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Shawn Paskevic
CIO
NEBCO, Inc.

Shawn Paskevic is the CIO at one of Nebraska’s largest privately held companies, NEBCO, Inc. She has been in this position for 14 years and during this time has taken the company from a mainframe, custom development environment to one of using packaged software along with standardized processes across over 20 business units primarily serving the construction industry. After receiving her B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Nebraska, Ms. Paskevic began her career in Information Technology 20 years ago with Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) where she worked on projects ranging from helping the USDA with an inventory control system to developing training materials for new IT consultants. After 8 years, she left the world of IT consulting to work for one of Andersen’s oldest clients, NEBCO, Inc.

Headquartered in Lincoln, NEBCO, Inc. is a family-owned business with operations that span the state of Nebraska, including businesses in Omaha, Lincoln, Ashland, Nebraska City, York, Fremont, Louisville and several other Nebraska communities. NEBCO began operations in 1908 and today employs over 1,000 people. While NEBCO’s primary business is to provide building materials and services to the construction industry, NEBCO is also involved in real estate development and providing recreational facilities.

Moving the company from unique, disparate, customized systems to the world of packaged, standardized and streamlined business processes and systems wasn’t the first time Ms. Paskevic and her department transformed the technology philosophy at NEBCO. One of Ms. Paskevic’s most recent projects resulted in NEBCO’s decision to replace their in-house data center with an out-sourced solution, with the goal of increasing NEBCO’s system availability through disaster prevention and disaster recovery.

Ms. Paskevic enjoys working on projects to make processes more efficient, cost-effective and reliable and appreciates the challenge of selling new methods and ideas that inherently go along with the change process.