Ford Calhoun (2005)
Senior Vice President Information
Technology
and Chief Information Officer
GlaxoSmithKline
Ford Calhoun was appointed CIO of
GlaxoSmithKline in July 2001 and is also a member of the Corporate
Executive Team. Calhoun is responsible for approximately 1200
employees and has led successful projects on implementing global
email systems, global data centers, standardization, global IP
communications, global collaboration applications and
Business-to-Business applications. Under Calhoun’s leadership GSK is
making a major push to implement Six Sigma to increase IT
accountability.
Previously, Calhoun has served as Senior
Vice President, Information Technology. He joined SmithKline Beecham
in 1984 to head US-based information technology and information
management within R&D. His responsibilities expanded to include key
processes in drug development, bioinformatics, competitor analysis
and process management within global R&D. Calhoun transferred to
SB's Healthcare Services division in 1998 to lead its information
technology organization and to drive the development of information
products.
Calhoun has held faculty appointments at
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and at Mount
Sinai School of Medicine. He received his PhD from the University of
Georgia in microbiology (genetics). He subsequently completed
postdoctoral fellowships in biomathematics at North Carolina State
University and in Computers in Medicine at Mount Sinai.
George C. Nolen (2004)
President and Chief Executive Officer,
Siemens Corporation
George C. Nolen leads Siemens Corporation in
the United States. The $16.6 billion U.S. company is a
technology leader with 65,000 employees. He is also Chairman of
the Board of Siemens One (the U.S. company’s cross-selling and
solutions arm) and is on the board of the Siemens Foundation,
which is dedicated to the support of science, mathematics and
technology education in America’s high schools.
George is also serving as President and CEO of
Siemens Information and Communication Networks Inc., the U.S.
unit of Siemens ICN, which provides integrated voice and data
networks and solutions for telecommunications carriers, cable
providers and enterprises. George was responsible for bringing
the ICN division back to profitability in 2003.
From 1998 to 2002, George was President and
CEO of Siemens Enterprise Networks LLC. He was responsible for
successfully building the enterprise business into a cohesive
customer-focused solutions provider. In doing so, he was
instrumental in growing Siemens' worldwide Enterprise unit into
a more profitable, multi-billion dollar business.
George joined Siemens in 1982 as a member of
the sales force. He went on to serve as senior vice president of
sales and service for Siemens Business Communication Systems,
Inc., where he was responsible for channels, accounts, support
centers, telesales, and enhanced services within North America.
George is a member of the United States
Chamber of Commerce (Washington, DC). He is also a member of The
Business Roundtable, where he serves on the Security Task Force,
and a member of NYC2012, the organization seeking to host the
2012 Olympics in New York City.
George is a graduate of Virginia Polytechnic
Institute.
Andrea
Anania (2003)
Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer,
CIGNA Corporation
Andrea Anania was named executive vice
president and chief information officer of CIGNA Corporation in
March 2001. She reports directly to chairman and CEO H. Edward
Hanway.
In her role as chief information officer, she
is responsible for all systems development, data processing and
telecommunications functions worldwide for CIGNA, a Fortune 500
company. Her staff consists of 3,000 individuals primarily in
four locations across the country.
Anania joined CIGNA in 1995 as senior vice
president and division systems information officer for CIGNA
Retirement and Investment Services. During her tenure she
assumed responsibility for the customer support function in
addition to her systems responsibility.
Previously, she served with UNISYS Corporation
for 20 years with assignments in technical support, sales and
product management. Prior to leaving UNISYS, Anania was a
managing principal with profit and loss responsibility for all
service lines for one of four regional areas.
She is a member of the Information Technology
Board of the United Way and chairperson of the Philadelphia
CIGNA March of Dimes Campaign 2001. She serves on the CIO
Advisory Board of the Business School of Villanova University.
She received a bachelor's degree from Queens
College and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of
Pennsylvania.
Bruce Fadem (2002)
Vice President of Information
Services, Chief Information Officer
American Home Products/Wyeth Pharmaceuticals
Mr. Fadem is responsible for providing
information technology strategic direction to the Corporation
(formerly American Home Products) and its operating divisions. He
also manages the Corporation's information technology shared
services operations and technology organization and the business
application solution units. Mr. Fadem joined the Corporation in
September 1995 as head of Wyeth-Ayerst domestic information
technology and was promoted to his current position in November
1997.
