Christian Aboujaoude

Associate Chief Information officer | USC Verdugo Hills Hospital / Chief Technology Officer at Keck Medicine of USC

San Diego County, California, United States

About

Self Driven IT professional with 20 years of experience in data centers management, IT Disaster Recovery and Server Platforms (Wintel & Enterprise). Command and control, problem resolution sessions as well as vendor management.

Experience

  • Keck Medicine of USC (7 yrs 3 mos)
    • Associate Chief Information Officer / Chief Technology officer
      Nov 2022 - Present · 3 yrs 8 mos

    • Chief Technology Officer
      Apr 2019 - Nov 2022 · 3 yrs 8 mos

      Technology strategy, innovation and operational excellence.

  • Senior Director Enterprise Architecture at Scripps Health
    May 2017 - Apr 2019 · 2 yrs

    Scripps Health is a $3.3 billion integrated health system ranked as one of the top five large U.S. healthcare systems, with five hospitals, 35 outpatient centers and clinics, 2,700 physicians, and 15,000 employees. • Responsible for strategy, engineering, and operations for all compute infrastructure for Scripps health. Including (Compute/storage/security/networking/telephony). 3,400 servers running over 500 applications from Multiple data centers, as well as engineering and administration of 17,000 desktops across 40+ locations. Managed 100+ staff, $25 million operating, $12 million capital budgets. • Increased infrastructure reliability to over 99% via resource redundancy and actionable metrics. • Achieved over 99% success rate on large scale projects due to process improvement.

  • Scripps Health (14 yrs 1 mo)
    • Director Enterprise Architecture
      Jul 2014 - Jan 2017 · 2 yrs 7 mos

      Scripps Health is a $3.1 billion integrated health system ranked as one of the top five large U.S. healthcare systems, with five hospitals, 34 outpatient centers and clinics, 2,600 physicians, and 14,000 employees. • Responsible for strategy, engineering, and operations for 1,400 servers running over 500 applications from two dedicated data centers, as well as engineering and administration of 15,000 desktops across 40 locations. Managed 90+ staff, $20 million operating, $12 million capital budgets. Report to CTO. • Increased infrastructure reliability to over 99% via resource redundancy and actionable metrics. • Achieved over 99% success rate on large scale projects due to process improvement. • Increased a reduction of 5mil in term maintenance spend through negotiation and product implementation. . Epic EHR implementation, design and integration.

    • Mgr- Enterprise Architecture
      Feb 2012 - Jan 2015 · 3 yrs

      Manager- computing platforms (X86 & Enterprise)/ Storage/ Virtualization. Daily Operations, Strategic Planning, Vendor Management.

    • Manager Data Centers and Disaster recovery @ Scripps Health.
      Jan 2003 - Feb 2012 · 9 yrs 2 mos

      Managing day to day operations and disaster recovery for Scripps health Corporate data centers. Strategic planning and project implementation.