Features Region: Southeast

Ask any toddler what they want to do when they grow up and there’s a good chance their answer involves driving a truck, whether as a fire fighter, garbage collector or member of the military. For Matthew Holt, those dreams came true in a way. As director of information technology for Herring Gas Company, he’s […]

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Many children follow in their mom or dad’s footsteps, and BJ Beier is no exception—having joined his father, Bill, at Union Savings Bank in Cincinnati, Ohio. A sister institution to Guardian Savings Bank (where the younger Beier now works), Union was a natural fit for the Beiers with its focus on family and community values. […]

Like so many other schools, Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College hadn’t focused much on remote education prior to COVID-19, but it’s been making strides since. “The world changed, and we had to adapt,” Allen C. Saylor Jr. tells Toggle this past fall from the Tifton, Georgia, campus. “COVID hit us hard but we’re making sure instructors […]

Prior to taking over strategy and architecture within IT, Christine Vanderpool would receive requests for similar programs or systems from multiple departments. For example, some of Florida Crystals’s workforce wasn’t part of the company email system and often was left out of important communications. Around the same time Vanderpool began setting up their email accounts, […]

The global pandemic shut down many things, but it didn’t halt the planned merger of two firms—Atlanta-based Troutman Sanders and Philadelphia-based Pepper Hamilton—which became Troutman Pepper on July 1, 2020. Nine months earlier, CIO Pramesh Naik had begun work on the project. Having been with the firm for two years at that point, he was […]

When the IT department at Duval County Public Schools made a remote learning platform seven years ago, it was intended to be used in case there was a hurricane and students couldn’t come in. With the help of Microsoft, the platform had custom coding and was used to send emails or post on message boards. […]

It’s the second-oldest university in the U.S., chartered more than 80 years before the Declaration of Independence was written by one of its alumni, Thomas Jefferson. William & Mary, founded in 1693, also has the oldest college building continually used in the U.S., even though the interior of what’s now called the Sir Christopher Wren […]

With the process complicated and often dread-inducing, nobody likes looking for insurance. For people 65 and older, it can be particularly daunting, involving complex coverages, rising prescription costs, and changing health care needs as they age. It’s an equation where the wrong choice can become very costly. Sergio Vela can’t personally say which plans are […]

His crew spends many an hour coding and even more time just interacting with users at CRC Global Solutions. As CIO John Guillot emphasizes, the human element can’t separate from the technology. Besides, there’s often some idea on the warehouse floor that might help CRC provide supply-chain management and logistics solutions, construction management and product […]