Prior to joining Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories, Mr. Fadem spent twelve
years with BankAmerica Corporation in a variety of information
technology positions including: responsible for the development,
maintenance, and operation of the Retail Bank's information
technology systems; responsible for all business application
development worldwide: and responsible for selection, development,
and deployment of all hardware and system software. From 1971 to
1983 Mr. Fadem was employed by First Pennsylvania Bank N.A. where he
served as Chief Information Officer from 1978 to 1983.
Kent
Seinfeld (2001)
Chief
Information Officer
Commerce Bank
Kent Seinfeld has been the Chief Information Officer of Commerce
Bank for two years. Commerce is a very successful and rapidly
growing bank, based in Cherry Hill, New Jersey with offices in New
York, Pennsylvania, Delaware and New Jersey. Kent was a consultant
for the five years prior to joining Commerce. As a consultant, he
specialized in enterprise architecture development. In this
capacity, he led efforts to define and establish enterprise
architectures and the supporting planning processes at a
pharmaceutical firm, an insurance company, a Russian bank, and a
Canadian cable and telecommunications company.
Prior to his role as a consultant, Kent was an IT senior vice
president and served in three different positions with CoreStates
(Wachovia/First Union) Bank. First, he was the CIO of First
Pennsylvania Bank prior to its acquisition by CoreStates. After the
merger, Kent became the manager of systems development for the MAC
ATM and POS network. Subsequent to the spin-off of MAC, Kent founded
and managed the Strategic Technology Planning group. This group was
responsible for the development of the bankwide client/server
systems architecture, computing standards, systems development
methodologies and a workflow and document imaging infrastructure.
Kent was the founder and manager of the Technology Planning and
Research group at CIGNA, a global insurance and financial services
company where he was responsible for computing standards, security
policy, development methodologies, and the research and development
program. Kent was the CIO for Girard Bank (now Mellon
Bank/Philadelphia). Earlier in his tenure, he was the principal
architect in the design and implementation of a large-scale highly
integrated banking system. This system evolved into the foundation
of the George Network, one of the first large ATM and Bank-by-Phone
networks. Kent has a bachelors degree in mathematics from NYU and a
masters degree in computer science from the University of
Pennsylvania.
Information Technology Innovator Award Winners
Co-founder, Chairman, & Chief Strategist
Vonage Holdings Corporation
Co-founder, Chairman, & Chief Strategist, Jeffrey
Citron is a technology pioneer and visionary who transformed the
financial services industry and is now aiming to redefine the
telecommunications industry. Vonage Holdings Corporation has
quickly become the leading supplier and name brand associated
with Voice over IP (VOIP).
Mr. Citron spearheaded some of the more revolutionary financial
services developments over the past decade. In 1995, Mr. Citron
founded The Island ECN, a computerized trading system designed
to eliminate the problems associated with order execution.
Instinet Group recently acquired The Island ECN for $503
million. Today, the newly merged company is one of the largest
global financial exchanges and is responsible for more than one
in four NASDAQ trades.
Following on the success of The Island ECN, Mr. Citron founded
and became the Chairman and CEO of Datek Online Holdings
Corporation as Datek transitioned into the online brokerage
industry. Under his leadership, Datek had grown to become the
fourth largest online brokerage in the US and was recently
acquired by Ameritrade Holdings for $1.3 billion. Mr. Citron
departed Datek in 1999 and, recognizing a similar opportunity,
founded Vonage.
Apart from his entrepreneurial activities, Mr. Citron is
continually pursuing philanthropic initiatives. He currently
serves on the board of the Montclair Art Museum and through his
family foundation, routinely funds medical research, supports
the Arts and dedicates his time and resources to children's
charities.
Executive Vice President
and Chief Information Officer
GMAC
Commercial Holding Corporation
The Information Technology (IT)
department at GMAC Commercial Holding Corp. (GMACCH) is
considered the best in the family of General Motors (GM)
subsidiaries, known most notably for its dedication to
implementing leading edge technologies that improve business
performance and operational efficiencies. Led by Niraj Patel,
Executive Vice President (EVP) and Chief Information Officer
(CIO), the IT department has built the company’s technology from
the ground up and was praised as the Best of Breed in web
technologies for all of General Motors. Patel serves as a key
player in the company’s long-term business strategies and has
helped the organization grow by exponential rates since 1994.
