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.