Welcome to my site – and to what I hope will become a personal and professional chronicle of the road ahead.
It’s May 2020, and like most of the world, I’m writing this from home. COVID-19 has shifted nearly everything about how we live and work. At Digirad, our scan days are down, and like many in healthcare, we’re riding the uncertainty while preparing for what’s next. We’re expecting a surge once restrictions ease – and when it comes, we need to be ready.
That’s part of what makes this moment so meaningful. One year ago, I was brought in as a fractional CIO to assess the Digirad environment and build a roadmap forward. Within a few weeks it was clear how significant the transformation was going to need to be to push Digirad forward and I came on full time bringing a few consulting engineers onboard. After a successful year consulting for Digirad, I’ve officially joined the team as Vice President of IT. And while there’s a lot going on in the world, I’m feeling a deep sense of focus and momentum.
This past year, we accomplished some truly foundational work. We replaced our aging MPLS network with a modern, fiber-based infrastructure powered by Fortigate firewalls and Aruba switches – cutting costs and setting ourselves up for scale. That project alone saved thousands in monthly expenses, and more importantly, cleared the path for our biggest lift yet: a full migration of both datacenters – Fargo and Poway – to the Azure cloud.
Those two moves, while deeply technical, were about more than systems. They were about unlocking flexibility and future-proofing the organization.
Now, with the infrastructure in place, we’re entering the next chapter: team building, process refinement, and enabling real digital transformation inside a company with big potential.
This blog will serve as a space to share that journey – the wins, the stumbles, the learnings, and the little victories that happen along the way. Some posts will dive deep into technology. Others may be more personal reflections. But all of it will be real, and hopefully useful to someone else walking a similar path.
Thanks for being here.
– Vince