Jaz-Michael King

Current

• Senior Director at IPRO

Past

• CEO at MerlinWeb
• Host at Net Radio Show
• Artful Dodger at Merlin Enterprises

• Lead Singer at Out Of Order
• Window Cleaner at Crown Cleaning Services

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Education

• Coleg Y Barri
• Ysgol Llanilltud Fawr

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Connections

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Industry

Internet

Websites

• Day Job
• Blog
• Health Care Report Card

Jaz-Michael King’s Summary

My experience is mostly in creative business solutions, with Internet-capable applications as support. I have a rich history of communications, knowledge management, online community work and e-commerce. Currently my focus is on health care transparency, I produce publicly-available cost and quality reports for the health care sector.

Jaz-Michael King’s Specialties:

Corporate communications, business analysis, health care performance measurement, online communities, software development, accessibility/usability, content/knowledge management, intellectual property law.

Jaz-Michael King’s Experience

• Senior Director

  IPRO

  (Non-Profit; 201-500 employees; Hospital & Health Care industry)

  October 2001 — Present (7 years 1 month)

  Responsible for public health performance reporting, health transparency initiatives, business development, electronic communications, content, community, marketing, Web properties, software development, knowledge management, business analysis.

• CEO

  MerlinWeb

  (Internet industry)

  1995 — 2001 (6 years)

  Founded a successful Internet company, North America / Western Europe client base, lots of e-commerce, community sites and performing arts. MerlinWeb was the first Web host to set up shop on the high street, customers could rent a Web server, have us build a site, market it, then they could come in and maintain their own Web site under our the staff's watchful eye. We handled everything from site design to servers to software development to print to marketing and promotion for over 200 brands.

• Host

  Net Radio Show

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Broadcast Media industry)

  April 1998 — August 2000 (2 years 5 months)

  Host of a popular talk radio show covering the Internet, culture and fake news.

• Artful Dodger

  Merlin Enterprises

  (Privately Held; Myself Only; Think Tanks industry)

  1988 — 1995 (7 years)

  Several years of rousting and jousting. I passed some time in England, France and Wales; learned a lot, met some great people and generally took any job I could find - hacking or otherwise. Some of the more esoteric included opening a magic shop that sold crystal balls and anti-vampire incense; being a sound, light and special effects engineer; comedy ballet troupe member and World War Two remembrance choir singer; playing Laser Tag for the national Welsh team; and running a gourmet French patisserie. My all-time favourite has to be translator for a group of chefs from every country in Europe visiting a subterranean mushroom farm in south west France.

• Lead Singer

  Out Of Order

  (Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Performing Arts industry)

  1989 — 1992 (3 years)

  Duties included singing, screaming, murmuring and outright yelling. Other duties involved cable management, microphone retrieval and trying to look cool. Beer was involved.

• Window Cleaner

  Crown Cleaning Services

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Consumer Services industry)

  1987 — 1988 (1 year)

  Duties included carrying a ladder and a bucket of water, applying and removing water to and from glassed windows, eating lunch, then applying and removing water to and from glassed windows again.

Jaz-Michael King’s Education

• Coleg Y Barri

  1990 — 1992

  Activities and Societies:

  Treasurer, National Union of Students Wales (elected)

• Ysgol Llanilltud Fawr

  1983 — 1988

Additional Information

Jaz-Michael King’s Websites:

• Day Job
• Blog
• Health Care Report Card

Jaz-Michael King’s Interests:

Camping, technology, reading, backgammon, all things Internet, beer, cheese, monkeys, physics, computer hacking (not in the bad way), spam filters, Celtic mythology. I also coach youth rugby.

Jaz-Michael King’s Groups:

National Association of Healthcare Data Organizations (NAHDO) Reporting Workgroup
Brooklyn Dragons Youth Rugby Club
International Webmasters Association
Guild of Accessible Web Designers
Medicare SDPS Web Strategies Workgroup (Co-Chair)
Internet Society
WWW Health Awards (Judge)

•    BosWashQual

Jaz-Michael King’s Honors:

2001 Communicator Award, for the NYSHAF HMO Report Card
2003 SDPS Award for Outstanding Service to the Community
2006 eHealth Gold Award for Best Quality Communication, for the NYSHAF Health Care Report Card
2007 New York State Forum Best of the Web Award, for the NYS Nursing Home Profiles Web site

Jaz-Michael King’s Contact Settings

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