As Senior Vice President, Ann Pickren oversees the availability application software solutions that are designed, developed and supported by SunGard. She is laser-focused on creating vision and strategy for future products that will allow SunGard’s clients to develop and manage their ever-expanding information availability programs more easily and cost-effectively, particularly as new technologies bring more complexity to enterprise computing environments. Both SunGard’s customers and consultants use these software solutions to implement their information availability programs.
Ann has been a SunGard employee since 1992. Before her national assignments, she was the regional director for Comdisco Professional Services, which was acquired by SunGard. She was responsible for business development, consulting engagement delivery and the management of professional staff for Comdisco’s Southern US consulting practice.
Prior to 1992, Ann was the Manager of the Professional Services for a technology services and manufacturer. In this role she developed consulting opportunities and managed client engagements and the professional staff in the consulting practice. The consulting practice specialized in the design and implementation of image-based application systems and local and wide-area networks, as well as systems integration.
Prior to moving into the consulting field, Ann held various management positions within information technology organizations for 16 years. She was MIS Director for a manufacturing firm, manager of On-line and Database Application Development for a healthcare institution and held various positions in application development in an IBM mainframe environment. She specialized in on-line transaction processing and database application development.
Ann holds a Masters in Business Administration from Georgia State University. Her undergraduate studies focused in Math and Statistics.
Commentary:
As new technologies come to the data center, enterprise computing environments are becoming increasingly complex. In addition, business processes are constantly changing and often bring inefficiency to information availability planning. In our 30 years of experience developing business continuity programs for customers, we’ve learned there are key software tools that can help streamline the process and have developed software solutions to further increase efficiencies. At the same time, as IT infrastructure and client needs change, we’re always looking at ways to insert even more efficiency in the process, often developing new software and applications to do so, streamlining information availability planning, implementation and management for customers and SunGard’s consultants alike.
Areas of Expertise:
information availability software, business continuity planning, consulting, professional services