Maria Seminerio

Richard Fike, an IT development architect at John Hancock Financial Services Inc., in Boston, quit his last two jobs because he wasnt getting enough of it. But now hes happy because hes getting plenty of it. Eddie Schultz, a CAD quality engineer at Conexant Systems Inc., in Newport Beach, Calif., is feeling secure and staying […]

With new federal privacy regulations coming on faster than a bad head cold, officials at WellMed Inc. late last year asked legal advisers for a prognosis: Would the health care education Web site be subject to the new HIPAA privacy requirements? Probably not. While WellMed, based in Portland, Ore., does collect and store medical records […]

Avis Group Holdings Inc. likes to market itself as the car rental giant that tries harder, and apparently its true. The Garden City, N.Y., company, in fact, tries so hard that its staff of 23,000 full-time employees cant always generate all the extra effort needed to repair cars and serve customers. So each year, Avis […]

Scanning; manual parsing; garbled transfer to a searchable database; bending, folding, spindling and mutilating. It might sound like the Spanish Inquisition, but its just the routine torture that both paper and online resumes go through, all thanks to a lack of data standards. That absence of a lingua franca for human resources applications and procedures […]

Like death, taxes, and sniping between Democrats and Republicans, excess inventory is one of the sure things in life. Even the most efficient manufacturers, at one time or another, find themselves stuck with too much finished product, raw materials or production equipment on hand. Tim Wheeler, director of e-business at automotive parts manufacturer Federal-Mogul Corp., […]

Since Michelle Decker was hired as CTO of Travelscape.com over a year ago, sales at the business-to-consumer travel site have increased fivefold. Coincidence, right? Tom Breitling, the companys general manager, doesnt think so. Breitling credits Decker (who now heads IT operations at the site, which was snapped up by Expedia Inc. in March) with having […]