Mr. Weirich is a Senior Consultant for Suss Consulting, Inc. He has more than 25 years of distinguished accomplishment with the United States Postal Service, one of the largest information-technology organizations in the world. His career included service as Assistant Postmaster General, Technology Resource Department, followed by his appointment as Vice President, Information Technology (Chief Information Officer). Mr. Weirich's ability to create and manage large-scale IT infrastructure clearly demonstrates his technical qualifications; more importantly, his managerial skills enabled him to change the Postal Service's corporate philosophy: the way that it used resources and cooperated with suppliers to satisfy its customers. He made information technology the catalyst for restructuring a very large organization to achieve its business objectives, and he made the necessary changes on schedule and within budget.

During Mr. Weirich's tenure as the USPS's Chief Information Officer (1989-2001), he transformed one of the world's largest IT operations from an internally focused service bureau into an externally oriented agent for business change. Forming partnerships with other USPS business units, he was able to develop such new IT capabilities as call centers, point-of-sale systems, and mail-tracking systems, as well as usps.com, the framework for new postal e-services. The IT service he created serves 120,000 users in more than 8000 networked locations. Because the architecture that he developed maximizes centralized support, thereby minimizing the need for local technical staff, he simultaneously reduced the total IT staff from 2200 to 1700 persons.

Further, Mr. Weirich adopted a "rightsourcing" strategy; i.e., he relied on internal resources for critical competencies, while procuring supplier-provided services when they proved advantageous. The long-term partnerships that he established with key suppliers provided stable, industry-leading technology at optimal cost. As Assistant Postmaster General, Technology Resource Department, Mr. Weirich managed the Postal Service's Technology R&D program, which sponsored research at both universities and commercial organizations. Two products of this research were state-of-the-art algorithms for optical recognition of addresses and for coding and storing address data, and new material-handling equipment for sorting mail.

Prior to joining the USPS, Mr. Weirich was manager of software support for the state of Illinois. Earlier, he had been a programmer/analyst in private industry.

B.S. in Mathematics, University of Notre Dame

MBA, University of Chicago

Graduate of the Advanced Management Program, Harvard