As Halifax Health’s vice president and CIO, Mr. Marques leads integrated technology operations spanning infrastructure, cybersecurity, clinical and business applications, data and analytics, digital patient engagement and enterprise support services. He manages a $30 million annual budget and a 220-person team while directing capital planning, governance and enterprise modernization aligned to organizational strategy. A major priority under his leadership is a multi-year transformation that includes an enterprise resource planning migration in 2025 and an EHR vendor migration in 2026, consolidating eight different EHRs to strengthen interoperability across the community. He was instrumental in securing $92 million in total project funding, including $10 million from the State of Florida, to support Halifax Health’s Workday and Epic enterprise initiatives. Beyond large-scale transformations, Mr. Marques has expanded the IT department’s footprint and operating model, housing the full team in a dedicated 36,000-square-foot facility and eliminating shadow IT by bringing clinical engineering into the IT organization. He also led Halifax Health’s first real-time locating systems implementation, an enterprisewide Microsoft 365 rollout, and the creation of a CMIO role to strengthen clinician partnership and governance. He was a 2025 ORBIE finalist for “Florida Healthcare CIO of the Year” and continues to build talent pipelines through university co-ops, apprenticeships and internships.
