Bill Vass

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William (Bill) Vass is the Chief Information Officer (CIO) of Sun Microsystems since 2004.

Vass joined Sun in 2000, starting his career there as VP of corporate software services. Just prior to becoming the company's CIO in August of 2004, he was the Chief Security Officer for Sun IT. His background has a significant military and government presence, including a stint as an oversight CIO [1] working underneath the Department of Defense's overall CIO. Prior to that, he was the CTO and Technical Lead for the U.S. Army's personnel systems.

Vass is a proponent of corporate executives writing a blog, stating [1] in August of 2005 that blogging "allows them to communicate in an unfiltered way." He is also supportive of [2] the open source and Linux communities, having utilized both throughout his career.

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Corporate Blogging and the CIO, by Shaw, Rochelle (August 2005)". Accessed on September 9, 2005
  2. ^ "Riding Open Source To CIO Spot", by Babcock, Charles (August 2004). Accessed on September 9, 2005

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