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Today Andres Carvallo, recent Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer at Grid Net and former CIO of Austin Energy has joined the Advisory Board for the inaugural Austin IT Symposium as board Chairman.

“Andres is part of the fabric of the Austin IT community.  It is great to have him on board as a part of this event.  We are looking for executives with deep experience that have made a difference in their own organizations and that are comfortable sharing those stories as part of this event.  We are off to a good start with Andres and Jay” said Val King with event sponsor, ThinOps Consulting.

About Andres Carvallo

Andres is a well known visionary, author, speaker, and operations expert with 25 years of experience in the energy, wireless, computer and software industries.  Andres is a board member of the Utilities Telecom Council’s Smart Networks Council and an energy and technology advisor to The University of Texas at Austin, The University of Kansas, and The University of California Los Angeles.

Andres was the Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer at Grid Net, a leading real-time smart grid software platform provider. Prior to Grid Net, Andres was for seven years the Chief Information Officer (CIO) at Austin Energy, where he was responsible for the utility’s technology vision, planning, development and operations. While at Austin Energy, Andres defined and started promoting the term “Smart Grid” on March 5, 2004, he is the father of the first Smart Grid fully deployed in the U.S., he became the premier Smart Grid industry thought leader, and led a comprehensive and highly lauded technology transformation company-wide.

Prior to Austin Energy, Andres was CEO, EVP, and VP at four other start-ups, President & General Manager at Philips Consumer Communications, General Manager at Digital Equipment Corporation, General Manager at Borland, Product Manager at SCO, and Product Manager for Windows at Microsoft. His successes have been recognized with 22 industry awards, including being named 2009 CIO of the Year by Energy Central.  He is also the co-author of three books: Information Technology Leadership, CTO Best Practices, and The Advanced Smart Gird.  Andres received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Kansas with a concentration in Robotics and Control Systems. Andres has also completed executive management programs at the University of Idaho, Stanford University, and The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

About ThinOps Consulting

ThinOps Consulting specializes in assisting organizations streamline costs and manage risk associated with IT expenditures with two business units.  Business Advisory serves C-level management by assessing where the company is, where the company wants to be, and developing a roadmap to help executive management reach those objectives.  Technology Consulting serves IT organizations primarily through virtualization and remote access technologies designed to improve efficiency, lower support costs and ultimately deliver IT as a service.

About efm Events

efm Events, a division of Executive Functions Management, Inc. www.efminc.com is an information technology-focused event management and production company with 18 IT Symposiums across the Midwest and Rocky Mountain Region.