Marc Needham

Marc Needham

Corporate Director, Web Technology at Scripps Health

Greater San Diego Area

Current
Past
Education
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Connections
319 connections
Industry
Internet

Marc Needham’s Summary

Experienced internet strategist with a healthcare bent.

Marc Needham’s Specialties:

Web strategy, web usability, healthcare


Marc Needham’s Experience

  • Corporate Director, Web Technology

    Scripps Health

    (Non-Profit; Hospital & Health Care industry)

    March 2007Present (2 years 9 months)

    Working at Scripps has offered me the opportunity to start from the ground up. Over my first six months with the organization I built a dynamic and effective team and outlined a comprehensive strategic vision for Scripps’ future with the web. Since then I have taken the health system’s various web presences from strength to strength.

    Key accomplishments include:

    - Worked with stakeholders from the CEO to unit nurses and patients to analyze the organization’s needs and develop a long-term strategic web plan.

    - Led redevelopment of Scripps.org resulting in 15% increase in traffic and a $4.2M increase in system revenue.

    - Matched strategic goals to budget and created a forward-thinking, customer-focused department of subject matter experts.

  • Senior Software Engineer

    Northwestern Memorial Hospital

    (Non-Profit; Hospital & Health Care industry)

    20062007 (1 year )

    My time at Northwestern Memorial Hospital was invaluable in rounding out my experience. In this position I was given the opportunity to wear many different hats and to manage enterprise-level projects from start to successful completion.

    Key roles included:

    - Helped to shape strategic vision of group – matching relevant internet technologies to the hospital’s overarching goals.

    - Designed, developed and implemented new features and applications to enhance the website.

    - Managed flexibly staffed teams of development consultants to ensure efficient workflow and adherence to hospital standards and policies.

    - Vocal advocate of usability-based defensive design and standards-based development.

    - Prepared budgets, project plans, technical specifications, strategic plans, database schema and network diagrams.

    Key accomplishments included:

    - Ground-up redevelopment of hospital website – allowing organization to fully leverage the current state of web technologies. Involved shifting thousands of pages of information from static HTML to a fully dynamic architecture. Built using the JSP Spring framework on Oracle 10g database and application server.

    - Development and implementation of site-wide custom content management system and e-commerce solution for online event registration and ticket sales.

  • Webmaster

    Northwestern Memorial Hospital

    (Non-Profit; Hospital & Health Care industry)

    20032006 (3 years )

  • Principal, Technology

    Shiny New Media

    (Online Media industry)

    20012003 (2 years )

    - Helped to build a successful web development company focused on customer satisfaction and industry-leading technology.

    - Managed teams of developers and designers to consistently complete projects ahead of deadline and under budget.

    - Prepared extensive competitive analyses of websites for potential clients, highlighting various strengths and weaknesses of their current web strategy.

    - Acted as lead developer and project manager on everything from small site redesigns to full e-commerce application development. Included creation of project plans and timelines, code standards and site documentation.

    - Established baseline metrics and implemented site tracking efforts to better gauge effectiveness of redesigned or redeveloped client sites.

  • Producer

    Walt Disney Internet Group

    (Public Company; DIS; Internet industry)

    20002001 (1 year )

    - Developed and maintained Disney's suite of entertainment websites including; Wall of Sound, Mr. Showbiz and Movies.com. Included brainstorming new features and the maintenance of existing ones.

    - Initiated the push for standards and accessibility compliance that led to a change in company development policy.

    - Organized and led training sessions for management and development staff in new internet technologies.

    - Honed user interface design and usability skills to a razor sharp edge.


Marc Needham’s Education

  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

    BS , Communications , 19951999


Additional Information

Marc Needham’s Interests:

Usability, web strategy, healthcare, cycling

Marc Needham’s Groups:

  •    Healthcare Communication & Marketing Association
  •    Webiscope
  •    WSG
  •    Walt Disney Internet Group Employees and Alumni
  •    User Experience
  •    HH
  •    San Diego Marketing Professionals
  •    Web Standards Design + Development
  •    Scripps Health Connections
  •    American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) Official Group

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