NORTH AMERICA
“ The focus was to support the infrastructure side : our data centers , servers , all of our networking , end user computing , IT service delivery , etc . It ’ s really the operational side of IT ”
— Tim Dokken , Vice President of Information Technology
171 ogy including leading large IT modernization programs , as well as launching a technology start up . Dokken ’ s passion to develop companies from the ground up led him to join Johnson Brothers . “ The focus was to support the infrastructure side : our data centers , servers , all of our networking , end user computing , IT service delivery , etc . It ’ s really the operational side of IT . Everything that all the applications and data run on , that ’ s what I own ,” he says .
“ A lot has changed in the last year .
We ’ re moving to a brand-new data center which will go live in January with an entirely new production environment . That ’ s literally from the ground up . Storage , compute , networking , plus we ’ ve implemented a new IBM Power Series for our ERP system . We have experienced a dramatic amount of growth in the last year and part of what we ’ re doing is to prepare the organization for future growth and ensure that technology is an enabler and not a barrier .”
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