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Vice President, Information Technology
Southern California Edison
Jodi Collins is vice president of Information Technology for Southern California Edison (SCE), managing the company's 1,300 IT employees. With more than 30 years in IT, Collins has been responsible for implementing large, enterprise-wide systems, galvanizing diverse, cross-functional teams, and leading technical professionals behind shared visions and unified objectives.
Collins is a "prime mover" and demonstrated leader, known for establishing direction and inspiring others to join the momentum of change. As a transformation specialist, she has been at the forefront of virtually every significant change to the IT industry, including mergers and acquisitions, business consolidation, business process re-engineering, outsourcing, offshoring, and all variations of resource and operational management. As a strategic business partner, she focuses on providing the right solution for the opportunity, while remaining aligned with the greater good of the enterprise.
Collins is also an established operational manager, having maintained consistently excellent operations within large IT functions even in the midst of major transformation. At SCE, Collins is responsible for the business of IT, which includes 14,500 desktops and laptops; 700 distribution servers; two corporate data centers; five networks; 25,000 phone extensions; 26,000 packet radios; 9,000 pagers; 1,520 miles of fiber and 5,000 miles of microwave; 800 applications; 39 terabytes of structured data; and print and insertion of 250,000 customer mailings per day.
Collins has worked in a number of industries, including global defense, health care, insurance, manufacturing, electronics, and energy. She has been distinguished as a "Premier 100 Leader in IT" by Computerworld magazine, and led the IT organization to the magazine's prestigious "100 Best Places to Work in IT."
Collins holds a bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of Redlands, and an M.B.A. from Pepperdine University.
Last reveiwed: August 2006
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