Features Region: West

There’s a level of excitement and satisfaction to Rob Brown’s work with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services that other technology professionals may rarely enjoy. “We’re helping people achieve the American dream,” he says. “We’re helping refugees and asylees looking to start their new life in the United States.” And there are many desperate and deserving […]

The fact that Robert Rosales won’t be confined to a data center doesn’t necessarily set him apart from other infotech directors. But you won’t find many other IT bosses riding shotgun on a big rig. Rosales has done that and more as the personable and hands-on director of infotech Oak Harbor Freight Lines in the […]

Once upon a time, it was home. The wall still bears pencil marks showing how tall the kids were, but the swing set in the backyard is a distant memory, though you can almost see where its poles pushed into the ground. In other words, you’ve inherited a home needing more TLC and money than […]

It’s been a heady 2 1/2 years for Ron Sharon since he joined Mercer Advisors. As head of information security and IT director, Sharon has built the IT infrastructure for a firm offering investment management and wealth advisory services, as well as tax and retirement planning, and corporate trustee and trust administration services. Adding to […]

It’s something Rob Reynolds can’t help but notice while applying his infotech expertise to the construction and engineering companies that work for telecoms and cable providers. The builders build what they build best, which is the infrastructure itself. But their IT is typically behind the curve. And that can set back their progress, render them […]

He knows of client companies whose data has been breached, rendering them liable for delays, damages and fines that add up to billions of dollars. There’s a common denominator in construction industry hackings, explains Randy Muyargas. Too often, he tells Toggle this past December, the industry has been behind the infotech times, relying on outdated […]

It’s a one-word message displayed in multiple places in Rex Young’s office at LogRhythm. “Simplify” is the crucial word, and even if Young and his LogRhythm colleagues can’t see the writing on his walls because COVID-19 has them working remotely, simplify is the operative and overriding word guiding the company’s technological growth. Headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, LogRhythm specializes in cybersecurity solutions for mid- to […]

It wouldn’t be a party without the potty. From the food festival in a town square to the three-day show on multiple stages in the middle of the desert, everyone who comes will eventually need someplace to go. It’s not only sanitary, it’s the law, and in southern California, Diamond Environmental Services has been supplying […]

The largest grocery store merger in history between two Idaho greats took place on January 29, 2015—and standing in the middle of the action was Albertsons Companies’ Rucha Nanavati, who had to help oversee $280 million of IT synergy as part of the larger deal. By the numbers, the merger of Albertsons, a Boise, Idaho-based […]

Every business owner dreads the permitting process. Depending on the space’s size and location, dozens of documents and licenses might be required. Fire safety, air and water pollution control, sales tax paperwork, health department checks: It’s enough red tape to mummify the building (that’s a code violation, by the way). In Reno, Nevada, all you […]