Chief Information Officer
Patrick Neville - Energy East V.P. Information Technology
Patrick Neville is Vice President of Information Technology for Utility Shared Services the Rochester based service organization of Energy East. Energy East is the parent company of 6 utilities in the northeast, including Berkshire Gas, Central Maine Power, Connecticut Natural Gas, New York State Electric and Gas, Rochester Gas and Electric, and Southern Connecticut Gas.
Combined Energy East companies serve nearly 3 million customers.
Prior to moving to Rochester, Patrick was Director of Information Technology at CNG/SCG. In total he has been with the Energy East family of companies for 9 years. Patrick has a Mechanical Engineering degree from Duke University and an M.B.A with a concentration in finance from New York University.
Employee Testimonials
Sailaja - Lead Database Analyst
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Energy East provided me rewarding work opportunities without the need to forfeit my
family life. My daughter was an infant when I started here 3 years ago and a flexible
schedule was very important to me. When I was hired into a lead database analyst they
worked with me to achieve a work-life balance, which was very important to me. I have
been encouraged to explore career growth opportunities within my organization and know
that Energy East will help me to get where I want to go. I enjoy working at Energy
East because of the people, the flexibility, the caring, and the opportunities. Energy
East is a genuinely happy and fun place to work. People are eager to do their jobs and
put forth their best efforts across the company. In my job, I am fortunate to have the
opportunity to interface with many different employees across the entire company. The
enthusiasm here is widespread and infectious - great people working together!
Scott - Director, Technical Services
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IT is a quickly evolving field and when the computer savvy generation becomes the
predominate work force you will see the role of IT shift. This shift will move more
control and data to the end user and permanently shift the responsibilities from IT.
The server management and infrastructure management positions will be less of a specialized
role and become the more entry level role in IT. IT will merge more with the business with a
focus on information gathering and delivery. IT Infrastructure will become a commodity.
The way to keep pace and be successful will be through education and maintaining an open mind.
IT management is very much like software versions. We plan to go from Step 1 or Version 1.0 to
Version 2.0, we do not think about going from Version 1.0 to Version 100. We need to start
thinking with a creative out-of-the box approach and not in small steps.
Lindsay - Network Engineering Intern
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Being not all that far from a newcomer myself, I would have to impress upon a new person
the importance of communication skills. They are ever so important to make meetings,
and your workplace function. But more so then that it is not necessarily the technical
skills one might possess that makes them valuable to a company, but more so the ability
to obtain those skills, and the desire to further those skills, your education does not
end on graduation day.