Hello! I'm Antonio Herrera
This is my Professional, Board and Volunteer Porfolio
Antonio Herrera
Information Technology Senior Executive
Phone:
(708) 710-8820
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EXPERIENCE
Nov 2022-July 2023
Chief Information Officer
Ellucian
Responsible for migration of on-premise Ellucian Colleague ERP to Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). Led the college to Change Management and Data Governance processes/policies. Acquired Dell Apex hybrid server/Cloud As-a-Service infrastructure replacing legacy HP Blade Server, saved ~$400,000 in contract renewals/licenses.
July 2018-Oct 2018
Senior Consultant
EKI Digital Consulting
Evaluate and strategize Illinois’ technology and application portfolio programs worth $2.1 billion dollars to save $100 million dollars in technology costs by reducing application and platform redundancy, systematizing digital opportunity identification, migrating old applications to modern platforms, deliver applications at measurably lower costs and aligning state technology investment to state programs and services.
Jan 2012-March 2018
VP/Chief Information Officer
State of Maryland
Role2: Provided technology leadership to the state, the 24 school district CIOs on educational technology policy issues including; broadband fiber penetration. Sponsored development of the state Instructional Technology Plan and advanced state-wide strategic planning aligned with the Federal Technology Plan
Role1: Obtained legislative approval through a difficult and complex state procurement process for new $19M ERP project (included $2 million infrastructure refresh capital budget.) Transformed IT Services into a customer focused organization with 16 new position descriptions and 8 contractual. Staffed 10 new employees in the System, Network/Security, VOIP and ERP groups. Improved security posture and mitigated major security/data breaches.
Nov 2011-Feb 2012
VP/CIO
College of Lake County (Grayslake, IL)
Planned, designed and executed CLC's Department of Energy Green Program for Illinois' 14 state consortium. Fast tracked CLC's Department of Energy "IGEN" Program Illinois Community college consortium for the DOE National Training and Education Resource (NTER) as the Green Jobs Course Management System and Learning Management System. NTER is an open source, sophisticated CMS/LMS designed to track student performance in the green jobs training programs.
May 2007 - June 2011
Chief Information Officer
Rock Valley College (Rockford, IL)
Served as the Chief Information Officer responsible for management of administrative systems (Ellucian Colleague, R25, ImageNow, Angel LMS), academic computing, email services, network infrastructure, college web site re-development (CommonSpot CMS by PaperThin), data communications, and multimedia. Managed 37 employees across 7 campus locations, encompassing 2,000+ PC clients.
March 2006 - March 2007
Director IT - ERP
Northeastern Illinois University (Chicago,IL)
Responsible for driving new ERP system implementation (Banner and Luminis) and rapid adoption by all departments including Finance, Human Resources, Payroll, and Student Enrollment Services.
Selected and deployed an Oracle Business Intelligence and Reporting solution, as well as integrating the ERP with a new Intranet portal, including E-Learning module for use by 12,000 students and employees. Responsible for and built-out the NEIU ERP Training Center at the public television station
April 2004 - June 2005
Director IT - ERP
Morton College (Cicero,IL)
Served as the Chief Information Officer for the College, responsible for administrative systems (Banner), academic computing, network infrastructure, web development, data communications, email and multimedia services. P&L responsibility for all technology assets, new technology related research including VOIP and Multi-media classroom instructional technologies.
April 2001 - Oct 2003
Manager of Software Development
Tellabs
Built the SW development team in Tellab’s Sales and Marketing Division responsible for software solutions to drive additional equipment and services revenue (estimated pull through up to $100M/year of hardware
purchases). Contracted and managed external development resources to develop the complex application and custom automated process handling with integration into client’s order processing and inventory operational
support systems (OSS/ERP). Partnered with Marketing/Sales to craft and validate value propositions, cost-benefit analysis, and demonstrate increased revenue to for Tellab’s clients for strategic solutions. Added $20 million in additional revenue in first year.
