Career Highlights for Lester Hightower

Career Overview

• Resume current as of October 2019.
• Professional portfolio current as of October 2018.
• LinkedIn profile.

Open Source Work: ./open_source/

Software-related Blog: /blog/

Articles / Interviews of Interest

• CIO Applications, December 2017 article "Outdoor Video Surveillance at the Florida East Coast Railway".
  • Link to the full 2017 "Video Surveillance Special Edition" of CIO Applications Magazine.
• ExecRanks, October 2017 article "Scuttle Your Data Centers Warily because Cloud is Just an Evolutionary Step".
• Veredus/Hays, 2017 "DNA of a CIO" interview.
• Railway Age, July 2016 "Intermodal Uberization".
  • Link to the original publication.
• Jacksonville Business Journal, 2014 "40 Under 40" award.
• An 06/27/2007 podcast about Configuration Management done by Progressive Railroading.
  
  - Podcast audio also online at: www.progressiverailroading.com.
• An article about 10East Corp. in the 08/04/2006 edition of the Jacksonville Business Journal.
  
• A special advertizing article on Configuration Management in the June 2006 Progressive Railroading.
  
• A paper on electronic recordkeeping presented at the AREMA annual conference in October of 2003.
  
• An article in the Linux Means Business section of the February 1998 issue of Linux Journal.
  

Interesting History

• Lester pictured in the April 1978 BRS Signalman's Journal, at 4 years of age.
• Recommendation Letters for the National Science Scholarship Program
  • From Mr. Paul Beaumont
  • From Mr. Norman Pettus
  • From Mr. Dan Hylkema
• Lester pictured in the March 8, 1995, Tallahassee Democrat's Business section cover with colleagues from SCRI.