TECHNOLOGY & OPERATIONs PROFESSIONALs

Image Barry Pope is currently the Director of Systems Integration for HealthCare IQ, and also Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of MelliCell, a biotech startup whose aim is to leverage human stem cell and tissue engineering technology to enable the development of therapeutics for obesity and diabetes.

He brings 15 years of skills & experience in Hospital EMR Implementation, Health Information Exchange, and Advanced Healthcare Analytics (Financial & Clinical) to the team … Working for Tampa General Hospital, managing in both operational and IT capacities. Analytics has always been a part of his core skillset, and work experience at Healthcare IQ further honed the ability to derive new measures and develop additional business-relevant, customer-focused insights.

A Natural Floridian, Pope attended the Marriott School of Management at Brigham Young University where he received his bachelor’s degree, and later attended the Florida State University College of Business to obtain his Masters of Management Information Systems degree.  He is happily married to his wife–and best friend, Kassi. Together they are raising 6 children. Barry finds himself well-occupied in family activities, church, and other hobbies (including cycling & woodworking), and is an avid cookie aficionado.
Image Emmanuel TEHE DJOB has developed his professional expertise as a senior international consultant in sales, marketing and enterprise communication. He currently develops organization, institutional and corporate interests for national clients leveraging his expertise in business messaging software. Mr. TEHE DJOB supports lobbying efforts as representative for Ecocas countries. For 5 years he supported the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Cameroon as the National Director of Public Relations. Graduate of European Institute of Cooperation and Development with a focus in management of small and mid-sized enterprises, Mr. TEHE DJOB is a graduate of the British International Program focusing on marketing and public relations.
Image Bobby Floyd is HHS’ Healthcare Division CEO. He began his career with HHS more than 10 years ago as an EVS manager, and has held various operational and business development positions since that time. In his current role, he provides leadership and support in partnership with more than 350 hospitals, and 7 service lines (EVS, FNS, Laundry, Transport, Facilities, Patient Sitters, and BioMed).
Image Claude Kadisi is an international development professional with 15 years of combined overseas and US-based experience in US Government contracting management including financial compliance, procurement and grants management. Claude has worked for international development consulting firms and NGOs in Washington DC and has served in Haiti, South Africa, Botswana and Uganda on long term assignments as a Finance and Operations Director on multiple USAID-funded projects ensuring compliance with donor’s rules and regulations and local labor laws. He has also provided technical assistance to partners and projects in over 15 countries ensuring proper design and implementation of sound internal control systems and fiscal leadership to ensure the effective use of US Government resources. Claude holds a MBA from Utah State University and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Kigali in Rwanda. He is fluent in French and is a Certified Fraud Examiner.
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Mr. Jean-Marie Kengne is an IT Consultant and Software Developer living in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering at the Chemnitz University of Technology (Germany) in 1998 and worked as Assistant Faculty at the university until 2001. Mr. Kengne has worked in and for several companies since 1992 involved in project teams in focused on touristic, logistics, retail, automotive, insurance and oil industries.
Mr. Jean-Marie Kengne is proficient and has experience with:
    • Evaluating and transforming customer system specifications to their technical nature, means conception and implementation
    • Software Developer bringing expertise in design of software systems (backend, frontend)
    • Programing languages such as Java, PHP and Typescript/JavaScript
    • Interface design and implementation in heterogen systems
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Jon C. Kennedy is president and CEO of Kennedy Consulting, Inc. a multi-faceted corporation that provides management skills across several different mediums. Managing the business end of the organization, Mr. Kennedy has used his degrees in IT and Management in the development implementation, and maintenance of information systems associated with the collection, retrieval and accessibility of planning and project management; Led the development, implementation and maintenance of internal database files, tables, and custom reports to meet the needs of other departmental management and staff; Served as department liaison to MIS/IT functions, coordinated projects with legal representatives, insurance adjusters, project coordinators, businesses and clientele; Led review of allegations regarding project defects, inspections, analysis and mitigated project resolutions; Coordination and inspection of project testing; Led development and implementation of matrix for project issues to provide briefs for legal counsel; Development and maintenance of photo records and files for project findings for historical record; Work with stakeholders and other project team members to establish project plans, timelines and cost analysis; Coordinate with internal and external sources, as well as provide testimony as needed Established resolution and/or repair summary and cost analysis of related projects. Mr. Kennedy has established teaching protocols and developed a staff of top industry instructors to implement state-of-the-art hardware safety training programs for home and industry. Worked as Project Expert with companies such as Financial Pacific, Phillips Building Consultants, Zurich American, Travelers, Axes, Loose, LaCorix Davis, J.W. Pryor Consulting, and others. Mr. Kennedy received a Bachelor’s degree in Management from the University of Phoenix and an Associates degree in Information Technologies from MTI College of Business & Technology.
