Features August 2021

Consider Steve Thompson an IT leader who makes house calls. As CIO for U.S. Medical Management, he’s not actually on the road providing in-home health care and hospice services for the company. However, in the nearly 12 years he’s been with the company, he’s helped create and manage the networks that allow providers to care […]

For more than 60 years, Equipment & Controls Inc. has supplied process control and industrial automation solutions—and expertise—used to refine oil and gas, automate manufacturing and even research and provide life-saving drugs. However, when Jason McNutt joined ECI as its director of technology in 2018, he saw the company itself needed help. So, he and […]

When the COVID-19 pandemic forced students to leave campus, Arcadia University didn’t want to simply make classes remote. University leaders and faculty wanted the courses tailored to the medium. With the help of administrators, professors and her IT team, vice president and CIO Rashmi Radhakrishnan helped redesign over 600 courses  so the content would translate […]

After 32 years at Ocean State Job Lot, Hisham Aharon is still finding ways to innovate. When the retail company expanded beyond New England, Aharon, the CIO, and his team, noticed its transportation system was inefficient. Trucks were headed to Pennsylvania full of merchandise and returning empty, which was a waste of time and fuel. […]

The skill sets of music and technology can so complement. So says Marty Ray who’s well-versed at both. Late jazz saxophonist John Coltrane and ill-fated guitar god Stevie Ray Vaughan remain inspirations. Neither virtuoso ever had to look at sheet music, Ray reminds. Artistic passion just flowed through them. An accomplished guitarist in his own […]

The day has yet to arrive when yellow pads become artifacts of the legal profession, but it may be closer than you think. In fact, Samantha Lofton Moss, of the firm Ice Miller LLP, says there are attorneys at the firm who’d sooner tap into online resources than unearth hard-bound volumes in legal libraries.  As Ice […]

In the early days of COVID-19, as airline travel in the U.S. literally ground to a halt, Joe Evango remembers visiting some of the country’s largest airports and marveling at how quiet the terminals and concourses had become. The projects he was about to undertake on behalf of these vital transportation hubs, however, were anything […]

Freedom has arrived. Whether it’s from a correctional facility or a pre-release center, the day has come to walk out the door and back into society. However, that freedom comes with conditions. Offenders must be in contact with a parole or probation officer, and they may face a world drastically changed since the day they […]

Conference Technologies Inc., headquartered in the St. Louis suburb of Maryland Heights, Missouri, was not the only business in high demand as the COVID-19 pandemic arrived in the U.S. in spring 2020. As providers of audio-visual technology in a world suddenly going remote, CTI offered the systems and equipment needed to keep companies operating—even as […]

It’s an essential system people hope never gets used. That small panel of lights, circuits and a keypad protect a home or business, sending an alarm in case of a break-in, fire or other emergency. When that happens, time is of the essence in alerting fire, police or rescue departments about the emergency. Security Central […]