Anthony Bruno, MSIS

Responsible for strategic leadership and direction for all information technology initiatives and the delivery of quality health care in the Kaiser Permanente Orange County service area, which consists of the 262-bed Anaheim and 238-bed Irvine Medical Centers, 24 medical office buildings for primary and specialty care, 3 Urgent Care Clinics, 10,000 staff and physicians, over 570,000 health plan members, and an annual operating budget of $3 billion. Delivers all phases of IT Projects including design, prioritization, staffing, development, implementation, analysis, metrics and reporting. Functions as an expert authority on IT issues to physicians and other staff regarding IT strategies, operations and innovative solutions. Manages IT operations, aligns operations strategies, drives standardization, addresses IT issues, and delivers local regional and national IT projects to the service area.

Member of Medical Center leadership team. Oversee project delivery and strategic execution of IT initiatives. Key IT liaison for Medical Center Department Administrators and Chiefs of Service. Provide support for the Medical Center IT governance process while taking a leadership role in coordinating with various technical group managers. Partner with Service & Delivery leadership to utilize project management best practices and ensure project delivery execution.

Responsible for planning, organizing and managing staff and network infrastructure operations to ensure the stable operation of the organization’s IT infrastructure. This includes developing, maintaining, supporting, and optimizing key functional areas, particularly network infrastructure, server infrastructure, data communications, and telecommunications systems. In charge of scheduling and directing activities to resolve hardware and software problems in a timely and accurate fashion.

Responsible for all facets of IT for $225M staffing services company. In charge of deployment and support of technology solutions such as back office software packages, web applications, time and attendance systems, desktop systems, Internet connections, third party integration projects and telecommunications for the entire company. Provide operational support to 200+ employees and 30+ satellite locations. • Grew the IT organization congruent with the companies' growth from a $30M to a $225M staffing services organization. • Created a cost savings in excess of $400K/year by managing several Going Green projects including Document Imaging and Web-Based timekeeping. • Reduced hardware budget costs by 50% and improved end user’s performance by more than 30% through directing and implementing virtualization strategy, including both servers and desktops. • Led multi-department Great Plains project, including third party interfacing programs, to replace legacy back office payroll, GL and other accounting function package, which resulted in reducing time to complete the accounting monthly close by over 300%. • Recommended, planned and implemented a successful Data Center move and a private MPLS cloud implementation that significantly enhanced accessibility, stability, security, and availability of all our core business applications. This facility meets the business goal requirement of being SAS 70, Type II Compliant, PCI Compliant, and HIPAA Compliant. • Directed various technology engagements with key clients resulting in company yearly revenue of over $30M.

MBA & IT Integrated Degree