The consulting Chief Information Officer's primary role is to develop and maintain business relationships with clients in order to strategically plan and combine the client’s technology alignment needs with their business goals. Providing planning, budgeting, and strategic direction to clients are all key functions in this role. CIOs are responsible for gaining knowledge of their clients’ business use of technology. In addition to maintaining client relationships, in order to be effective CIOs must collaborate and maintain excellent rapport with all of the service delivery areas including Support and Professional Services.

Our CIOs are:

• Strategic thinker who can adapt to changing situations while keeping the bigger picture in mind.

• They present ideas and communicate with high level executives in non-technical language.

• Work well both independently and with a team.

• They enjoy the challenge of solving practical problems.

• Knowledgeable about both business and technology as well as eager to keep learning.

• Have superb written communication skills with experience developing correspondence and presentation materials.

• Exceptional listener with highly developed verbal communication skills as demonstrated in ability to form Trusted Advisor relationships with customers, encompassing strategic business and technology planning.

• Outgoing problem-solver who enjoys working with people and can work independently with minimal direction.

• Excellent planning, presentation, and meeting management skills and experience.