Summary
Dale Emel is an enterprise architect and cloud engineering leader with nine years of experience designing cloud-native and hybrid solutions for healthcare, government, and manufacturing, now leading digital solutions at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. He has driven large-scale cloud migrations and interoperability projects at Elevance Health and Microsoft, specializing in Azure Health Data Services and FHIR-based integrations that improve care delivery and protect patient data. Dale blends technical depth—from Terraform/Ansible-driven hybrid architectures to ML and digital health initiatives—with strategic business acumen honed through an MBA in IT management. His global perspective, shaped by service abroad with the US Military, helps him align technology with compliance, continuity, and sustainable outcomes for payors, providers, and consumers. Notably, he serves as an architect and engineer focused on Microsoft Health and Life Sciences, bridging product-level expertise with hands-on customer implementations.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at University of Maryland
MBA Information Technology Management, MBA Information Technology Management at Western Governors University
Certification CIO Summit Series, Certification CIO Summit Series at Kennesaw State University
English