PRESS RELEASE – FOR RELEASE ON OR AFTER MARCH 13, 2007
March 12, 2007
DFW SIM CHAPTER ANNOUNCES 2006 IT EXECUTIVE OF THE
YEAR AWARDS
 The IT Executive of the Year Award was initiated by the DFW SIM
Chapter in 1998 to recognize excellence in IT management within the
Dallas/Fort Worth area. During the first four years, recipients were
recognized at a special ceremony and reception sponsored by American
Show Management, Inc. at the Dallas Information Technology Exposition
(ITEC) each June. In 2002, ownership of the award was assumed by the
SIM Chapter and the awards ceremony was moved to coincide with the
Annual DFW SIM Chapter’s Holiday Banquet in December. Initially only
one winner per year was selected; however, starting in 2003, multiple
awards were selected based upon the size of one’s IT organization. Only
one winner was chosen in 2004 for the large-firm category.
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IT Executives of the Year 2006
Large Organization Category*
Winner
 Phil S. Maternowski, Sr VP & CIO, CitiFinancial Auto
1st Runner up
 Caren Shiozaki, VP & CIO, Belo Corp
Midsize Organization Category*
Winner
 Alex Pettit, CTO, City of Denton, TX
1st Runner up
 Steve Davis, CIO, SOURCECOPR, Inc.
Alex Pettit
wife (Jennifer Pettit).
Jon & Karen Fortune (my boss, Assistant City Manager for Administration),
his wife Karen
NOMINATED BY:
Name _John Windsor & Chang E Koh_
Steve Davis
- Shannon Davis (Wife)
- Todd White (VP of Outsourcing Technologies)
- Judith Rutt (Chief Information Security Officer)
NOMINATED BY:_Randy Neal, CEO.___Randall james Monore, Inc._
Phil S. Maternowski
Lynn Maternowski - my wife
Wade Yeaman - CEO/Founder Fluid Consulting
Harold Heard - SVP Citigroup
Bharath Rayasam - IT Director at Blockbuste & Adjunct Professor UTD
Nominators: Virgil Oliphant, VP Process Group ,Company CitiFinancial Auto
& Allen Bujo Chief of Staff
Allen Bujol is out of town today; so there is not a need to reserve a seat for him.
Caren Shiozaki
NOMINATED BY:_Randy Neal, CEO.___Randall james Monore, Inc._
The DFW Area Chapter of the Society for Information Management (SIM) is pleased to
announce the recipients of the 2006 Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) Area Information
Technology Executives of the Year (IT EOY): 1) In the Large Organization Category -Phil S. Maternowski, former Sr. Vice President & CIO, CitiFinancial Auto; and 2) In the
Midsize Organization Category -- Alex Pettit, Chief Technology Officer, City of Denton
TX.
The First Runner ups for each category were: Caren Shiozaki, VP and CIO, Belo
Corp and Steve Davis, CIO, SOURCECORP, Incorporated. The DFW Area SIM Chapter
with nearly 200 members is regarded one the premiere SIM Chapters in the nation. SIM
International has over thirty chapters and nearly 3,000 members and is viewed as one of the
premiere professional association for IT executives. Membership is restricted to those,
who are senior IT executives, CIOs, CTOs, senior IT consultants, prominent “thought
leaders” in the IT profession, and prominent IS/IT academicians. While this year’s winners
are all members of local SIM chapter, membership in SIM is not a requirement for this
award.
The SIM DFW Chapter IT EOY Award is one of the most prestigious awards for an IT
Executive in the DFW Area. Individuals are selected by a panel of their peers based upon
the following accomplishments:
(1) Utilized IT to significantly improve their
organization’s overall competitive advantage, efficiency, and operational effectiveness;
and, (2) the recipient demonstrated outstanding leadership and management skills within
the IT professional community (See History of the Award below).
BIO’S of Winners
As former CIO, Phil S. Maternowski, recipient of the 2006 IT EOY of Large Size Firms,
was responsible for CitiFinancial Auto’s project to allow for the refinancing of automobile
loans. This project allowed consumers to refinance at a lower interest rate, increasing
Auto’s profitability and generating $600 million dollars of additional revenue in 2006 with
projections of over $1 billion dollars in revenue in 2007. Also, under Mr. Maternowski’s
leadership, Auto implemented IDS (Intelligent Document Services) during 2006. IDS
allowed the business to utilize enhanced imaging and content management. The result of
this new process was a quicker turn-around in handling of applications, reduction of
overnight delivery charges and a streamlined process that ensured documents were
safeguarded throughout their life cycle.
As the Chief Technology Officer and member of the leadership team for the City of
Denton, Alex Pettit provides technical direction to the various city departments, including
public safety, utility services, and financial accounting. During his tenure with the City of
Denton, Alex and his department have earned several awards and have been recognized by
groups such as Government Technology and the Public Technology Institute for the
innovative use of technology in government. For his leadership and service as CTO for the
City of Denton, Alex received the Technology Leadership Award for 2004 from Public
Technology Institute, a Best of Texas award for Demonstrated Leadership in Management
of IT in 2005, and the 2004 Premier Award for the innovative use of technology for
historical records preservation. Mr. Pettit’s vision and strategy of IT is embodied in the
Denton’s “Future F.I.R.S.T.” slogan. The City uses technology to enhance its management
strategy and attain the community’s vision by embracing change through: (1) Forward
thinking, (2) Innovation, (3) Response to the needs of citizens, (4) Safety, and (5)
Technological advancement.
