Features Information Technologies

Imagine you’re a farmer in the Midwest with a significant corn-growing operation. It’s early in the calendar year, time to prep for the upcoming growing season. So, what do you do? Hint: it’s not fire up the tractor. If you’re a member of Landmark Services Cooperative, a likely first step is to log into your […]

Sebastian Barrios was a clever kid, building circuits as a hobby in his native Mexico City. With such a strong interest in technology, it wasn’t long before he was tinkering with building apps. He even came up with a way to talk longer on the phone with his girlfriend. As a budding entrepreneur in his […]

To Jesus Esteiner Alonso, the whole thing seemed exceedingly ambitious: Overhaul the company’s e-commerce platform for the entire Latin American region—a division that includes Mexico, Chile, Ecuador, Peru and Colombia. Oh, and it needed to be completed in three months. Faced with one of the biggest challenges of his 20-plus-year career, Esteiner turned an age-old […]

Bruno Miyamotto doesn’t have to stretch his memory too far to remember when the role of a chief technology officer was 20 percent software-related and 80 percent the human element. So rapidly are these percentages shifting that he and his colleagues anticipate a complete reversal. Likely within the next few years, the multilingual Miyamotto tells […]

It’s been one of those days—11 hours at the office, another three stuck in traffic—and the last thing you want to do is cook. So you place an order through Uber Eats with your favorite local restaurant and wait. And wait. And wait. After 45 minutes, you start to get nervous; the food should’ve been […]

Let’s say you’re a researcher looking to write a thesis about the critical response to Vladimir Nabokov’s “Lolita,” involving the themes and esoteric references throughout the controversial novel, as well as the Russian writer’s own discussions, interpretations and explanations of his work. It wasn’t so long ago—say, a decade or two, depending on your willingness […]

Each day, more than 70,000 people traverse the four pedestrian footbridges connecting El Paso, Texas, and Mexico’s Ciudad Juarez. But the biggest link of all might be the one running just beneath the ground below. Namely: miles of fiber-optic cable—and all the terabits of data coursing within—designed to bring organizations on both sides closer than […]

Just five years after receiving her bachelor’s degree, Rocio Diaz Contreras has already secured a highly-coveted CEO post at a thriving Mexican company. The IT engineer’s fast-track career has included building and implementing a health information system for one of western Mexico’s largest hospitals; performing case studies on competitiveness and sustainability in Latin America; and […]

Comfort zones are for slackers. That seems to be the mindset of Dena M. Ghilani, the chief information and technology officer at SESCO Enterprises, a trading and risk-management firm in the Pittsburgh suburb of Greensburg. If Ghilani is comfortable there now—and she seems to be relishing her role which began in October—it’s largely because she’s […]

In 2018, not long after being named IT director for the entire Latin American division of British consumer goods company Reckitt Benckiser (RB), Craig O’Dell was given his first major marching orders: Transform the IT landscape into a showcase of best-in-class tools and technologies—a daunting task for anyone. For O’Dell—who’d moved from England to Brazil […]