Features March 2021

Working from home in southwestern Colorado in mid-February, Mark Gigliotti was deeply concerned about the weather 850 miles away in Dallas. There, a snowstorm and freezing temperatures had blanketed the city and the state, revenging its energy grid and leaving businesses unplugged. While there was nothing he could do about the weather, Gigliotti and Terralogic […]

Joe Sheridan is used to being the go-to guy for IT problems. In fact, in most of the leadership jobs he’s held the past 12 years, his first task has been to “turn around IT.” That’s led him to do everything from managing networking improvements to designing and building new business applications. He began this […]

They’ve come a long way from storing property tax records in antiquated computers with green screens, unconnected to the internet. Brent Messer talks about those computers to show how Chattanooga, Tennessee, government worked—or didn’t work—with technology when he joined it in 2014. In the seven years since Messer became CIO, he and his team of […]

What do you get when you combine a machinist, a doctor and two men born to sell? Ninety years later, you get a company specializing in uniforms, tools and services for law enforcement, firefighters and rescue responders across the U.S. From the first resuscitator sold to the latest in base layer garments, L.N. Curtis & […]

It’s a project that both builds the local economy and provides green energy sources for the people of Minas Gerais, a state in Brazil. The dissolving wood pulp mill and 144-megawatt cogeneration plant, part of LD Celulose’s investment program for 2020-22, was funded through a $1.1 billion financial package that also includes the company’s commitment […]

Schools like Ohio State University and the University of Florida have tens of thousands of students enrolled, endowments in the billions and IT departments that make tech enthusiasts weak at the knees. But for a school with an enrollment of 2,500 students, like West Liberty University in West Virginia, a frugal approach is the only […]

When you grow up with parents like Bradley Hoover’s—a schoolteacher for a mom, a former marine and long-serving police officer for a dad—you just might develop a work ethic the size of Texas. Hoover currently lives just 10 minutes from his childhood hometown of Dime Box, Texas. It’s a place he holds close to his […]

Quite the interesting last quarter 2019 was for TF Holdings Inc. That’s TF as in Think Finance, a holding company in Irving, Texas, for fintechs serving lenders and their oftentimes non-prime borrowers. The firm’s subsidiary, Think Finance, having gone into Chapter 11 a couple of years earlier, was about to emerge from bankruptcy reorganization. Comprehensive […]

Well, if nothing else, the attorneys and staff at Canada’s Department of Justice got used to virtual meetings and hearings in 2020, recalls CIO Dugald Topshee. The year began with him adding digital tools to enable Department of Justice attorneys supporting 40 federal departments to work on the go. It ended with those attorneys and […]

Going into a line of work that doesn’t really exist yet takes a lot of imagination, ingenuity and determination. Fortunately, Ethan Granger had all three in spades when he first started exploring the field of geographic information systems more than a quarter-century ago. GIS is a tool that gathers and analyzes spatial data to create […]