Steve currently has responsibility for Books & Records, Packaged Products, Canada and UK IS departments at Edward Jones. Specifically, he is responsible for Jones' customer accounts, Mutual Fund, Insurance Trading, Branch and Home Office systems supporting US, Canada and UK businesses. The major projects / efforts include:
·All regulatory efforts
·New products and services
·Real Time Books and Records
·Problem Management / Reduction
·Growth of Canada and UK businesses
Prior to joining Edward Jones, Steve worked for Brown Shoe Company as a programmer within their IS division. His key responsibilities were supporting our warehouse inventory systems, sales forecast systems and working with a team to define how Brown could utilize a client server platform and leverage the internet. These were the early days when the Windows platform was evolving and languages such as Visual Basic were entering the market.
Anderson started with Edward Jones in 1993 while pursuing my second masters degree, Masters Information Management at Washington University. Learning has always been an important part of his life, as he spent most of the 1980s and 1990s in class rooms.
His Words of Wisdom: Never stop learning. It makes life fun.
Paul is currently the Director of Business Intelligence Architecture for the St. Louis based Sisters of Mercy Health System. Mercy, a regional health system with 18 acute care hospitals and more than 200 clinics, is the 9th largest Catholic health system in the nation (28th largest over all). Paul and the Business Intelligence team are responsible for the design, development, and support of centralized data warehousing, reporting, and analytical solutions across Mercy's operations.
Paul's background includes application development, consulting, and solution architecture. His primary focus for the past 8 years has been the development, architecture, and management of data warehousing and business intelligence solutions. Paul has been published in Teradata Magazine, ASP Today, and Dr. Dobb's Journal. He holds bachelor degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis.
Paul lives in Kirkwood, MO with his wife and two daughters.
Sheila is co-owner of Tuxedo Park Management with her husband, Steven. She is responsible for all business operations, included web development and marketing.
Prior to starting her own business, Sheila was a partner at Edward Jones with over twenty years of experience in their Information Systems division. Her experience is primarily in software maintenance, design and development but also includes project management, strategic planning, IS general controls and infrastructure management.
Sheila has her bachelors degree from UMSL with an emphasis in MIS and her masters degree from Washington University. She is currently on the Craft Alliance board, St. Louis SCCA Club Racing committee, the St.
Louis Panhellenic Alumnae Association and an active member of the Delta Zeta Alumnae.
David Burlis owns two Express Employment Professionals offices in St Louis. David opened the offices in 2006 and has been helping clients in St Louis by solving their HR and employment needs with tailored solutions that meets their needs. Express has just celebrated its 25th anniversary of helping companies find the right people as well as helping individuals find the right company. David is active in the community as a member of numerous Chambers of Commerce in the St Louis area as well as SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management), HRMA (Human Resource Management Association of Greater St. Louis), and the RCGA Economic Development Network. He is a graduate of the Leadership Chesterfield program.
Prior to starting the Express Employment Professional offices, David was the Vice President of Information Technology for Sears in Chicago. Prior to Sears, David was the CTO (Chief Technology Officer) and SVP of Information Technology at CIGNA Insurance in Hartford, CT. He had also held senior leadership roles at Prudential Healthcare in New Jersey, The Associates First Capital in Dallas Texas, and Thorn EMI in Wichita. He is originally from St Louis where he worked at Edison Brothers Stores and helped form Edison Brother Mall Entertainment. He has a bachelors degree in communication from St. Louis University and a masters degree in business from the University of Missouri-St. Louis.
Mr. Creely is currently the Developer Relations Executive for IBM's Global Technology Unit with responsibilities for the Communication Sector and Security. He has over 30 years experience in information technology and has expertise in solution design and development, project management and systems integration. As the Developer Relations Executive, Mr. Creely works with Israeli based technology companies to provide a variety of industry and security based solutions to clients globally. In the US, he has worked with both the Atlanta Israeli Chamber of Commerce and the California Israeli Chamber of Commerce to explore opportunities.
Mr. Creely received a B.A. in Business Administration from the University of Missouri, St Louis. He has continued his education within IBM through a variety of programs including the Harvard Business School.