In his present role as EVP and CIO,
Patel oversees a staff of more than 600 and guides the
corporation’s worldwide activities in application development,
infrastructure, telecommunications, and business unit support.
He has been a frequent speaker on well-respected industry panels
such as the 3Com Technology Committee and at professional
conferences such as the Mortgage Bankers Technology Conference.
Patel sits on executive boards for GMACCH, MortgageRamp, Group
Bazin, and Deskom. In addition, he is the senior manager for
McCracken Financial Services (MFS), oversees its fiscal
management and budget approval, and holds executive
responsibility for its customer list of external clients. Both
the President of MFS and CIO of GMAC Commercial Holding Capital
Corp. (GMACCHCC) report directly to Patel.
Patel’s career has included many
senior-level management and technology positions in the mortgage
industry. As Vice-President of Advanced Technology for GMAC
Mortgage, he achieved important industry firsts and has
continued that tradition of innovation as EVP and CIO. Among
Patel’s accomplishments are developing Investor Query (IQ), the
first investor reporting website in the commercial mortgage
industry, serving as a founding member in charge of technology
for MortgageRamp, and expanding the international presence of
GMACCH. He also led the implementation of the first Frame Relay
Wide Area Network (WAN), the first production 1000 Gigabyte
network, the first 100 Megabyte Ethernet, and the first
production versions of both Windows 95 and Windows XP.
Most recently, Patel has been
instrumental in rolling out GMACCH’s MPLS Masergy Network,
deploying voice and video over IP throughout the enterprise, and
establishing IT best practices through industry certifications
such as SysTrust. Furthermore, he has served in a leadership
capacity for GMACCH’s involvement in Microsoft joint development
projects (JDP), such as Windows XP, .NET and Speech .NET.
Patel is frequently featured in both
technology and mortgage publications. His technical goals and
achievements have been documented in many industry publications,
such as Network World, Information Week, Banking Strategies,
Computerworld, American Banker, and PC Week. Under Patel’s
direction, GMACCH IT has won a number of industry awards,
including Computerworld’s 2002 Best Places to Work in IT (United
States), CIO Forum’s Top Financial IT Executive of 2002, and
DataMirror’s 2003 Real-Time Enterprise Award for Integration.
Patel is the also recipient of the 2004 CIO 100 Award – Agile
100, Realcomm Top 25 People to Watch in Commercial Real Estate
for 2004, and CIO Forum Top Financial IT Executive of 2003-2004.
Patel holds a bachelor’s degree from
the Fox School of Business and Management in Computer and
Information Sciences (now MIS), Temple University.
Paul
H. Russell (2004)
Chairman and Co-founder,
Fiberlink Communications Corporation
Since co-founding the company in 1991, Paul
has been instrumental in creating the company's vision, building
a topnotch management team and securing the funding that has
enabled Fiberlink to become a leading provider of managed
Internet-based virtual private networks.
Most recently, Fiberlink received financing of
$50 million from Technology Crossover Ventures. Paul is a
successful entrepreneur with a track record of growing companies
by recognizing and acting on opportunities in the marketplace.
He picks strong, driven management teams with an eye on revenue
growth.
Before co-founding Fiberlink with James
Sheward, Paul owned Active Amusement Distributors, a distributor
of coin-operated amusement and vending equipment. After tripling
the company's revenues over 5 years he sold the company in 1989
for $8,000,000.
He also owns Russell Associates, Inc., a
company that imports safety products from Europe and distributes
them throughout the world. Over the years he has invested his
profits wisely by developing several commercial and residential
real estate projects throughout the Greater Philadelphia region.
Paul graduated summa cum laude from Temple
University.
James Sheward (2004)
Chief Executive Officer, Co-founder, and Director,
Fiberlink Communications Corporation
Jim built the team and secured the funding
that has enabled Fiberlink to become a leading provider of
managed Internet-based virtual private networks. Jim's
leadership and focus on the customer shaped the company and made
Fiberlink a profitable, customer-centric company that was
recently named to the Hot 100 by UPSIDE magazine.
Before co-founding the company with Paul
Russell in 1991, Jim was the Western Regional Sales Manager for
Systems Industries, which was acquired by Micro Technologies and
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HHe was the winner of the Blue Chip Enterprise
Award Year 2000, sponsored by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and
Mass Mutual Financial Group, and has been recognized as Greater
Philadelphia's 2001 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year in
the Software and Technology Services Category.
