2009-4-28 TechExecs Chicago CIO Panel Forum & Technology Showcase

                              SPECIAL RECOGNITION:  Hegemony |  Netfunction | CTH

10:00am - 10:30am   NETWORKING BREAK & TABLETOP SHOWCASE

10:30am - 11:30am   CIO & Thought-Leadership Panel 
                               "Challenges & Best Practices in Enterprise IT:  
                               The Economic Climate, Social Networking & Web 2.0" 

                                 Russ Snella, Director of Information Technology, 
                                   Union League Club of Chicago
                                 Rick Garcia, CTO, Vale Rio Doce
                                 Mark Cummuta, CIO, Job Angels

11:30am - 11:45am     Closing, Awards & Thanking Our Speakers
                                 Post-Event Technology Executives Networking

NOTE: This Event is Free to Industry Professionals and current TechExecs Sponsors and Paid Members.  Attendance is limited for Sales, Marketing and Recruiting Professionals who are current members or sponsors.  Please contact Pam Terry (pam@techexecs.net) to qualify for attendance to the CIO Panel Forum. * Attendees List will be provided at the event.
 

PARTNERS & SPONSORS

 PANEL & SPEAKER BACKGROUND:

CIO PANELIST
Rick Garcia
CTO
Vale Rio Doce

Bio:  Rick Garcia is serving as the CTO for Vale Rio Doce, a Brazilian mining company, and was the former CTO of Caterpillar. He has over 27 years industry experience holding various senior leadership positions - CTO and CIO Positions, as a Corporate Employee or in Executive Management Consulting positions, Rick has lead several Data Center Transformation, IT Shared Services and IT Transformation services for Fortune 200 companies, domestic and international. He has been very successful and effective leading the strategic development of Global Shared Services Platforms, Offshore Application & Infrastructure Outsourcing, Business Process Improvement (BPI) and leading Business and IT Transformation, within various industry verticals i.e. Financial Services, Health Care, Insurance, Consumer Product Goods, Retail, Manufacturing and Telecommunications.  Rick is very strong in the areas of Strategic Planning & Enterprise Architecture, Data Center & IT Transformation, Business Operations (ISO 9001 - 20000), ERP Systems, Enterprise Architecture, Applications Development, M&A, Divestitures and Business Process Management (continuous improvement). Rick is ITIL Master certified, PMP Certified, CCIE & CISSP professional and a certified Six Sigma Master Black Belt.

Rick earned his MBA from the University of St. Francis and currently working to complete his Doctorate Degree in Organizational Leadership, building on undergraduate degrees in computer science and telecommunications.  He is fluent in Spanish and English and has spoken at regional, national and international conferences and seminars on various aspects of Data Center and IT Transformation.

CIO PANELIST
Mark Cummuta
CIO
Job Angels.org

Bio: Mark Cummuta is currently the CIO for JobAngels.org, a non-profit organization using Web 2.0, social media and innovative interactive technologies to link the millions of US job seekers with volunteer mentors, “Job Angels” willing to assist them in the skills and tasks in finding new employment.  Mr. Cummuta is an accomplished IT Executive with nearly 25 years of IT, business, corporate enterprise and consulting experience, after serving our country as a US Marine.  Having led a number of firms in CIO, CTO and VP of IT, Applications and Research & Development roles, successfully grown consulting divisions with full P&L authority, and built award-winning products and teams for over 10 years, he started his own successful CIO Advisory Services firm six years ago.

Mr. Cummuta has been an invited speaker on BPM (Business Process Management), Lean Six Sigma, data warehousing, program / project management and numerous other technologies and methodologies, and has been quoted in The Wall St. Journal, Crain’s Chicago Business, Aberdeen Research, and others. He writes on on-going series of articles for CIO Magazine's online resource website, CIO.com on executive job search skills and strategies.  Mr. Cummuta holds a dual MBA from Loyola University of Chicago, has completed one year of law school for Intellectual Property Protection from DePaul University, and is named on several patent applications in online multi-media collaboration tools and global logistics tracking systems.

Finally, as parents of teenage triplets, Mr. Cummuta and his wife use their years of experience in leadership and persuasive speech in their day-to-day survival. For Mr. Cummuta's CIO.com Executive Job Search blog, go to: http://advice.cio.com/blogs/cio_job_search_a_real_life_chronicle.

