Rick Deeds

Director of IT @ Nifco North America Inc.

About

Problem solver - likes to get to the bottom of issues and problems and provide options and recommendations for solutions. Team builder - I like to build teams with a positive culture. You can teach people new skills, but it is had to change their values. Consensus builder - Good at working within all levels of an organization to explain issues and solutions, gather input and help guide to a path for resolution and implementation. Industries: Healthcare - understand the various areas within healthcare from patient registration, master patient index, to orders, billing, payors and CMs reimbursements. Specialized in Radiology and have integrated multiple PACS, EHR (Epic, Cerner, Allscripts), and voice rec systems. Manufacturing- have worked with ERP / MRP systems including bills of materials, orders, invoicing, shipping and inventory control. Received certification in Production and Inventory from APICS. Consulting - has experience writing and presenting assessments on staff, structure, product selection and program planning. Local government - served 16 years on City council and provided IT consulting for multiple townships and local government entities. Familiar with government structure, finance, and utilities.

Country

United States

City

Canal Winchester

Industry

Consumer Goods

Skill

IT Services, Disaster Recovery, Vendor Relations, Programming, Cloud Computing, Training, Presentation Skills, Team Building, Service Delivery, Administration, Technical Leadership, Problem Solving, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Architecture, Healthcare Management, Project Portfolio Management, Incident Management, Strategy, Business Strategy

Experience

Director of IT

Nifco North America Inc.

2023-6 - Present · 3 yrs 4 mos

Canal Winchester, Ohio, United States

VP IT, Clinical Applications

Radiology Partners

2016-9 - 2023-1 · 6 yrs 5 mos

Columbus, Ohio Area

Clinical Application Service Lane owner charged with supporting and growing the radiologist’s applications to scale and support Radiology Partners’ growth. Major accomplishments include:  Partnered with new CIO and other IT leaders to reorganize IT as a Shared Service Model  Facilitated first AI / ML application creation within Radiology Partners.  Scaled application systems past vendor limits to support acquisitions. Drove vendor roadmap, relationship and contracts.  Migrated core clinical applications for radiologists from hosted data center to Azure cloud in less than a year.  Maintained entrepreneurial culture while growing and developing 40 member staff.  Developed and managed multi-million budget and contracts.  Supported practice growth from 6M annual study volume to over 40M annual study volume.

Director of IT

Columbus Radiology

2010-12 - 2016-9 · 5 yrs 10 mos

Established and developed an IT Department that built an infrastructure and application set to support a growing Radiology practice. Major accomplishments include:  As part of the leadership team, chaired the search and selection of the radiologist’s clinical applications and infrastructure.  Implemented the new application set across all clients in 18 months.  Integrated clinical applications with Revenue Cycle vendors, including ongoing support.  On boarded and interfaced new clients and radiologists to clinical applications.  Supported practice growth from 600K annual study volume to over 2M annual study volume.

Sr. Managememt Consultant

Affiliated Resource Group

2004-3 - 2010-12 · 6 yrs 10 mos

Sr. Management Consultant and Lead for the Management consulting practice. Major accomplishments include:  ERP selections for a major restaurant distribution organization and manufacturing company.  Project Management for upgrades, migrations, managed service offerings.  CIO consultation for multiple clients including local governments, religious organizations.  IT Assessments for organizations, applications, and services.