Several of Mr. Pettit’s recent innovative IT initiatives included: (1) LaserFiche Imaging
Project for all area’s of City government; (2) The Kiosk Solution by which citizens of
Denton can make credit card payments and departmental inquiries from a convenient
location such as a shopping mall; (3) GIS Interactive Quick Maps which allows citizens the
ability to locate residential addresses, City facilities, schools, parks, restaurant, fire stations,
bus routes, intersections, amenities near residential addresses, view aerial photos, and
locate Council and voting districts; (4) The Tele-Works Project provides citizens improved
access to Municipal Court, Tax, Utility Customer Service, and Building Inspections, the
City of Denton implemented e-Government services available through the use of a PC
connected to the Internet or from a telephone; and (5) Webcasting of the City’s publicaccess channel, making the channel available to any PC for the public 24 hours a day 7
days a week.
First Runner up Caren Shiozaki, VP/CIO at Belo Corp., was recognized for her creative
approach to implementing high-definition (“HD”) technology allowing Belo’s key
television stations to be the first in their markets to present a full HD news broadcast.
Further, Belo was able to accomplish this at one third of the cost of traditional HD
broadcasting approaches. In addition, Ms. Shiozaki aggressively deployed new interactive
technology to allow users of Belo Web sites more immediate personalized and interactive
news content online, while expanding users’ capabilities to access Belo sites from cell
phones, PDAs and other wireless devices. These innovations contributed to an increase in
Belo’s interactive revenues of nearly 50 percent in 2006.
First Runner up Steve Davis, CIO, SOURCECORP, Incorporated, led a strategic effort to
create a centralized, flexible core IT processing platform that has the competitive benefits
of enabling intellectual capital leverage through standardization, the integration of
emerging labor automation technologies, and a highly secure direct client interaction model
for computing. The highly configurable and scalable platform has enabled SOURCECORP
to sell its BPO services to a more sophisticated and demanding client base. As an example
of one of these initiatives, Steve drove the initial pilot and subsequent rollout of high speed
scanner systems into ten of SOURCECORP’s largest document scanning operations. Over
50 high speed scanners have now been implemented resulting in millions of dollars of
annualized direct labor savings for the company
Honorees were recognized at the 9th Annual DFW Chapter SIM Awards Ceremony during
the Chapter’s Spring Kickoff Meeting and Awards Ceremony, which was held at the Omni
Hotel in Dallas on March 12, 2007.
For additional information about SIM and this award, please, visit http://www.simnet.org
or contact: Dr. Jack Becker, SIM DFW Chapter PR & Communications Officer, 940-5653113 ([email protected]), and a faculty member in the Information Technology and Decision
Sciences (ITDS) Department, University of North Texas (UNT) .
HISTORY OF THE SIM DFW CHAPTER IT EOY AWARD
The SIM DFW Chapter IT EOY Award is one of the most prestigious awards for an IT
Executive in the DFW Area. Individuals are selected by a panel of their peers based upon
the following accomplishments:
(1) Utilized IT to significantly improve their
organization’s overall competitive advantage, efficiency, and operational effectiveness;
and, (2) the recipient demonstrated outstanding leadership and management skills within
the IT professional community (See History of the Award below).
IT Executives of the Year 2005
Large Firm Category*
Linda A. Goodspeed, CTO, Lennox, International
Midsize Firm Category*
Co-Winners
 Kevin Campbell, VP & CIO, Hunt Consolidated, Inc.
 John Phillips, Director, IT & Systems, Trinity Industries, Inc.
IT Executive of the Year 2004
Large Firm Category*
Richard A. Harris, Jr., Assoc. VP for Computing and CTO, University of North Texas
IT Executive of the Year 2003
Large Firm Category*
Co-Winners
 Evelyn Follit, CIO & Sr. VP of Organizational Enabling Services, Radio Shack
Corporation
 Keith Morrow, CIO & VP Information Systems, 7-Eleven, Inc.
Small & Medium Firm Category*
Co-Winners
 Joe Lacik, VP of Information Services, Aviall Inc.
 Steve Williams, Sr. VP & CIO, Mattress Giant Corp.
IT Executive of the Year 2002
Dave Landry, Group Vice President, Verizon Information Services
IT Executive of the Year 2001
John Bock, Community Credit Union, Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer
IT Executive of the Year 2000
Earl Peck, Sr. VP Information Technology and Billing, VarTec Telecom
IT Executive of the Year 1999
Jack Dowling, CIO, Compucom Inc.
IT Executive of the Year 1998
Phil Farr, Director IT, Fina Oil & Chemical
* Large organization is defined as having 100 or more IT/IS employees under the nominee's
supervision.