Mr. Creely is an active member of Washington University's Center for the Advancement of In-formation Technology (CAIT). He is working with the St. Louis School District and UMSL's Center for International Studies in developing a high school international business curriculum.
He is a mentor at Soldan International Studies High School and he also has served as a Scout-master for the Boy Scouts of America where he supports the local community in developing future leaders.
Eric Crum joined Panera Bread in December, 2008, and currently serves as Sr. Manager of Finance Systems. He has responsibility for managing Paneras finance applications, including Oracle E-Business Suite as well as finance-related business intelligence systems. Prior to joining Panera, Eric owned and operated an IT services firm based in Fairview Heights, IL that focused on serving the technology needs of small businesses. Prior to that, he spent 17 years working a variety of technology roles in the Global Technology and Operations division at MasterCard Worldwide.
Eric holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Missouri-Rolla. He and his wife, Sharolyn, have two children, Alyssa and Brianna, and reside in Villa Ridge, MO
Debra Erickson, vice president and chief information officer of St. Louis-based Metro. She reports to Metro Chief Executive Officer Larry Salci. Erickson joined Metro after serving as a senior information technology executive at both Peabody Energy, Inc., and Ameren Corporation, Missouri's largest electric utility company, where for more than a decade she served as head of applications development in Information Technology.
Her experience also includes a stint in management consulting for PricewaterhouseCoopers. Erickson holds a bachelor of arts degree from Lindenwood University and an MBA from the University of Missouri-St. Louis. A native of Columbia, Mo., Erickson resides with her husband, Tim, and children Holly and Adam in Frontenac, Mo.
Paul Eveld,
Paul is currently responsible for the IT support of global purchasing and payables SAP support, global order to cash SAP support, global expense reporting, Monsanto Corporate site services and security systems. He is the lead of the Monsanto IT Coop program placing 40 coop students yearly. Paul has a broad background in application development and infrastructure management and has extensive experience working closely with business management. In prior roles at Monsanto, he has provided IT support for US Sales organization, Global Marketing, Manufacturing, and Finance.
Paul has a BSBA in Business, with an emphasis in MIS, from the University of Missouri St. Louis. He continued his education in a Monsanto sponsored Components of Corporate Strategy curriculum at John M. Olin School of Business at Washington University.
Michael is a Partner in the Health and Life Sciences, Health Payor practice of Accenture. He is also the St. Louis Office Location Lead Partner. He has been with Accenture since 1994. He leads Accenture's Health Payor eCommerce offering and has over 20 yrs experience working with leading health insurers, pharmaceutical organizations and pharmacy benefit management companies. His clients have included UnitedHealth Group, Anheuser-Busch, Monsanto, Centene, Express Scripts, Astra-Zeneca, Pfizer, Radiometer Medical, and many of the large Blue Cross Blue Shield Plans.
Prior to Accenture, Michael was a management consultant for a small high-tech consultancy in Chicago. He also spent several years as a management re-engineering specialist with St. Louis Childrens Hospital, was a technical communications specialist with AT&T Bell Laboratories, and an analyst in the Computer Aids to Tax practice of Arthur Andersen & Co. LLP.
Michael and his wife Martha have lived in St. Louis since 1991 and have four children.
Michael has a BA degree from Marquette University and a Master Health Science (MHS) from Washington University in St. Louis.
Joe Haspiel is Director of Product Development for TALX Corporation, a division of Equifax. He leads development teams supporting four product lines.
Mr. Haspiel has a 20 year career leading high technology efforts. Prior to joining Equifax, he was Vice President Product Development for Evolve24, a startup company providing business analytics on corporate and brand reputation.
From 2002 to 2006 he was Vice President Information Systems at Express Scripts, one of the three largest Pharmacy Benefits Management companies in the US. At Express Scripts, Haspiel managed departments supporting company websites, call center applications, customer relations management applications, data warehouse and client reporting functions.
Prior to joining Express Scripts, he was Chief Technology Officer for Acurian, a startup company providing clinical trial database services to large pharmaceutical companies.
