Chuck Musciano

Bio

Chuck Musciano is the Chief Information Officer for Martin Marietta Materials, a $2.2B producer of construction aggregates. Chuck is responsible for leveraging his company's information infrastructure to provide significant competitive advantage across a broad range of business activities. Prior to joining Martin Marietta in January 2005, Chuck provided executive-level strategic consulting to a broad range of clients throughout the East Coast. In his role as a trusted strategic advisor, Chuck guided his clients to identify lapses in their IT management and infrastructure and provided appropriate solutions to remedy those lapses. From 1997 to 2003, Chuck served as CIO of the American Kennel Club. During this time, he architected the AKC's transition from a legacy mainframe system to a client/server web-based computing environment. Using this platform, the AKC was able to re-engineer all of its principal business processes, reducing costs and increasing customer services as a result. Chuck began his computing career in 1982 with Harris Corporation, enjoying a variety of roles during his 15 year tenure there. He has written compilers, developed user interfaces, designed multiprocessors, developed shared Unix data centers, and was fortunate enough to be a part of the seminal development of the ARPANet and Internet. Chuck is a graduate of the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is the author of O'Reilly's HTML: The Definitive Guide and his blog, The Effective CIO, regularly addresses the challenges facing IT executives. He resides in Cary, NC with his wife and children.