Image Ms. Kinney is Senior Research Administrator in the School of Medicine Dean’s Office at Virginia Commonwealth University. She is the school-level reviewer for all proposals except industry trials. She assures that proposals are compliant with sponsor, university, and federal requirements at time of submission. She also manages school level monitoring of various compliance matters. Prior to her position in the School of Medicine Dean’s Office, she was Research Manager in the Department of Human and Molecular Genetics where she managed pre-and-post award activities for the department. Previously to working in the Department of Human and Molecular Genetics, she was Associate Administrator in the Department of Internal Medicine. In this role, she was the academic/research manager for the department. She provided training and assistance to divisions for compliance with university, state, and federal policies and procedures. She provided valuable department level representation on university committees such as the implementation of new university financial systems. Cindy earned her Bachelor of Science degree from Roanoke College with a major in Biology and minors in Chemistry and Psychology. She earned her MBA from George Mason University. She is a Certified Research Administrator.
Image Olivia Ngou is the founder and Executive Director of Impact Santé Afrique. Prior launching ISA, she worked for 10 years for Malaria No More where she led the Cameroon and Africa programs helping to keep malaria high on the agenda and rally political, celebrities , private sector and communities leaders around the cause. Olivia began her experience on malaria at the Special Envoy for Malaria at the United Nations; during that time she taught a public health course at the City University of New York: Health of the Wellness Project for undergraduate’s students at CITY College. She also worked with the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Bureau of HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control as a research assistant and , she was a fellow of the Harvard University Science of Eradication Malaria Leadership Course. She holds a masters degree in Public Health. Olivia has a great passion public health & the fight against malaria and maternal and child health ; she is striving to make her humble contribution to help create a world where no dies from a mosquito bite. She is committed to ensuring communities are included in malaria and health programs as equal partners . She recently elaborated a guide on community issues, social rights and gender in malaria programs and tool for malaria civil society to increase participating in Global Fund mechanisms. She co-founded and established the first Global Network of Civil Society for Malaria Elimination (CS4ME) which she now coordinates with more than 200 members from 43 countries.
Image Matt Scott is a healthcare strategist and business development executive with more than twenty five years of experience in operations, revenue cycle, physician practice administration, academic health systems, and senior living communities.He is the President and CEO of Unified Health Group, LLC a health care consulting firm based in Virginia.  Mr. Scott was the Executive Director of Strategy and Business Development for MCV Physicians, the faculty practice plan at the VCU School of Medicine.  He was a Physician Practice Administrator at Memorial Health in Savannah, Georgia and an Area-wide manager for Sutter Health’s occupational health network in northern California.  He also was selected and completed Administrative Fellowships at Sutter Health and Intermountain Health Care. He holds a Master’s degree in Health Administration from Virginia Commonwealth University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Brigham Young University. Mr. Scott was selected to serve on several board of directors based on his expertise, reputation, and expansive network within the healthcare, educational, and government sectors. His areas of expertise include governance, strategic planning, business development, ambulatory care, population health, contracting, workforce development, compensation models, data modeling, and managing high level projects and programs.
Image Ryan Stanley is an Operations Vice President for HHS, the premier provider of hospital support services in the U.S. Mr. Stanley brings 23 years of experience in managing hospital environmental services operations, healthcare linen utilization, hospitality services, and patient throughput.

In his current role, he oversees Environmental Services operations for 15 hospitals in Florida. Prior to this role, he has served in multiple leadership roles within the company managing operations, business development, and customer relationships throughout the Southeast U.S.

Mr. Stanley earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from University of South Florida with a major in Organizational Communication.
Image Alexandra (Allie) Szvoboda is a Communications specialist with over a decade of experience in the corporate realm. She earned a Bachelor of Science in speech communication from Utah Valley University. Allie has a diverse work history including management, sales, customer relations, and content creation.