Senior Technical Architect
Illinois Bell/Ameritech/SBC/AT&T
Senior Technical Architect for the enterprise, included vendor assessments and project audits. Manager of Application/Database Development in the $20 billion dollar long distance unit. Corporate enterprise architect roles: Technology Consultant, Systems Planning Consultant, Risk Consulting,
Application Consulting, Architecture Funding Review, IT PAC Architect, Application Planning Integration. Executive staff for VP and General Manager responsible for capital and expense budgets for 1,000 employees across 5 districts encompassing $31 million in expense budget and $2 million in capital budget that was utilized for the build out of 3 entire floors in HQs. Previous roles were: Project Manager, Systems Analyst, and Programmer.
EDUCATION
March 2024
Berkeley Haas
Artificial Intelligence: Business Strategies and Applications
2005
Master's Business Administration
Executive MBA Management Program – Loyola Graduate School of Business, Chicago
Loyola University of Chicago
Bachelor's Degree
Loyola University of Chicago
Physics major, graduated with BA in US History/Latin American History.
CERTIFICATIONS
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Artificial Intelligence: Business Strategies and Applications. Berkeley-Haas March 2024
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HR Law - 2015
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Cisco Networking – 2004
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PBI – Performance Based Interviewing System - 2002
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Microsoft Certified Professional - 2001
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Project Management Institute (PMI) Certificate – 1998
Core Competencies
Enterprise Resource Programs (ERP/OSS)
Cybersecurity
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Infrastructure
DB/Analytics
Client Services
IT Staffing/Resources
Content/Web Management
Strategic/Tactical Planning
Boards
St. Augustine College
I have been on several Board of Trustees, including St. Augustine College in Chicago where I served 2 terms and member of the Finance Committee. We overcame a financial predicament and obtained a bank letter of credit, reviewed and assessed IT functionality and strategic direction of the college ERP product Jenzabar EX.
The Board of Trustees hired a new President, which stabilized and grew the College (2007-2011).
Loyola University Latino Alumni Association
Founding Board Member 2001
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The Loyola University Latino Alumni Board's mission is to advance the effectiveness of Latino Loyola students, past and present, by means of development activities, recruitment initiatives and career and networking opportunities. As a group of individuals reflecting the Jesuit heritage of the University.
LULAB has 3 scholarship funds, 2 of which are endowed. We have given out xx scholarhips.
HITEC
Founding member of national IT professional group the Hispanic IT Executive Council (HITEC), an IT executive leadership organization. HITEC recognized Mr. Herrera one of the nation’s top Hispanic IT executives in 2009 & 2010.
Contributor to the HITEC Foundation
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Bridges to the Future
Board member for Chicago Teachers Center and Northeastern University's SCUP (School, College, and University Partnership. Grant Program) "Bridges to the Future" Mentorship program, recruited 42 corporate management mentors to serve 100 student mentees in high risk high schools (Juarez, Wells, Schurz.)
HBMA/AHAP/HACEMOS
The Hispanic employees group at Illinois Bell/Ameritech/AT&T, one of the first and THE LARGEST ERG's in the world.
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330 Members in one location!
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Over $60K raised in 2 years. Provided local scholarships and turned the rest into the National Hispanic Scholarship Fund.
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Sponsored one of the only Hispanic BBS in the world (pre-Internet)
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Sponsored huge volleyball tournament in Chicago with HACE for several years.
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Volunteers in the Chicago Public Schools
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Assisted/help create ERGs: Sears, Kraft, Allstate, Motorola,
Advisory Board - Government Technology Magazine
Member of Government Technology Magazine Advisory Board for the Maryland/Baltimore Area for two - 1 years terms, 2016-2017.
GovTech.com
VOLUNTEER
Community, Organizations and Awards
2000's:
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April 2019 - HACE's 37th National Leadership Summit at Hispanic Alliance for Career Enhancement (HACE). Speaker on leadership, innovation & technology.
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2018-2019 - Advisory Board member of Digital Leaning Network (DLN) founded by Caroline Crozier-Sanchez.
