CRIS DOWNEY
TITLE : DIRECTOR OF TECHNOLOGY SERVICES
INDUSTRY : TECHNOLOGY LOCATION : USA
response and overall security awareness – and an operations team that ' s responsible for the run portions of the organisation , as well as the platform operations . These platform operations cover the company ’ s network server and storage , in addition to the application operations , which controls the next-level application support for their critical enterprise technologies , their DevOps , and change management .
Big tools for a big organisation , with a big vision .
People form the foundation of Rotary - and so it should be Rotary is a philanthropic organisation , and so as you ’ d expect , people form the foundation of its work .
Downey says : “ The great thing about Rotary is the people that work for them , and
EXECUTIVE BIO
Cris Downey has Over 25 years ' IT experience and has held various roles in infrastructure , collaboration , and security . He Joined Rotary as the Director of Technology Services at Rotary International in November 2019 and has been leading the creation , communication , and execution of Rotary ’ s enterprise IT and digital transformation strategy , with focus on datacenter transformation , technology modernisation , operational stability and streamlined process enhancements . In prior positions , he built the organisation responsible for end-user facing infrastructure technologies , including messaging , collaboration , unified communications , desktop engineering and identity management . He has led an Enterprise Digital Workplace Transformation programme focused on improving employee experience through migration of IT systems to the cloud and deployment of new productivity tools for over 40,000 users . He has also managed web and application hosting , border network security & collaboration technologies .