Rusty Atkinson

An experienced CIO and SaaS business leader with over 20 years of experience leading technical teams, delivering and supporting SaaS offerings.  A digital transformer, an infrastructure and operations modernizer, a developer enabler, a friction remover, and a proactive partner to business stakeholders. An active DEI advocate and sponsor. A technology executive with experience in healthcare, security, and software companies.

▶️ Founding member of Signify Health’s DEI taskforce and executive sponsor of LaVoz (Latinx ERG).

▶️ Developed cloud expense management processes that resulted in a $6M/year reduction in cloud expense.

▶️ Completed migration of 44 services to AWS and Microsoft Azure (from five data centers), including modernization of 70% of workloads, in 18 months.

▶️ Deployed conversational AI RPA support bot for employee support at Signify Health that was expense-positive after six months, with significant improvements to customer satisfaction and mean time
to resolve.

▶️ Won back $2.4M annual recurring revenue client by leading cross-functional compliance effort at Entrust Datacard.

People:
✔️ Organizational change management
✔️ Performance management
✔️ Coaching and training
✔️ Building and leading global organizations
✔️ Leadership through turbulent times
✔️ Leadership in hypergrowth
Process:
✔️ Account management
✔️ Project management
✔️ Customer Success 
✔️ Service management
✔️ Technical customer support
✔️ Budget and P&L management
✔️ Partner management 
✔️ Vendor management 
✔️ Customer upsell, expansion, and retention
✔️ ITIL processes (ITSM)
Technology:
✔️ AWS and Azure 
✔️ Site Reliability Engineering
✔️ Cloud orchestration management
✔️ Infrastructure virtualization
✔️ Data center operations
✔️ DevOps 
✔️ Cloud Operations 
✔️ Agile delivery
✔️ SaaS implementation and onboarding 
✔️ Infrastructure operations

Head of Technology - VP, Technology

Born out of Boston Medical Center, Clearway Health builds specialty pharmacy programs, serves patients on specialty medication therapies, removes obstacles and barriers to care, and redefines the meaning of partnership with the hospitals and health systems they serve. They provide transformational services that impact patients’ lives and strengthen clients’ performance – clinically, financially, and operationally.

Clearway Health is #hiring! My team is hiring!

My team is adding a Senior Microsoft Engineer to lead the design, configuration, and management of our Microsoft 365 environment.

This role will own our Microsoft platform end-to-end: M365, EntraID, Exchange, Intune, and Defender.

You’ll be one of the key team members who ensures our environment is secure, reliable, and compliant with SOC 2, ISO 27001, and NIST requirements.

You will help define how we shape our Microsoft 365 strategy, harden our environment, automate configuration, and modernize onboarding and offboarding.

You’ll have a voice in how we architect and evolve our entire Microsoft ecosystem.

We’d love to meet someone with:
▶️ 5+ years of enterprise Microsoft 365 experience
▶️Deep expertise in Intune, EntraID, Exchange Online, and tenant management
▶️Proven experience hardening environments to SOC 2, HIPAA, and NIST 800-53 standards
▶️Familiarity with Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code principles.

Is this you?
What are you waiting for?

🚨 Please apply to this role using the link in the comments.

NOTE: We are not engaging 3rd-party recruiting support for this role at this time.
NOTE: Clearway Health is unable to consider candidates who require sponsorship or who will require sponsorship in the future.

Clearway Health is #hiring! My team is growing again. 

We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer to help us build the next generation of our enterprise data platform.

This role will lead the architecture and development of our data model, ensuring our data ecosystem is scalable, standardized, and cohesive across many different data sources.

We are not looking for someone to just come in and build some pipelines (though you’ll do that too). We want someone who is excited about connecting data engineering, business strategy, and patient outcomes.

You will help design what comes next for our Snowflake environment, our ingestion patterns, our transformation layers, and our overall data architecture. You’ll partner with analysts, BI developers, and business leaders to ensure our data truly powers actionable insights.

You’ll have a voice in how we design and evolve our entire data platform.

We’d love to meet someone with:
▶️ 4+ years of experience in enterprise data solutions
▶️ Deep SQL and Python expertise
▶️Strong hands-on experience with Snowflake, dbt, Databricks, Redshift, or similar
▶️ A track record of designing scalable ELT pipelines
▶️ Experience with healthcare data ( ‼️pharmacy data is a big plus)
▶️ Curiosity, technical leadership, and a drive to build something meaningful

🔥 Please apply to this role using the link in the comments.

NOTE: We are not engaging 3rd-party recruiting support for this role at this time.
NOTE: At this time, Clearway Health cannot consider candidates who require sponsorship or will require sponsorship in the future.

An experienced CIO and SaaS business leader with over 20 years of experience leading technical teams, delivering and supporting SaaS offerings.  A digital transformer, an infrastructure and operations modernizer, a developer enabler, a friction remover, and a proactive partner to business stakeholders. An active DEI ally, advocate, and sponsor. A technology executive with experience in healthcare, security, and software companies.

