Wednesday, March 30, 2011

A successful, winding road for Women to Watch alums Long, Biernacki - Mass High Tech Business News

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was co-founder and chief technologyg officer of The when she received her Women to Watch award in 2005. In February 2007, Boulder, Colo.-basesd announced the acquisition ofthe Waltham-based company. Biernacki said she spenft the next six months working to integrate the technologt operationsof companies. Biernacki remained CTO of the combineds company untilMay 2007, when she moved to and whers she is now the executivde vice president and CTO. She also is the executiv e director ofthe . "There was a lot of commutingf to Colorado, and I did not want to relocate, " she said.
"As part of the sale, they said they were goingy to be localizing to Boulder from It was part of the and I spent the six monthz getting theintegration done." For Biernacki, IC Sciences and its busines s of online health websites has been an interestingb change. Her background in health-care information online stemd back nearly14 years, whicb includes being a founding member of Avicenna// , a company that, through acquisition, went on to producde .
Biernacki said she also enjoyws being with a companyg so driven byits which, for IC Sciences, is improving the efficiencyt and effectiveness of clinical care while advanciny the well-being of people through the use of the Internetg and web technology. "It is exciting to be able to toucy patients' lives constantly," she said about working in the e-healtjh environment. One way Biernacki helps such patients is through theEI Lab. She focusesz on the strategic operations of the technology and delivering intelligen tinformation systems.
And because she had workedd in health-related fields previously, she has broughtf relevant experience to her job while also relearninb things because of the advancesin health-carw software over the years. "It has been very interestingt to bring learning into IC but also to learn new things withthe organization," Biernacki said. Biernacki is not one to run from She sees herself as anenterprise builder. And she sees a ton of potential for IC Sciences in the long run and hope s to continue working on the improvemenfof health-care delivery.
When was named a Womajn to Watchin 2007, she was co-foundetr and vice president of products and strategy at , a smallp data-storage company in New Hampshire. Now, less than a year she is the vice president of software engineeringt for InNovember 2007, Dell announced its planws to acquire EqualLogic for $1.4 billionh in cash. On Jan. 28, the deal was complete and the companh now runs under the bannerdDell EqualLogic. The company will focus on makinf storage area network devices that swap data via the instead of more expensiveEthernet connections. "For the past thres months, I have been focused on integratingf with thenew company's focus," Long said.
The transitiojn from EqualLogic to Dell hasbeen interesting, Long said. "It has been very but good," she "We went from being this very small compan y to alarge corporation. Right now, I am just trying to figure out howeverything works." Long still has her EqualLogi c team by her side. "I have a new boss, but the same and so far everyone hasstayed on," she She is also hoping to help increass the number of women executives in the She said Dell does offer women's leadership groups and she is definitelg looking to get involved in those groupsd once everything settles Long, who was also nominated in April for the 2007 Entrepreneur of the Year Award, said it was "prettu cool" that, of all the awards she has ever been nominatex for, the Women to Watch award generatedr the most recognition.

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