Doug Porter, 2012 Honoree
- Title
- Senior vice president of operations and CIO
- Employer
- BlueCross BlueShield Association
- Location
- Chicago,
- Quick ROI project:
- The Vertica business intelligence installation runs many concurrent informatics activities, including research, studies, all ad hoc queries and benchmarks, while creating a robust informatics service bus. This infrastructure offers us an infinitely scalable information service bus for fulfilling our analytic interests.
- What characteristic is most important to you in an IT hire?
- I look for some basic values in each person, such as integrity, passion, accountability, commitment and a bias for action. Beyond this base layer, I consider a second layer based on the specific competencies that we need to be a solid IT team.