Full Name
Joe Sanders
Job Title
Director - Network Services
Company
Texas Health and Human Services
Speaker Bio
Joe Sanders is the Director of Network Services for Health and Human Services Agency for the State of Texas.
In this role he oversees the network for over 350 locations plus state facilities that provide services to the citizens of Texas.
Joe was previously the CIO for the Memphis Housing Authority where he was involved with setting the technology strategic direction and ensuring they were aligned with the agency’s business objectives and goals. In that role he reduced their IT spend by over 35% while implementing several new technology initiatives. (Example: Office 365, VOIP system, and Mobility systems for Inspectors)
Joe was General Manager and Vice President at TW (Formally Time Warner) Telecom, Inc. where he managed a Sales and Operations organization for Memphis, TN and Little Rock, Ar.
Joe has a career span in Information Technology of more than twenty five years he has played major roles in large organizations and institutions.
As the CIO of the City of Memphis, he strategically reviewed the City of Memphis’s business objects, implementing technology to address those objectives, tactically aligning the needed technology for all divisions within the City of Memphis. In addition he also implemented technology to support Real Time Crime Center for the Memphis Police Dept. which is now viewed as the “model” for all law enforcement agencies in the U.S.
During his tenure of more than ten years at First Horizon, which is currently one of the largest bank holding companies in the U.S., he managed and directed a nationwide delivery organization involving infrastructure systems involving First Tennessee Bank, First Horizon Home Loans, First Horizon Merchant Services and First Tennessee Capital Markets. There he Incorporated an organization wide working knowledge of Banking, Mortgage and Capital Market’s business lines and developed a two-year infrastructure strategy, which supports corporate goals, maintain technical advantage and ensure controls meet federal financial regulations while ensuring that the information security posture of the organization is not compromised. At First Horizon Corp he was directly responsible for relocating their data centre resulting in an annual reduction in operating budget of $6 million over three years, renegotiated nationwide voice/data services contract for annual savings of $6.5 million over three years, his global outsourcing efforts resulted in $20 million in savings over 5 years and in overall he managed a budget of $120 million.
He began his career in the US Treasury and the US Department of Justice before becoming an Independent Consultant for Mobil Oil Corporation. Joe has been a keynote speaker to international conferences for Hewlett Packard, IBM, Oracle, World Cyber Security Conference in Nigeria, NAAHR Conference in Wilmington Del, and mostly Speaker and Instructor at the Global Cyber Security Conference in Dallas, Tx.
In this role he oversees the network for over 350 locations plus state facilities that provide services to the citizens of Texas.
Joe was previously the CIO for the Memphis Housing Authority where he was involved with setting the technology strategic direction and ensuring they were aligned with the agency’s business objectives and goals. In that role he reduced their IT spend by over 35% while implementing several new technology initiatives. (Example: Office 365, VOIP system, and Mobility systems for Inspectors)
Joe was General Manager and Vice President at TW (Formally Time Warner) Telecom, Inc. where he managed a Sales and Operations organization for Memphis, TN and Little Rock, Ar.
Joe has a career span in Information Technology of more than twenty five years he has played major roles in large organizations and institutions.
As the CIO of the City of Memphis, he strategically reviewed the City of Memphis’s business objects, implementing technology to address those objectives, tactically aligning the needed technology for all divisions within the City of Memphis. In addition he also implemented technology to support Real Time Crime Center for the Memphis Police Dept. which is now viewed as the “model” for all law enforcement agencies in the U.S.
During his tenure of more than ten years at First Horizon, which is currently one of the largest bank holding companies in the U.S., he managed and directed a nationwide delivery organization involving infrastructure systems involving First Tennessee Bank, First Horizon Home Loans, First Horizon Merchant Services and First Tennessee Capital Markets. There he Incorporated an organization wide working knowledge of Banking, Mortgage and Capital Market’s business lines and developed a two-year infrastructure strategy, which supports corporate goals, maintain technical advantage and ensure controls meet federal financial regulations while ensuring that the information security posture of the organization is not compromised. At First Horizon Corp he was directly responsible for relocating their data centre resulting in an annual reduction in operating budget of $6 million over three years, renegotiated nationwide voice/data services contract for annual savings of $6.5 million over three years, his global outsourcing efforts resulted in $20 million in savings over 5 years and in overall he managed a budget of $120 million.
He began his career in the US Treasury and the US Department of Justice before becoming an Independent Consultant for Mobil Oil Corporation. Joe has been a keynote speaker to international conferences for Hewlett Packard, IBM, Oracle, World Cyber Security Conference in Nigeria, NAAHR Conference in Wilmington Del, and mostly Speaker and Instructor at the Global Cyber Security Conference in Dallas, Tx.
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