Joe Wolke
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Director, IT Strategy |
As a director in Forsythe's IT strategy practice, Joe Wolke works with clients to define and deliver projects based on business needs and objectives. He has over 25 years of business management experience; the last 20 of those years were spent in executive IT positions defining, communicating, and implementing IT strategies in global Fortune 500 companies.
Wolke has experience across a broad spectrum of IT disciplines including data center and consolidation strategy, project and program management, IT organizational design, business continuity and disaster recovery, enterprise architecture, data warehousing and application development. He uses this experience to look holistically at IT initiatives, assuring that business objectives and anticipated value are realized.
Prior to joining Forsythe, Wolke spent seven years at Aon Corporation, a Fortune 500 insurance brokerage and risk management company. He served initially as a divisional CIO and later as vice president of global IT strategy and communications. In this role, he developed a project management framework that was the foundation of the company's global PMO, created a business continuity/disaster recovery (BC/DR) program office that encompassed over 900 offices in 150 countries, and designed and implemented numerous strategic initiatives including physical regional consolidations and logical consolidations within the application portfolio.
Prior to coming to AON, Wolke spent nine years with the Brunswick Corporation, starting as a systems analyst and rising to the position of director of corporate Information services. Wolke’s more than 30 years of experience in both information technology and business management include significant involvement in retail, manufacturing, financial services and consulting.
Wolke has also served as a guest lecturer at the University of Illinois–Chicago and the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), and formerly as a member of the Executive Education Program Faculty of Loyola University, Chicago, where he also served on the Project Management Advisory Board. He has lectured on topics including infrastructure management and alignment, IT organizational alignment, disaster recovery, risk management, information asset protection, project management, data mining, and informatics in healthcare.
Wolke earned his Bachelor’s degree from Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts and his MBA from Webster University, St. Louis, Missouri. He is a member of the Center for Research in Information Management (CRIM) and the Society for Information Management (SIM).
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