Tom Amrhein, 2014 Honoree

Title
CIO
Employer
Integrated DM (formerly, CIO at Forrester Construction)
Location
Reston, Va.
A task you've delegated this year:
I have given my application manager responsibility for the contract renewal for our managed service provider.
A career highlight:
I helped create a global infrastructure for KPMG from naming standards on up that is now used by 125,000 people.
How are you building an IT department for the future?
We are investing heavily in training for hybrid clouds. It's important that the team understand these concepts in the same way they understand physical servers now.
To what extent do you embed IT workers in business units?
Every two weeks, each team member spends a day at a project site. This helps us to understand firsthand the issues teams are encountering.

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