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I began my career in 1987 with 3 years technical research for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, where I built a computer-based laboratory management environment for parturition physiology research. I networked DOS and Windows286 data-collection clients to a DECVAX minicomputer data-depository, and then interfaced physiographs, IR spectrophotometers, balances, gas chromatographs, mixers and chillers, thermometers, and variac transformers to the clients. Nearly all testing and data-collection was done, hands-free. I gained experience with data communications, including the use of ARPANET messaging, and the operations and interfacing of laboratory instruments.

In 1991, I began work for Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) as Systems Manager for the Field Services Division - where I implemented the state's first digital Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS). In doing this, which required not only connecting many different analog and digital laboratory instruments to local computers, but heavy use of both LAN and WAN connectivity, I developed a keen interest in open (TCP/IP) network and applications connectivity.

In late 1993, I was asked to network and automate LDDS Communications (WorldCom) into the largest communications company in the world. So, with DEQ's LIMS 100% implemented and operational, I built DEQ a LIMS support and administration team and started with LDDS in 1994. LDDS grew quickly, with me leading the information technology and services consolidations/migrations for 61 acquisitions - including many small companies, but also WilTel, IDB WorldCom, MFS/UUNet, Brooks Fiber, GridNet, SkyTel, CompuServe, AOL Network Services, MCI, etc. - helping to build WorldCom, which owned/ran over 50% of the Internet. These acquisitions had platforms with their own: development/support staff, content, equipment, connectivity, and sometimes buildings for running their systems. I migrated these companies, consolidating and then decommissioning their environments to use the WorldCom Corporate Intranet, Internet, pre-sales Customer Extranet, e-Mail, Directory Services, Materiel Management, and HR System. This Consolidate:Decommission model saved WorldCom an estimated 74 million dollars over 8 years. Leading corporate communications for all these world-wide acquisitions helped me develop award winning and globally recognized websites, communications models, and the most heavily used intranet site in the world. And, from 1999-2001, I served as Vint Cerf's MCI-to-WorldCom applications connectivity advisor. In April 2002, an MCI-controlled board voted Bernie Ebbers, out of the company and I was laid off, two hours later.

I then worked for Health Management Associates for 1 year, preparing for an opportunity with First Choice Medical Supply (First Choice), where I: built a HIPAA-secure communications infrastructure; supported GE PACS networks, including public web and modality connectivity; designed and administered networking to 15 HMA sites; ported all doctor's privileges from paper to a LAMP web site to make HMA's first Physician's Privileges portal for nurses to find "who could do what to whom"; developed and implemented an MSDS Control portal; and built and ran shrinkdown.com for HMA's and YMCA's successful public weight loss program. But, most importantly, I implemented and provided regional administration for Pathways Materiel Management (PMM) to define and create private Internet-based extranet connectivity between McKESSON and HMA, allowing me to become familiar with the healthcare industry's two leading suppliers, which would end up being First Choice's biggest sources for new customers - McKESSON and Medline.

I joined *First Choice Medical Supply (now McKesson Medical-Surgical) in December, 2002, and was named CIO in June, 2003. Within my first few months at First Choice, I created and provided an Online Supply Center (OSC), a dynamic e-commerce environment for the eldercare industry and First Choice's gross revenue grew quickly. After 18 months, we had 500+ live accounts (Long Term Care, Home Care, Hospice, and DME) ordering through the OSC. By 2017, 5,000+ OSC accounts produced 80% of our gross revenue. These OSC sales, plus other trading partner sales (DSSi, Brightree, Liasion, etc.) totaled 98% of our gross revenue (<2% from tel/FAX). I trademarked FCMS™ as a wholesale distributorship and as CIO, I designed, implemented, and supported: all web, web to database, and ERP connectivity, development and administration; all infrastructure that connects distribution centers in 10 states using a Cisco-based physical/Wi-Fi data network; and all other associated technical work, including disaster recovery, telephone, EDI communications, and 100% migrating/converting/decommissioning all of First Choice to McKesson. And all my web deliverables for First Choice were 100% LAMP open source and approved as use-compliant by each resporg. *Acquired by Medical Specialties Distributors, LLC on December 07, 2016, and then acquired by McKESSON Medical-Surgical on June 01, 2018.

