Chris Hoke is known to joke that prayer is a very important part of IT. As CIO at the University of Jamestown in Jamestown, North Dakota, and a former youth pastor, he should know. In nearly 25 years at UJ, he may not have yet guided the school out of the proverbial wilderness to the […]
Features Region: Midwest
Daniel Carlascio – United Wheels Inc.
Looking inside a time capsule years from now, historians may discover that gym rats on a quest to work out during the COVID-19 pandemic responded to the crisis by buying bicycles. Miamisburg, Ohio-based United Wheels Inc. reports a worldwide spike in its online and storefront sales—with brands sold including Huffy, Batch Bicycles, Vaast, Niner, Royce […]
Christine Kurth – Ohio Dominican University
Christine Kurth is hardly the first person heading up an IT department in higher education who knows she needs to use what’s on hand before adding anything new. But as CIO at Ohio Dominican University, she’s cheerfully made an art and a science of ensuring technology is used to its full potential. This approach became […]
Gary Jeter – Firefly Federal Credit Union
It may not be a deal Gary Jeter was born to make, but it’s one he’s equipped to steer after his years of military and civilian training and education. The merger between Firefly Credit Union and TruStone Financial Credit Union was not a done deal when Jeter, Firefly’s senior vice president and chief technology officer, […]
Angela Neria – Pittsburg State University
Angela Neria first arrived on the Pittsburg State University campus as a freshman from a small town in Missouri. Crossing the Kansas border to continue her education, she cultivated interests in technology and business and met her husband, all while earning three degrees. Now, as the university’s CIO, she hopes to help other students have […]
John Folkers – Videojet Technologies Inc.
Recall news can be frightening. The snack cakes you like so much may contain mold. The granola bars you buy have traces of nuts that are hazardous to people with food allergies. The hand sanitizer you’re relying on during the coronavirus pandemic may contain methanol. Fortunately, the alerts go beyond a press release that lists […]
Barry Kallmeyer – Hathaway Brown School
He’s no ornithologist, but Barry Kallmeyer is a big fan of owls. Owl Labs 360-degree cameras, that is—the ones he and his IT team have been installing in classrooms at Hathaway Brown School in Shaker Heights, Ohio, as the school reopens with a hybrid learning model amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The cameras are the latest […]
Dave Termunde – Arbor Park School District 145
Behold the panda, sometimes known as the giant panda, in its natural habitat. Living mainly in temperate forests in southwest China, the black and white bear subsists almost entirely on a diet of bamboo. Adult pandas may consume as much as 84 pounds of bamboo daily, as females grow to 200 pounds and males to […]
Evan OBranovic – Traverse City Area Public Schools
There may not be many school districts making their data centers a point of pride, but at Traverse City Area Public Schools in Michigan, it’s become a can’t-miss attraction. Packed into what was once the gym at a former elementary school, the servers and tech stacks—which local businesses and organizations co-locate with the school district—are […]
William Pulte – Educational Service Unit #3
If there’s any good that’s come from the COVID-19 pandemic, at least for Educational Service Unit #3, it’s that the crisis forced the organization to accelerate key technology initiatives for children in some of Nebraska’s most populated areas. “There’s a lot of pressure to get things right, especially our current situation,” says William Pulte, ESU […]
