Jeff Tharp

Provide advisory and consulting services on topics such as strategic leadership, industry insights, technology management, and technical analysis.

• Enhance CIO decision-making by publishing industry analysis and recommendations on Gartner.com
• New products developed and product improvements made to military equipment based on consulting feedback
• Foreign manufacturer entered the US market based on recommended marketing and distribution strategy

The top infrastructure executive for a $3.5B healthcare enterprise across 7 states with a staff of 250. Served as Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the Kentucky division and was the customer-facing CTO for cloud customers.

• Delivered $1M of savings in 6 months by establishing contract review and benchmarking process
• Enabled new line of business by establishing a Software as a Service for sale to regional healthcare providers
• Accelerated the delivery of technology more than 20% by implementing systems architectures and standards
• Improved security, IT services, and business alignment by establishing IT Service Management practice

The chief architect and thought leader for infrastructure teams. Identified business needs or outcomes, developed technical solutions to meet those goals, and measured the ongoing value generation.

• Reduce costs by $3M annually after leading adoption of virtualization and cloud-sourcing architecture
• Eliminated $500K of annual outside legal fees by establishing litigation readiness (E-Discovery) program
• Accelerated key application deployment more than 40% by deploying quality assurance solution and process
• Ensured service availability and continuity by adopting disaster recovery and availability management program

The manager responsible for planning, governance, and execution of all technology projects for a $250M insurance company. Managed capital and expense budgets totaling $13M annually with a staff of 15 technical personnel.

• Reduced IT costs by $1.5M annually by designing and deploying enterprise virtualization architecture
• Reduced IT operational costs 5% annually, improved service, and business alignment through ITSM adoption
• Enabled new line of revenue by implementing a website for insurance quoting and lead generation

Manage a small, specialized technical team in support of a government contract for the Defense Information Systems Agency.

Provide end-user support, maintain network, and manage server environment for legal and public relations firm, Powell-Tate.

Support professional tax firms using corporate tax preparation software. Also responsible for providing classroom-based training for new support representatives.