Features Region: Northeast

“If it’s Tuesday, this must be Belgium.” So went the title of a 1968 romantic comedy about a chaotic package tour that, if taken seriously by viewers, could have been the bane of international travel agencies. But that was just a movie from a half-century ago, and there’s a much easier way of touring the […]

It doesn’t seem so long ago to Shaun Poulton that he was studying mechanical engineering at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, envisioning himself as a builder of infrastructure. That was during the early 1990s, just before the computer and internet booms which caused him and so many other scientifically-inclined young people to shift paths. Not […]

Inside the Detroit facility of integrated building systems provider Limbach, a project engineer pulls a headset over his eyes. Within seconds, he’s standing inside a 3-D rendering of a giant warehouse about to be built by one of the company’s customers. After toying with a few unresolved design ideas—an HVAC system here, a water treatment […]

On his first day of work, John Martin, the director of technology and innovation at the Inter-Lakes School District in New Hampshire, came out swinging—literally. Sledgehammer in hand, Martin (and his team) busted down the walls and gutted the technology department space previously described as “the rat’s maze.” The message he sent and the sign […]

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 […]

It’s not an original line, but William McSorley likes to repeat it while giving credit to whomever coined what’s become something of an infotech cliché. “Data is the new oil,” the affable CIO of Monarch Alternative Capital tells Toggle in March from his office in New York City. “I wish I had been the first […]

Recently returned from an info-tech inspection in Tanzania and Kenya, Rizwan A. Jan says he was pleasantly surprised. Even in those sub-Saharan African countries, the systems proved sound enough to support the mission of the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc. (HJF). “There can’t be any more excuses for not […]

Among the nation’s growing ranks of IT directors, an enterprising spirit—the drive to build bigger and better things—is practically a prerequisite. It’s a bug Daniel Goldenberg caught early on. How early? He started his own IT managed services company in high school, offering everything from network setup and virus removal to minor home repairs, mostly […]

It wasn’t exactly a “Eureka!” moment. Being a lifelong engineer, Maxim Budyansky knew what those felt like. Still, for him and cofounder Neil Shah, there was a recognition that the techniques and technologies being used for bone grafting needed an update. This surgical procedure uses healthy bone to repair breaks and fractures elsewhere in the […]

How refreshing, Eric Frisch thought upon moving into his new position as director of IT at Corsa Coal Corp. last March. A chance to revisit some hard info-tech skills he had honed while working as a director for his previous employer of five years, Rice Energy Inc., just across town in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania. In due […]