John Stevenson is a former Chief Information Officer with over 25 years of senior Information Technology executive experience. His broad experience includes key executive assignments in large corporations spanning high technology, consumer goods, pharmaceuticals and manufacturing industries. John's most recent assignment was as Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Sharp Electronics Corporation of the Americas, a maker of consumer and business electronics. John previously served as Chi...
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John Keith former CIO of Unilever North America IT, worked 31 years for Unilever United States and its predecessor company, Bestfoods. While at Unilever, he held many senior leadership roles in finance and information technology, including VP Finance for Bestfoods North American Retail and VP Information Technology for Unilever in North America. John recently led the Project Vital initiative at Unilever which was one of the company's largest and most strategic business transformation projects. I...
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Paul Strassmann is president of The Information Economics Press, Senior Advisor to the Science Applications International Corporation, and Distinguished Professor of Information Sciences, George Mason School of Information Technology and Engineering. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association and the Board of Directors of Meta Software corporation. After serving as an advisor to the Deputy Secretary of Defense, Mr. Strassmann was appointed...
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Tom Love is the Co-Founder and CEO of ShouldersCorp. Prior to founding ShouldersCorp, he was CEO of WorldStreet Corporation, Managing Director of Morgan Stanley and Vice President of IBM Consulting Group (now Global Services). In 1983 he co-founded Stepstone Corporation, the first Object Oriented software products company (Objective-C; Software-ICs). Tom has contributed significantly to the commercial evolution of the software industry. Before becoming an entrepreneur, Tom Love held technical an...
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Don Martin joined Computer Aid in 2011 as their Senior Vice President and SAP Practice Leader. He is responsible for sales and delivery of SAP related services. Prior to joining Computer Aid, Don was the Vice President, CIO, and eCMO for Armstrong World Industries. At Armstrong he held global responsibility for information technology, digital marketing, outsourcing, and process improvement. In this role he helped Armstrong drive leading market share to their websites and was recognized in 2009 b...
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Dr. M. Lewis Temares is CIO, Vice President for Information Technology, and Dean Emeritus of the College of Engineering at the University of Miami. As CIO, Lew is responsible for the University of Miami's computing and telecommunications applications and infrastructure. Under Lew's guidance, UM was an early adopter of quality practices such as Six Sigma and IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL). To help integrate these and other best practices into his organization, Dr. Temares founded the NGJ Inform...
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Joseph H. McMakin formed the consulting company ITMC, LLC in October 2003, following his retirement from Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. ITMC specializes in improving IT management practices. McMakin joined Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. in 1975 after various manufacturing, engineering and sales assignments with DuPont, Stauffer Chemical Co., and IBM. He was named director of technology for Air Products' plastics division in 1979, and subsequently held the positions of director of marketing f...
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Nick Spanos is a senior manager and management consultant with twenty-five years of experience in the Information Technology industry. Mr. Spanos analyzes IT organizations and processes and identifies issues that impact the effectiveness and productivity of IT service delivery teams. He develops solution strategies and manages the transformation of IT organizations that include IT process reengineering and the implementation of tools and metrics. To contact Nick Spanos, send an email to Nick_Spa...
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Anthony (Tony) Salvaggio is CEO and President of Computer Aid (CAI) , an international IT outsourcing firm currently managing active engagements with over one hundred Fortune 1000 companies and government agencies around the world. CAI employs over 2000 associates across the United States, Europe, and Asia. Mr. Salvaggio founded CAI in 1981. Prior to founding CAI, Mr. Salvaggio spent 22 years at IBM. Mr. Salvaggio has a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Pennsylvania State University. In...
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James Ryan is the Director of the CAI Consulring Practice in Wilmington, DE. His expertise is in business and technology transformation, process reengineering, performance management, and customer relationship management. Mr. Ryan has over forty years of experience in the information management industry helping clients redesign more effective businesses that result in the growth of profitable revenue streams as well as lower cost structures. He has worked with a wide variety of clients. He has w...
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Dr. Jeanne W. Ross is Principal Research Scientist at the MIT Center for Information Systems Research . Her research focuses on the management of the IT unit, particularly on the management of the IT infrastructure and on changes in management demanded by new technologies and new organizational forms. Much of her work involves development of case studies that describe the human, technology, and IS-business relationship resources of firms that have successfully implemented technology-based change...
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Capers Jones is Chief Scientist Emeritus of Software Productivity Research (SPR) . Mr. Jones is the designer of several software cost and software quality estimation tools including SPQR/20™, the first commercial software estimating tool to use function points as the basis for sizing software source code, specifications and user documents. He is also an international consultant on software management topics, a speaker, a seminar leader, and an author. As an author, Mr. Jones has written 12 books...
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