Roger Stanger’s New Role as Chief Information Officer at Buckles-Smith Electric

Roger Stanger has accepted the new role of chief information officer at Buckles-Smith Electric. He has more than 30 years of industry experience in sales and operations, most recently as Buckles-Smith’s vice president of operations.

Jim Lucy Blog

March 1, 2016

Buckles-Smith Electric (San Jose, Calif.): Roger Stanger has accepted the new role of chief information officer at Buckles-Smith Electric. He has more than 30 years of industry experience in sales and operations, most recently as Buckles-Smith’s vice president of operations. “We are fortunate to have Roger with his diverse background, passion for detail, and understanding of our business platform and processes,” said Art Cook, Buckles-Smith’s president and CEO, in a press release. “In this newly created strategic position, Roger will be responsible for leveraging technology across the enterprise to improve the customer experience, to make us more efficient, and to provide better information to enable our managers and employees to make more informed decisions.”

Founded in San Jose in 1939, Buckles-Smith is the largest independent electrical supplier in Northern California.

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Jim Lucy has been wandering through the electrical market for more than 30 years, most of the time as an editor for Electrical Wholesaling, Electrical Marketing newsletter and CEE News. During that time he and the editorial team for the publications have won numerous national awards for their coverage of the electrical business. He showed an early interest in electricity, when as a youth he had an idea for a hot dog cooker. Unfortunately, the first crude prototype malfunctioned and the arc nearly blew him out of his parents' basement. Before becoming an editor for Electrical Wholesaling magazine and Electrical Marketing, he earned a BA degree in journalism and a MA in communications from Glassboro State College, Glassboro, NJ., which is formerly best known as the site of the 1967 summit meeting between President Lyndon Johnson and Russian Premier Aleksei Nikolayevich Kosygin, and now best known as the New Jersey state college that changed its name in 1992 to Rowan University because of a generous $100 million donation by N.J. zillionaire industrialist Henry Rowan. Jim is a Brooklyn-born Jersey Guy happily transplanted in the fertile plains of Kansas for the past 20 years.