National Healthcare System: CMMS Selection & Implementation
120+ specialty and rehabilitation hospitals.
Led system selection, requirements gathering, implementation, training, and post-go-live support across a national multi-site portfolio.
Datum Asset Advisory
Independent CMMS & EAM advisory for public agencies.
Vendor-neutral requirements, selection, and implementation oversight. No software to sell.
I don't resell, implement, or partner with any CMMS or EAM vendor. That independence is the entire point: the agency gets requirements and a selection driven by its own needs and a process that holds up to audit: not by a software vendor's roadmap.
What I Do
- Needs assessment & stakeholder discovery
- Structured interviews and working sessions with maintenance, operations, IT, finance, and leadership to surface real requirements and pain points.
- Functional requirements development
- Traceable, prioritized requirements documented as a single source of truth, built for direct use in an RFP and later evaluation.
- Vendor-neutral system selection
- Evaluation frameworks and scoring matrices that keep the selection objective and defensible.
- RFP development & procurement support
- Translating requirements into clear solicitation language, evaluation criteria, and scoring methodology.
- Implementation oversight
- Owner's-representative support through data migration, configuration, testing, training, and change management.
Selected Experience
Northeast Health System: CMMS Implementation & Compliance Programs
13 hospitals, including a flagship campus exceeding 3 million sq ft.
Led daily stakeholder engagement, built compliance work orders and maintenance workflows from scratch, authored requirements and planning documents, and served as implementation lead through go-live and beyond.
CMMS Replacement: Large Mid-Atlantic Public School District (2026–present)
Advisory lead, subcontracted to the prime.
Leading requirements development, vendor evaluation, and RFP development across the district's facilities portfolio. Ran structured stakeholder discovery, built a prioritized functional requirements register as the single source of truth, and developed the evaluation criteria for a vendor-neutral selection.
This is the throughline: discovery first, a requirements register the agency actually owns, and a selection process built to survive scrutiny.
Platforms
Hands-on implementation experience with FSI CMS, IBM Maximo, Brightly Asset Essentials, and Accruent: and vendor-neutral familiarity across the broader CMMS/EAM market, including TRIRIGA, Nuvolo, Infor EAM, and others.
About
I'm Tim Shirley, principal of Datum Asset Advisory. For more than 25 years I've worked in facilities and asset management: selecting and replacing CMMS and EAM systems, developing maintenance programs from the ground up, leading implementations, and supporting organizations through go-live and beyond.
Much of that work was for large healthcare systems: among the most demanding facility environments there are, where uptime, compliance, and 24/7 operations leave no room for a system that doesn't fit. I now bring that full-lifecycle experience to public agencies, currently leading the CMMS replacement for a large Mid-Atlantic public school district.
The constant across all of it: I work for the owner, never the software vendor.
Credentials
Certified Facility Manager (CFM)·Certified Healthcare Safety Professional (CHSP)·Six Sigma Green Belt