Thad Hymel

About Thad Hymel

Thad Hymel is the Chief Information Officer and shares his time between the firm’s New Orleans and Houston offices. He has spent the past two decades of his career managing various technology initiatives such as the development of an online banking system for a regional financial institution to more recently leading McGlinchey Stafford’s disaster recovery following hurricane Katrina. In his current position with McGlinchey Stafford, he develops, communicates and delivers the vision and strategies necessary to achieve the firm’s technological and business goals. His staff of 18 serves the firm’s 450 employees in eight offices across five states with all technology needs from help desk to network operations.Specialties: Defining technology strategies, contract negotiation

Experience

1. Chief Information Officer

   Mcglinchey Stafford

   Aug 2005 — Present

   Primary responsibilities include developing, communicating and delivering the vision and strategies necessary to achieve the firm’s technological and business goals. • Leads a self-managed, customer-oriented team of 18 employees consisting of application developers, project managers, network engineers, telecommunication analysts and database analysts that service a nationwide law firm of 450 employees. • Directed a cross-functional team with the recovery of the firm’s IT infrastructure and critical systems after Hurricane Katrina. • Fiscal responsibility includes operating and capital budgets of approximately $5 million.

Education

• Nicholls State University

  Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc)

  1977 — 1980

Skills

• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Sharepoint
• Data Center
• Microsoft Exchange
• Management
• Telecommunications
• Citrix
• Litigation Support
• IT Strategy
• IT Management
• Active Directory
• Disaster Recovery
• Vmware
• Document Management
• Contract Negotiation