What Happened?
Topeka, KS-based Westar Energy has appointed John Fitzgerald as Director of Information Technology.
About the Company
Westar Energy is an investor owned electric utility headquartered in Topeka, Kansas. Westar is the largest electric company in Kansas, serving 700,000 residential, commercial and industrial customers in the eastern third of the state. Westar Energy generates more than 27,000,000 megawatt-hours of electricity per year at its 12 power plants.
About the Person
John Fitzgerald was most recently Defense CTO and Federal Cloud Strategist for Dell, where he was instrumental in shaping Dell's strategy around Cloud Computing in the Federal space. Prior to his most recent role at Dell, he served as a Director of Dell's Advanced Systems Group, responsible for the Army and Air Force Systems technical team supporting Dell's enterprise product line. From 2003 to 2011, he served as an IT executive at several pharmaceutical Contract Research Organizations, which help pharmaceutical and medical device developers bring their products from clinical development to market. Most recently, he was Vice President, Global Corporate Services as well as Vice President Global Information Technology of London-based Premier Research Group. Previously, he was Vice President, Operations, of Data Capture International, and Vice President, Information Technology at PharmData Inc. Before joining the private sector, Mr. Fitzgerald served in the Pentagon, working directly for the Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the United States Army and interning for the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Nuclear Arms Control Division and the Central and Eastern Europe Division. He served in the U.S. Army from 1989 to 2007. He holds a B.S. degree in Chemistry from Davidson College.
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