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Norbert Kubilus gets around. In his 35-year IT career, he's worked in hospitality, financial services, engineering and construction. Now he's CIO of Sunterra Corp., a $424-million company in Las Vegas that develops and manages 98 vacation time-share resorts in 13 countries.
"One of the things I really like about this job is that I bring all the different verticals to bear," he says, adding that he can draw on his cumulative experience. "It keeps things interesting."
Kubilus heads up an 80-person staff with personnel located in the U.S. and Europe. Currently, his most time-consuming project is the migration of Sunterra's European operations to an enterprise platform that was developed in-house. Known as ATLAS, the platform handles all Sunterra's core business functions, including reservations, sales, marketing and property management.
The migration -- which should be complete this summer -- began with a gap analysis to determine how U.S. and European operations differ so that ATLAS can accommodate those differences. For example, Kubilus says, rules for how a sale is conducted and concluded differ; in the U.S., a buyer typically has three days to rescind a purchase, while a European has 14 days to nix a sale. ATLAS has to support all those underlying business rules.
With the vacation time-share industry accounting for $11 billion in revenues and growing, Kubilus says, "it's a good time to be here." And it doesn't hurt that Kubilus can visit Sunterra's resorts when he's in need of some downtime. Two of his favorite domestic locales are Sedona, Ariz., for a weekend getaway or Kaanapali, Maui, for whale watching.
Megan Santosus, a former senior editor at CIO Decisions, is now a features editor for SearchDataCenter.com. Write to her at msantosus@techtarget.com.
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