Temple University’s Fox School of Business is honoring three top technology leaders at its 12th annual Fox Information Technology Awards on Tuesday, April 24. The event is organized by the nationally ranked Department of Management Information Systems (MIS) and the Institute for Business and Information Technology (IBIT).
Twelfth Annual IT Awards
The Twelfth Annual Fox IT Awards were held on Tuesday, April 24, 2012 and featured the Fox IT leader Award for Adrian R. Gardner, Director of IT & Communications, Chief Information Officer, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, the Fox IT Innovator Award for K. Venkatesh Prasad, Senior Technical Leader, Open Innovation, Ford Motor Company, and the Fox IT Award for Distinguished Alumni for Marc E. Snyder, Managing Director, IT Strategy and Performance, KPMG LLP.
The event also featured awards for students, faculty, and staff:
| STUDENT LEADERSHIP AWARD Michelle Dy-Reyes, BBA MIS, May 2012 | ADMINISTRATIVE LEADERSHIP AWARD Brandon Lausch, Director |
| STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT AWARD Saraya Hyder, BBA MIS, January 2012 Adam Alalouf, BBA MIS, May 2012 | IT LEADERS SCHOLARSHIP Elias Hessler, BBA MIS, May 2013 |
| NIRAJ AND CARA PATEL SCHOLARSHIP Cristina Vigilante Kelley Davis Ngoc Bao Le | ASSOCIATION FOR INFORMATION SYSTEMS Outstanding Officer: Catherine Rojas Outstanding Member: Stephen Consello |
| JOHN H. SHAIN Patrick Edmunds, BBA MIS, May 2014 | ARNOLD KURTZ SCHOLARSHIP Andrew Roche, BBA MIS, May 2013 |
| RESEARCHER OF THE YEAR AWARD Paul Pavlou, Associate Professor | TEACHER OF THE YEAR AWARD Steven L. Johnson, Assistant Professor |
| FACULTY LEADERSHIP AWARD Carey O’Donnell Jr., Assistant Professor | ADMINISTRATIVE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD Manoj Chacko, Technology Coordinator |
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AIS and IBIT to partner on creating an annual IT job index
The Association for Information Systems (AIS) is collaborating with the Institute for Business and Information Technology (IBIT) at Temple University’s Fox School of Business on an annual job index for the field of information systems. This report, which will include pay scales and career prospect information, is intended to become the first reliable indicator of the growth of the discipline and profession.
“This partnership and initiative is an important part of the overall IS branding campaign being undertaken for the association,” said AIS President Dov Te’eni. “Those of us who have been working in the field are privy to its exciting career prospects, and this index will be a useful measurement of the bright future for those entering the field as students, academics or professionals. We are excited to work with Temple University on this endeavor, whose expertise in researching and developing this report will be integral to its success.”
“The IS job market – enrollment, placement, available jobs – is today very hard to assess. We plan to address this problem by producing a systematic annual assessment of the IS labor market,” said Munir Mandviwalla, IBIT executive director and chair of Fox’s Department of Management Information Systems (MIS). Mandviwalla is part of the project team with Fox professors Paul Pavlou and Crystal Harold. “We are pleased to partner with AIS and offer our services to the IS community.”
AIS is a professional organization whose purpose is to serve as the premier global organization for academics, students and professionals specializing in information systems.
MARC E. SNYDER
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AWARD FOR DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI
Marc Snyder is a Managing Director in KPMG’s U.S. IT Strategy and Performance advisory practice, where he leads the Northeast practice. Marc helps client executives drive improved business performance through the strategic and effective use of technology.
Marc brings over 30 years of domestic and international hands-on experience in a wide-range of industries using state-of-the-art IT to establish and build new business capabilities, improve ROI on IT investments, navigate change such as post-merger integration, and transform IT capabilities. Marc has worked on numerous domestic and cross-border, cross-business unit projects, including a four year overseas assignment in European (based in Switzerland) where he worked with several multi-national European clients. Marc is recognized as an innovative and pragmatic thought leader on IT strategy and value, especially global and cross-business unit governance issues. He has received patents for his work and regularly speaks and publishes on contemporary IT topics.
Prior to joining KPMG, he was a partner in with Accenture’s Strategic IT Effectiveness practice, and prior to that, a member of IBM’s consulting practice. He holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in information systems and an MBA from the Fox School of Business, Temple University.
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K. VENKATESH PRASAD
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INNOVATOR AWARD
Venkatesh Prasad is a technical leader with a strong internal and external reputation for addressing large, complex, cross-national, multidisciplinary science and technology projects relating to automotive electrical and electronic systems. He is one of the masterminds behind the successful Ford SYNC® in-car connectivity system and was part of the extended team that launched Ford’s first telematics application (Lincoln RESCU). In 2012, he will help shape Ford’s new Silicon Valley Research Lab which will focus on developing mobility solutions to harness the power of seamless connectivity, cloud computing and clean technology.
Prasad is recognized for having created the formal technical specification for a built-in, brought-in and beamed-in connectivity system and led the prove-out of a number of enabling technologies and supported the core engineering teams to deliver what has become Ford’s industry leading family of connectivity technologies. Prasad also created a novel open-innovation approach by leading the design of the software system technologies and tools needed for trusted partners & third-party developers, including university students, to rapidly innovate with Ford in the creation of software applications.
Prasad has more than 20 years’ experience on the design of embedded electronics, software and associated communications systems. Previously Prasad has worked in Silicon Valley (Ricoh California Research Center) and prior to that was at Caltech and was affiliated with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