CIO PANELIST
Russell Snella
Director of Information Technology
Union League Club of Chicago

Bio:   Russell Snella currently serves as the Director of Information Technology for the Union League Club of Chicago. While most organizations in the private club industry outsource their IT needs, Russell is simultaneously managing and developing the Club’s  member management system which includes Food and Beverage, hotel guestrooms,  and Athletics.  He is fully integrating the club’s website and has synchronized the Club’s multiple databases. He is also working to find business solutions that take advantage of  social networking methods, such as electronic newsletters, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook.

With more than 20 years experience in the IT industry, Russell has held senior IT positions for companies in a variety of fields, including manufacturing and distribution, healthcare, and sales. His  expertise in managing the LAN, WAN and databases of each corporation is clear in his proven track record of rewriting internal systems, creating web interfaces, streamlining manual processes and conversion to web-based software. Prior to joining the staff at the Union League Club, he served as Director of Information Technology at Art Line, Inc; as Manager of IT Operations for Novamed Eyecare, Inc.; and as Director of Technology and Operations for Northwest Community Hospital in Arlington Heights.

As the  father of eight year old twins, he has become skilled at adapting to a fast-changing environment.

Featured Speaker
TOPIC:  "Simplifying Virtualization"
Scott Simon, Storage Executive, Dell EqualLogic
Dell EqualLogic (www.dell.com/PSseries) and (www.dell.com/Equallogic)  

BIO:  Scott Simon brings over 25 years of storage and networking experience to the Dell team.  He has consulted with businesses of all sizes in all sectors to solve business challenges leveraging his practical experience working in a production data center.   He has a belief that the simplification of IT enables businesses to focus on their core competency and his role of Storage Executive for Dell enables him to help businesses do exactly that:   Simplify IT. 

Featured Speaker
TOPIC:  "CIO Governance:  Social Network's Enterprise Integration"
Anthony Huang
Founder & CEO
TechExecs :: Senior IT Executives Network
arh@techexecs.net
866.661.0258
As a well known industry icon, Anthony Huang has been a successful entrepreneur with a solid track record of having started and sold four profitable business ventures. Along with two other individuals, Pamela Terry and Laura Ramey, Anthony Huang launched the Techxans organization back in 2000.  Techxans.org has sustained the ups and downs of the Information Technology industry for the past 7 years and continues to strive and grow in size and capabilities.  In 2001, Techxans reached national and international attention for helping to launch EnronX.org which was the largest Ex-Enron contact site and was mentioned on the front page of The Wall Street Journal and CIO Magazine.  In January 2007, Techxans formed Techxans InterActive Broadcast providing Internet TV broadcasting, strategic online advisory services for Techxans Corporate Members & Sponsoring companies.  Prior to Techxans, Anthony Huang was the CEO of Rexton InterActive Consulting that led the market in providing strategic web consulting for over 100 major clients across 23 different industries. Anthony also served as the CIO for 2 healthcare ventures.  Anthony began his career with Apple Computers and Ernst & Young and was a recipient of the Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 1998 with The Greater Houston Partnership.  He has been a speaker at numerous conferences including InformationWeek, Gartner Group Midsize Enterprise Summit, and Red Herring Venture Forums. Anthony graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a BBA in Management Information Systems and lives in Sugar Land with his wife and two children.

Pam Terry
Executive Director & Co-Founder
TechExecs :: Technology Executives Network (TechExecs & Techxans)
pam@techexecs.net
866.497.4070

Pam Terry has considerable experience in the technology industry beginning her foray into technology in 1994.  She has a proven track record in sales and marketing in data, voice, collocation, IT consulting, application development, ecommerce, and technology training.  She was most recently an Account Executive with Time Warner Telecom, a Major Accounts Consultant in the Business Division of Time Warner Cable and VP of Marketing for ERGOS Technology.  During her tenure in the industry, Pam had the pleasure of co-founding Techxans with Tony and even created the “Techxans” name.   Prior to Pam’s technology industry experience, Pam was Executive Director of the Galleria Chamber of Commerce and previously provided marketing consulting in the accounting firm industry.  Throughout her career, Pam has been involved in community and trade organizations, having obtained Accreditation in Public Relations from the Public Relations Society of America, and serving on the boards of several charitable and membership groups such as the American Organ Transplant Association and the Association of IT Professionals.  Pam is currently serving as Regional Director of Powerful Women International's Houston-Connection, a women’s empowerment membership group.  Pam brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise in association management and technology to her role as Executive Director of Techxans and Tech Execs.  Originally from Brownsville, Texas, Pam has been in Houston since 1971. 
    
 

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