Nashville Technology Council

Mr. Taylor is a Senior Solution Architect and Project Manager with the state and local government division of CIBER Inc – an international systems integration company with $1 billion in annual sales.   Mr. Taylor’s expertise includes business intelligence/analytics, enterprise architecture, health information technology, project management, and enterprise performance management. Mr. Taylor’s career focus for the past four years has centered on public health and health care applications – including public health business intelligence/data warehouse applications, state and regional health information exchange (HIE) networks, and telehealth networks.

As a Solution Architect and Project Manager at CIBER, Mr. Taylor has worked on several large healthcare technology projects.  Mr. Taylor served as the solution architect for the State of Tennessee Health Planning Decision Support System – a data warehouse system to support statewide health planning. Mr. Taylor has worked on several projects for the State of Tennessee Office of eHealth Initiatives – including the development of the State’s ePrescribing strategy, and the design and implementation of the Middle Tennessee Rural Health Information Network – a regional health information exchange network.   Mr. Taylor was instrumental in helping the State of Tennessee secure $10 million in grant awards from the federal government for telemedicine and health information exchange projects respectively in 2007 and 2008.

Prior to working in the public health sector, Mr. Taylor was the lead project manager and solution architect for the State of Tennessee Financial Data Warehouse System Project. This highly successful project was recognized by Data Review magazine with their annual World Class Solution Award for the most outstanding Business Intelligence application of 2003.    

Previously, Mr. Taylor served as a Technology Strategy Consultant at Cottonwood Inc and Taylor Consulting where he served multiple IT projects in the public and private sector. It was nearly 10 years ago that Mr. Taylor assisted the Alabama Department of Public Health in designing the development of a statewide public/private partnership to study ways to improve the sharing of electronic healthcare data (a forerunner of today’s Health Information Exchange (HIE) networks. Mr. Taylor long IT career includes serving as a Director of information system, manager of information resource planning, and consultant. He started his professional career as an Intern in the Tennessee Department of Health.

Mr. Taylor is a recognized speaker on topics of eHealth, ePrescribing, business intelligence, and project management. He holds a Master of Public Administration from University of Tennessee and a Bachelor of Science from Auburn University.