Develop your personal brand by taking on new challenges. T oday, I manage a portfolio of 450 applications for Turner and the new Warner Media Corporate IT functions. These include applications that support both media business operations, and enterprise functions. I oversee 250 people at multiple locations globally and I am responsible for a budget of $50 million a year. It's a challenging job, but I have an incredibly talented team who make extraordinary things happen. A MEMORABLE MENTOR I'm thinking in particular now about one of my early mentors. When I was at IBM, I was fortunate enough to encounter Cassandra, a senior African-American woman in a maledominated field-a CIO at a time when there were not a lot of female CIOs. Through her actions, she taught me an important lesson: Don't be afraid to step into a situation 87