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PEER TO PEER: THE QUARTERLY MAGAZINE OF ILTA | FALL 2016
No one starts out as a chief information officer,
and I'm no exception. I began my career as a network
engineer working for a small consultancy in Los
Angeles. My days were spent building Novell Netware
networks and managing all manner of storage
configurations, print servers, remote access solutions
and different topologies from Arcnet to Token Ring
to Ethernet. I even worked on protocols like IPX/SPX
before networks standardized on TCP/IP and Windows
NT. The road from there to being CIO of Kelley Drye has
been full of hard work and staying open to possibilities
–– even the ones for which I did not feel ready.
The Power of Relationships
My first leadership role was as the assistant director of
technology for Proskauer Rose in New York. The then
director of finance told me I was not politically savvy
enough to ever hold the director's position. You might
have heard me tell this story at an ILTA session some
years ago, and I am repeating it for this reason: had I
believed her, I would not be where I am today.
Instead, I took a few valuable lessons from those
I admired, including Leonard Rubin, former director
of technology at Proskauer, who taught me about the
power of relationships and networking. It was Len who
by Judi Flournoy
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