“I deliver business value through technology. I am not only a business relationship leader, I am a techie at heart and still keep my skills current. I have done nearly all jobs in IT in some capacity or another.”
Tom Sweet
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Awards
• Honoree: Tech Titans: Emerging Company CIO/CTO, 2023
• Honoree: HMG Strategy’s 2021 Global Leadership Institute Award for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I)
• Honoree: 2020 Ones to Watch Award from IDG’s CIO and IDC’s CIO Executive Council
• Honoree: HMG Strategy’s 2019 Top Technology Executives to Watch Award
• GMF Internal Audit Business Partner award, 2021
Thought Leadership – Writing/Video/Podcasts:
• Tech Legacies Podcast: How to become a CIO and build your thought leadership
• CIO.INC- How CIOs can Solve Business Problems, March 2023
• All Day Ops – Manage Successful System Integration in Company Acquisitions Jan 2023
• Heller Search: My First 90 days as a CIO, Nov 2022
• Digital Disrupted podcast sponsored by ASG Technologies, July 2021– Growing Talent
• Heller Search: Why CIOs need to learn Web 3.0, Creating a Culture of Continuous Learning, Gamify Your Team’s
Technology Skills Development and Open Source Supply Chain and Mobile Experience article
• InfoWorld: Three articles: Legacy QA in the DevOps Age, Transforming Legacy QA Teams, Service Virtualization
• Network Disrupted, April 2020 podcast: Episode 7- Team Upskilling
• Dialed Into: Creating a Culture of Continuous Learning, July 2020
• LinkedIn: Content creator with 13 articles and 150+ videos on various business and technology subjects
Thought Leadership – Recent Speaking at Technical Conferences:
• DevOps Days Dallas, Lessons learned on the path from Individual Contributor to CIO, August 2022
• Innotech Dallas, Open Source and DevOps, May 2022
• ElevateXchange, Dallas, Hyper-Automation for Bi-Modal IT, April 2022
• Innotech Dallas, Data Strategies panel, Sept 2021
• Softek, Digital Innovation Leadership forum, May 2021
• HMG Strategy: Moderator, New Technologies including Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies, April 2021
• HMG Strategy: Moderator, Pivoting from Mode 1 to Mode 2, Dec 2020
• North Texas Tech Connect: Star Trek, the Next Generation of CIO, Oct 2020
• IDG / CSO Online: The New Risk and Security Landscape: The Resiliency Imperative Practical DevSevOps Guardrails that Enable Safer Innovation, July 2020
• Elevate Exchange: Install Transformation with an Infinite Mindset to Maintain Relevance, May 2020
• ABTP: Navigating your Career in Uncertain Times, June 2020
• Cyber Group: Team Transformation, May 2020
• Gartner® IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference, December 2019 Las Vegas, “How to Implement Cloud Training and Team Reinvention in the Secure Enterprise”
• Argyle CIO Forum, Sept 2019, Leadership in the Age of Disruption
• DevSecOps Leadership forum, April 2019, sponsored by Sonatype and GitHub
• Innotech, April 2019, CIO Value Proposition Driven by Customer Experience
• HMG Strategy CIO Dallas, April 2019 Panel: Balancing Advanced Technology Opportunities with Day-to-Day Operations
• HMG Strategy CIO Dallas, March 2018, Exec. Panel: Lead, Reimagine, Reinvent: Driving a Culture of Genius for Success
• DevOpsDays DFW – Panel speaker on culture – August 2018
• American Businesswoman’s Association – keynote speaker on entering or advancing in IT, September 2018
