From: dchen@umassmed.ummed.edu (Daniel D.E. Chen)
Newsgroups: misc.jobs.offered
Subject: Director Information Technology Infrastructure, MA
Date: 04 Jan 93 21:20:56 GMT
Organization: University of Massachusetts Medical Center; Worcester, MA 01655
NNTP-Posting-Host: umassmed.ummed.edu


I am posting for my superior.  You can reply to me or him.
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I am looking for a Director, Information Technology Infrastructure.
The ideal candidate will have had an outstanding engineering
background and experience in supervising technical staff. This is
the senior-most technical position in the Information Resources
Division of UMass Medical Center, located in Worcester,
Massachusetts. 

Our mission is information services to medical education, teaching
hospital, group practice, biomedical research activities, and
launching a Medical Informatics program.  We are building the team
now! 

If you are interested and qualified (see job description below), or
know someone who does, please forward CV which is mapped to the
minimal requirements to:

     Ron Ribitzky, M.D.
     Chief Information Officer
     U Mass Medical Center
     55 Lake Avenue North
     Worcester, MA 01655

     Tel: 508 - 856 - 5718
     FAX: 508 - 856 - 2440

     Internet: RIBITZKY@Umassmed.Ummed.EDU

General Summary of Position:  
Oversees the technology infrastructure of UMMC's integrated
information system, upon which the division carries its service and
academic mission. Participates in devising an architecture for a
network-based, multi-vendor, and diverse-platform environment
according to Open-Systems-Interconnect and other applicable
industry standards. Develops the division's core-competence in
such.  Reports to UMMC's Chief Information Officer.


Major Responsibilities:  
Under general direction of the Chief Information Officer, the
incumbent: 
-    Serves as the prime technical resource to the division.

-    Manages the organization, assets, and budget required to
     maintain and enhance UMMC's 24 hour/7 day operation of office
     automation, network, systems, data center, and information
     system security services.

-    Participates in devising and implementing UMMC's architecture
     for integrated information systems and services that extend
     beyond campus facilities and organization.  Revisits
     division's plans and their implementation accordingly.

-    Develops short and long range strategic plan to build and
     operate UMMC's information technology infrastructure
     respectively.

-    Develops, presents, and executes annual and quarterly work
     plans.  Utilizes and effectively implements computer-based
     management tools within own department.

-    Creates, leads, manages, and develops an Information
     Technology Infrastructure Department providing multi-media
     office automation, network and communication services,
     computer-platforms, management, installations, data center
     operations, and information-security services.

-    Ensures that the department is adequately staffed, motivated,
     trained, and equipped for excellence in service
     notwithstanding availability of limited resources.  Hires,
     promotes, conducts performance reviews, and disciplines staff. 
    Prepares, manages, and performs within scope of approved
     capital and operating budget.

-    Develops, communicates, implements, and proactively acts upon
     realistic service definitions along with estimates of cost-of-
     ownership, capacity and resources requirements, and project
     plans.

-    Complements those with standards of performance, security,
     disaster avoidance and recovery, policies, procedures, and
     assets-management techniques.

-    Disseminates and pursues the division's mission, philosophy,
     and operational principles.

-    Promotes and ensures compliance with professional standards,
     industry standards for technology, regulation, credentialling
     requirements, and UMMC's policies and procedures. 
     Participates in audit preparation, conduct, and related
     activities.

-    Leads or participates in the acquisition of related hardware,
     software, products, and services to existing and new
     facilities.  Negotiates and manages cost-effective contracts
     and other relationships with contractors and vendors.

-    Monitors and evaluates related developments in the industry,
     market, government, and academia in order to secure
     opportunities for UMMC to benefit from progress in the field. 
     Advises the Chief Information Officer and the division's
     management team on such.

-    Represents the Chief Information Officer on committees. 
     Secures the stakes of UMMC in university-wide and other
     activities related to external information technology.

-    Contributes to the division's academic pursuit in medical-
     informatics education, research and development.


-    Other duties and responsibilities as required.


Minimum Qualifications:
-    Masters Degree in electrical engineering, computer science,
     bio-medical engineering, or equivalent.

-    Eight years of demonstrated, progressively responsible
     experience in leading and managing in information technology
     group responsible for office automation with at least 3000
     user accounts, multi-protocol network, support of multi-vendor
     applications across diverse systems portfolio, and data center
     including strategic planning, installations, operations,
     personnel, budget, vendor, and contract management.

-    Demonstrated working experience with the following information
     technologies:

     OSF/Motif, X-Windows, or OpenLook window system
     Office automation supporting ISO/Office Document Architecture
     or equivalent, PostScript, electronic-mail enabled
     applications, and Internet; Network-based, distributed SQL,
     Expert System, and information systems security support
     services;
     Multi-media local and wide-area networks supporting TCP/IP,
     DECNet, LAT, SNA, Novell or Banyan/Vines, NFS or DEC/NAS, and
     EDI protocols; Multi-Protocol network management system;
     Ethernet and FDDI;
     Integration of mainframe, minicomputer, workstation, and
     micro-computer equipment;
     IBM/VM/MVS, DEC/VMS, DG/AOS-VS or Aviion, UNIX, OSF/1, MS-DOS,
     and Apple/System7, or a combination thereof; Mixed magnetic
     and optic storage; Project management and CASE tools.

-    Demonstrated experience in developing and implementing
     policies, procedures, and technical documentation.

-    Demonstrated experience in presentation to diverse audience up
     to executive level.  Effective verbal and written
     communication competence.

Supervision Received:
-    Performs independently within established strategy,
     objectives, and principles.
-    Seeks the advice of and proactively collaborates with peers
     per own judgement.
-    Reports and explains variances of such to the Chief
     Information Officer.
-    Proactively refers high-impact situations and problems beyond
     scope of responsibility to the Chief Information Officer.


Supervision Exercised:
-    Direct supervision of about five managers and a department of
     about thirty personnel including office automation, network,
     computer-platforms, data center, information systems security,
     and administrative staff.
-    Management of vendors, vendor's personnel, contractors, and
     consultants.


Environmental Working Conditions:
-    Usual academic medical center environment with education,
     patient care, and bio-medical research facilities.
-    Frequent interaction with division's management staff,
     university peers, and vendor's senior technical and executive
     management.
-    Base of normal office environment with high rate of
     interruption.
-    Occasional exposure to high noise and lifting of heavy items.
-    Occasional off regular working hours, weekends, and holidays.
-    Occasional travel with possible overnight stay.
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Daniel Chen
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