📧: rustyatkinson@yahoo.com
📞: 817-637-6406

People:
✔️ Organizational change management
✔️ Performance management
✔️ Coaching and training
✔️ Building and leading global organizations
✔️ Leadership through turbulent times
✔️ Leadership in hypergrowth
Process:
✔️ Account management
✔️ Project management
✔️ Customer Success 
✔️ Service management
✔️ Technical customer support
✔️ Budget and P&L management
✔️ Partner management 
✔️ Vendor management 
✔️ Customer upsell, expansion, and retention
✔️ ITIL processes (ITSM)
Technology:
✔️ AWS and Azure 
✔️ Site Reliability Engineering
✔️ Cloud orchestration management
✔️ Infrastructure virtualization
✔️ Data center operations
✔️ DevOps 
✔️ Cloud Operations 
✔️ Agile delivery
✔️ SaaS implementation and onboarding 
✔️ Infrastructure operations

Clearway Health

Gary Lombardo

Clearway Health is #hiring! The Client Success team is hiring!
We are looking for a new Client Success Manager. 
This is a remote role.

Are you passionate about transforming specialty pharmacy for hospital and health systems? If you thrive when building strong relationships, driving outcomes, and delivering meaningful impact for patients and providers, this could be the role for you. 

What you'll do:
☑️ Lead the client engagement strategy and Clearway Health's partnership
☑️ Be the client's voice at Clearway Health through a continuous feedback loop process 
☑️ Ensure clients' strategic roadmaps are aligned with the clients' desired outcomes

What we're looking for:
▶️ 3-5 years in client-facing roles. Experience in client success, account management, improving client satisfaction, adoption, retention, and loyalty
▶️Ability to build relationships with clients at operational and executive levels
▶️Exceptional communication, mitigation, and leadership skills 

🔥 Please apply to this role using the link in the comments.

NOTE: We are not engaging 3rd-party recruiting support for this role at this time.
NOTE: Clearway Health is unable to consider candidates who require sponsorship or who will require sponsorship in the future.

Never in my lifetime has a book on leading with integrity felt more necessary than it does right now.

Look around the American political landscape. It does not matter which channel you watch or which party you lean toward. The headlines are filled with the same themes I warn leaders about in The Integrity Edge:

Leaders bending truth to benefit their image. 
Leaders who chase power at the expense of their principles.
Leaders who use divisive language to make up for their lack of vision.
Leaders surrounded by people who nod and agree, not people who tell them the truth.
Leaders who treat their authority and influence as evidence of some superior entitlement... misunderstanding the very purpose of leadership.

Pride is on display everywhere.
Fear is weaponized.
Trust is absent. Ignored.
Accountability is someone else’s problem.
So many act like the ends justify the means. Win at any price.

When integrity becomes flexible, this is the eventual outcome.

In moments like this, it is tempting to shrug and say, “Well, that’s politics.” But that mindset is exactly how cultures drift. It’s how organizations slowly normalize behaviors they would have once rejected. It’s how leaders gradually compromise their way into becoming someone they never meant to be. 

It’s the death by a thousand small cuts. Integrity rarely disappears in a single moment. It degrades over time.

When leaders stop listening, stop telling the truth, stop taking responsibility, and stop serving the people they are entrusted to lead… distrust is the only logical outcome. 

We see it nationally. We feel it locally. We recognize it in our own companies.
This is why leading with integrity matters now more than ever.

Integrity is not naive.
It is not weak. It is not slow.
It is the most sustainable competitive advantage a leader can have.

Trust.
Honesty.
Humility.
Courage.
Consistency.
Service.

Those qualities are not outdated. They are not a hindrance or a handicap.  
They are the difference between leaders who rise and leaders who flounder under the weight of their own ego.

Whatever chaos the headlines show us, we get to choose the kind of leaders we become.

And choosing integrity, every time… especially when it is costly… is how we build something that lasts.

How you win matters. Choose integrity!

A simple leadership truth that seems more uncommon as each day passes...

Authority is transferable. Responsibility is not.

You can hand someone the authority to act.
You can empower them with decision-making.
You can trust them with influence, autonomy, and ownership.
However, the responsibility for the outcome stays with the leader.

A leader can share responsibility, but they can never delegate it. 
Not morally. Not culturally. Not in the eyes of their team.

This is why leaders who delegate well stay close enough to coach, guide, clarify expectations, and remove obstacles. They give people room to operate, but they don't abandon the work. 

And they for darn sure do not use delegation as a shield to avoid the fallout when things go sideways.

As a leader, when something happens on your watch, it is your responsibility to understand it, address it, and own the consequences. Even if your actions didn't directly create the negative outcome. The outcome is on you... good or bad. That's leadership.

When leaders grasp this distinction:
Teams stop fearing mistakes.
Accountability becomes cultural instead of conditional.
Trust grows because people know their leader will not abandon them in the rough times.

Authority is a tool. Responsibility is a burden.
Great leaders never confuse the two.

How you win matters. Choose integrity!

“Do as I say, not as I do” is the laziest, most backwards leadership approach of all.

Some leaders behave as if there ought to be two sets of rules…
One for the ruling class.
One for the peasants.

That mindset destroys trust faster than just about anything else.
It tells the team that the leader sees themselves as exempt.
It tells them that the leader expects sacrifice but won’t make any.
It tells them they must follow rules that the leader clearly doesn’t respect.

Great leaders reject that nonsense.

Leaders… lead.

They model the behaviors they expect from their teams.
They do the thing they ask others to do.
Especially the hard thing.
Especially the boring thing.
Especially the tedious thing.

If it’s important enough for your team to do, it’s important enough for you to do.

How you win matters. Choose integrity!

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