While at First Choice Medical Supply, I used BroadbandVoice/Fuse.Cloud and Netlink Voice MSP's from 2006 to 2020 for most all my infrastructure support and chose to spend some time working for each of them. I worked for Fuse.Cloud as Director of Sales Engineering for a year and Netlink Voice as Director of Solutions Engineering for 2 1/2 years.

October 30, 2023 I took over HORNE's IT Infrastructure and Operations and am very impressed with everything and everyone in this amazing company!

Summary of Predictive Index® Results

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Name:	Kevin A. Crothers
Survey Date:	September 13, 2002
Report Date:	September 13, 2002

The results of the Predictive Index® survey should always be reviewed by a trained Predictive Index analyst. The PI Reporter® provides you with a brief overview of the results of the Predictive Index® and prompts you to consider many aspects of the results not contained in the overview. If you have not yet attended the Predictive Index® Management Workshop, please consult someone who has attended in order to complete the report.

Kevin is unassuming, unselfish and has a genuine interest in other people and a strong, intuitive understanding of them. Outgoing and friendly, he enjoys working with others and is lively, warm company.

A pleasant and extroverted person, Kevin is an effective communicator, able to stimulate and motivate others while being aware of and responsive to their needs and concerns. His congenial personality and friendly, interested attitude make him readily approachable. He gets along easily with a wide variety of people.

His drive is directed at working with and for others. He derives particular satisfaction from doing things for others, for the company, for his management, for the team and for the company's customers. Cooperative and willing, he can be a particularly effective teacher and communicator of the company's policies, programs, and systems.

Working at a faster-than-average pace, he is attentive to details and both quick and accurate in handling them. He is, however, too impatient to enjoy working with details as repetitive routine or as his primary responsibility.

Anxious to be sure that things are done exactly right, Kevin will follow-up carefully and closely if his work requires that he delegate details to others. When it is necessary for him to be critical, he will try to do that in a constructive, supportive manner. His sense of urgency and his sense of duty combine to make him actively concerned about the timeliness, as well as the correctness, of any work for which he is held responsible.

In general, Kevin is a cautious and careful person, respectful of company authority and traditions, a specialist who avoids risk and uncertainty by taking care to do things properly, working within the company's formal organizational structure.

MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES:

To maximize his effectiveness, productivity, and job satisfaction, consider providing Kevin with the following:

• Clear, specific description of his job, with duties, responsibilities, and organizational relationships clearly defined
  
  
• Opportunities to learn everything he needs to know about his job
  
  
• Management that recognizes him as a valued member of the team and consistently provides him with leadership back-up and expertise as needed
  
  
• General assurance of security, respect, and appreciation of his work
  
  
• Opportunities for interaction with people
  
  

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Software:  GE PACS, Pathways Materiel Management, Synchronicity, Tivoli Desktop Imaging and Storage Manager, Arcserve, Google web tools/Google Cloud MySQL, Microsoft Office 365 administration, IBM ADSM, Microsoft SMS, Microsoft SQL, Apache, Microsoft IIS, Netscape/iPlanet Enterprise Server, Veritas Net Backup, NetIQ domain management tools and monitoring tools, Optivity, HP Openview, CA Unicenter, DCA Remote LAN Node and PC Anywhere/LAN

Operating Systems:  VMware, Netware, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, IRIX, BSD, Linux, NextOS, SCO, Mac OS, Mac OS X, DOS, Windows 286/3/NT 4.0/2000/XP/7/8/10, Windows Servers, etc.

