Rob Strickland

Infobox Person
name = Robert Andrew Strickland
occupation = Chief Information Officer, T-Mobile
Semi-pro cyclist
website = http://www.t-mobile.com/

Rob Strickland joined T-Mobile USA as the Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer in January 2007 [ [http://www.t-mobile.com/Company/CompanyInfo.aspx?tp=Abt_Tab_CompanyOverview&tsp=Abt_Sub_ExecutiveBios T-Mobile Executive Bios ] ] . Before T-Mobile, Rob served as the Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Echostar Communications Corporation, best known for its DISH Network technology. At Echostar, Rob was involved in helping to automate call centers [ [http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Projects-Customer-Service/EchoStar-Talk-to-the-Robot/ EchoStar: Talk to the Robot ] ] by creating a voice recognition system.

In addition to his most recent role at Echostar, Rob served as the President and Chief Operations Officer at Silas Technologies, the Chief Technology Officer at Landmark Communications, Inc, CIO at Teradyne, and CIO at Continental Cablevision/Media One and CIO of the Harvard Business School. He holds a BA in mathematics from Brandeis University.

Awards

In 2008, he was named one of the top 100 Information Technology leaders by Computerworld [ [http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=302592&pageNumber=4 Premier 100 IT Leaders Honor Roll ] ] and was listed in spot number 16 in the Information Week Top 500 [ [http://www.informationweek.com/iw500/2007/top250/ InformationWeek | 2007 InformationWeek 500 | Rankings ] ] . In 2006, he was the Winner of CIO 100 award while at EchoStar [ [http://www.cio.com/cio-100/2006/winners/winner_304 CIO.com - Business Technology Leadership - CIO 100 Award Winners ] ] .

References

External links

* [http://www.t-mobile.com T-Mobile USA corporate home page]