Features January 2021

Albert Stadler remembers the day in 2019 when he got a phone call from nearby Crowder College. It had been hit by a crippling ransomware attack. In no time, Stadler, then the CIO at Missouri Southern State University, was on his way to help assess the damage. Stadler’s reputation as the “go-to guy” in the […]

Each day she walks through the searing sun and dusty brush on a dirt track, then waits in line for tap water to carry back home to her family. Then one day, the spigot goes dry and it’s not just a wasted walk, it’s her family’s water supply in jeopardy. Communal water points serve about […]

Even with the La Salle College High School campus idled after the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, Braden Bonner was skeptical about a suggestion on how to use the school’s technology. “I was just thinking about keeping students learning and teachers teaching, and it sounded like the students wanted me to install […]

So, just how well are your finances doing these days? Pandemic and economic recession aside, finding the details may be complicated if your wealth is spread across multiple financial institutions, funds and assets. Yet having a clear picture is crucial, not only to you individually, but to the advisors and counselors guiding your financial decisions, […]

The air is charged with excitement. Kids tightly grip video game controllers, transfixed by monitors displaying showdowns between Nintendo gaming icons like Mario, Donkey Kong and Pokemon’s Pikachu. The characters in the kid-friendly video game don’t knock each other out, just off the stage and out of bounds. And all of this is happening … […]

In 2017, when Brook Conner came to work at the Hawaii State Department of Education, he knew his work was cut out for him. A major tipoff was that the department was using antiquated Lotus Notes, in some cases on SunOS—an operating system replaced in the ‘90s. Soon, he had filled a white board with […]

It was a lesson he learned on the rocky coast of Maine, but it’s not lost in translation now that he’s deep in the heart of Texas. As Cameron Kilton was working to expand broadband internet service to Maine’s coastal islands, he stopped at a home with a view of the ocean typically found on […]

The printing revolution was kicked off by German Johannes Gutenberg’s proto-printing press, first used in 1440. By some accounts, that revolution is still underway. Except you can forget about the messy ink and toxic lead castings. Instead, think digital printing which, like the digital revolution surrounding it, has the power to disrupt the status quo […]

Enter to learn, leave to serve. So the students are taught at La Salle Catholic College Preparatory in Milwaukie, Oregon. A private co-ed high school under the auspices of the Archbishop of Portland, its curriculum is demanding for students drawn from nearly 100 grammar and junior high schools throughout the Portland, Oregon, metro area. La […]

Denys Diaz may not really want TowneBank to be operated remotely from its parking lots, but it could happen in a pinch, if need be. In fact, it could be run from just about any location. After four years of preparation, the bank’s core system and other critical software were replaced in early November. In […]