His articles on backbone-neutral VPNs have
appeared in publications such as TMCnet.com.
Jim received a dual degree in economics and
communications from the University of Virginia.
Rob
McCord (2003)
Chairman, Eastern Technology Council
Managing Director, PA Early Stage Partners
Rob McCord is a venture capitalist, teacher,
and chairman of the Eastern Technology Council. As a venture
capitalist, McCord serves as a managing director of Pennsylvania
Early Stage Partners. These funds provide seed and early-stage
funding and guidance for technology companies in the Eastern
Corridor.
At the Technology Council, McCord helps top
executives of more than 1,000 member companies raise capital and
find valuable contacts, capital, and information. He also leads
a staff that provides innovative educational and financial
programs, events, and publications.
As a teacher and a lecturer, McCord has worked
as a senior fellow and adjunct faculty member at the University
of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and at Haverford College. On
the paid lecture circuit, McCord has spoken to hundreds of
organizations, including Fortune 500 companies and leading trade
associations. McCord usually focuses on areas where finance,
politics, and technology overlap.
McCord previously served as a senior executive
at Safeguard Scientifics, Inc., a publicly-traded firm that
provides venture capital and strategic management services for
technology-oriented companies. McCord served as CEO of the
bipartisan Congressional Institute for the Future, where he ran
a staff which tracked legislation and provided policy analyses
and briefings. In addition, during a decade of service on
Capitol Hill, McCord worked as chief of staff, speechwriter,
budget analyst, and press secretary in a variety of
Congressional offices.
Extraordinarily active in corporate and civic
governance, McCord has served on the boards of a broad variety
of private and publicly-traded corporations and organizations.
Matthew Serbin Pittinsky (2002)
Chairman
Blackboard, Inc
Matthew Pittinsky has been an active leader in the field of
e-learning. He has been instumental in growing Blackboard
into a company with 1,900 client institutions, 415 employees,
and over $100 million in investments. Industry analysts
recognize Blackboard as the leading provider of e-education
software infrastructure in the world.
He has served on numerous panels and presented at industry
conferences for organizations such as EDUCAUSE, Harvard Business
School, and the Software Publishers Association.
Most recently, he was awarded "Visionary of the Year" by the
Northern Virginia Technology Council (2001). Other awards
include: "Top Under-30 Technology Executives" by Washington
Techway magazine (2000); "Entrepreneurs of the Year for
Emerging Companies in Washington, D.C." (with co-founder Michael
Chasen) by Ernst & Young (2000); and "Young Innovators" by the
Kilby Awards Foundation, a distinction shared with other Kilby
laureates, such as Vint Cerf, Marc Andreesen and Linus Torvalds.
He is the editor of the forthcoming book The Wired Tower
to be published by Prentice-Hall Financial Times. He
serves on the advisory boards of SMARTHINKING and Syllabus2000,
and serves on the board of American Universiy and Northern
Virginia Technology Council.
Joshua Kopelman (2001)
Founder and President
Half.com
Josh is a serial entrepreneur and investor who has been an active leader in the Internet
industry since its commercialization. He currently serves as Managing Director of First
Round Capital, a seed-stage venture fund.
In 1992, while he was a student at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania,
Josh co-founded Infonautics Corporation – an Internet information company. In 1996,
Infonautics went public on the NASDAQ stock exchange.
Josh left Infonautics to found Half.com in July of 1999, and led it to become one of the
largest sellers of used books, movies and music in the world. Half.com was acquired by
eBay in July 2000 -- and Josh remained with eBay for three years, running the Half.com
business unit and growing eBay’s Media marketplace to almost half a billion dollars in
annual gross merchandise sales.
In early 2004 Josh helped to found TurnTide, an anti-spam company that created the world's
first anti-spam router. TurnTide was acquired by Symantec just six months later.
Prior to forming First Round Capital, Josh served as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Comcast
Interactive Capital - a $350 million venture capital fund affiliated with Comcast Corporation.
Josh is an inventor on five U.S. Patents for his work in Internet technology. In June 2000,
he was awarded Ernst and Young’s prestigious “Entrepreneur of the Year” award for the Greater
Philadelphia region. Josh has also been recognized as one of the “10 Most Influential
People in Philadelphia Technology” by the Philadelphia Inquirer, one of the “76 Smartest
Philadelphians” by Philadelphia Magazine and as one of forty individuals under the age
of forty who have made the biggest impact on the Philadelphia region by the Philadelphia
Business Journal.
