About the Editor
Dean Lane, founder of The Office of the CIO®, (www.oocio.com) has 30 years of hands-on experience in the IT industry, having been a practitioner CIO at four different companies: Honeywell Aerospace, ATK (Alliant Techsystems), Plantronics, and Masters Institute of Technology. Additionally, he held the senior IT director position at Symantec and was the corporate director of materials for Honeywell. Dean has also been a consultant for Ernst & Young, AT&T, and the Gartner Group. His experience is global, and he is considered an expert on corporate alignment. Dean has served as the CEO for VariTRAK Inc., a company that provides compliance software. He is currently serving as the interim CIO for the Northern California Golf Association, Henley-Putnam University, American Casting Company, and three other smaller firms.
Dean obtained his undergraduate degree from the University of California Los Angeles and his MBA from National University. He is Certified in the Governance of Enterprise IT (CGEIT). Dean serves on the advisory boards of Sparta Consulting, Search CIO, Droisys, Inc., and San Francisco State University. He is well known in Silicon Valley. Aside from founding the Office of the CIO Community, he cofounded the Consortium of Information Systems Executives, is a member of the Institute of Management Consultants and the CIO Collective, and is former president of SIM's Silicon Valley chapter. His first book, CIO Wisdom, is a Prentice Hall best seller, and a sequel, ...
