Dennis M. Reiman, 2010 Honoree
- Title
- Associate vice president, strategic and emerging technology, chief technology officer
- Employer
- Florida State College at Jacksonville
- Location
- Jacksonville,, Fla.
- First job:
- IBM mainframe systems programmer
- Most valuable career advice:
- "Perception is the reality."
- Favorite vice:
- "New high-tech gadgets. For example, GPS for geotagging photos."
- Title you'd like to hold someday:
- "CIO, then CEO."
- Would you advise young people to pursue an IT career?
- "Absolutely; constant change, constant challenge, risk/reward and smart people."
- If I were not in this business, I would probably be...
- "mountain climbing."
- Recreational best:
- "a golf handicap of 7."
- Favorite sport:
- Hockey
- In high school, I was...
- "all about aviation and worked as a part-time Web developer."
- Technology pet peeve:
- "Bad interfaces, poor user experience."
- A recent great read:
- Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster, by Jon Krakauer