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Despite the lofty language that infused our founding documents, history has proven that not all people have been treated equally in this country—especially with respect to education. That’s where the Association of American Colleges and Universities comes in. “Our goal is to help our member institutions provide the best quality of learning while ensuring all […]

When it comes to IT, Cabarrus County Schools has three major things going for it—or rather, three people: Dr. Katherine “Kelly” Propst, Michael Stocks and Adam Harkey. The trio has a unique management style, which helped build the most robust school district IT network in the state and keeps 36,000 devices up and running. Propst, […]

Cal-Maine Foods Inc. has more than 45 million employees. That is, if you count the roughly 36.1 million egg layers and 9.5 million pullets—young female chickens—and breeders, which make Cal-Maine Foods the largest producer and marketer of shell eggs in the U.S. That’s a lot of birds to keep track of and each comes 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 […]

If you think you’re a grizzled tech veteran because you can recall the beeping and pinging of a dial-up internet connection, say hello to Carl Fong. Fong got hooked on technology because of Pong, a rudimentary video game with a solitary black dot bumping and booping its way across a screen, redirected by digital “paddles” […]

The trademark of a successful corporate lawyer? It’s not just legal and business savvy, answers Carlos Landazabal Angeli, who, since November 2012, has served as General Electric’s legal leader for South America’s Andean region, as well as Central America and the Caribbean. Anticipation is just as important, the soft-spoken general counsel tells Vanguard from his […]

For as long as the earth’s tectonic plates have been shifting—read: a very long time—humans and other creatures have been affected by earthquakes. And while the phenomena typically last mere seconds, their destruction can be catastrophic and widespread: recent earthquakes have killed hundreds of thousands of people and leveled landscapes across Nepal, Haiti, Japan, Mexico […]

It’s a high-stakes, high-reward industry where the info-tech director can barely take a breather, Carlos Silva says about the airlines. Even more so than the pharmaceutical manufacturers where he had been an IT boss for 20 years before joining Volaris, Mexico’s low-cost passenger carrier with the highest of aspirations, last April. “The big difference between […]

As a woman in IT—a male-dominated industry, especially south of the U.S. border—and as a single mother to a 10-year-old son, Carmina Delgado says she knows about challenge. But this Mexico City native also understands perseverance, as well as the importance of bringing a personal approach to a highly technical position—in her case, IT mainframe […]

The College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University have separate presidents, separate boards of trustees and separate budgets. But they share the same IT department. This creates a lot of busy days for Director of IT, Casey Gordon, who says a major part of her job is providing students at each location with a […]