Debra Sapenter

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Olympic medal record
Women’s Athletics
Silver	1976 Montreal	4 x 400 metres

Debra Sapenter Christopher (born 27 February 1952) is an American athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres.

She competed for United States in the 1976 Summer Olympics held in Montreal, Canada in the 4 x 400 metres where she won the silver medal with her team mates Sheila Ingram, Pamela Giles and Rosalyn Bryant.

CAREER HISTORY/ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Genuity Sr. Vice President/CIO 1999 – 2001

Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer responsible for the delivery of information technology services to Telecommunications Company. Genuity provided secure managed hosting services to corporate enterprises via a Tier 1 global internet backbone. Corporate clients include General Electric, Siebel, AOL, and McDonalds.

Also served on the senior management Operations Committee, Marketing Council, Genuity Customer Advisory Board. Major accomplishments included:

1 Total suite implementation of Siebel eCRM 2 Reengineering of integrated circuit and customer provisioning environment 3 Implementation of NCR Teradata warehouse 4 Standardization of corporate intranet 5 Development of customer facing service environment 6 Separation of application and infrastructure environment from Verizon 7 Development of DSL provisioning system 8 Produced 1st integrated business/IT strategic plan 9 Instituted IT account management and program management offices

Harvard Pilgrim HealthCare/Harvard Vanguard Sr. Vice President/CIO 1997 – 1999

Responsible for the delivering IT services to New England based health care organization. Plan provided health care and insurance coverage to 1.5 million members with a combined network of over 22,000 physicians and 140 hospitals.

In this capacity, served on the senior management Operations Committee, Business Network Strategy Committee, and chaired the IT Steering Committee. Key accomplishments included:

1 Led development of Electronic Commerce strategy which addressed internet/intranet, EDI enhanced deployment, and served as founding member of NEHEN – a New England HMO VPN Consortium; also established Web users group and INET standards/production environment 2 Established/Led $150 million technical and corporate Y2K program; ranked by Booz Allen as top Y2K program 3 Developed/Implemented Business/IT strategic planning process which included excel scenario planning, development of strategic plan, IT roadmaps, operational IT business plan; responsible for presentation/progress of results to HPHC corporate board 4 Created legacy application shutdown program to eliminate redundant systems resulting from merger of 4 New England HMOs and medical delivery businesses 5 Accelerated rollout/implementation of EPIC medical system 6 Lead design of state-of-the-art technical architecture for new corporate headquarters housing 2 thousand employees 7 Realigned Business/IT relationship through the creation of best practices Customer Support Center with key focus on account management responsible for negotiation of service level agreements and statements of work monitored and reported monthly to business partners; created Program Management office with oversight of 90+ projects 8 Expanded IT service offerings while maintaining cap on operations and capital expenses which included negotiation of key vendor partner contracts including $45M Inacom agreement, Microsoft agreement and Lockheed Martin Y2K contract

Zürich Financial Group Sr. Vice President/CIO 1996 -1997

Responsible for 300-person organization delivering IT services to $3 billion property and casualty insurance company. Department provided application services, enterprise engineering and client/server infrastructure support, client relationship management, Megacenter operations, WAN reengineering.

Also sat on international Zürich Group IT Steering Committee responsible for defining global corporate IT standards and direction. Key accomplishments included:

1 Instituted zero-based budgeting and negotiated service level agreements and associated SOWs/budgets with 13 SBUs 2 Executed nationwide rollout of claims imaging environment 3 Redefined and stabilized network infrastructure 4 Renegotiated major hardware master lease agreements resulting in $2 million savings per annum

CNA Insurance Companies/Continental Insurance Co. Vice President 1994 – 1996

During tenure as Vice President of Infrastructure Management and Service Delivery, responsible for the IT field operations which encompassed network infrastructure support, client relationship management, data center operations, asset management, and security operations.

1 Selected to lead CAN/CIC IT transition team; as a result of efforts received out-of-cycle bonus 2 Successfully led IT infrastructure consolidation of 200 field offices 3 Eliminated $5M invoice backlog and reduced hardware maintenance cost by 20%

Martin Marietta/GE Aerospace 1985 - 1994

Promoted t progressively more responsible IT management positions including: Manager – System Engineering, Manager – Customer Support, Program Manager – Mainframe Processing. Also led 1 of the Martin Marietta/GE IT merger teams.

1 Received 2 GE corporate management awards as result of: (a) providing leadership in the successful development of execution of test methodologies for 300 person programming organization and, (b) increasing business revenue by 40% on major government contract and elimination of $1 million cost overrun 2 Managed system integration effort to multi-million computer laboratory project, consisting of 9 heterogeneous hardware platforms connected to nationwide WAN. As a result of efforts, proof of concept became architecture for worldwide implementation and received customer commendation.

Control Data Corporation 1983 – 1985 Booz, Allen and Hamilton 1980 – 1983 Sterling Systems 1977 - 1980

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science degree in biology – Prairie View A&M University, PV. TX 1974 English Graduate Studies, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 1976 Computer Science Graduate Studies, Howard University, Washington, D.C. 1983 General Electric Leadership Development Program, Crotonville, N.Y.

AFFLIATIONS/HONORS/PUBLICATIONS

Served on a number of advisory boards including Lesley College IT Technical Advisory Board, Unisource CIO Tempo, INACOM Technical Advisory Board, Business Week’s Healthcare CIO Forum Board

Have been a member of several professional organizations including the National Association of Female Executives, Society of Information Managers, Boston and San Antonio Coalition of 100 Black Women, IT Senior Management Forum, Massachusetts Health Data Consortium, Urban League, and Delta Sigma Theta sorority. Have been involved in fundraising activities for HPHC Foundation, The Samaritans of Boston, The Shackelton School, and the Roxbury Community Health Center.

Have served as guest speaker/panelist at the Fast Company Advance, Business Week’s Healthcare CIO Forum, the Coalition of 100 Black Women, the Babson College/Cambridge Technology Partner’s Interactive Solutions Lyceum, World IT Congress, and the Harvard School of Public Health Seminar Series.

Have appeared in a number of magazines including: Harvard Business Review, CIO Magazine, Information Week, Fast Company, and CFO Magazine