From 1995-2000, Haspiel was Vice President of Internet Development for MasterCard International. While at MasterCard, he launched MasterCard's web efforts and lead mult-company projects establishing e-commerce standards and services.
From 1985-1995, Haspiel worked as Senior Associate for the Center for the Application of Information Technology (CAIT) at Washington University in St. Louis. While at CAIT, Haspiel was staff expert on Internet and Distributed Technologies. For 15 years he served as adjunct professor in the Information Management programs of the Engineering School of Washington University in St. Louis.
Don Imholz has over 30 years of experience in information technology (IT), the majority at the executive level. He has also worked outside of IT with executive positions in finance, manufacturing, and supplier management among others.
Don Imholz has served as Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer for the Centene Corporation since September 2008. His current focus is on implementing several major strategic information system projects and extending the use of the Internet to support Centenes growth.
From January 2008 to September 2008, Imholz was an independent consultant working for clients across a variety of industries. From January 1975 to January 2008, Imholz was with the Boeing Company and served as Vice President of Information Technology from 2002 to January 2008. Assignments during that period included being Chief Information Office for all of Boeing Integrated Defense Systems. At the time of his retirement from Boeing, Imholz was responsible for all application development and support worldwide.
Don Imholz holds a bachelors degree in business administration from the University of Missouri in St. Louis, and was recently honored with the UMSL College of Business Administration Distinguished Alumni Award. He also holds a masters degree in information systems management and an executive masters degree in business administration, both from Washington University in St. Louis. He has also attended executive training at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and at the Kellogg School at Northwestern University.
Don Imholz is currently on the Information Systems Advisory Board for the University of Missouri, St. Louis. He is also on the board and is past chairman of the board of directors for the Center for the Application of Information Technology, and is a member of the Advisory Board for the Masters of Information Management Program for Washington University. He taught extensively as part of the adjunct faculty at Webster University and developed its information systems curriculum. Imholz has also been keynote speaker at the Business Analyst Symposium Series and for a variety of other organizations. Imholz is also on the board of directors for the Family Resource Center, a non-profit organization providing a broad range of social services in the St. Louis area.
As Manager, Application Development at Ameren Corporation, Mr. Knobbe leads an IT department that supports a diverse collection of internal clients including regulated and un-regulated Generation, nuclear Generation, Substations, Transmission, Fleet Services, Power Trading and Marketing, Fuels, and various other operational business units. Also as a member of Amerens IT Lead Team Mr. Knobbe establishes direction for a wide range of tactical and strategic IT issues.
Mr. Knobbe has over 20 years of Information Technology experience, beginning his career at Ameren in 1988 as an application developer working on early client server projects. Since 1992 he has held a variety of increasingly responsible IT management positions and was promoted to manager in 1998.
While at Ameren, Mr. Knobbe has supervised a number of application development product deployments, managed application integration efforts for three acquired utilities, oversaw the retirement of mainframe legacy systems at our Callaway nuclear plant, and served as the IT management lead for Amerens Source to Settle initiative.
Mr. Knobbe holds a BS degree in Management Information Systems from the University of Missouri - St. Louis and a MBA degree in Information Management and Finance from St. Louis University. He currently serves on the University of Missouri St. Louis Information Systems Advisory Board.
James M. Krueger currently serves as Vice Chancellor for Managerial and Technological Services (MTS) at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. He is one of three Vice Chancellors and reports directly to the Chancellor. Jim has overall administrative responsibility for the following activities/units: administrative services, budgeting, business services, finance, human resources, information technology services, and institutional research.
Jim holds an academic appointment as an Assistant Professor of Accounting and Public Policy Administration. He received his doctorate from Indiana University Bloomington. Jim is also a Certified Public Accountant and a Certified Government Financial Manager. He joined UM-St. Louis in 1975.
