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from Florida International University, and a master of science degree and an MBA from Nova Southeastern University.
“There isn’t a career choice right now that has the level of constant change and demand for innovation as a career in cybersecurity,” Soto said. “I absolutely love it, and it fits my personality perfectly. I am never finished and never bored.”
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disparate organiza- tions and person- nel bolster success in the military, and the private sector. Meg McCarthy has used such traits successfully in both arenas. She is the executive vice president of Inno- vation, Technology and Service Op- erations at Aetna. Her employer, the Hartford, CT insurance giant, with $35 billion in 2012 revenues, was number 89 on the 2012 Fortune
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rder, discipline, grace under pressure, and the ability to coordinate
functions. That facilitated the creation, development, and delivery of end-to-end business solutions.
She has tips for students passionate about technology and medical science. They should consider studying health infor- mation technology and health information management, as understanding those areas will elevate their knowledge of the healthcare market and provide tools to expand health care process efficiencies.
The quality that McCarthy brings to her work and looks for in others is creative vision. In her spare time, she enjoys antiques and old cars. She told Insurance and Technology magazine that her avocation is “not unlike some of the [IT] architecture work that we do, in terms of figuring a path out of some of the entangled old legacy environments in which we live,” and building something new.
McCarthy is a graduate of Providence College with a bach- elor of arts degree, and received a master of public health degree with a concentration in hospital administration from Yale University.
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Meg McCarthy Executive vice president, Innovation, Technology and Service Operation at Aetna Inc. and U.S. Navy Reserves lieutenant commander
500 list. McCarthy joined Aetna in 2003 and was promoted to EVP in 2010. Her responsibilities include clinical innova- tion, technology and service operations, as well as oversight for process and performance improvement, procurement and real estate services for Aetna.
“There is a ripe opportunity for women to fill non-traditional positions in STEM roles as our workforce grows,” says Mc- Carthy, “Business analytics is increasingly becoming a key asset to employers, and should be a skill for students to acquire. The ability to review and analyze big data, and make decisions based on the information will be an advantage to students who graduate with this knowledge,” she says.
McCarthy was Aetna’s CIO from 2005 to 2010. Previously as vice president and head of business solutions delivery she united the IT project management, development, quality engineering and IT-related business-process reengineering
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“It’s in the cloud” has become a common catch phrase for locating, maintain- ing, and securing data digitally, and as a business it has lightning growth. The International Data Corporation, a tech research organiza- tion, reported that global public IT cloud services spending in 2012 equaled more than $40 billion, and is expected to be close to $100 billion in 2016.
The use of cloud computing service by five key sectors is also projected to equal 16 percent of IT revenue. The areas are applications, system infrastructure software, platform as a service, servers, and basic storage, and IDC believes cloud services will generate 41 percent of growth in those sectors. By 2020, Frank Gens, vice president and chief analyst said, “at least 80 percent
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Lauren C. States Vice president and chief technology officer, cloud computing and growth initiatives, IBM Corporate Strategy
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