Kanon Cozad

KANON COZAD

CIO

A highly accomplished executive leader, strategic planner, and creative developer
with more than 20 years experience, Kanon Cozad joined the TranSystems team in
2010 as Chief Information Officer (CIO). His career includes extensive experience in
software development, data warehousing, and information architecture, and he has
worked in industries as diverse as healthcare, hospitality, and consulting. In 1998, he
joined UMB Financial Corporation as Director of eCommerce Development leading
the company’s entry into online products and services. After 11 years of service in a number of varied and increasing roles, he was named Senior Vice President and Director of Enterprise Architecture, where he led the program to develop, manage, and govern current and future state enterprise and technology architectures across the UMB footprint.

As CIO of TranSystems, Cozad will focus on leveraging the immense disparate information resources of the firm to provide integrated, end-to-end knowledge stores for use by the firm’s many professionals. As TranSystems continues to grow its physical and intellectual footprint, leveraging unified information across the entire organization will serve as a fundamental catalyst for the organization’s strategic plans.

Cozad earned his Bachelor of Arts Degree in English from William Jewell College in Liberty, Mo., and has participated in professional development courses at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Mass., and the MIT Sloan School of Management in Cambridge, Mass. He is active in many civic and charitable organizations, primarily focused on the arts community.

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12th edition of the Rules of Thumb booklet released

The 12th Edition of the "Rules of Thumb" booklet is hot off the presses and available on-line at www.transystems.com/rules. This resource contains costing information for nearly everything that goes inside a distribution center/warehouse facility (material handling, storage, technology, lighting, etc.).

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Gilbane, Partnered with TranSystems and Javlyn Engineering, Selected to Build $100 Million Ocean Spray Cranberries Manufacturing Facility

(GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Gilbane Building Company, a leading construction management firm, announced today that it has been selected to provide Design Build/Construction Management services for a $100 million, 315,000 square foot manufacturing and bottling facility for Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc., in Lehigh County, PA. Gilbane is partnered with TranSystems and Javlyn Engineering in this effort.

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Strategic planning and setting operational tactics go hand-in-hand, as Barry Parker explains

In the business of port operations, there is always room for a better matching of big picture strategy with operational tactics: “not every port will be a super-hub", points out Rick Ferrin, vice president at consultant TranSystems, in its Jacksonville office.

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How the Englewood Flyover will Increase Rail Capacity in Chicago

Metra, the lead agency for the design and construction, engaged TranSystems to provide design engineering services for CREATE project P1, known as the Englewood Flyover, to eliminate the at-grade crossing.

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Stimulus funding helps get NOAA project off the ground

The award-winning design for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) new Southwest Fisheries Science Center (SWFSC) replacement laboratory saw its first sign of movement on Sept 15 with a groundbreaking ceremony held in La Jolla, Calif. The $102 million project is funded primarily by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), resulting in a rapidly advanced construction plan for the facility.

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First businesses ready to launch in logistics park

In February, New Millennium Wind Energy will begin work on its 50,000-square-foot facility to manufacture a vertical-axis wind turbine, designed and built by Dondlinger Construction and TranSystems.

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Carondelet Connector trail plans to be unveiled

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Railway Interchange 2011 preview: Engineering services

The AREMA Annual Conference at Railway Interchange 2011 will host the AREMA Functional Group Technical Sessions on Tuesday, September 20, including Engineering Services presentations.

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'Cool' Chandler bus stations is matter of perception

They cost $11 million and were designed by an architect whose specialty is comfortable microclimates.

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