Andres Carvallo

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Gender Male
Industry Technology
Location Austin, Texas, United States
Introduction Andres is the Chief Information Officer at Austin Energy, where he is responsible for the technology vision, planning, development and operations across the enterprise. Since February of 2003, he has been driving a wireless and SOA transformation to deliver a fully-integrated and self-healing enterprise. His current focus is on building the first smart grid in the US. Due to his successful work, Andres has been awarded IT Executive of the Year by the AITP in 2005, Premier 100 IT Leader and Best in Class Leader by Computerworld in 2006, CIO 100 Award by CIO Magazine in 2006, InformationWeek 500 by InformationWeek Magazine in 2007 and 2008, and Computerworld's Top 12 Green IT Company in 2008. And he is also a requested speaker on Running IT as a Business, Wireless, SOA, Smart Grid, and Green Energy. Andres has great knowledge of the Energy, Wireless, Computer and Software industries. Prior to Austin Energy, he held c-level and senior management titles at four start-ups, Philips Electronics, Digital Equipment Corporation, and Borland. Andres started his professional career as a product manager for Windows and DOS at Microsoft in Redmond, WA.