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                                                        The Florida SunFlash

		SMCC HONORS WELLS FARGO SENIOR VP
		     WITH MIS VISIONARY AWARD

SunFLASH Vol 47 #4					       November 1992 
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      Donates $10,000 to University Computer Science Program


MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- November 2, 1992 -- Wells Fargo executive Roy
Camblin is increasing the efficiency of the Wholesale Service Group's
computer solution -- with potential savings of millions annually.
These savings and Camblin's innovative approach to MIS helped him win
the first "Information Systems Visionary of the Year" award, bestowed
by Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation (SMCC) today.

The award recognizes Camblin's success in creating an organization-wide
client-server solution that improves efficiency, saves money, and
brings technology into the hands of the front-line employees.  As Wells
Fargo Wholesale Service's senior vice president of systems and
operations, Camblin constantly looks for ways of making the bank more
competitive and efficient through how it deploys its information
systems.  His efforts reflect a major trend in business today called
"rightsizing."  At Wells Fargo, he is incorporating innovative, UNIX(R)
system client-server solutions to replace traditional mainframe
applications -- which many other financial services organizations have
yet to adopt.

Industry analysts have been making note of the move to rightsize among
countless businesses.  In fact, Peter Burris from International Data
Corp. predicts that 1993 will be the year of rightsizing as MIS shifts
its emphasis away from mainframes to smaller networked systems.  He
believes $7-8 billion will be spent on rightsized hardware, software
and services during 1993 in the United States alone.

SMCC decided to create its information systems visionary award to honor
the professionals like Camblin who are on the cusp of an important
movement in information systems.  The company solicited nominations
from its worldwide field representatives before selecting Camblin. A
$10,000 grant will be made by SMCC in Camblin's name to his higher
education computer science department of choice.

Camblin's vision is to employ an "open, truly portable MIS environment"
and eventually run the entire group's core business, performing more
than $20 billion in transactions per day, on the UNIX platform.  The
first application implemented is a risk-control, transaction release
system that combines Sun(TM) SPARCstation(TM) and SPARCserver(TM)
systems with Oracle's CASE technology.  The project took eight months
to complete and will allow the group to apply the system to a full
range of applications.

"Roy Camblin is undoubtedly one of the most trendsetting and
advanced-thinking CIOs out there," said Bill Raduchel, chief
information officer, SMCC.  "He has gone out on a limb to re-engineer
Wholesale Service's business by foresaking traditional MIS models and
developing an innovative approach for a complex, high-risk,
high-security application."

Wells Fargo Wholesale Services Group is one of more than a dozen
decentralized entities of Wells Fargo & Company, the eighth largest
bank holding company in the United States.  It is the oldest bank in
California and operates more than 614 branch offices in the state.  Roy
Camblin has been with the bank since 1989 and was previously vice
president and manager of bankcard systems.  He holds a master's degree
in system management and system technology from the University of
Southern California and a bachelor's degree from Florida State
University.

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