Kristin Kirkconnell, a former senior VP for the Atlanta-based AGL Resources, has been selected as the new senior vice president of information services at American Family Insurance, the nation's third largest property-casualty insurance company. The Madison-based American Family, which has restructured its information services...
Neal Ruffalo, vice president and CIO of the Sheboygan-based Acuity Insurance, likes to develop internal technology tools, and his IT staff has done this with 90 percent of the company's business systems. In this CIO Leadership Profile, Ruffalo talks about the merits of internally developed...
Virent Energy Systems has announced its new chief executive to succeed Eric Apfelbach, and it's someone with ample knowledge of energy markets. The new man is long-time petroleum industry executive Lee Edwards, a former chief information officer who also has experience with alternative energy at...
CUNA Mutual Group's Rick R. Roy is returning to a CIO role he's very familiar with, and what a time to get reacquainted with it. The economic crisis would appear to be a bad time to make any executive transition, but Roy is doing so...
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Wisconsin employers with internship opportunities and technology students looking for a place to launch their careers have a new online service to match them up. The service, a partnership of the Information Technology Association of Wisconsin and Wisconsin Careers, has officially been launched and several...
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Billions of dollars could be spent on fixing failing network infrastructure, but do those in power really understand the expanse of layers that need to be fixed? asks columnist James Carlini. In this edition of Carlini's Comments, he asserts that the layers of infrastructure that...
Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle is announcing the launch of a new (and free) employment connection Internet site called JobCenterOfWisconsin.com. In this WTN Guest Column, the Governor explains why JobCenterofWisconsin.com is replacing the state's JobNet system, which was created in 1993 and has become outdated. ...
Computerworld has sung the praises of Northwestern Mutual as a top information technology employer, noting that 36 percent of its IT staff, and 31 percent of its IT managers, are women. How does the Milwaukee-based life insurance firm do it? With a progressive culture and...