Bob Kostrubanic

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About Bob Kostrubanic

Bob Kostrubanic’s fifty-one years of professional experience include consulting and senior management positions in a wide variety of manufacturing and banking companies and related industries, as well as in higher education. He has focused his efforts on contributing to the general improvement of business processes through applied information systems technology, and practical business planning and process redesign techniques. In addition, he has spent significant time managing on the operating side of businesses. His specific experience includes consulting to the Department of Defense and mid-range companies, and working for General Motors, The Hoover Company, BFGoodrich, Tokheim Corporation, and Fort Wayne National Corporation in such roles as database design consultant, senior systems engineer, manager of distribution planning and of operations research, and as information systems manager and IT executive. He retired as CIO & Director of Information Technology Services for Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW), while continuing as an adjunct faculty member in the Information Systems & Technology department instructing in the strategic use of information technology and project management. He retired as an adjunct faculty member in May, 2015. He continues to work as a part-time consultant in IT-based business strategy, planning, process redesign and project management. He is currently working as the volunteer training technology manager for Ratio Christi, an international alliance of Christian apologists. He manages the operation and periodic upgrade of RC's learning management system to accelerate training of RC's more than 150 campus chapter directors located nationally. Bob earned his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in engineering from Case Western Reserve University, and graduated with honors from the Bank Administration Institute’s Graduate School of Banking at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.