Richard M. Tworek
Richard M. Tworek is a global executive with a proven track record of innovating, leading, and bringing to market highly successful enterprise software products that leverage enterprise, cloud, and service provider communications infrastructures.
Richard was the VP & GM of Nortel’s Next Generation products where he had full strategic planning, R&D, and P&L responsibility for a $230M division of an $11B global corporation.
Under his leadership, his division developed strategy and product for communications enabling applications, consistent mobility experience and unifying communications for enterprise productivity using web services and SOA.
In the Healthcare industry Richard worked in partnership with many healthcare institutions and large integrators bringing unified communications solutions to the healthcare market. These solutions provided regulatory compliance and healthcare provider administration effectiveness driving doctor to doctor, doctor to patient, patient to administration, and administration to patient. This solution set increased productivity of diagnosis through collaboration, quick patient processing either through emergency room triage and/or decreasing patient hold and processing discharge.
Richard worked with IBM’s Websphere message brokering for medical sciences and enhanced McKesson’s and GE Medical integrated radiology solutions. Additionally he worked with Children’s Medical Center in Dallas for Carefx portal integration for automated communications routing and messaging on quality exceptions and reporting. Other healthcare industry engagements include; Orlando Health, Bethesda Healthcare and Florida Hospital, and University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers.
Other companies and positions include;
CEO, Qovia Frederick, Maryland 2002-2005 (sold to Cisco)
(Leading provider of software and hardware for enterprise voice/video communications infrastructure monitoring)
CEO, Zebrapass Washington, DC 2000-2002 (sold to Freedompay)
(Developer of software based RFID based affinity programs)
He began his career in the U.S. Navy Submarine force where he served as a nuclear engineer from 1978 to 1983 and left the Navy as a Lt. Commander earning the Navy Achievement Medal for his service. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Physics minor from Eastern Michigan University and was involved with the Queens University Education
- Certified Six Sigma Manager – 2007
- Certified Agile Development Scrum Master – 2008
Technologies
Unified Communications (UC), Services Oriented Architecture (SOA), Mobility, Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC), Mobility, Business Applications and Work Flow Systems, Enterprise and Carrier Voice Systems, RFID technology