Rob Strickland
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| Robert Andrew Strickland | |
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| Occupation | Chief Information Officer, T-Mobile Semi-pro cyclist |
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| Website http://www.t-mobile.com/ |
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Rob Strickland joined T-Mobile USA as the Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer in January 2007[1]. Before T-Mobile, Rob served as the Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Echostar Communications Corporation, best known for its DISH Network technology. At Echostar, Rob was involved in helping to automate call centers[2] by creating a voice recognition system.
In addition to his most recent role at Echostar, Rob served as the President and Chief Operations Officer at Silas Technologies, the Chief Technology Officer at Landmark Communications, Inc, CIO at Teradyne, and CIO at Continental Cablevision/Media One and CIO of the Harvard Business School. He holds a BA in mathematics from Brandeis University.
[edit] Awards
In 2008, he was named one of the top 100 Information Technology leaders by Computerworld[3] and was listed in spot number 16 in the Information Week Top 500[4]. In 2006, he was the Winner of CIO 100 award while at EchoStar[5].
