Steve Hight
Director
Strategic Technology Projects
Office of the CIO
Catholic Healthcare West

Steve Hight is the Director of Strategic Technology Projects for the eighth largest hospital chain in the nation, Catholic Healthcare West. CHW has over 50,000 employees and 9,000 physicians treating over four million patients per year and earning FY06 gross revenue of over six billion dollars. Hight is responsible for CHW's Information Technology Architecture Strategy and Planning as well as overseeing strategic IT projects. Hight has 15 years of experience in IT, with 10 mostly recently in acute care organizations. The domain IT knowledge of Hight includes such areas such as Identity and Access Management, Data Storage, Virtualization, Unix/Linux, Open Source, and Leveraging Technology to Mitigate Regulatory Compliance Issues. During his years with CHW, Hight spearheaded major projects in areas such as Datacenter consolidation, open source technologies, and HIPAA compliance for clinical systems and other critical systems. Hight has an engineering background with three of the largest Fortune 500 companies specializing in data storage and identity management.