Josh is often quoted in industry trade journals and national newspapers, has appeared on
numerous national television shows, and is a frequent speaker at industry-wide conferences
on entrepreneurship, Internet marketing and the future of Internet services.
In 2001 Josh and his wife created the Kopelman Foundation, a non-profit organization focused
on angel philanthropy to provide “start-up” grants to social entrepreneurs. He currently
serves on the Board of Directors of Innovation Philadelphia, a public/private partnership
focused on enhancing the global innovation economy of Philadelphia through technological
leadership. He also serves on the advisory boards of the University of Pennsylvania’s
Center for Community Partnerships and the Weiss Tech House at the University of Pennsylvania.
Josh earned a Bachelor of Science degree cum laude in Entrepreneurial Management and Marketing
from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Information Technology Award for Distinguished Alumni
Joe Weiss (2008)
Chairman
Electronic Ink
Joe Weiss is Chairman of Electronic Ink, a leading international design firm. Electronic Ink improves the design and usability of software applications, enterprise software and browser-based applications. As Chairman, Weiss provides leadership for Electronic Ink’s operations including business development to process improvements.
Previously, Weiss was the Chairman-CEO of Packard Press, Inc., the region’s leading financial, legal and commercial printing company. For two decades prior, Weiss practiced corporate law, representing major corporate clients in banking, media and professional sports. In broadcasting, he owned and operated three radio stations, and in print, he previously published The Legal Intelligencer and the Pennsylvania Law Journal. Weiss was also a partner in a film production company that in the 1970s produced films such as The Buddy Holly Story and Under the Rainbow.
Weiss has held volunteer leadership positions in notable organizations including serving as President of the Temple Law Alumni Association, and Member of the Board of Directors of The Bridge Therapeutic Center at Fox Chase. Weiss currently serves on the boards of the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce, Friends of Rittenhouse Square, Marian Anderson Award and the Central Philadelphia Development Corporation. Weiss earned his bachelor’s of science in Business Administration from the Fox School, and Juris Doctorate from Temple Law.
Daniel T. Garrett (2007)
Managing Director, Healthcare IT Practice
PriceWaterhouseCoopers
Mr. Garrett is currently consulting to PWC and the industry and working with them on a national health data steward project that will measure quality and performance in the US healthcare industry. Mr. Garrett was previously vice president and managing partner of Computer Science Corporation’s (CSC) Global Health Solutions (GHS) practice, a division within the company’s United States Consulting Group. He is responsible for leading all healthcare activities across CSC worldwide.
GHS provides consulting and information technology (IT) services to leading life sciences, pharmaceutical, health provider and health plan organizations. GHS serves the industry with consulting and system and data integration services that increase patient safety and value for consumers and employers, get drugs and devices to market quicker, and reduce waste and non value added costs across the Healthcare vertical. The GHS group works with CSC's Federal Sector business unit to support similar efforts on behalf of the company’s civil and Department of Defense healthcare clients. GHS also collaborates with CSC's Technology Management Group and local operations in Asia, Europe and Australia to support national and global outsourcing and systems integration engagements with healthcare organizations.
Mr. Garrett has more than 27 years experience in consulting and IT services. He joined CSC in 1995 as director of one of the regional practices and grew the organization to one of the largest practices in both the company and country. Prior to his current position, he served as vice president, healthcare solutions for CSC’s Consulting Group. Previous management responsibilities include directing national professional services and systems integration organizations; managing large applications development groups; program and project management of multi-million dollar global initiatives; and leading corporate marketing organizations.
Under Dan’s leadership CSC’s Healthcare team has successfully delivered some of the largest and most complex Healthcare IT initiatives for Governments (NHS/UK, HHS,NIH,CDC) and leading commercial Provider, Payer, and Pharma enterprises. Mr. Garrett is known for his healthcare industry leadership in health information exchange programs, Regional, State and Country Healthcare transformation initiatives, and functional process, technology and organization deployment programs in R&D, sales and marketing, manufacturing, healthcare delivery, membership management, and financial/supply chain management. Mr. Garrett is a frequent featured speaker at leading business, industry, and government forums and has recently spoken at the Council for Logistics Management Forum, HIMSS’s national event, Health and Human Services Secretarial NHII summit, Connecting Communities for Better Health Conference, MIT’s HIT Symposium, FCW’s Government Health IT event, and the National Health Information conference.
