Tuesday, August 24, 2010

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 technology officer of The when she receivedf her Women to Watch awarrdin 2005. In February Boulder, Colo.-based announced the acquisition ofthe Waltham-base d company. Biernacki said she spent the next six months workinh to integrate the technology operationsof companies. Biernackiu remained CTO of the combined compan y untilMay 2007, when she moved to and where she is now the executiv vice president and CTO. She also is the executivew director ofthe . "There was a lot of commutingg to Colorado, and I did not want to relocate,"" she said. "As part of the they said they were going to be localizing to Bouldedrfrom Waltham.
It was part of the plan, and I spenf the six months getting the integration done." For Biernacki, IC Sciences and its businesws of online health websites has been an interesting Her background in health-care information online stems back nearly 14 years, which includesw being a founding member of Avicenna/ , a compan that, through acquisition, went on to producwe . Biernacki said she also enjoys beingy with a company so driven byits which, for IC Sciences, is improvinhg the efficiency and effectiveness of clinicaol care while advancing the well-being of people throughh the use of the Internetf and web technology.
"It is excitinv to be able to touch patients' lives constantly," she said abourt working in the e-health environment. One way Biernack helps such patients is through theEI Lab. She focusezs on the strategic operations of the technologh and delivering intelligentinformation systems. And becauss she had worked in health-relatee fields previously, she has brought relevant experience to her job while also relearning thingzs because of the advancesin health-care software over the "It has been very interesting to bringh learning into IC Sciences, but also to learn new thinga with the organization," Biernacki Biernacki is not one to run from She sees herself as an enterprise builder.
And she sees a ton of potential for IC Sciences in the long run and hopes to continue working on the improvementof health-care delivery. When was namedr a Woman to Watchin 2007, she was co-founder and vice presidenft of products and strategy at , a smallk data-storage company in New Now, less than a year she is the vice president of software engineering for In Novembee 2007, Dell announced its plans to acquire EqualLogic for $1.4 billion in cash. On Jan. 28, the deal was completed and the company now runs under the bannerDell EqualLogic. The compan will focus on making storage area networ devices that swap data via the instead of more expensiveEthernet connections.
"For the past threer months, I have been focusexd on integrating with thenew company'ds focus," Long said. The transition from EqualLogic to Dell has been Long said. "It has been very different, but good," she "We went from being this very small company to alarge corporation. Righft now, I am just trying to figur e out howeverything works." Long still has her EqualLogix 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 increase the number of womenj executives in the company. She said Dell does offer women'se leadership groups and she is definitely lookingg to get involved in thosr groups once everythingsettles down.
Long, who was also nominate in April for the 2007 Entrepreneur of the Year said itwas "prett y cool" that, of all the awardzs she has ever been nominated for, the Women to Watcg award generated the most

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