Dick Navarro recently retired as the Director - Information Systems and Chief Business Systems Architect for the Boeing Company. In this capacity he is responsible for setting and maintaining information systems technical and architectural direction, processes, and standards for the company. His career with the former McDonnell Douglas and now Boeing spans forty years. He began in avionics engineering, holding positions of increasing responsibility in the general field of test, training, and simulation equipment. He became Chief Electronics Engineer responsible for software technology in 1986. He was promoted to Director in 1989, and has served in a variety of positions since reaching that level. His most recent assignment was as the Boeing Corporation's Corporate Business Systems Architect, and prior to that as Director - Engineering Systems / Lean and Efficient Processes and Tools, as Director - JSF Systems and Processes Integration, and as Director - Product Definition systems have centered around the development and then implementation of state of the art processes and systems for conduct of business in the aircraft industry, from product development and engineering through production and support.
Mr. Navarro was graduated from Purdue University with a BS in Aeronautical Engineering in 1964. He has since earned an MS in Mechanical Engineering and an MS in Computer Science, both from the University of Missouri at Rolla, and an MBA from Webster University in Saint Louis. He received a Professional Degree in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from the University of Missouri - Rolla in November, 1996. Mr. Navarro is an Associate Fellow of the AIAA. He is an adjunct member of the MBA/MIS departments at the University of Missouri - Saint Louis, the Washington University in Saint Louis, and at Webster university, teaching classes in MIS, Technology Change, and Production Operations. Mr. Navarro serves on the U of M –Saint Louis MIS Board of Visitors, as a Member of the University of Missouri - Rolla's Academy of Mechanical Engineers and as a Career Advisor for UMR.
He and his wife, Virginia, an Associate Professor of Educational Psychology and Director of the Career Transitions Program at the University of Missouri - Saint Louis, live in St. Louis.
Tom currently shares responsibility for DB2 software and performance on multiple platforms. As a Senior Business Manager, his responsibilities include licensing and software implementation, performance tuning, data modeling, and capacity planning activities.
Previously Tom was Data Administration Manager for General American Life Insurance Co. While at General American Tom directed the acquisition of the hardware and software to build what was then the second largest data warehouse in St. Louis. He lead a team of developers that established criteria for CASE software, a commercially developed warehouse methodology, and a centralized repository. Working in conjunction with business management, Tom was influential in the creation of a COTS GUI interface to the data warehouse. His team designed the hardware requirements for the UNIX based hardware platform that established the standard for client server applications for the life insurance line of business at GALIC.
Tom began his IT career at McDonnell Douglas Automation Company in 1981 after receiving his BSBA from UMSL. Tom has held application development positions with the 8th district Federal Reserve Bank in St. Louis and the Regional Justice Information Systems. Tom holds a master's degree in management information systems from Washington University-St. Louis. He currently serves on the University of Missouri St. Louis Mentoring Board, and the University of Missouri St. Louis Board of Visitors. He is also currently active as a Boy Scout Leader and is active as a NRA certified instructor and range safety officer.
Terri Peterfeso is a Manager in KPMGs IT Advisory Services practice. Terri has experience in helping clients manage their information technology and business operations risk. Terri has developed innovative solutions to address information technology and business risk and has evaluated and designed internal controls over various applications, ERP packages and technical platforms. She has experience managing large global external audits, consulting engagements and internal audit co-sourcing audits. Terris focus on IT has been on ERP implementations, control design and implementation projects, and Sarbanes-Oxley section 404 compliance audits.
Terri received her bachelor's degree in business administration with an emphasis in Management Information Systems and Finance from Saint Louis University. She is a Certified Information Systems Auditor and is Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Foundation Certified. Terri is also a member of the Project Management Institute (PMI), the Information Systems Audit and Controls Association (ISACA) and Americas SAP User Group (ASUG).
Margaret works in the field sales organization at Microsoft focused on Fortune 500 customers in the St. Louis area. As Application Platform Solution Specialist, her job is to sell and support Microsoft's application platform products including SQL Server, BizTalk, and Development Tools. Before joining Microsoft in 2003, Margaret served for 3 years as a Principal in IBM's Global Services Division responsible for selling and delivering infrastructure consulting services to businesses in Missouri and southern Illinois. Prior to IBM, for 10 years Margaret operated her own consulting firm providing network and system administration services to small and medium sized businesses in the St. Louis area. Her first job, after graduating with a BS in Business Administration with an emphasis in MIS and Finance from UM-St. Louis, was at MasterCard in several roles supporting their BankNet network used for the authorization and clearing of credit card transactions.
