Features June 2019

Bruno Miyamotto doesn’t have to stretch his memory too far to remember when the role of a chief technology officer was 20 percent software-related and 80 percent the human element. So rapidly are these percentages shifting that he and his colleagues anticipate a complete reversal. Likely within the next few years, the multilingual Miyamotto tells […]

The future is now, and it looks bright if gadgets are your go-to. Think: smart homes with security, heating and cooling systems that can be managed remotely with the tap of an app; evolving control hubs such as Alexa, Amazon Echo and Google Home; appliances that connect to the internet and lights that dim depending […]

He considers himself a builder, and the project that Darcy Boyer undertook in early 2018 just might prove to be the most consequential of his professional life. For in what might be the last stop in an infotech career of over 30 years in Western Canada, Boyer has been making and upgrading the systems of […]

It only seems like a long time ago when so much of the infotech of Air T Inc. was contained in a single-server closet in a hillside airport in rural North Carolina. That was less than a decade ago, when Donald Aslett was consulted for some long-overdue IT upgrades. But the executive team at Air […]

Imagine you’re a farmer in the Midwest with a significant corn-growing operation. It’s early in the calendar year, time to prep for the upcoming growing season. So, what do you do? Hint: it’s not fire up the tractor. If you’re a member of Landmark Services Cooperative, a likely first step is to log into your […]

There are times when she might miss the personal interaction of the classroom —one doesn’t teach for 12 years, as Ellen Dorr did in and around Seattle, without being committed to educating our youth. In the past few years she’s been able to reach more children through her role as chief technology officer for the […]

Fred Coia is the Chief Strategy Officer with Shaw Systems Associates. He has occupied numerous technology leadership positions in which he has led the transformation of the business. As a CIO or chief technology officer, it can feel like your peers are always getting farther and farther ahead of you as they adopt exciting-sounding methodologies […]

It’s been three days since you tweaked your knee during a pickup basketball game, and the soreness still hasn’t subsided. You know it isn’t the standard tendonitis you’ve been dealing with since college. But you also don’t want to waste an afternoon in some waiting room. Normally, you’d give the knee another week to sort […]

To Jay Wilson, security is a mindset, not a department, and for him there is no bad time to start on the journey of protecting data. In 2017 Wilson was asked to take the role of chief information security officer at Healthgrades—a technology and data company that connects patients and health care providers—after successfully launching […]

The building may look like a veritable fortress, but the cybersecurity assault is unrelenting—and all eyes are upon the North Carolina Department of Revenue (DOR), monitoring their next move. What happens here in terms of protecting state and federal tax information and financial data could be a first in a nationwide initiative, according to Jerome […]