He was a founding member of the Interoperability Consortium, an alliance between Accenture, Cisco, CSC, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, Microsoft and Oracle. He is currently serving as executive vice chairman of the Markle Foundation/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s “Connecting for Health” initiative. Mr. Garrett is also on the board of directors of eHealthInitiative and is a founding board member of NAHIT (National Alliance for Healthcare Information Technology), as well as a member of the executive committee of NAHIT's board of directors. Mr. Garrett is a member of the Council for Logistics Management and is on the board of trustees of the Malcolm Baldridge Foundation. Mr. Garret holds a bachelor’s degree in computer and information science from Temple University’s Fox School of Business and is certified as a CPIM (Certified in Production and Inventory Management) by APICS, the association for operations management.
Ben-Saba Hasan
(2006)
Vice President, Corporate and Product Group Information Technology
Dell Inc.
Ben Hasan serves as Vice President of Corporate
and Product Group Information Technology for Dell. Hasan
directs the development, deployment, operation and support of
the information systems supporting Human Resources, Facilities,
Legal, Environmental Safety and Product Group, as well as
support for the World Wide Financial Systems. In addition, he
directs the global IT application development and support for
the Product Group’s design centers in Shanghai, Taipei,
Singapore, and Bangalore. Hasan also serves as executive
sponsor for the Diversity efforts in Dell’s Information
Technology organization.
Hasan has served as director of Shared
Infrastructure Services at Dell, where he was responsible for
Network Support, Global Messaging support, Data Center
Operations, Server/Desktop support, Help Desk support and
Intranet Services. Additionally, he has held responsibility as
Director for Finance systems development and support.
Prior to joining Dell in 1997, Hasan worked for
ENSERCH Corporation, an Oil and Gas Exploration company in
Dallas, Texas. During his 14 years at ENSERCH, he worked in
several areas including Information Technology, Human Resources,
Rates and Regulatory Affairs, and Customer Service.
Hasan serves as the chairperson for the Strategic
Planning Committee of the Information Technology Senior
Management Forum, a group of Fortune 500 I/T senior executives.
Hasan graduated from Amber University in Dallas, with a master’s
degree in business administration and also holds a bachelor’s
degree in business administration from Temple University.
and Chief Information Officer
Lockheed Martin Integrated Systems & Solutions
Sondra
Barbour is the CIO and vice president of Operations for Lockheed
Martin Integrated Systems & Solutions (IS&S), a $4 billion
business area of the Lockheed Martin Corporation.
Headquartered in Gaithersburg, Md., IS&S employs over 15,000
people with key locations in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan
area, Arizona, California, Colorado, Pennsylvania and Virginia.
Ms. Barbour is responsible for the operation, maintenance, and
future directions of IS&S technical infrastructure, enterprise
applications, facilities, support services, publications,
employee health & safety, and supply chain. She is also
responsible for IS&S activities under the Lockheed Martin LM21
Operating Excellence initiative.
Most
recently, Sondra had served as director of the IS&S
Transformation Program, orchestrating efforts to re-engineer
business processes and leverage technology to improve
productivity, saving the company more than $220 million over the
last four years. She also managed the development of the
IS&S employee portal.
She has 19
years experience in the design and development of large scale
information systems. Her background includes management roles
in engineering, functional and program operations areas for
large software development systems (1+ million lines of code)
with engineering and operations staffs of 1000 or more
professionals.
Sondra is a
volunteer with Lockheed Martins’ Network of Volunteer
Associates, an organization volunteering time and resources to
give back to the community. She also is a member of the
steering committee for the Pennsylvania Eastern Technology
Council’s CIO Institute and sits on the advisory board for the
Math Options program for young women at Pennsylvania State
University Delaware County. Within IS&S, she acts as the
Executive Sponsor for the Delaware Valley Diversity Council.
Sondra is a
graduate of Temple University with a double major in Computer
Information Sciences and Accounting. She is also a
graduate of IS&S’ Program Management Development Program.
She and her
husband, Ron, reside in Collegeville, PA. They are the
proud parents of 2 young children.
