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Tom
English, Vice President/Chief Information Officer, Trader
Joes
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Aldo
Moreno, Senior VP/Chief Information Officer, Herbalife International
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TBD
Moderated by Tony Karrer, CEO & CTO, TechEmpower
At the September
meeting Peter Coffee's insights into technology trends were eye-opening.
Everyone wanted more. Well, now we're going to give you more --
a lot more -- to help you better plan and take advantage of the
sweeping changes that are coming!
For this Second
Annual joint meeting with SCSC, we have assembled a distinguished
panel of CIOs who will share their visions of the future -- trends
they envision in IT, near-term and longer-term, including strategies
to reduce costs and increase competitiveness -- and who will provide
examples of what their own organizations are doing to become better
prepared and competitive in the future. They'll share where they're
going on important topics such as:
- Technology
spending and budgets
- Outsourcing
and off-shore development
- Web services,
BPM, SOA's and application integration
- XML standards,
and
- Business
intelligence
It is rare
to have an opportunity to hear directly from CIOs of major Southland
corporations. This event also offers another unique opportunity:
the now-Annual joint meeting between AITP-LA and SCSC. We hope
you will join us for this special event!
About
the Panelists
Tom English,
Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Trader Joes
Tom English has over 30 years in the IT and retail industry. Before
joining Trader Joe's as VP & CIO in January 2000, Tom began
his IT career with Whites Home & Auto Stores, a chain of 700
stores headquartered in Texas. He then spent six years with Pier
One Imports in Ft. Worth, Texas as Director of MIS. From Pier
One Tom headed to Seattle for ten years as CIO for Ernst Home
& Nursery. When Sears Roebuck acquired the Orchard Supply
Hardware chain in California, Tom took over the CIO position for
the Sears Hardware division in 1997 to merge Orchard Hardware
with Sears Hardware. Tom holds graduate and undergraduate degrees
in Music from Combs College of Music and Temple University in
Philadelphia, PA.
Aldo Moreno, Senior Vice President of IT, Chief Information
Officer, Herbalife International of America, Inc.
Mr. Moreno is responsible for all aspects of technology for the
company, including applications support/development, operations
and telecommunications.
Prior to that
he was with Walt Disney Pictures & Television, with responsibility
for enterprise development and architecture for the Studios. Most
of his focus for the first few years at Disney was international,
with responsibility for making sure the joint venture between
BVI and Sony in Latin America went smoothly, and spent considerable
amount of time in Mexico, Brazil, Colombia and Argentina. He was
then charged with reorganizing the Studio's Asia Pacific operations,
while also working on various projects in Europe. He was later
given additional responsibilities supporting domestic business
units, and finally was charged with responsibility for enterprise
development and architecture for the Studios.
Prior to that
he was with Digital Equipment Corporation, holding positions in
many areas with DEC which, at the time, manufactured the leading
edge super-mini computer. Starting as a field service engineer,
he worked in regional and national support, then as part of a
design/debug team and in operating systems development, and finally
in business consulting. One of his last engagements was with Disney,
helping them open up BVI's European operations. He was sent to
Spain for about 6 months as a consultant working for Disney.
Mr. Moreno
holds a Bachelor of Sciences/Computer Sciences from California
Lutheran University (Graduated Summa Cum Laude). He was born in
South America and mostly grew up in Southern California. He is
married with 2 children ages 12 and 14, and is involved in youth
sports coaching and refereeing.
Dr. Tony
Karrer, CEO and CTO, Techempower.com
Dr. Karrer has twenty years experience in software development
that spans systems from radar software and data mining to large
scale eLearning applications. He has been the chief technologist
for three companies, has created technical designs for seven patents,
and held an Assistant Professor of Computer Science position at
Loyola Marymount University, creating an award-winning multimedia
minor. Dr. Karrer's is considered one of the top technologists
in eLearning and Performance Support systems including being systems
architect on Lexus Labs - a multiple award-winning program that
is still seen as a seminal work in CBT. He has helped many Fortune
500 companies drive performance with technology including Nissan,
PacifiCare, Microsoft, Universal Music, Credit Suisse, Royal Bank
of Canada, GE Capital, National/Alamo, Xerox, Digital Insight,
New York Life, Citibank, Lexus, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems,
Fidelity Investments, Symbol Technologies and SHL Systemhouse.
He was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, where he
earned his B.S. in Computer Science, attended the University of
Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30
engineers in the nation, and received a M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer
Science. Dr. Karrer is a frequent speaker at industry and academic
events on how companies can drive performance using technology.