Robert Trende joined MasterCard Worldwide's Global Technology and Operations division in November 1986. He currently serves as Group Head, Global Transaction Processing Services within Global Systems Delivery.
Bob leads a staff of more than 170 professional and technical personnel located in four countries that are responsible for the design, development, testing, delivery and 24x7 support activities for MasterCard's core credit authorization systems, parameter management system and numerous file transfer protocols.
His past roles at MasterCard have included: Vice President of the Member Parameter System (MPS) development team, supporting the SES initiative for Global Parameter Management; Director of the MCBS and RPPS development teams; Project Manager in Clearing Development; and Manager of Processing Services. Prior to joining MasterCard, he served as Project Leader of Sigma-Aldrich's Direct Marketing and Catalog Fulfillment Development team.
Bob has a Bachelor of Science degree in MIS from the University of Missouri-St. Louis, and holds an MBA from Southern Illinois University - Edwardsville.
Bob is an active board member at Edgewood Children's Center for Abused and Neglected Children. He and his wife of 20 years, Barb, have two children, Alyssa and Jeff.
As senior vice president and chief information officer for BJC HealthCare,
David Weiss is responsible for planning, developing and supporting
information technology and telecommunications initiatives throughout
BJCs hospitals and service organizations. He also serves as chairman of the
Telecommunication Facilities Corporation (TFC), a joint venture between
BJC HealthCare and the Washington University School of Medicine that
provides all voice communication services to the Washington University
Medical Center campus.
BJC HealthCare is one of the nations largest nonprofit health care organizations with
annual net revenues of $3.2 billion and more than 26,000 employees in the greater St. Louis,
southern Illinois and mid-Missouri regions. Its teaching hospitals, Barnes-Jewish Hospital and
St. Louis Childrens Hospital, are affiliated with internationally renowned Washington University
School of Medicine.
Weiss joined BJC HealthCare in 1990. As chief information officer, he oversees a $117 million
annual capital and operating budget and a staff of 600 professionals that specialize in clinical-
based software solutions, integration of disparate systems and expert systems intended to support
caregivers in clinical practices. He also leads BJC's Best-In-Class Clinical Quality Initiatives with
Dr. Clay Dunagan.
Weiss earned his bachelors degree in applied mathematics and computer science from
Washington University in St. Louis in 1976. He is a member of numerous professional
organizations including the Healthcare Information Systems Executives Association (past
Chairman), the American Medical Informatics Association and the Healthcare Information and
Management Systems Society. He is a member of the College of Healthcare Information
Management Executives and serves as a lecturer in the Health Administration Program of the
Washington University School of Medicine.
Weiss is a St. Louis native. He is married with three children and three grandchildren.
Mark serves as Vice President, Information Technology, for St. Louis-based Schnuck Markets, Inc., a family owned and operated grocery retailer. He is responsible for all IT aspects of the company, including application development, network and database management, computer operations and technical infrastructure. Mark also serves as Information Security Officer for the company. Mark began his career with Schnucks in September of 1997 in the position of Manager, Systems Development.
Having more than 20 years experience in the Information Technology career field, Mark began as a computer operator with the U.S. Air Force in 1982. He has served in a variety of roles throughout his career -- computer operator, database administrator, application developer, systems analyst, consultant, project manager, and most recently in executive management.
His education includes a bachelor of science in Business Administration (emphasis in MIS) from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville and an executive MBA from Washington University in St. Louis. He is active in the St. Louis metro community, previously serving as a member of Goodwill's a.d.e.p.t. Business Advisory Council. He is also an active member of the RGCA CIO Forum, serves on the United Way Technology Committee and is also a member of the Food Marketing Institute's IT Committee.
Mark and his wife, Diane, have 2 children and reside in O'Fallon, Illinois.
