No matter what the calendar says, it’s pest season somewhere. Maybe it’s termites munching on wood-frame houses in the Southeast or mice setting up squatter’s rights in the northern buildings they entered when the mercury plunged last fall. There being 176 species of skeeters in the United States alone, they’re likely everywhere. All such vermin […]
Features Information Technologies
David Lin – Gemological Institute of America Inc.
It was a fishing contest without a bass boat or even a rod and reel. In October 2021, employees at the Gemological Institute of America Inc. competed to see who could land the most “phish” by reporting suspicious emails to Chief Information Security Officer David Lin and his team. The contest was part of GIA’s […]
Dr. Christophe St. Luce – City of Venice
Having been around computers since he was 4, Christophe St. Luce turned what were toys into career tools when he grew up, becoming a programmer analyst for the City of Hollywood, Florida. But after nearly two decades there, St. Luce got a chance to help the City of Venice combat ransomware and its reputation as […]
Elisabeth Weber – Expel
Jane Doe isn’t the only sales rep at Acme Widgets who spends some of her weekends catching up on emails and unfinished tasks. In fact, since she’s been working remotely, she’s found it easier to fulfill the oft-competing demands of her home and family lives. She can get a lot done in what used to […]
Calvin Engen – F12.net Inc.
Outdated servers. Software updates. Cloud versus on-premises. Data management and storage. And what’s a “phish” and why is it spelled that way? All these and more can be vexing questions and issues for small and mid-sized business owners who need technology to succeed but don’t always have the time or expertise to make certain they […]
Jorge Grau – SBA Communications
What can drive a huge jump in stock price, fuel construction of more than 34,000 communication towers and yield more than $2 billion in annual earnings in 18 years? The answer, says Jorge Grau, is the skyrocketing mobile data consumption combined with “significant investment” in the construction and acquisition of infrastructure to support that phenomenon. […]
Allen C. Saylor Jr. – Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College
Like so many other schools, Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College hadn’t focused much on remote education prior to COVID-19, but it’s been making strides since. “The world changed, and we had to adapt,” Allen C. Saylor Jr. tells Toggle this past fall from the Tifton, Georgia, campus. “COVID hit us hard but we’re making sure instructors […]
Matt Nicolls – Technology Partners
Call it the Midwest’s answer to Silicon Valley, a place where innovation and collaboration go hand in hand. Here, 25 miles west of St. Louis, Matt Nicolls and his team at Technology Partners are creating custom software solutions to help clients gain an edge—guided by a few, ironclad principles. “For us, it starts with communication, […]
Jeff Cole – OneSpan
Dying of a snakebite or losing oxen to starvation or drowning might not sound like the best inspiration, but it’s exactly what started Jeff Cole on his pursuit of technology. “I used to play the Oregon Trail game in grade school, and that is what really hooked me on computers,” Cole says. “Did I know […]
John Guillot – CRC Global Solutions
His crew spends many an hour coding and even more time just interacting with users at CRC Global Solutions. As CIO John Guillot emphasizes, the human element can’t separate from the technology. Besides, there’s often some idea on the warehouse floor that might help CRC provide supply-chain management and logistics solutions, construction management and product […]
