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About my work

IT leader with 15+ years of experience who has managed highly complex projects and successfully defined technologies that increase revenues and achieve business goals for several organizations including Kaiser Permanente and Stanford University. Ahmad has managed advancements in technology to identify competitive advantages and partnered with executives on IT service delivery to address business needs and capability requirements.

Highlights
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Roles held
Experience

Director of IT

Current

Adventist Health System/West2020-01-27 – Present

As the Director of IT, I'm an enterprise leader responsible for directing information technology services, strategy, digital transformation, and implementation to our employees and members. My passion lies in delivering cutting-edge technologies, with a particular focus on spearheading initiatives in GenAI, data transformation, and healthcare-specific software implementations. I bring expertise in cybersecurity, vendor management, and leveraging strategic partnerships to drive innovation.

This organization has nearly 40,000 employees, 30 hospitals and over 400 clinics.

Senior Manager IT Business Operations

Kaiser Permanente2016-11-01 – 2019-12-31

I am responsible for IT business operations, project deployment, and execution of IT strategy at the South Sacramento Medical Center and surrounding medical offices in the Elk Grove region. I partner with the Service & Delivery leadership team across the Northern California region to ensure optimal solutions for our business partners, along with driving standardization and increasing efficiencies. Under my direction, I lead two teams that provide consulting services to enable optimal solutions to the business, and a team of clinical support professionals who assist our nearly 4,000 users with our EMR system.

IT Business Manager

Stanford University2015-08-01 – 2016-10-01

Directed the strategic direction, financial leadership, operations management of Paging Services and breadth of IT services for Stanford University, Stanford Healthcare, and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford. I work closely with hospital executives & account teams to deliver mission critical services to the organization. I served as the leader of multiple business lines, managing vendors, technology roadmaps, communications, support models, working with engineering teams and providing people leadership.