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‘ face to face ’ and Zoom for some of the more advanced features . I don ’ t feel as an organisation we really missed a beat .”
In terms of its overall digital transformation , Richard says he is happy where we ’ re at . “ I have a strong team of world-class developers – we only have five developers , and that ’ s why we rely on partners heavily , and we have a support team which manages all the day-to-day tasks – and that ’ s only four people .”
LiUNA was able to retire over 40 legacy applications and build everything into Appian , where it now processes all membership data which connects with 300-plus local affiliates and 40-plus district council affiliates . “ That ’ s empowered our team to build these powerful applications quickly .
“ Converting the infrastructure to cloudbased AWS was crucial in helping us prepare for the pandemic . There were two stubborn legacy servers – one was moved to a SaaS provider and the other went to hosted infrastructure .
“ We ’ ve been moving to a cloud-based modern infrastructure and software platform over the last nine years and finished migrating our last application this year ,” he said . “ For us , the biggest benefits of the cloud are the adaptability – the ability to modify ‘ on the fly ’ quickly when information comes 1903 Company founded
557,999 Number of members ( 2013 )
350 + Number of employees
EXECUTIVE BIO
MATTHEW RICHARD
TITLE : CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER INDUSTRY : CONSTRUCTION LOCATION : VIRGINIA , USA
Matt Richard is the Chief
Information Officer at the Laborers ' International Union of North America ( LiUNA ), a non-profit Labour Union headquartered in Washington , DC that serves approximately 500,000 members across the United States and Canada . He joined LiUNA after nine years working as a project manager and technology consultant for a number of management consulting firms in the Washington , DC area . During his four year tenure at LiUNA , he has led the effort to modernise legacy systems , reduce infrastructure spending , and standardise the IT resources of the Washington , DC Headquarters and nine regional offices . Mr . Richard received his Bachelor ’ s degree in Information Technology and Management Information Systems from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute . He also received his Master ’ s of Business Administration from the University of Maryland , College Park and a Master ' s of Science in Project Management from Boston University .
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