WITI Oregon

Featured Speaker(s)

Joni Kabana
AVP of Technical Infrastructure and Program Director
Standard Insurance

Joni has been an IT professional for over 20 years, managing areas of application development, infrastructure, operations, and architecture strategy. Her current position is AVP of Technical Infrastructure and Program Director of Standard's re-engineering efforts. Joni’s unique skills entail organization development, cultural change agent and special task force initiator for corporate policies. She also held the post of Ethics Coordinator for western U.S. while at Nationwide Insurance. Joni has a strong interest in cultural diversity and has traveled extensively to countries such as Madagascar and Bhutan and published photography books.


Arlene Krasner
Director of Hardware Systems Development for the IMS Division
Credence

Arlene’s technical career began in the Silicon Valley as a Technical Writer at Mentor Graphics. From that beginning she moved into technical publications management and also began teaching and developing various technical communication classes. She became an active member of the Society for Technical Communication (STC) and served as President of the local chapter. Arlene eventually moved into an engineering management role, managing an operations group that consisted of mechanical engineers, drafters, prototype assemblers, hardware engineers, and technical writers. Currently, she serves as the Director of Hardware Systems Development for the IMS division at Credence Systems.


Jo Anne Long
Vice President and Chief REMAC Officer
The Regence Group

Jo Anne is vice president and chief REMAC officer for The Regence Group. In addition to leading the company’s claims and membership system implementation project, she oversees its Enterprise Project Management Office. In the recent past, she was vice president and general counsel for Regence BlueShield in Washington. She also had accountability for overseeing Regence BlueShield’s member services and information technology operations and its “Members First, Always” initiative. Before then, Jo Anne was associate general counsel at Regence BlueCross BlueShield of Oregon, where she was a key leader of the company’s Y2K remediation project.