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Mr. Townsend is Cerner’s executive vice president and chief of staff, leading Cerner’s business systems and learning organization.
Mr. Townsend joined Cerner in 1985 as a programmer analyst, and within one year assumed the role of project leader of the foreign systems interface engineer team. After leaving Cerner for a few years to lead a family-owned business, Mr. Townsend rejoined the company as project manager for Cerner’s strategic systems and as product line executive for its management systems. Before his current position, he served as the chief engineering officer, where he oversaw product development of Cerner Millennium® .
Mr. Townsend is integrally involved as co-architect in the design, development and implementation of Cerner Millennium at key alpha and beta client sites. In the last few years, he has also led the operations of Cerner’s engineering organization, developing the company’s engineering practices, structure and processes for client/server technology.
Mr. Townsend earned a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Iowa State University. He currently serves on the board of directors for the Kansas City Northland Chamber of Commerce. | 