Features Region: Northeast

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 […]

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 […]

He’s like a technological first responder to the crisis of homelessness in New York City. “If you tell me the location and give me an address, I’ll come in tomorrow and deliver a fully functional office before the internet provider begins service,” A.J. Brulhardt says. “We keep a healthy stock of equipment and, if someone’s […]

Credit him for foresight. It was around a quarter-century ago when Joseph R. Patuto began assembling infrastructure for off-campus learning at Middlesex Community College. The need for it was widely doubted and the faculty were often unreceptive to the ideas of this former systems engineer from Digital Equipment Corp. “To a lot of people there […]

While many people working in healthcare have proven resilient, especially since the start of COVID-19, Douglas Moore wants to ensure healthcare structures are equally strong. At Temple University Health System Inc., where he’s the chief technology officer, Moore is making the IT foundation more stable, so it can support the organization’s growth. This effort, which […]

When Mike Towers was first asked to work in information security while with a biopharma company in 2008, he had no idea why. He’d been with the company for more than a decade occupying roles in technology and management. He was experienced with directing strategies for the company but didn’t have military or law enforcement […]

Data is often the lifeblood of a company, meaning it needs to be protected—sometimes even from employees. For instance, lumber company employees working in forests don’t need access to the cost of equipment repairs and customer invoices, though this data is imperative for leadership and accounting. Meanwhile, data-rich organizations like investments banks rely on data […]

When Aaron Fields became chief information officer at St. Ann’s Community, he was excited to be part of an organization founded nearly a century and a half ago. His goal was to keep tradition alive at the New York-based senior housing and health services provider—but interweave it with modern technology. He saw that the care […]

He’s in an advantageous position, albeit one where the rewards might be on hold for just a little while longer. In 2019 Pete Mauro sold his technology consultancy to private equity, which in turn sold last December to a public company. As part of the original deal, Mauro had a non-compete clause which ends in […]