Wayne has led and worked in healthcare technology for much of his career. In those early years, he was energized by improvement opportunities, especially the power technology tools could bring to the business. As a part of growing organizations, Wayne led the building and expanding of infrastructure, scaling solutions, improving processes, achieving economies of scale, leading blended teams, and building a healthy organizational culture.
Wayne was the architect of Centerstone’s first electronic health record system in 2001, which was among the first in the nation for behavioral health. He soon joined Qualifacts Systems, a Nashville based startup offering CareLogic. CareLogic, a first-of-a-kind software as a service (SaaS) electronic health record (EHR), was groundbreaking. In his five years, he led the team to transform the CareLogic platform from custom software implementations to a configurable multi-tenant system, built the maintenance and support team, established the service desk, and led the rollout of CareLogic to 200+ locations for a national healthcare customer.
In 2007, he returned to Centerstone as CIO, and they doubled in size with an expansion into Indiana. In years following the $120M, the organization executed additional mergers in Florida, Kentucky, and Illinois, bringing scale to $370M and 6500 employees. In 2020, Wayne left Centerstone as Chief Admin Officer. In the previous 5 years, he was leading Technology, Business Intelligence, Analytics, Human Resources, and Project Management. His team of 200 successfully reduced the cost of shared services as a percent of revenue by 10% while expanding the scope of services.
Today he works in fractional CIO roles to lead organizations through technology change. He has worked with large, mid-sized, and even boutique organizations where opportunity drives change. His focus is aligning technology strategy with business goals and leading the technology work toward those goals.
Wayne lives in Nashville with his wife, Lisa, who is 43 years old. They have 3 married sons and four grandchildren, who affectionately call him Boss; ask him about that. Wayne enjoys running marathons, trail races, and anything outdoors. He dreams of running a 4 Boston Marathon with one of the grands when they are ready.