MRV Communications, Inc. is a leading global provider of carrier Ethernet, wavelength division multiplexing optical transport, infrastructure management equipment and solutions, as well as network integration and managed services. MRV announced that Jeremy Erlandsen, Chief Information Officer of MRV, was named 2012 CIO of the Year by The Los Angeles Business Journal.

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Jeremy Erlandsen has led MRV Communications through an immense amount of change since being hired as the company’s CIO. His main goal in being hired as the CIO was to reorganize MRV’s global IT operations from a regional structure into a centrally controlled competency based model. Erlandsen led his IT team through this daunting task at a steady pace, enabling the assurance of quality work as well as timeliness in meeting deadlines. His ability to take on certain pieces of this project on his own and delegate other responsibilities to his team members was critical in the project’s successful completion. Faced with the daunting task of restructuring the entire IT operations of a company like MRV, Erlandsen is in tune with the fact that the people within his team are critical to the success of the project. Therefore, selecting the most skilled experienced and talented professionals to carry out the project are of the same importance. Erlandsen built a team of experienced IT professionals that have an understanding of MRV’s business as well as younger individuals that are experts in newer cloud technology. He promotes a culture of continuing education where these IT professionals can learn from each other every day as they collaborate on the projects at hand. Erlandsen has always been a proponent of working closely with other lines of business as well. AT MRV, he created an executive alignment program with some of the key departments including operations, engineering, finance, accounting and human resources. This program gave Erlandsen and his IT team an understanding of the goals of each department, allowing him to align the new IT infrastructure with the business as a whole. With many years of experience in revitalizing IT departments, Erlandsen has found that collaborating with the business is of the upmost importance in completing successful projects.