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Cornelia Pool is responsible for Covad’s information technology strategy, ensuring that Covad optimizes its investment in IT and enables the transformation of the business through high levels of automation. Ms. Pool has responsibility for the Covad Software organization and Corporate Services department.
Ms. Pool comes to Covad with almost two decade’s experience in information technology and has gained a wide variety of expertise in all elements of the systems lifecycle from strategy through implementation and operations.
Prior to joining Covad in 2000, Ms. Pool served on a team that implemented an information management system that enabled order-to-cash systems for a Virtual ISP provider, Laserlink.net Inc. Before joining Laserlink.net, Ms Pool spent eleven years in the Information Technology sector in South Africa. She implemented POS and replenishment systems for Pep, Southern Africa's best known chain of retail stores with over 1000 stores, and managed software solutions for Bonita, now Parmalat South Africa. She spent her early career with the Western Cape Provincial Administration working on Hospital Systems on mainframes and implemented first generation client-server solutions. She also developed most of the systems for Government Motor Vehicles Department of which some were used nationwide.
Ms. Pool attended Technikon Free State (now Central University of Technology, Free State) in South Africa. | 