Features September 2020

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 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 […]

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 […]

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 was time for a change. Matt Penner was looking to leave the grind of consulting for something much more fulfilling. And while casting about for prospects, the IT expert interviewed—and in the same week, no less—with two vastly different enterprises: a large casino, and Perris California’s Val Verde Unified School District. It was then, […]

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 […]

For months, the COVID-19 pandemic has rocked industries around the world, hitting sports and entertainment, hospitality and tourism, and restaurants especially hard. But for technology companies like Canadian-based FCT, the global health crisis presented an opportunity to demonstrate their industry expertise and leadership. “We’re committed to ensuring a positive customer experience, even in the toughest […]

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 […]

A technology provisioning adjustment necessary before the start of the next academic year at Memorial University’s Grenfell Campus on the west coast of Newfoundland, Newton Pritchett answered the call. Director of information technology services since May 2018 and a member of the team for the previous two decades, Pritchett and his team had satisfied many […]

When a company is spun off from or sold by another larger entity, a sense of cautious optimism is to be expected. With new ownership come new opportunities—and a chance to become indispensable. That was certainly the case for Pittsburgh-based water technology company Evoqua Water Technologies when, in 2014, it was sold by its global […]