AGE: 46
TITLE: Director of IT
COMPANY: Virgin Entertainment Group, Los Angeles
ANNUAL REVENUE: $200 million
INDUSTRY SECTOR: Entertainment retail
TIME IN JOB: Since 2003; on computers since kindergarten
BIGGEST CAREER INFLUENCE: My mom, an applications developer. I'd go into work with her when I was really young and help keypunch cards.
FIRST JOB: Computer operator at Computer Sciences Corp. I was 18.
ENTERTAINMENT EXPERIENCE IN YOUR BACKGROUND: In junior college, I worked in theater arts behind the scenes. I did publicity, lights, sound, stage managing. I am a musician.
IF YOU WEREN'T A CIO, YOU WOULD BE: A rock star. I play guitar and keyboards in a Christian rock band.
BEST CIO DECISION EVER MADE: I decided that when our data warehouse went live, the first people that were going to receive the [sales] reports were our store personnel, not executives.
BEST TECHNOLOGY DECISION EVER MADE: [Selecting] the SQL server we use for our data warehouse
BEST PERSONALITY TRAIT: Passion
WORST PERSONALITY TRAIT: My kids will say I get grumpy.
BEST ADVICE EVER RECEIVED: Don't argue with a fool, because somebody walking into the middle of the conversation won't be able to tell you apart.
Linda Tucci is senior news writer for SearchCIO.com. Write to her at ltucci@techtarget.com.
This was first published in April 2006