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Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Workplace IT Consumerization vs Control
Guest: Steve Romeo
Steve Romeo
Vice President of Information Technology, Breg, Inc.
Steve Romeo

Steve Romeo is the Vice President of IT for Breg/Orthofix, a medical device manufacturer located in San Diego.

Steve’s experience ranges from manufacturing IT leadership to defense information systems management. In his current role, Steve is the Vice President of IT for Breg/Orthofix, a medical device manufacturer located in San Diego.

Steve is involved with a number of professional organizations, including the CIO Roundtable of San Diego, the Oracle Application User Group, and the Association of IT Professionals. Steve was recognized as one of the first Oracle ACE Directors in 2007, a San Diego Technology Executive of the year in 2008, a Computerworld Premier 100 IT Leader in 2009, and a CIO 100 Winner in 2010.

As an Oracle ACE Director, Steve has led the deployment of Oracle ERP five times in North America and Europe and speaks frequently on the subject of large scale ERP implementations for user groups, industry panels, and Oracle's various conferences.

Steve also contributes to the Board of Director's for the San Diego Data Processing Corporation and Cal State San Marcos MIS Department.

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Guest: Sam Coursen
Sam Coursen
Vice President and Chief Information Officer (CIO), Freescale Semiconductor
Sam Coursen
Sam Coursen is vice president and chief information officer (CIO) of Freescale Semiconductor. Sam joined Freescale in August 2005. Prior to Freescale, Sam was vice president and CIO of NCR Corporation, a global technology solutions provider. Sam joined NCR in 1993 and held various senior management positions within the company. In 1995, he was appointed vice president of Services Development, responsible for development and global deployment of external NCR service offerings (professional services and customer support services). In 1997, he was appointed vice president of Global Applications, responsible for development, global deployment, and support of the IT applications supporting NCR's internal business operations. In 1998, he was appointed VP & CIO of the company. Prior to joining NCR, Sam held various technical and management positions at AT&T. He joined AT&T in 1973 in Atlanta, Georgia as a student engineer. In 1974, Sam was appointed to a technical position at Bell Laboratories in Naperville, Illinois developing electronic telephone switching systems. In 1979, he was appointed district manager in Bedminster, NJ responsible for development of operations support systems supporting AT&T's global communications network. In 1985, he was appointed district manager responsible for the UNIX Standard Operating Environment (SOE) within AT&T. In 1987, he was appointed division manager responsible for all of AT&T's internal data center and network computing services.
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Title: Vice President and Chief Information Officer (CIO), Freescale Semiconductor
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Once forbidden under rubrics such as Rogue or Shadow IT, consumer technology is invading workplaces everywhere! The officially sanctioned (and controlled) productivity tools of corporate IT are finding it hard to compete with the multiplicity of cool new consumer gadgets promising sky-is-the-limit productivity. The CIO must now weigh the headaches of increased security vulnerability, privacy issues, and the complicated management of data shared over a motley assortment of gadgets, against the possible loss of significant competitive advantages. How does a CIO solve this dilemma?

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