Features April 2019

It’s a high-stakes, high-reward industry where the info-tech director can barely take a breather, Carlos Silva says about the airlines. Even more so than the pharmaceutical manufacturers where he had been an IT boss for 20 years before joining Volaris, Mexico’s low-cost passenger carrier with the highest of aspirations, last April. “The big difference between […]

The technology industry has been productive and satisfying for Fernando Thompson, and he’d encourage young people to give it consideration for their own good, as well as for the greater world. More on that later. At any rate, he reminds there’s no avoiding info-tech no matter what line of work today’s students choose, and their […]

It’s a simple enough goal Michael Loggins espouses in his role as info-tech director at SMC Corp. of America, the U.S. division of the Japanese heavyweight for pneumatic control engineering in support of industrial automation. “Our job is to make people awesome,” the personable Loggins tells Toggle in February, several months after commencing a project […]

Since its first known use in Polynesia more than 3,000 years ago, cane sugar has fueled and transformed the world, sparked wars and built empires—even altered human evolution, by helping our bodies better store fat. In 2017, the world produced more than 170 million metric tons of the granulated sweetener, the per-pound equivalent of 85 […]

Jill Maple compares entering HOMEBANK to walking into an Apple store or another high-touch customer service environment. Customers don’t just step in, stand in line and file one-by-one to the teller. Instead, banking representatives welcome each customer up to their “pods” where the two can stand side by side. There’s no physical barrier separating them, […]

There is always a seat available at Troy Hardeman’s technology table. In his mind, it’s the best place to have people sit down and talk it out, because face-to-face interaction is the fastest way to get even the most complicated projects done. Regulations. Legacy systems. Data migration to the clouds. Hardeman, an IT veteran with […]

Like many manufacturers and retailers, Bassett Furniture has been launched into the new digital economy. Customers, it seems, expect retailers to meet them at the de facto common ground of the 21st century: online. For the 117-year-old furniture manufacturer, that meant finding someone who understood not only data and computers, but how technology impacts every […]

It wasn’t exactly a “Eureka!” moment. Being a lifelong engineer, Maxim Budyansky knew what those felt like. Still, for him and cofounder Neil Shah, there was a recognition that the techniques and technologies being used for bone grafting needed an update. This surgical procedure uses healthy bone to repair breaks and fractures elsewhere in the […]