Phil is the Director of IT Process Management and Control for Avery Dennison's Information Technology department. Avery Dennison is a global leader in pressure-sensitive labeling materials, office products and retail tag, ticketing and branding systems.

Previously, Phil was the Executive Director of Information Technology for the Pasadena Unified School District, leading the urban district's technology and instructional television operations. His responsibilities included directing the implementation of mission-critical transaction and business intelligence systems, and creating many of Pasadena Unified's innovative communications technology solutions. Phil served on the Board of the Pasadena Community Access Corporation as an appointed Pasadena City Commissioner.

Before his venture into government service, Phil was the Senior Web Development Manager for Non-Clinical Portals with healthcare giant Kaiser Permanente. His management area included Kaiser's public Web presence (www.kp.org), the corporate intranet (kpnet.kp.org), and the Web design group. He was the creator of Kaiser's innovative Web Academy, and held seven job titles of increasing responsibility during his decade with the HMO. Phil's other KP-IT projects ranged from reengineering pharmokinetic dosing protocol software to leading technology support for Kaiser's Hospital Alliances.

Prior to his career with Kaiser, Phil was a computer industry consultant and journalist, covering technology, general science, medicine and business management topics. Phil's media background includes editing consumer magazines (Personal Computer Age), reporting for online periodicals (Newsbytes News Service), and managing trade magazines (Rx Home Care), in addition to wire service reporting and photography (United Press International). Phil majored in Journalism at San Diego State University. He is currently featured in WatchIT.com's management video, "Telemanaging the Dispersed IT Workgroup."

Additional biographical information about Phil is available at www.philhopkins.net, and in the current edition of Who's Who in America.