Eighteen years of turning what the data says into something a board will fund. 

    Marketing technology, analytics, and AI operator. I built three functions that didn't exist at a $2B healthcare company, ran 30 people and a $16M budget, and left in late 2025 to build AI systems for commercial teams. Everything on this page is charted to scale and sourced.

    Thomas H. Rogers
    Years in healthcare18
    Budget owned$16M
    People30
    Organization$2B
    MS Data ScienceSMU, 2017
    SourceResume and confirmed career data

    What each job added

    Each layer stayed in use after the next one started. Hover a layer, or a project below, to see what connects.

    20052010201520202025Healthcare marketingNovation, TCU. Supply chain, buyer psychology.Public healthChildren's Eye Foundation. $1M Alcon program.Data science and productSMU MS. Actualyzer. Alluma.Running an organizationVP, Vizient. 30 people, $16M.AI, then a companyAI Super Champion. Jetpacks They Said.40,000 kids screenedAllumaSafeSource DirectAI Super ChampionSitecore awardJetpacks They Said

    Each band begins when that layer entered the work and continues through 2026.

    What I walked into. What I built.

    Hollow dot: before. Filled: after.

    Analytics headcountdedicated, plus IT support
    1 (part-time)0
    Web experiences by rolevizient.com
    10
    Marketing staff trained on gen AIWriter as standard platform
    0several hundred
    VoC leaders surveyed, and readannual survey of health system executives
    2,000 both years. The change is that leadership now reads it.
    Functions built from zeroanalytics, MarTech, insights
    00

    Axes are linear. "Several hundred" is plotted as a labelled estimate until I have the count.

    Nine things I'd point to

    Every one has a link, a video, or a name you can look up.

    2011 · Public health

    Children's sight, North Texas

    Secured $1M from Alcon for a vision screening program across several counties. Trained 156 doctors and nurses myself, set up care coordination so a failed screen turned into an appointment, and designed the Amblyopia Patching Kit so treatment held up once the kid got home. Little Ambassadors, where parents told their own stories on camera, won an award.

    40,000 children screened Children's Eye Foundation, 2011
    Watch Little Ambassadors
    Product

    Vizient Savings Actualyzer

    A product that shows health systems what their supply contracts are saving them, in their own numbers. I named it, wrote the positioning, and designed the data integration so the figures on screen matched what the customer's finance team already had. Then I ran the launch.

    Watch the product video
    2018 · Brand

    Alluma

    Vizient and Mayo Clinic formed a pharmacy benefits manager. I was the marketing lead for the name, the brand, and the go-to-market plan.

    250,000+ people covered allumaco.com
    Visit Alluma
    Account-based marketing

    ABM at Vizient

    Marketing had been targeting people while sales worked accounts. I built Vizient's first ABM program so both sides worked from the same account list with the same pipeline numbers, and it won an industry award for pipeline impact. Intelligent Demand wrote it up.

    2020 · Pandemic response

    SafeSource Direct

    COVID made it obvious that PPE supply ran through other countries. Vizient backed SafeSource Direct, which built a plant in Broussard, Louisiana to make masks and exam gloves here. I led marketing for the launch.

    Read the news release
    2023 · AI

    Generative AI at Vizient

    Vizient named me marketing's AI Super Champion, which is a real title and I have made peace with it. I trained several hundred people, made Writer the standard platform, and built governed workflows the team kept using after the training ended. Writer published the story.

    Read the Writer case study
    2025 · Personalization

    Sitecore Digital Impact Award

    Every visitor to vizient.com used to see the same page. We built 13 versions keyed to role: C-suite, pharmacy, operations, strategy, and nine more. Sitecore gave it a Digital Impact Award.

    13 role-based experiences Americaneagle, Nov 2025
    Read about the award
    2017 · Education

    MS in Data Science, SMU

    Went back to SMU mid-career for the MS. Python, R, SQL, predictive modeling, NLP. Nobody was talking about generative AI in 2015. The degree turned out to be the best preparation I could have had for telling real capability from a good demo.

    GitHub projects
    2025 · Now

    Jetpacks They Said

    We were all promised jetpacks. AI is getting the same treatment, except the technology underneath is real. If model development stopped today, most companies would need ten years to use what already exists. Commercial teams have enough decks. I build the systems.

    jetpackstheysaid.com

    I changed lanes five times

    2005

    Learning the system

    Novation, supply chain marketing, then an SMU MBA. Scope ran from foodservice to MRI machines.

    Corporate to nonprofit

    Public health

    Children's Eye Foundation. Some of the most rewarding work of a career and a life.

    Marketer to data scientist

    Reading the model myself

    Back to Vizient and an SMU MS in Data Science at the same time. Actualyzer, then Alluma.

    Doing it to building it

    Three functions from zero

    Analytics, MarTech, insights. 30 people, $16M, and a pandemic in the middle of it.

    2025

    Jetpacks They Said

    Commercial teams have enough decks. I build the systems that make the AI they already bought do something.