2018-2020 - Member of League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC)
2017-2018 - While at the Maryland State Dept. of Education served 2 students in the Baltimore Student Summer Programs.
2015-2017- Year Up (Baltimore) 2016-2017, served 6 students: 2 in each of 3 years for the nation-wide Year Up Program.
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60 Minutes Year Up – Jobs Program benefits Fortune 500 & underprivileged youth ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOVMEM_uPa8
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President Obama supports the Year Up program!
2011 - Certified mentor by Lincoln’s Challenge Academy, mentored 1 on 1 distressed student.
2001 - Endowed 2 of the 3 LULAB Scholarships at Loyola University.
2007 (April) - Re-elected to the Loyola University Latino Alumni Board
2007 (April) - Elected to the St. Augustine Board of Trustees for two 3 year terms: (2007-2009 and 2009-2011, resigned in 2012 when I moved to Baltimore.
2007 (April) - Accepted to the HITEC (Hispanic IT Executive Council), the first ever national network of Hispanic IT senior executives.
2003-2005 - Volunteer at NSHMBA National Conferences:
- Anaheim – 2005
- Ft. Worth – 2004
- Ft. Lauderdale – 2003
2004 - Spoke at Loyola University on February 25th, 2004, on topic "Workplace - The Realities”.
2003 - Spoke at College of Lake County 2003 for HACE. "The Real Workplace”.
2003 - Joined the National Society of Hispanic MBA’s (NSHMBA).
2003 - Elected Treasurer of the Loyola University of Chicago Latino Alumni Board (LULAB).
2000 - Founding Board Member Loyola University of Chicago Latino Alumni Board (LULAB).
AWARDS
1990's:
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1999 - Paths to Achievement (Chicago Board of Education, Comm Ed, Ameritech). Visited Manuel Perez Elementary School and talked to 3 classes (6th, 7th & 8th graders) on careers & the importance of education.
1997 - Ameritech Hispanic Advisory Panel (AHAP) Scholarship Committee Chairperson.
1996 - Awarded 10 Ameritech/AHAP/National Hispanic Scholarship Fund (NHSF) Scholars for 1995-1996 at $1,000 each!
1996 - Teamed to re-incorporate Ameritech Hispanic Advisory Panel (AHAP) by-laws.
1995 - Championed and obtained funding of $220K through the Ameritech Foundation for LatinoNet in the Midwest area. This was subsequently awarded to the Latino Institute.
1995 - Adopted Ruben Salazar school for winter, provide 100 articles of winter clothing; gloves, mittens hats.
1995 - Led team in raising over $30,000 in 1995 for Ameritech/NHSF scholarships. Merged the internal Ameritech Hispanic Advisory Panel Scholarships with the National Hispanic Scholarship Fund (NHSF).
1995-1996 - Elected Treasurer of new regional AHAP organization. AHAP replaced the individual state run HBMA’s in the Ameritech region (IL, IN, WI, MI, OH).
1994 - Teamed with the Hispanic Organizations at Motorola and Kraft Foods, Hispanic Business Members of Ameritech (HBMA) donated over 360+ mittens, caps and gloves to students of Ruben Salazar bilingual school for Christmas.
1994 - Ameritech Hispanic Advisory Panel donated Christmas gifts for the elderly to several suburban organizations. Obtained over 60+ donators who participated.
1993 - Joined the founding of Loyola University of Chicago Hispanic Alumni Association (LUCHAA).
1993 - Hispanic Business Members of Ameritech awarded $3,750 in 4 scholarships to students, 3 at University of Illinois-Chicago and one at Purdue University.
1993 - Joined Chicago Area Latino Mentors Association (CALMA) which was formed to channel mentor volunteers to programs like "Bridges to the Future" and community organizations like Casa Aztlan.
1993 - Elected Treasurer of Hispanic Business Members of Ameritech (HBMA), subsequently re-named Ameritech Hispanic Advisory Panel (AHAP).
