A year into his job at the National Association of Corporate Directors, CTO Dennis Fuze says his work there is the most rewarding experience in his 42-year career—and he’s just getting started. Contracted by NACD—a 43-year-old nonprofit based in Arlington, Virginia—as a CIO advisor in 2019, Fuze performed a comprehensive assessment of the internal and […]
Features Region: Southeast
Daniel Caban – Osceola County Sheriff’s Office
This is not your everyday IT department that Daniel Caban oversees. Not when the FBI and Florida Department of Law Enforcement routinely need the vital statistics he stores while helping fund the technology they use. Not when video captured by personnel during a regular shift can become the backbone of a criminal prosecution. And not […]
Victoria Farnsworth – University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Vicki Farnsworth has only been in her current position since January 2020, but already she’s dealt with a global pandemic and a devastating Easter tornado that wreaked havoc on faculty, staff and students at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. There were power outages, some lasting more than two weeks, and many students were without […]
Christopher Davis – Mspark
It wasn’t nicknamed “The Wish Book” for nothing. That baseball mitt, baby doll or BB gun were on the pages to see and yearn for. So were the shoes parents could get for children attending school and the china they could use for Sunday dinners. What began in 1888 as a printed mailer offering jewelry […]
Larry Osentoski – GC Associates USA
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and the General Services Administration serve our country in many ways, and to do that they must maintain and track the half-million vehicles they manage. With new regulations, these agencies look to the private sector to help drive them into the future. Thus, the opportunity for GC Associates USA […]
Greg Brandenburg – University of Mary Hardin-Baylor
Greg Brandenburg knows what can happen to a university campus in Texas. In a state prone to hurricanes, tornados and extreme heat, he’s had to plan for flooding, power outages and quick evacuations. Still, compared to these events, he says COVID-19—which hit two months after he became the vice president for technology and CIO at […]
Michael Taylor – ECS, USNS Mercy
Outfitted to respond to combat or other high-stakes situations, as well as deliver acute medical care to underserved populations on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, the USNS Mercy embarked on one of her shorter missions this past spring. Just 120 miles up the coast from her home port at Naval Base San Diego, […]
Devin Shirley – Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield
When it comes to data security, the buck’s got to stop somewhere. At Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield, it stops with Devin Shirley. “As technologies change, so do the bad guys,” explains Shirley, since 2016 the chief information security officer for Arkansas’ biggest insurer. “You can never depend on the system you have today. […]
Will Jackson III – Christ Community Health Services
As he looked over the data showing how COVID-19 hit western Tennessee, Will Jackson III searched for clues that would help Christ Community Health Services establish testing sites in the best locations for Memphis, Tennessee, residents. The answers came in five digits—zip codes showing coronavirus clusters, with Hispanic or Black populations and communities getting hit […]
Bob Hillhouse – The University of Tennessee
It’s late August, and on college campuses across the country students are back, with a few days before classes and the study grind begin. Indoors and out, on-campus and off, young people gather to enjoy the final blissful throes of summer. But in 2020, these gatherings have become hazardous, turning campuses into COVID-19 hotspots and […]
