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Howard Bruck

Howard Bruck, Chief Information Officer, Hudson Valley BankChief Information Officer
Hudson Valley Bank
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Howard Bruck is the Chief Information Officer at Hudson Valley Bank, a commercial bank. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Management at Polytechnic University. He has over 25 years of experience in the information technology sector. He specializes in financial services technology, outsourcing, hosting, databases, ERP, CRM, BI, and enterprise systems. He has been associated with Oracle, EDS, ATT, HP, SUN, and SAP. He has published articles on information technology management and financial services systems. Previously, Mr. Bruck was the Vice President of Equitable; Managing Director of Technology at the New York Stock Exchange; and the Director of International IT at PepsiCo. Mr. Bruck is a Director of FW chapter of Society of Information Management, a member of IBM Mid-Market Advisory Council. (This is me - Update Profile)


Employment History
2006 - present Chief Information Officer
Hudson Valley Bank
2003 - 2006 Chief Information Officer
Trafin Corp
2003 - 2006 CIO
Trafin Corporation
2001 - 2002 Vice President- Enterprise Systems
Equitable Life Assurance Society
1997 - 2001 Manging Director
Nyse Group, Inc
1989 - 1997 Director International IT
Pepsico, Inc.

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Desktop virtualization as no-brainer, nearly there | 05-13-2008
Author: Howard Bruck, Chief Information Officer, Hudson Valley Bank

Desktop virtualization has always been an enticing proposition, but it was never able to overcome the practical limitations, and more importantly never gained acceptance from the user base.  However, the proliferation and acceptance of browser based applications, proliferation of...

Big Long Term Impact of Virtualiztion | 10-02-2007
Author: Howard Bruck, Chief Information Officer, Hudson Valley Bank

The most recent round of virtualization technology has been highlighted by the dynamic emergence of VMware as one of the hottest products around. Of course virtualization has been around a long time both on the mainframe (IBM) and the desktop (Citrix). But why has this latest round of products grabbed...

Bank Technology Providers Consolidation: Of Course This Will Continue | 09-04-2007
Analysis of: Mergers: Conflicts Becoming A Core Reality | www.banktechnews.com
Author: Howard Bruck, Chief Information Officer, Hudson Valley Bank

The big will continue to get bigger; there is very little doubt about that trend continuing. The question will be who does it better? Financial institutions prefer to buy technology from large established providers. The SOX requirements to demonstrate a significant effort on vendor management drives...

End of Salesforce? I don't think so. | 05-29-2007
Analysis of: Siebel 2.0: The end of Salesforce.com | blogs.zdnet.com
Author: Howard Bruck, Chief Information Officer, Hudson Valley Bank

Salesforce fills its niche very well.  It remains true to its original cause and has a large and loyal customer base.  Its not all things to all people, not does it make sense in all CRM opportunities, but there is no competitor out there that is as robust at what it does.  As long as...

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