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Lori (Miskel) Pender

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Deputy Chief Information Officer at NJ TRANSIT
📍 Brooklyn, New York, United States

Lori Pender is the Deputy Chief Information Officer at NJ TRANSIT, an award-winning executive with over three decades of experience in IT and project management. Her career is highlighted by her tenure as a Vice President at JP Morgan, where she led global teams and managed multi-million dollar technology projects.

Outside of her professional life, Lori has been involved with civic organizations, demonstrating a commitment to community and social impact. She is passionate about leveraging technology for organizational improvement and is likely interested in leadership development and community service.

In 2022, Lori won a Bronze Stevie® Award for Women in Business.

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Experience
19 Years
Current Role
Deputy Chief Information Officer
Job Level
Leadership
Location
Brooklyn, New York, United States
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IT Talent Recruitment
Her public feed shows she is consistently and actively hiring for her IT team at NJ TRANSIT, indicating a strong focus on building her department.
Generative AI Adoption
She is a scheduled panelist at a 2025 tech summit to discuss reskilling the workforce for the AI-enabled enterprise, including Generative AI technologies.
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Career

Work history

5-2019
Deputy Chief Information Officer
NJ TRANSIT
7-2009 - 5-2019
IT Project Controller
Girl Scouts of the USA
9-2008 - 7-2009
Application Consultant
Camp Olympia
1-1997 - 6-1999
Global Program Manager for Implementation of Peoplesoft - Vice President
JP Morgan
HR Strategy & Structure Re-Engineering Project Manager - Vice President
JP Morgan
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Berkeley College
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Middlesex County College
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