In 2011, Dill left the Portland Trail Blazers after 22 years to work with multiple sports franchises and multiple sports. Dill served as the lead for the Portland Trail Blazers and Rose Garden Arena IT team for the past 10 years as the VP, CIO.

Dill is a strategic thinker who is always looking for effective ways to apply technology to help solve business problems, create new efficiencies and help the business personnel reach their business goals. Prior to working at the Trail Blazers Dill worked at Tektronix for 5 years in IT.

Projects of note over the years include; Project IT Lead for Rose Garden Arena construction (included the cable plant, networking, POS, servers, connectivity, etc), Onyx to MS CRM conversion, MS CRM 4.0 to 5.0, VOIP implementation to support sales and service, website development projects, ecommerce projects, ticketing system change over, digital signage project for menus and fan experiences, WIFI and DAS implementations, mobile phone apps, Microsoft Windows 7 early adopter.

Other projects of note include RFID ticketing, business intelligence, data warehouse, Sharepoint 2010, Exchange and Lync 2010. Dill was recently given the “Oregon IT Executive of the Year Award” for private companies at the 2009 InnoTech CIO Summit. Within the IT community, Dill serves on numerous committees and leadership groups.

Dill is also involved in many technology groups like SIM (Society for Information Management) and SEAT (Sports and Entertainment Alliance in Technology) and often is asked to speak on technology topics at conferences held around the country.