Jay McCloud

Experience

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  United States Department of Defense

  Jul 2008 - May 2011

  Deputy Director, System Development,/Program Ops/System Service Support (AD Military Ret)

  Department of Defense, Military Health System, Information Management/Information Technology project management.

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  Evolvent

  Sept 2011 - Dec 2011

  Subject Matter Expert/Senior Director (Contractor)

  Military health system (MHS), Subject Matter Expert (SME) performing strategic consulting in the health information management, information technology development arena. Sub-contracted to Ivan Walks and Associates as Program manager for the Temporary Duty Retired List Project for the US Army's Northeastern Region. Chief of Staff for the US Air Force Medical Service, Chief Information Officer (SG6).

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  United States Department of Defense, Department of the Army-CECOM, HA/TMA, Military Health System

  Jan 2012 - May 2013

  Director, System Service Support, HA/TMA/DHIMS (Civilian)

  Definitively leads strategic vision and technical development efforts of a three ACAT 1 (AHLTA, CHCS and TMIP-J), Imaging and Data Sharing IT program management office (PMO); technical support functions include: Development Testing and Evaluation, Integrated Master Schedule, External Services, COTS Software Licensing, Requirements, IT/Web Services, Release (ReIM), Configuration Management & the Development Test Center. Activities support the clinical information technology solutions used to capture, manage and share healthcare data for the military’s Electronic Health Record (EHR) in garrison and theater. The EHR is used by the military medical community to support the management of more than 9.6 million Military Health System (MHS) beneficiary records. Technical advisor for a myriad of encompassing, enterprise architecture and software application integration issues. Supports cross-functional, Integrated Product Teams (IPTs) responsible for the acquisition, technical development, and life cycle management of a myriad of multi-million dollar product initiatives. Manage the cost, schedule and performance triad on a daily basis. Identifies emerging technologies for potential use in technology solutions to reduce IT design, operations, and maintenance costs, improve data quality and system interoperability, reliability and availability. Steers development process towards the attainment of Service(s) buy-in, establish budget priorities, troubleshoots processes and identify changes required to improve delivery of integrated health care solutions for end users from the enterprise perspective.Acting Clinical and Theater Systems (CTS) Branch Chief (CECOM), April 2013-present.Supervisory oversight and responsibility for 20+ Departmemt of the Army civilian employees (GS 13-14). Show less

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  United States Department of Defense, Department of the Army-CECOM, DHA, Military Health System

  Jun 2013 - Apr 2014

  Configuration Manager & Chief, Business Operations

  Manage configuration management and business operations arenas providing strategic leadership and technical competence to the challenging acquisition efforts of the Imaging and Data Sharing IT program management office (PMO). Change management and configuration control ensured accurate and consistent documentation is maintained to facilitate quality backend technical support for the clinical information technology solutions used to capture, manage and share healthcare data for the military’s Electronic Health Record (EHR). Technical advisor for a myriad of encompassing, enterprise architecture & software application integration issues. Steer development and product sustainment process towards the attainment of budget priorities, quality control and the troubleshooting of processes required to improve integrated health care solutions. - Integral member of the Defense Health Clinical Systems (DHCS) Program Executive Officer technical team charged with standardizing technical processes across the three disparate PMOs- Co-Chair for the joint, DHCS, Integrated Configuration Control Board tasked with authorizing software releases into production- Flawless oversight and management of the highly visible tasker/suspense program- In Jan 2014, established the DHCS PEO’s first ever, garrison, project level Change Control Board (CCB) for the Health Artifact and Image Management Solution (HAIMS) - Recognized for dedicated efforts to respond to Contracting Officer (KO) concerns about a contentious, protested Source Selection Board (SSEB) helped shorten a potentially catastrophic work stoppage Show less

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  U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

  May 2014 - Sept 2016

  • Management and Program Analyst, VA Office of Acquisition, Logistics and Construction

    Feb 2015 - Sept 2016

  • Medical Administrative Officer, Deputy Chief of the Business Office

    May 2014 - Jan 2015
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  Defense Health Agency

  Oct 2016 - Oct 2019

  Chief, Interoperability Processes

  Coordinating electronic health record interoperability between the Department of Defense, Department of Veterans Affairs and civilian health providers for the Interagency Program Office.

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  Federal Electronic Health Record Modernization Office

  Oct 2019 - now

  Chief, Human Capital Management