Faculty: Heinz Jorg Schwarz, DBA

Heinz Jorg Schwarz, PhD (abd), MSc.

Title(s):
Senior Adjunct Professor
School(s):
Business
650-575-8863
Campus(es):
San Francisco, Online
hschwarz@usfca.edu
Heinz Jorg Scwarz

Heinz Jrg Schwarz is an active IT professional with over 20 years experience in industry specific IT Architecture and Business Development in Government, Retail, Education, Technical Computing, and, for over 15 years, Healthcare IT. Jrg is currently VP for Business Development at NextGate Solutions, Inc, after several years at GE Healthcare and Sun Microsystems. Jrg architected and implemented Health IT solutions for Picture Archiving (PACS), Administration (SAP R3), Health Information Exchanges (HIE), thin-client access, MDM/EMPI and Identity Management (IDM), and Scientific Computing Infrastructure, especially grid computing and early computing clouds around the world.

COURSES TAUGHT

ITM 340
Information Technology Management
ITM 344
Governance, PMO
ITM 345
BI and Decision Support
ITM 351
Healthcare IT Infrastructure

EDUCATION

  • Graduate Degree in Business Administration (Diplom-Betriebswirt) with emphasis in Information Systems, University of Applied Science in Cologne (Fachhochschule Kln), Germany
  • MS (Information Systems), University of San Francisco, CA
  • PhD (abd) Information Systems at Nova Southeastern University, Graduate School for Computer and Information Science, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

PROFESSIONAL & TEACHING EXPERIENCE

  • 2012 - Present: Vice President Global Business Strategy and Partner Development, NextGate Solutions, Inc.
  • 2010 - 2012: Global Business Strategy and Partner Development, GE Healthcare
  • 2009 - Present: Adjunct Professor, Golden Gate University
  • 2009: Founder and Managing Partner, Unlimited Enterprises LLC
Sun Microsystems
  • 2005 - 2009: Director, Healthcare and Life Science
  • 1999 - 2005: Global Program Manager / Team Lead, HPC
  • 1995 - 1999: Regional Sales Manager, Sun Germany GMBH
Bull AG, Cologne, Germany
  • 1993 - 1995: Sales Representative New Accounts
  • 1990 - 1992: Sales Representative State and Local

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  • Compute Power when you need it a new generation of compute infrastructure design for discovery life sciences in PriyaRehal (Managing Editor), Future Pharmaceuticals, Q4 Edition 2; 2006
  • SOAs and Grid Computing A New Generation of Middleware for Grid-enabled Data Centers in Thomas B. Tabor (Publisher), The Emergence of Grid and Service-Oriented IT An industry vision for business success, Tabor Communications, San Diego, 2006
  • ISPE CE 2005: Fort Worth, Texas, USA: Michael W. Sobolewski, ParisaGhodous (Eds.): Smart and Concurrent Integration of Product Data, Services, and Control Strategies, Proceedings of the 12th ISPE Fort Worth, Texas, USA. ISPE 2005, ISBN 0-9768246-0-4, 2005
  • "Ethical Use of open source software", published online in itbusinessedge, http://www.itbusinessedge.com/item/?ci=4981, 2005

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

  • Association of Information Systems (AIS) (2008)
  • ACM Association of Computing Machinery
  • Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) (2005)
  • Upsilon Pi Epsilon Computer Science Honor Society

MEDIA & INTERVIEWS