Features Region: Southwest

During in-home health care visits, nurses typically provide health assessments, check vitals and run basic tests. Sometimes, though, emergencies happen. For example, vitals could show rapidly dropping oxygen levels—something that would require an immediate trip to the emergency room. While a nurse could call 911, it often takes too long to connect with a dispatcher […]

W hen Amplify Snack Brands was acquired by Hershey in early 2018, the company’s IT team began integrating with the candy giant’s systems and infrastructure. When this was completed in January 2020, the team had no idea how fortuitous its timing was. “It worked out perfectly for the pandemic,” IT Director Jorge Barroso says. “We […]

When Wayne Craig first worked as a field technician in the petrochemical industry in the Houston area, he spent his days in the field helping design, install and document projects. In the evenings, he made plan changes on a drawing board. Then computer-aided design, or CAD, software programs used in mainframe computers became available on […]

At the start of her career, Kasey Ortoski knew she was helping society as a teacher, spending nearly half a decade imparting knowledge to kindergarteners as well as second and fourth graders. Since leaving the classroom in 2019, she’s found a new way to make an impact—as a contract operations manager handling IT at Jacobs. […]

It’s safe to say very few tech leaders have worked in PR at a Pakistani hospital that treated victims of leprosy. But Feroz Merchhiya says it was an invaluable experience in his professional development—and a humbling one at that. “My journey is not a typical journey for someone who ended up in technology,” says Feroz […]

While Kenneth Ray Jr. may be more at home with a fishing rod or hunting rifle in hand, he’s pretty handy with technology too.  “I’m kind of a different IT person. I’m a rodeo country boy,” he says. “I got into tech for the people. I like to interact with people, and the collaborative nature […]

A construction site is usually a place of controlled chaos. Bringing organized calm to the storm is The Brock Group. The small-craft construction company helps large industrial and commercial clients with maintenance, turnaround and capital projects. This includes building scaffolding, installing insulation, fireproofing and applying protective coatings. In addition to working with clients, Brock partners […]

Indorama Ventures doesn’t really operate under the radar, but there are times when it seems that way, says Brian Ullrich. “I like to call us the largest petrochemical company you’ve never heard of,” he says. The company was founded in 1994 as Indorama Holdings and became Thailand’s first producer of worsted wool yarn while also […]

Got to make the in-house technology as reliable as the mechanical gadgets sold to consumers. So realized Nagarajan Muthusamy upon becoming chief information and chief technology officer—or, as he says, transformer in chief—at ReliableParts in early 2018. The Dallas-based company certainly lived up to its name as the official OEM parts distributor for major home […]

No matter what the calendar says, it’s pest season somewhere. Maybe it’s termites munching on wood-frame houses in the Southeast or mice setting up squatter’s rights in the northern buildings they entered when the mercury plunged last fall. There being 176 species of skeeters in the United States alone, they’re likely everywhere. All such vermin […]