Mike Cummins, 2009 Honoree
- Title
- Senior vice president, CIO
- Employer
- VHA Inc.,
- Location
- Irving, , Texas
- First job:
- Mowing yards
- Most valuable career advice:
- "Be ethical."
- Favorite vice:
- Travel
- What do you love about IT?
- "It changes all the time."
- Best mentoring relationship:
- "My father."
- Favorite gadget:
- "GPS device, for hiking in the wilderness."
- People you'd invite to your dream dinner party:
- Crazy Horse, King Tut, Jesus and an extraterrestrial
- Passion outside of work:
- Fly-fishing
- Twenty years ago, I was...
- "Helping start a company."
- What about you would surprise the people with whom you work?
- "I am working to save an endangered plant species."
- Leadership philosophy in a nutshell:
- "Employees are intelligent. Provide vision and opportunity, then let them lead."
- Energy-smart initiatives:
- "VHA uses teleconferencing, telecommuting, webconferencing, satellite broadcasts and flexible scheduling to help reduce travel both locally and nationally. We have a highly virtualized environment and will continue to expand this over the next two years