Allie has a passion for health and wellbeing. From being born with clubfoot, to having a life-altering operation on her spine at just 17 years of age, Allie has seen and felt what it means to have great healthcare, as well as sub-par. Some extra education and health checkups could have prevented some of her major health problems, therefore she is enthusiastic about helping others with preventative care.
Image With over 15 years of academic research and teaching, private industry, and government experience, Dr. Ketchiozo Thierry Wandji is an expert in cybersecurity risk management. Currently the Software Security Technical Lead in the Systems Security Division of the US Navy’s Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAVAIR) and the Cybersecurity Technical Expert in the Cyber Warfare Detachment, Dr. Wandji’s duties at NAVAIR include assessing software security throughout the software development lifecycle; planning, developing, and coordinating high-impact research projects on cyber defensive technologies; overseeing the development of innovative cyber technologies; providing policy guidance and standards as well as workforce development for software security; and integrating these standards into the acquisition process to ensure that systems are both reliable and highly-resilient to cyberattacks. Likewise, Dr. Wandji advances education in the field as an Associate Director for the Cybersecurity Assurance and Policy (CAP) Center and an Associate Professor in the University of Maryland System where he teaches cybersecurity, oversees cybersecurity research studies, and designs cybersecurity curriculum. He has played an integral role in the design and implementation of cybersecurity virtual labs (cyber range) for students to have a hands-on cybersecurity experience. Hailing originally from Cameroun, Dr. Wandji pursued his BS in Electrical Engineering from the Polytechnic School of Engineering at Montreal, Canada in 2003 and went on to obtain an MS in Electrical Engineering from Morgan State University in Baltimore, MD in 2007. During his graduate studies, Dr. Wandji worked as a research assistant on a NASA-funded project aimed at designing and implementing software components to analyze the operations of weather radar and GPS. Following his graduation, Dr. Wandji supported Rockwell Collins as a Radar System Engineer before joining NAVAIR as an Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) Engineer and then as EMI Lead Systems Engineer. During this period, he noted that most systems were software intensive and that most electromagnetic issues were fixed by software updates, thus prompting him to delve into research on Software Reliability Modeling. Dr. Wandji earned his PhD in Systems Engineering at George Washington University (2015) with a dissertation on the Assessment of Software reliability using Classical and Bayesian methodologies to estimate Software Reliability Growth Model Parameters. Upon graduation he was promoted to Software Reliability Technical Lead and responsible for assessing the software maturity/reliability for all the software intensive systems developed by NAVAIR. Throughout his research studies in Software Reliability, Dr Wandji realized that software security was not being addressed throughout system security analysis nor cybersecurity risk assessment, which prompted him to further his technical knowledge through an MS in Cybersecurity Technology in 2017 from the University of Maryland University College. The same year, he also earned a graduate certificate in Cybersecurity with a focus on Embedded Systems from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Most recently, Dr. Wandji has completed a three-stage NAVAIR cybersecurity workforce development program, which concluded with a highly-selective and competitive technical rotation at the Naval Research Lab. This six-month technical rotation has provided him with hands-on experience in software security and cybersecurity. In addition to teaching in this area of expertise, Dr. Wandji has created a software reliability community of practice within the US Navy to leverage the best practices and share work experience and challenges. Dr. Wandji has led and coordinated a research and development team composed of researchers from NASA JPL, MITRE, and academia to work on high-impact research projects, which has resulted in a number of published articles and journal papers on software reliability, tutorials at the US Department of Defense, and presentations at private industry conferences. He is a member of the NSBE, IEEE, INCOSE, and EMC society.
Image Gloria Zuroff MBA, MT(ASCP) is currently employed with The Joint Commission and is responsible for conducting thorough evaluations of laboratory programs across the United States under the standards outlined in the Comprehensive Accreditation Manual/Accreditation Manual for Pathology and Clinical Laboratory Services. Ms Zuroff previously was the Director of Laboratory Services at HCA Central Virginia Health System in Richmond, Virginia overseeing a core laboratory system of multiple hospitals and free standing emergency centers. Prior to this she worked as Laboratory Director for acute care hospitals in Utah, North Carolina and Nevada. She also served as Program Director for a rural Medical Laboratory Technology Program with the University of Nevada-Reno. Ms Zuroff received her B.A. in Medical Technology and B.A. in Combined Sciences: Biology and Chemistry from Carroll College in Helena, Montana and her MBA at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah. Ms. Zuroff is currently a resident of Arizona.