Darren Ramsey, MBA, CHCIO, CCIE, CISSP
Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Holston Medical Group
Johnson City-Kingsport-Bristol Area, United States
About Darren Ramsey, MBA, CHCIO, CCIE, CISSP
Darren Ramsey, MBA, CHCIO, CCIE, CISSP is Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Holston Medical Group. Location: Johnson City-Kingsport-Bristol Area, United States.
Practiced technology leader with 30+ years of experience in Information Technology, over 25 years of experience in Healthcare, and more than 17 years in senior leadership, who aggressively promotes increased efficiency and the digital transformation of enterprise IT infrastructure environments. Provides strong visionary leadership, robust architecture design principles, and standards for evaluating, selecting, and implementing secure and reliable enterprise infrastructure technologies. Develops and maintains tactical (1 - 2 years) and strategic (3 - 5 years) enterprise-wide technical infrastructure goals and aligns priorities with overall IT business vision and direction. Maintains effective and responsive relationships with major technology vendors. Successfully delivers an infrastructure that balances cost savings, security, quality and reliability. Experience architecting and supporting the infrastructure for Epic, McKesson, Cerner, Agfa, Allscripts, GE, Phillips and other ancillary systems in a progressive healthcare environment. Areas of Expertise: •Technology visionary and evangelist converging enterprise technology with business requirements •Proven experience leading a large team of technical engineers •Proven experience managing large telecom, storage, networking, and server vendors •Planning and managing annual multi-million dollar CAPEX and OPEX budgets •Ability to align all technology silos to a unified overarching cohesive strategy •Capacity Management, Change Management, Availability Management, Identity and Access Management, CMDB •HIPAA, NIST CSF, Business Impact Analysis, Security Risk Assessments, Security Awareness, Vulnerability Testing •Understanding of continual process improvement (ITIL, Waterfall, Agile, Scrum, etc.) •Business continuity and disaster recovery processes (BIA, RPO, RTO, MTD) •Tier III Data Centers in a 24x7 mission critical enterprise environment •CCIE level knowledge and experience designing medical grade infrastructures •Enterprise wireless and unified communications, based on industry standard architectures •Software defined solutions (SDN) for the Access, Datacenter, SAN and WAN •DevOps via NETCONF, RESTCONF, restAPI, XML, JSON, YANG data models •Public and private elastic hybrid clouds, automation and orchestration •Next generation firewalls, micro-segmentation, and endpoint protection •Virtual compute and hypervisors, converged and hyper-converged solutions •Fabric based unified data center design •Storage area networks (SAN) and large storage solutions •Disk based enterprise data protection
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Additional experience
CTO & CISO
OnePartner
Started February 2015
Education
- Bachelor of Science, East Tennessee State University
- Master of Business Administration - MBA, Tusculum University