBC Desktop Video (Professional, Private Network, On-Demand). Built production processes and a delivery system to display digital video and multi-media on financial executive and Fortune 1000 desktops. A first of-a-kind IP multicast service. Directed all technical aspects of the start-up through acquisition, including R&D roadmap, technical partner definitions, contract administration, and staffing. * Orchestrated the successful transition of technology and personnel into the MSNBC joint venture with Microsoft. STAFF SCIENTIST, GE Corporate R&D Center, 12 patents, 50+ publications & books; TS-SCI clearance 1986 to 1994 TEAM LEADER / SYSTEMS ANALYST, GE Aerospace, Simulation & Controls Systems Department 1983 to 1986 GE ABC, Advanced Course and Edison Engineer Program graduate EDUCATION University of Central Florida MSEE, 3.7 GPA, Computer Architectures 1986 Clarkson University BSEE, 3.8GPA, Communications 1983 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Ph.D. studies, Information Theory (ABD) 1987 to 1993 PROFESSIONAL, COMMUNITY * Publications, including O'Reilly's Power Programming with RPC Nutshell book * Healthcare - HIMSS, CHIME, Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP) member * Industry Standards Bodies - Building & Distribution Automation, Datacom - ASHRAE, ARI, CABA, ANSI, BACnet * Mentor, Facilitator - Six Sigma BB, Lean, Quality, Change Acceleration and Engineer in Training certifications * Past chapter officer & member - IEEE, ACM * Rotary, Knights of Columbus