Jose Guerra:  

Jose is the founder and President of L5 Source, an IT consulting firm specializing in IT strategy, business systems development, and outsourcing. The company balances risk, quality and cost through the deployment of resources that combine vertical industry knowledge, industrial strength quality processes, and proven technology expertise. His company has forged alliances across the globe and the US, allowing L5 Source to have a very diverse and talented human resources pool. Prior to founding L5 Source, Jose held executive level IT positions in global organizations in the Consumer Packaged Goods, Telecommunications, Retail and Energy industries. At Duke Energy, his immediate prior employer, Jose was responsible for the IT organization that supported a $2 billion business, with 1.4 million customers, across multiple geographic locations. He drove the re-engineering, design, upgrade and integration of the company’s business processes and systems, enabling the corporation to open its markets to competition in the deregulated industry segments of electric transmission, distribution and customer service. He changed the culture of the IT organization to a performance based one by emphasizing customer service, a deep understanding of the business, and measurable results. He was also highly visible in the company’s diversity efforts, including serving on various internal working groups to increase diversity through recruitment, education on diversity issues, and more aggressive development of minority employees. He received the 2001 Computerworld Honors Program award that recognizes individuals and organizations whose use exceptional use of information Technology has contributed to the betterment of society and their companies. Prior to ...Expand for more