David Dritsas Posts

A longtime advocate of the IT industry — a man who built a successful career from humble beginnings — will be presented with CompTIA’s Lifetime Achievement Award during this week’s Annual Member Meeting (AMM) in San Diego. David P. Smith, vice president of field service for CompuCom Systems, will be honored by CompTIA, where was chairman of the board of directors from 2003 to 2004, and was a board member from 2000 to 2005. Smith began his career fixing copiers and had a ...

Every time you look at the user interface of an Apple product, you are looking at the legacy of the work of graphic artist Susan Kare, one of the latest inductees to the CompTIA Hall of Fame, IT Innovator Wing. In the early 1980s, when Kare was sought out by the then-fledgling Apple Computers, personal computing was pretty much a keystroke-only experience. Steve Jobs and his team wanted to change all that and make it a graphically user-friendly environment. At the time, Kare had just finished Ph ...

When Heng-Chuen Mok was a child, his father would bring home technology and together they would tinker. This love of technology led Mok to a bachelor’s degree in information systems and a career in IT. Today, he’s a security architect at the National Bank of Australia and a CompTIA subject matter expert. His focus: delivering security solutions to core banking transformation programs, which involves various aspects of security to meet the business requirements and needs of his institution.