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Before Madhu Annagiri was hired at Clean Earth, the IT department was seen as a support function. Tasked with changing this perception, he asked department leaders to share their biggest issues at the Philadelphia-based provider of environmental and regulated waste management services. First, Annagiri addressed a lack of technology for the company’s drivers, introducing a […]

The advice was sound. Only it wasn’t being transmitted as efficiently as modern technology allows. That was one of Ronnie Reid’s early impressions when he commenced as senior vice president of infotech at Houston-based ARM Energy in April 2019. The firm advises utility industry clientele on the buying, selling and transportation of oil and natural […]

For more than 60 years, Equipment & Controls Inc. has supplied process control and industrial automation solutions—and expertise—used to refine oil and gas, automate manufacturing and even research and provide life-saving drugs. However, when Jason McNutt joined ECI as its director of technology in 2018, he saw the company itself needed help. So, he and […]

How high-tech waste-management has become, and how integrated one of its heavyweights is becoming with other industries. That gives Jeff Andress opportunity to apply his techno-savvy to the inner workings of WIN Waste Innovations. CIO since March 2020, he’s guiding a digital transformation that reaches far beyond a single company. For just prior to his […]

Configuration over customization. Done with the right people, it’s a game plan for efficiency. So says Doug Liddell, who’s done much of it since being hired in late 2018 to build IT infrastructure at a new Western Canadian midstream energy company. NorthRiver Midstream Inc., based in Calgary, is the result of Toronto-based Brookfield Asset Management […]

The first digital transformation Carlos Fournier recalls brought more color to his life—literally. Growing up in his native Uruguay in the 1980s, he watched black and white TVs. When his family got a color set, it was as dramatic as getting his first computer when he was 15, he says. Though he’s only 38, those […]

In the Transformers toy and movie franchise, Optimus Prime is a big-rig vehicle that turns into a robot superhero. When he morphs into his robot figure, Optimus Prime’s powers are more efficient, more precise and better suited to his role as the leader of the Autobots. Jerome Beaudoin isn’t a robot or a superhero like […]

Whether it’s by extending subway lines in Santiago, Chile, or providing technical support to the country’s national health care network, David Israel León loves making connections. And those connections have paid off. The digital network he strengthened for Enex, the Chilean distributor of Shell Oil products including fuels, lubricants, asphalts and chemical products, has been […]

Greg Allarding began his career in tech by flipping burgers. Well, actually, he’d advanced from the grills and fry vats at a McDonald’s to become an 18-year-old manager burdened by reams of paper detailing restaurant operations. It was the mid-‘80s and in those days, even if Matthew Broderick was hacking his way into U.S. Department […]

Digging at construction sites can be a case of “one strike and you’re out”—out of power, off the internet or even out of your home or office because of a gas leak. Especially in urban environments, there’s likely a crisscrossing underground network of steel water pipes, gas lines, PVC conduits and phone, cable and electrical […]