Colonial Savings Names John Quinones CIO of its Banking, Mortgage and Insurance Companies

John P. Quinones has joined Colonial Savings (Fort Worth, Texas) as the company's chief information officer. Quinones will be responsible for all information technology systems, strategies and initiatives for the company's banking, mortgage and insurance divisions and affiliates.

Quinones most recently served as senior consultant at Irving, Texas-based Avistas, a management and technology consulting firm which provides project-based "on demand" information technology to a variety of industries. He also served for many years as executive vice president and chief information officer of First Command Financial Planning where he built that organization's business development, marketing and product management departments from the ground up. He has held senior level positions with DeVry University where he was Dean of Computer Information Systems, Information Technology and Telecommunications Management, and with BTrade, a leader in EDI systems.

Quinones is also a 24-year veteran of the U.S. Army, where he held the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, Aviation, and worked on some of the U.S. Military's most technologically advanced projects, according to a Colonial Savings statement.

Anthony O'Donnell has covered technology in the insurance industry since 2000, when he joined the editorial staff of Insurance & Technology. As an editor and reporter for I&T and the InformationWeek Financial Services of TechWeb he has written on all areas of information ... View Full Bio