DR.
About

I make complex technology make sense.

I'm a marketing-technology leader at Orlando Health, where I connect data, content, and customer experience to power smarter decisions. My real specialty is translation — taking complex, technical ideas and making them clear for the teams and executives who have to act on them.

Today my focus is AI: championing it for genuine business cases inside a $15B health system, while partnering closely with IT, data, and security leaders to bring it in responsibly. It's a job that lives on both sides of the table — the ambition to move fast, and the discipline to do it right.

Daniel Ruyter

Recent experience

AVP, Marketing Technology

Orlando Health
Jan 2025 – Present

Senior leadership role in a $15B health system, owning the strategy and teams behind the entire customer- and patient-facing digital portfolio.

  • Marketing automation, personalization, A/B & multivariate testing, segmentation & journeys
  • CRM (Salesforce Marketing Cloud), DMP, and all integrations
  • Website CMS, hosting infrastructure, security & disaster recovery
  • Marketing analytics, BI & decision support (Google Cloud, BigQuery, Looker Studio)
  • SEO, SEM, social, content marketing, CRO, and email (SFMC)
  • Digital regulatory compliance (WCAG 2.x)

Director / Senior Director, Digital Strategy

Orlando Health
Nov 2017 – Dec 2024

Newly-created leadership role spanning paid digital media, social, marketing technology, web, CRM, and analytics.

  • Achieved 10x+ marketing ROI four consecutive years
  • 25% lower cost-per-acquisition than the national healthcare average
  • 75% year-over-year customer lead growth
  • Established the health system's first BI dashboards for senior leadership
  • Implemented the first digital marketing personalization & segmentation
  • Implemented award-winning AI chat; achieved WCAG 2.2 ADA compliance

Manager, Digital Media

Orlando Health
Feb 2014 – Nov 2017

Led the team responsible for the website CMS and Salesforce, building several health-system firsts.

  • 12-month website re-platform & redesign
  • 30% YoY organic SEO traffic growth
  • Launched the first online scheduling and physician star ratings
  • Stood up the first inbound marketing programs & blog

Earlier roles

Business Analyst / Agile Product Owner · Lightmaker
2012 – 2014
Co-Founder · Alphatree Marketing
2010 – 2012
Application Administrator / DBA · SunGard Higher Education
2011 – 2012
Digital Product Analyst & QA Lead · SunGard Higher Education
2006 – 2011
Software QA Engineer · Hyperion / Oracle
2000 – 2003

Education & certifications

B.A., Political Science (Minor, Business Administration)
University of Central Florida
Google Analytics Individual Qualification (GAIQ)
Google
HubSpot Inbound Certification
HubSpot
Microsoft SharePoint Certified Administrator
Microsoft

Noteworthy

  • Published author, Memoirs of a Dating Dad
  • Former contributor, Skyword Content Standard (digital transformation)
  • Volunteer photographer, Orlando Health Foundation
  • Avid travel blogger, photographer & videographer