Features Region: Northeast

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 […]

While the importance of human connection is undeniable in the insurance industry, some things are better done digitally. For example, Timothy Moriarity doesn’t think customers should have to call their broker to pay their monthly bills or confirm that they want to renew their policies. As the chief information officer at Cross Insurance Agency, he’s […]

While normalcy returns to campuses everywhere, COVID-19’s effects remain and not just for public health. With remote study options existing since the spring of 2020, opportunity has abounded for hackers. More recently, federal authorities have warned how the Russian-Ukrainian conflict unleashed a new wave of cyberattacks on Western energy, finance, communications and, yes, higher-education infrastructure. […]

Justin Lahullier is never going to lean over dental patients and ask them to open wide. As CIO for Delta Dental of New Jersey and Connecticut, he never prescribes anesthesia, rinsing or flossing, either. But since joining the provider of dental benefits in January 2004, Lahullier has made it his practice to extract data to […]

As Tropical Cheese Industries Inc. approaches its 40th anniversary, it can be celebrated as a quintessential American success story though it makes cheeses more typically found throughout Latin and South America. It was founded in 1983 by Rafael Mendez, who’d arrived in the U.S. from Cuba at age 17 with $50. He settled in Perth […]

When Jin Gwak began her career, it wasn’t in technology. With a passion for helping others, she was studying to become a psychologist. After coming to the United States at the age of 23, she planned to earn her doctorate, advance her psychology credentials, and return home to South Korea. But the early 1990s were […]

The clock over the Bertucci’s Italian Restaurant brick pizza oven strikes 7:30. It’s smack in the middle of the usual dinner rush and you’re standing with a handful of receipts, trying to close out table checks for servers while also accepting payment for to-go meals. At that moment the point-of-sale system decides to go kaput. […]

Barry Porozni admits he began his IT career working on machines that should now be in a museum. “Who even knows what a punch card is now?” he says with a laugh. Most recently the CIO for The Reinvestment Fund, which he left in December 2021, Porozni chatted about his career with Toggle a month […]

This was no ordinary day in the classes at a Baltimore County family life center. Not with 100 students and their parents learning how to build a PC and writing code. Not with IT professionals from the public and private sector volunteering to teach and share their experiences about careers in IT. The event was […]

When the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in work from home mandates, for some employees, it was a blessing in disguise allowing them to spend more time with family and less money on gas. For the five people working in the information technology department for the Township of Franklin, New Jersey, it was a challenge they’d never […]