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Jim Ditmore
Chief Technology Officer
Wachovia Corp.
301 South College St., Suite 4000
One Wachovia Center
Charlotte, NC 28288
Size of Firm: $600 billion in deposits.
Previous Positions: VP, wholesale systems group, Bell Atlantic Corp.; VP, infrastructure and operations, USF & G; CIO, Ameritrade; CTO, infrastructure and operations, BankOne.
Education: B.S. in math and science, College of William & Mary.
What work experience had the most lasting impression on your career? One of the most formative aspects of my career was working on large systems that had a large number of transactions or had relatively complex needs or designs. I was able to leverage an overall system design capability that I built up from that experience and move into more-senior roles in terms of capacity planning and technology planning in telecommunications. My knowledge and understanding of how to really plan for and handle the capacity and intense IT of telecom subsequently allowed me to move into financial services.
Top 3 Current Projects
Data Center Proximity Risk
If you're a top-five financial firm, you are not only required to recover all of your core applications, but you're required to recover them out-of-region. That needs to be done asynchronously,...