AECOM announced today that IDG’s CIO Magazine has honored the AECOM Information Technology division with the magazine’s annual innovation award, the CIO 100.

Chosen from a competitive field of over 350 entrants, AECOM’s global IT team was selected for outstanding performance and innovation in multiple areas, including near-flawless execution of 100+ integration projects related to the company’s $6-billion acquisition of URS, considered to be the largest in the U.S. architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industry.

Separately, CIO Magazine will be inducting AECOM Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer Tom Peck into the CIO Hall of Fame for career achievement, acknowledging Peck’s two decades of transformative team leadership and industry-leading deployments in IT innovation.Already named one of Fortune Magazine’s “World’s Most Admired Companies” for 2015, AECOM’s CIO awards underscore the company’s strength as a diverse, progressive and innovative organization that is a leader in its markets worldwide. Both the CIO 100 and CIO Hall of Fame awards will be featured in the July/August 2015 issue of CIO Magazine and online at www.CIO.com.

For 28 years, the CIO 100 has been a team award, honoring IT organizations of all sizes that represent innovation and business value delivery in enterprise excellence. After an exhaustive application process, AECOM’s IT team earned the 2015 honor by using IT in innovative ways to create business value. Multiple projects drove AECOM’s bid to win, including:

  • The “Delivery Excellence” Initiative: Launched to ensure best-in-class delivery of all phases of the project lifecycle, including an integrated, cloud-based platform to serve as one-stop shopping for project pursuits, planning, management and client support.
  • Integrated Client Care: The entire 9-billion, nearly 100,000-person company is now on a singular CRM solution. A simple click presents a 360-degree view of AECOM clients – past, present and those in the pipeline.
  • Knowledge Management: AECOM’s knowledge-sharing network, embedded with social media feeds between experts, grew to nearly 45,000 followers across more than 130 specialized technical practice networks, with 300-400 posts per day.
  • AECOM-URS Integration: Whether it was consolidating ERP systems or infrastructure connectivity or building new organizational structures, the global AECOM IT team flawlessly executed 100+ projects.

AECOM CIO Tom Peck announced the CIO 100 award to the AECOM IT team, writing “Everyone can be proud of the CIO 100 award because it’s a reflection of AECOM’s talented, dedicated team and a culture that embraces diverse ideas.”

Since its founding in 1997, the CIO Hall of Fame has celebrated significant achievements in IT leadership, honoring the men and women whose work has demonstrated lasting technology and business impact. Tom Peck’s 25 years of consistent “firsts” in IT innovation are a testament to teamwork, leadership and ingenuity — his teams have won CIO 100 Awards in 2015, 2011 and 2005. A graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and a United States Marine Corps veteran, Peck started his career with General Electric (GE). While at GE’s NBC Universal, Peck’s team took paper-based and analog entertainment processes — from casting and contract management to music selection and show production — to Web-based and on-demand, digital distribution platforms. Later, at MGM (MIRAGE) Resorts, Peck was on the industry governing board that delivered software protocols (“server-based gaming”) that allowed casino devices to “talk” to computers. Peck’s team was the first to deploy such “smart” gaming machines capable of running loyalty programs and marketing campaigns directly from the gaming device. 

After assuming the CIO position for Levi Strauss & Company, Peck’s team played a major role in launching various innovative, new online shopping platforms to include the first social apparel shopping experience on Facebook, an …