Features Region: Northeast

This was no ordinary day in the classes at a Baltimore County family life center. Not with 100 students and their parents learning how to build a PC and writing code. Not with IT professionals from the public and private sector volunteering to teach and share their experiences about careers in IT. The event was […]

When the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in work from home mandates, for some employees, it was a blessing in disguise allowing them to spend more time with family and less money on gas. For the five people working in the information technology department for the Township of Franklin, New Jersey, it was a challenge they’d never […]

Like most government agencies, the City of Philadelphia’s Department of Planning and Development held its community meetings in person. But with this structure, not everyone could participate. The planning meetings were held at night and would often go late, which meant residents who worked the third shift or who had young children were left out […]

“It’s one thing to have a dynamic suite of insurance products the market wants,” states Philip LaCombe. “It’s another to implement and administer them effectively.” When Wellfleet Workplace began rolling out its innovative and flexible workplace benefits back in 2019, LaCombe and the rest of the company’s leadership team recognized that a critical market differentiator […]

Sometimes, destiny gives us a ring unexpectedly. Such was the case in 2004 when Shawn Stanford picked up a call for his lifelong friend, Robert Mangi. Mangi, who owned an insurance business, was unable to answer his phone. When he heard how good his friend was on the phone with a client, he hired him […]

Looking for that dream job, or the dream candidate to fill an opening?  Cyrus can make it happen, says Matt Miller of CyberCoders. Miller, the company’s chief technology officer, has known Cyrus for almost two decades. He should—he created the recruiting software platform after joining the company in 2004, guiding Cyrus from infancy through adolescence. […]

Imagine walking into a hotel after a long day of travelling and dragging around heavy suitcases. Before you can collapse on your bed, you stand in line to check in, then insert your key card a few times before the lock turns green and you can finally enter your room. Now, imagine another hotel where […]

It could have been a catastrophe for the owner of the rental property in Connecticut, recalls Premjith Lakshman Singh. A tenant had left the water running, and even if it didn’t cause flooding, the owner would have seen a spike in the water bill—money flowing down the drain. Instead, the property owner got an alert […]

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 […]