Terrance Knecht

Most individuals rise to the top position in Information Technology by moving directly through the applications development area. My background has been very different. In the first half of my career, I held almost every position in the IT field - either hands-on, or as a first line supervisor - resulting in a broad-based knowledge of all the component building blocks of an IT establishment. In the second half of my career, I have held the senior level IT position four times in a diverse range of organizations - from an early stage dot-com company, to a $1.4 billion insurance firm, and to a national communications and service business. This has allowed my technical vision to be composed of a broad-based and flexible spectrum of creative and cost effective alternatives spanning all options rather than being limited to any one "customary" approach. I can quickly isolate the objective from the environment and then reverse the process and evaluate the impact of possible responses on the organization.