Features September 2020

He’s no ornithologist, but Barry Kallmeyer is a big fan of owls. Owl Labs 360-degree cameras, that is—the ones he and his IT team have been installing in classrooms at Hathaway Brown School in Shaker Heights, Ohio, as the school reopens with a hybrid learning model amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The cameras are the latest […]

Bob Boucher and his team have never had to go back to school to learn how to guide IT at Central Maine Community College because they’ve never really left the campus for very long. “I have four people reporting to me who were previously in work-study programs and are graduates,” says Boucher, a CMCC grad […]

It’s late August, and on college campuses across the country students are back, with a few days before classes and the study grind begin. Indoors and out, on-campus and off, young people gather to enjoy the final blissful throes of summer. But in 2020, these gatherings have become hazardous, turning campuses into COVID-19 hotspots and […]

The importance of security goes almost without saying, especially in the financial industry. Whether you’re Bank of America or Citibank, or a local bank in small-town Kentucky, securing the wealth—of information, that is—is as necessary as protecting every customer’s money. Bruce McClure has spent his career protecting people’s assets and continues to do so as […]

It’s long and heavy enough to knock a knight in shining armor off a horse, but don’t confuse a stinger—a forklift extension used to spear rolls of carpet and floor coverings—with a medieval jousting lance. Nor should the logistics industry be seen as stuck in the Middle Ages. But as crucial as the stinger is […]

Behold the panda, sometimes known as the giant panda, in its natural habitat. Living mainly in temperate forests in southwest China, the black and white bear subsists almost entirely on a diet of bamboo. Adult pandas may consume as much as 84 pounds of bamboo daily, as females grow to 200 pounds and males to […]

There may not be many school districts making their data centers a point of pride, but at Traverse City Area Public Schools in Michigan, it’s become a can’t-miss attraction. Packed into what was once the gym at a former elementary school, the servers and tech stacks—which local businesses and organizations co-locate with the school district—are […]

They had 10 days to get it done, but Ivan Alonso did not expect switching nearly 200,000 students at two Mexican universities to remote learning could be done so well. It’s not that he hasn’t linked large numbers of people before; Alonso’s expertise and drive helped a fledgling Mexican communications company establish itself as an […]

Ramping up a new telemedicine platform, implementing work-from-home operations and integrating a newly acquired hospital into the system is just a sampling of IT initiatives tackled before and during the COVID-19 crisis by PIH Health Information Solutions. While the pandemic shut down industries and businesses around the world, Chief Information Officer Jason Fischer and his […]

It’s funny. Jeffrey McShane has spent his entire professional life working for law firms, but he isn’t a lawyer. In fact, he laughs at the idea of going to law school and working as an attorney. But while it’s true that McShane is so comfortable around lawyers that he’s chosen to work alongside them for […]