Michael Christopher brings twenty years' experience in executive management and capital development with an emphasis in the implementation of information systems, following five years in accountancy. Michael has held executive positions in the healthcare and human services sectors in IT capital development, finance and marketing. Michael has led the business case and grant writing process for numerous successful capital projects seeking private, state and federal funding. For a technology vendor, Michael served as the chief architect of a suite of financial applications targeting healthcare and human services administration. He is the lead investigator in the 2007 Survey of Regional Health Information Organization Finance, and also conducted the 2006 survey and served as principal author on the RHIO finance study reports. In addition to a cabinet-level career in capital development, Michael describes himself as a "nose-down programmer," experienced at both systems and applications software development, currently focusing on open source web-based systems. As an adminstrator, he served "in the trenches" throughout a provider's first JCAHO accreditation process, and in numerous organization automation initiatives across the U.S. Michael led or participated in first-of-class projects during the early period of the Web, and has presented and facilitated widely on finance, privacy, ethics, and mission accountability topics, and provides fundraising, capital development and marketing counsel to commercial and nonprofit clients. He is an artist and musician, and served a term as a guest lecturer at the University of Tulsa in the field of contemporary opera.