Directory Services:  LDAP, Novell, X.500, Microsoft Active Directory, OpenLDAP, UM slapd/slurpd

Messaging and Communications:  EDI file exchange communications (ftp, sftp, ftps); Netscape Messaging Server, Multiplexor; SMTP, POP3, IMAP4; Microsoft Exchange; Lotus Domino/Notes; Novell MHS, GroupWise; cc:Mail; Microsoft Mail; UNIX sendmail; iRedMail/Admin on Ubuntu; VoIP/SIP

Hardware:  Generators and power transfer switches, CISC, RISC Computers; Liebert Cooling and UPS's, Best and APC UPS's; SCSI devices; NFR; scanning/OCR; peripheral device sharing; CAD/CAM software/hardware; advanced memory/interrupt management; printers, plotters, and copiers

Storage:  EMC SAN, IBM SAN, Compaq StorageWorks SAN, AMAZON AWS SFS and Glacier, SYNOLOGY, BackBlaze, Microsoft AZURE storage and VM's

Physical Networking:  SNMP management; building of data cabling; Out Of Band (OOB), ArcNet, Ethernet (10 - 10000 Mb/s), FDDI, and Token-Ring (Type 1 and 3); SUN, Cisco, Bay Networks, Wellfleet, SynOptics, Western Multiplex, paloalto, and NorTel concentrators, repeaters, switches, muxes, firewalls, bridges, brouters, and routers

Modems, CSU/DSU's:  Kentrox, CUBIX, US Robotics Total Control, and all types of stand-alone modems and CSU/DSU's, including cable modems, such as Motorola SB3/4100

Wireless Networking:  Point-Point and Point-MultiPoint bridging of IEEE 802.3; 802.11(FH), 802.11a, and 802.11b broadcasting

Software/Web Development:  W3C standards and initiatives for Web Development, such as HTML/CSS, Bootstrap, XML/cXML, XHTML, ECMAscript, WAI; CAST and The Web Standards Project's BUI efforts; Perl, macro-C coding and frameworks, UNIX shell, some VB and Java scripting

Databases:  MySQL, PostgreSQL, ORACLE, SQL Server, and some others, such as DB2, RBase, etc.

E-mail use training/testing:  Knowbe4 phish testing/training, internally built and managed fcms.com/SCAMD malicious emails prevention, OpenDNS domain name system forward, and Sendgrid email campaigning services

Protocols:  TCP/IP, NetBIOS, IPX/SPX, OOB, WAP, VPN (IPSEC, IKE, L2LTP, Cisco DMVPN)

e-Commerce:  All major VAN's; LIAISON Delta/ECS; IBM Sterling Integrator; internally-built EDI Library; major clearinghouses such as AMAZON storefront, BRIGHTREE, DSSi, Procurement Partners, Home Care Home base; EDI file exchange communications with most supplier-used transaction sets, etc.

Security:  PKI, E-Mail, AV/AM, SSL, PIX, SonicWall, Proofpoint, Checkpoint Firewalls, Rapid7, Veracode, etc.

Recruiting, hiring, training, and retaining employees; On-line Social Networking; NOS, protocol, and workstation migrations; project management (estimating, scheduling, PERT/Gantt charts, Scrum and Kanban agile project management frameworks, etc.); advanced laboratory equipment (physiograph, oscilloscope, centrifuge, DAS16F, SEM, NMR, GC, GC-MS, AA, etc.); President of Harbortowne Property Owners' Association (59 homes, 2004-2014); Board of Director member and over digital media and security cameras for Northbay Property Owners' Association (510 homes, 2017-Current). And I enjoy and have successfully overcome challenges such as: leading technical conversions/moves/consolidations for companies; optimizing internal business work/data flow models to minimize duplicate use-paths and assign source ownership to all available data; create e-Commerce libraries to parse and exchange as many e-Commerce data types (HL7, cXML, api's, text, EDI 5010 spec, etc.) to a single one (such as EDI 4010 spec) and then convert all responses back to the source data type, so the sender never knows of any data parsing/converting; migrating company email and application suites to/from G Suite, Office 365, on-premise Exchange, UNIX Postfix mail, etc.; managing highly technical and project management remote employees, not only in the US, but in Asia, Europe, South America, etc.; building fast and highly versatile open source Bootstrapped/templated/database-driven web models, staying 100% within open-source industry standards.