Features Directors of IT

Six months after joining the City of New Braunfels, Texas, in 2018 as its director of information technology, Tony Gonzalez was brought into a meeting where an idea was presented to replace the city’s enterprise resource planning system. Understanding this project was going to have a price tag of $1.5 million to $2 million, Gonzalez […]

Craig McBeath earned a promotion to director of information technology for the City of Bloomington, Illinois, just as the COVID-19 pandemic hit. And his first task was keeping the city’s services up and running as the whole country was shutting down. Located in central Illinois, roughly two hours southwest of Chicago, Bloomington is home to […]

Several years ago, Stephen Hunt fielded a complaint from someone who needed to access a building with some engineering labs at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. He told them to call someone on his IT staff. That’s because getting such passcodes is part of the services Hunt and his team provide as he leads IT […]

For months, tacked above Jalen Byford’s desk at the Oklahoma Office of Management and Enterprise Services was a huge map of Oklahoma that he got from the state tourism department. Byford had plastered it with pushpins and Post-it notes denoting places where he had already installed technicians as well as places where he still needed […]

As quarantines swept the nation at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, students of Charles County, Maryland, were sent home—and Lora Bennett had to act quickly. As the executive director of information technology strategy for Charles County Public Schools, she had a find a way to enable students to learn from the comfort and safety […]

As executive director of Concurrent Technologies Corp.’s Information Technology Division, Kevin Pudliner isn’t always at liberty to talk about his team’s work. He can, however, say they’ve played crucial roles in assisting the U.S. Department of Defense and intelligence agencies analyze data by developing algorithms that can also detect malware attacks. Pudliner and his team […]

As tech leaders, Alex Magdics and Scott Bauer are both Men of Steel and a Dynamic Duo in their roles at Majestic Steel. Superman and Batman comics aside, they have teamed up to provide technology innovations and solutions for Majestic Steel for more than a decade. Bauer, who was the first full-time IT employee when […]

Ask Director of Information Technology Geoffrey Mason, and he’ll tell you that the people who work for Thomas Allen don’t do it for the money alone. There are no fancy perks like ping pong tables or kombucha on tap. Rather, for many who work at the Minnesota-based social-services company, which runs group homes and case […]

Imagine being responsible for protecting private health information for as many as one in four people in the U.S. Tom Schankweiler’s doesn’t have to imagine it—this is his reality as director of cyber threat and security operations for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Known by its CMS acronym, the agency is one of […]

W hen Amplify Snack Brands was acquired by Hershey in early 2018, the company’s IT team began integrating with the candy giant’s systems and infrastructure. When this was completed in January 2020, the team had no idea how fortuitous its timing was. “It worked out perfectly for the pandemic,” IT Director Jorge Barroso says. “We […]