Sept 1992 - Nominated to the board of directors of Computer Association for the Contribution of Hispanic Excellence (CACHE). This is the Hispanic computer professionals group in the Chicago area.
1992 - In March 1992 founded the organization of Hispanic Corporate organizations in Chicago (UNited Hispanic Organizations, (UNHO) pronounced UNO) initially with Illinois Bell, AT&T, Amoco Hispanic Network and Commonwealth Edison. This organization subsequently dissolved with the mass downsizings of the early ‘90s and became a loose network of the following Hispanic Corporate organizations in the Chicagoland area: Ameritech, Amoco, AT&T, Commonwealth Edison, Peoples Gas, Allstate, Sears, Kraft Foods, United Airlines, Motorola, Xerox, McDonalds, Cook County Hospital, Nutrasweet, Household Finance, Quaker Oats, and Avon.
1991-1993 - On the Board of Governors of Northeastern University's SCUP (School, College, & University Partnership Grant Program) "Bridges to the Future" program. Chairman of the SCUP Mentor committee, I recruited approximately a dozen mentors for "Bridges to the Future" for Juarez, Lakeview, and Wells High Schools.
1991-1993 - Elected to Hispanic Business Members of Ameritech Board of Directors for 2-year term.
1990-1991 - In 1990 established "Bridging the Gap: The Transition from School to Work", mentor program. This program component was a one-to-one mentor program for 43 Hispanic "high drop-out risk" students at an inner city; Juarez High School. These students were paired with an Illinois Bell Telephone HBMA Hispanic Manager for career and educational guidance and as successful role models.
1991 - Established Mentor program with National Louis University.
* Recipient: National Louis-Corporate Mentor Program Award Winner 1991.
1980's & 1970's:
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1988-1993 - Member of Illinois Bell's Hispanic Bell Management Association (HBMA) since 1988.
Member of Education Committee 1988.
Active in Membership committee 1989-1992.
Chairman of Membership, increased membership 66% from 200 to 330 members.
* Recipient: HBMA Achievement Award 1990.
1990 - Illinois Bell representative on Juarez High School Corporate Advisory Board.
1988-1990 - Science Fair Judge: 1988 Butler Junior High School and at Juarez High School 1988-1990.
1989 – 1996 - In February established the only Hispanic and Bilingual electronic Bulletin Board System (BBS) in the USA. In 1991 HBMA BBS joined an international BBS network; the RelayNet International Message InterExchange (RIME) network.
1985-1990 - Participated as a speaker on "Computers as a Career" for the Chicago Boy Scouts ISECA (In School Exploring Career Awareness) program. Made eleven school site visits to; Clemente High School, Juarez High School, Lakeview High School, Schurz High School, Calvin Park High School, Hubbard High School, Orr High School, Lovellton Academy (twice), Lakeview Learning Center, and St. Constance Elementary School.
* 1989 recipient: Illinois Bell Telephone “ISECA” participation plaque.
1981-1989 - Participated in Illinois Bell's "Adopt-A-School" program since 1981, one of our "stay in school programs" increased student attendance by 6 percent in one year.
* 1981-1982 recipient: Illinois Bell Telephone “Big Apple” Award.
* 1981 recipient: Illinois Bell Telephone “Partner in Education” Award.
1979-198 - Member of the Pan American Council, Chicago, IL.
LOYOLA UNIVERSITY
2004 - Spoke at Loyola University on February 25th, on topic "Workplace - The Realities”.
1977 - Founding member of “Soccer Club” with Faculty Advisor that eventually became Soccer Team.
1977 - President of the Latin American Students Organization (LASO.)
1976 - Member of Students Ethics/Disciplinary Committee.
1977 - Dean’s List at Loyola University.
1977-1978 - Assistant to the Dean of Admissions advising incoming freshman and in particular new Latino students on the adjustments, subtleties and rigors of college life.
1976 - University Search Committee that hired first Latino Advisor.
1976 - Vice-President of the Latin American Students Organization (LASO).
1975 - Executive Committee that wrote the Latin American Students Organization (LASO) by-laws.
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