On the night of Friday, December 28, the WAN (wide area network) transformation program completed a successful cutover of the Diamond Bar St. Joseph Heritage Medical Group clinic site in eastern Los Angeles County to its new WAN circuit. This final clinic cutover for 2018 marked the achievement of the program’s goal of completing 75 percent of identified WAN upgrades by the end of the calendar year – some 379 sites!
In just over 8 months, we converted 379 locations to the new WAN, which will help prepare our organization for an emerging array of capabilities, like modernized access points, improved wireless, and enterprise telecommunication delivery.
Down to the wire, in the final days of December 2018, team members at all levels worked through canceled vacations and showed up on-site to cheer on the implementation teams. The spirit was particularly high at the final three sites – Britton Plaza (WA), Central Point Medical Plaza (OR), and the Diamond Bar Clinic.
“This was an amazing feat that many Fortune 500-companies would not have taken on at this magnitude. We would not have been able to reach this milestone without the executive-level sponsorship and so many contributors in the field by the FTS Team,” gushed senior program manager, Jenny Cheng.
The field confronted the countless hours of planning, setting up the new hardware, working through network configuration, re-IPing with application owners, and making multiple trips to the sites for cabling. IS demonstrated a culture of stepping up into new roles as needed to get the job done.
The team’s professionalism and expertise in their respective areas are recognized and highly valued so much so, that senior management team took special steps to show appreciation. Exec directors, David Meachum and Casey Vieceli, each stepped forward to contribute $1,000 toward local charities in honor of the program team’s accomplishments.
Looking ahead into the new year and closing the WAN transformation program, we still have 120 sites to complete – 110 being larger clinics and hospitals that will be especially complex.
Contact
Please direct any questions to Shane Kilpatrick, VP, tech strategy and architecture, or Jenny Cheng, senior program manager.