TASB CIO, Eric Hungate joins Advisory Board for Austin IT Symposium
Eric Hungate, CIO of the Texas Association of School Boards has become part of the Advisory Board for the inaugural Austin IT Symposium and is spearheading the effort with Val King of ThinOps Consulting, an event sponsor, to establish a scholarship program for students pursuing IT careers.
“Eric opened our eyes to the fact that the overall number of IT jobs is increasing, but the number of students being trained for IT careers is decreasing. As part of the Austin IT Symposium we want to give back to some of the high school and college level programs that are preparing students for IT careers. Lehman High School in Kyle, Texas which is sponsored by the Texas State University AITP chapter is a great example of the types of programs we want to encourage” said Val King, ThinOps Consulting.
About Eric Hungate
Eric Hungate is Chief Information Officer (CIO) of The Texas Association of School Boards (TASB). He is responsible for the discovery, development, and delivery of quality information technology services and solutions to optimize the operational effectiveness and performance of TASB.
Prior to TASB, Mr. Hungate worked in IT management and consulting for over 25 years with positions at Ernst & Young, the Robert Mondavi Winery, Fireman’s Fund Insurance, Union Oil, and Peat Marwick Mitchell & Co. He has taught Strategic Analysis at the University of Texas, McCombs Graduate School of Business, and has provided project management consulting for large scale ERP software litigation.
Mr. Hungate earned his undergraduate degree in business management at the University of San Francisco and masters in business administration at St. Mary’s College of California. He is a certified with both the Project Management Institute’s (PMI) as a Project Management Professional (PMP) and with the Information Systems Audit and Control Association’s (ISACA) Certification in the Governance of Enterprise IT (CGEIT).
Eric was voted Austin’s 2009 IT Executive of the Year – Public Sector, by the Austin Chapter of the National Association of Information Technology Professionals (AITP) and is a recipient of Computerworld’s Premier 100 IT Leaders for 2010.
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.
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