Features Region: Southeast

Mike King estimates there isn’t a day that passes without a Premier Packaging product arriving at someone’s home. The Louisville, Kentucky-based company has been making boxes, mailers and packaging supplies for almost 30 years. “If you ordered something online, you probably have one of our boxes,” says King, the company’s CIO. King’s role isn’t always […]

Among the bucket-list destinations for the avid golfer is the legendary Pinehurst Resort in North Carolina. The Cradle of American golf, Pinehurst has nine meticulously maintained, 18-hole courses as well as The Cradle itself, a nine-hole par-3. The most famous of the long courses, the Pinehurst No. 2, hosts the U.S. Open every five or […]

Picture a room of 375 people trying to communicate in dozens of languages with little overlap. This is essentially what Chris Scott was determined to correct when he joined Dental Care Alliance in July 2021. He wanted to get the full picture before he acted, though, so during his first two weeks as the new […]

How do bolts of fabric, hides of leather and sheets of plywood build a career in IT? Those are among the raw materials McCreary Modern of Newton, North Carolina, uses to make the upholstered furniture it ships to retailers throughout the U.S. Tracking those materials and the manufacturing processes is Alan Fisher’s responsibility. As director […]

At the end of 2018, the outlook for Payless ShoeSource, at least in the U.S., was grim. Cornered by online retailers like Zappos and Amazon, it had closed more than 1,000 stores across the country. However, with new executive leadership, its fortunes were beginning to shift in early 2020, says Mario Lozada, who was among […]

Time was that employees at Lexington Medical Center had to navigate an inventory forest while trying to keep the health care network supplied. With 73,000 clinical and nonclinical items in the database, it could be impossible to tell what they really needed, how it was priced and who supplied it. Director of IT Services Tom […]

There’s something exciting about taking up responsibilities at an essential company during a pandemic. Especially when the company is one of the nation’s seven largest railways, a Class 1 operator with revenues exceeding $12 billion. “High demand, high pressure,” is how Gary Eppinger describes his roles as vice president of IT technology and chief info-security […]

Having been around computers since he was 4, Christophe St. Luce turned what were toys into career tools when he grew up, becoming a programmer analyst for the City of Hollywood, Florida. But after nearly two decades there, St. Luce got a chance to help the City of Venice combat ransomware and its reputation as […]

Up until last year, plant workers at OmniMax International manually typed in data from customer orders, which sometimes led to mistakes. As demand grew, the company’s new owners decided the process needed to be automated. “The new leadership team is big into data,” says Elizabeth Rich, the director of IT for the Georgia-based manufacturer of […]

Ledale Reynolds has heard all the jokes and still must tell people he doesn’t work for one of the largest banks in the City of Brotherly Love. But he expected there would be some confusion when he took technology job for The Citizens Bank of Philadelphia, which is based in Mississippi. “We’ve been serving the […]