Jean Luber is a Vice President of Information Technology| Aspiring Board Candidate | Corporate Officer | Corporate Trainer | Building strong, secure, and efficient IT Infrastructures to support complex organizations| Strategy Advisor at MYR Group. Colleagues describe them as "I’ve worked for and with CIO Jean Luber for six years at Schwarz Supply Source. Jean is an excellent strategic thinker and business leader. She excels at using technology to solve business issues and get the job done. Jean manages a diverse staff to implement strategic initiatives at Schwarz, including ERP system upgrades; Web site expansion; high availability and disaster recovery implementation; customer support initiatives to provide digital services for Schwarz’s customer base; Help Desk redesigns; infrastructure and security upgrades; PC and server rollouts; and new technology introductions. Jean’s IT staff delivers technology solutions on soup-to-nuts issues for two different companies. Her initiatives are usually on-time, under budget, and implemented correctly the first time. Using excellent communication, financial, and project management skills, Jean excels at big picture thinking, understanding the business landscape and delivering solutions that help the company grow sales and decrease costs. Jean excels at working with the company and her staff to create solutions for complex business needs; building support to implement those solutions; and empowering her staff to deliver these solutions on-time and on budget. Jean also has excellent people skills and maintains good relationships with her direct reports, upper management, other personnel in the company, and vendors. She can comfortably work with all kinds of people both inside and outside the company, to gain support for company initiatives. Jean is extremely effective at building consensus and inspiring her staff to deliver solutions that frequently excel project specifications. Jean is an effective CIO who gets the job done." and "I had the pleasure of being a student in two of Jean’s classes at Lake Forest Graduate School of Management. Jean by far was one of the most talented and passionate professors I had out of the 16 courses required to complete the MBA program. Her extensive professional experience she brought to the classroom coupled with her sense of humor and patience made the class and learning the material an extremely enjoyable and rewarding experience."