Amid career and corporate conversions, Wachovia Commercial Print Manager Duane Hughes remains responsible, accountable and viable.

By Dawn Greenlaw-Scully

By 2004, however, Hughes wanted out of IT.

“I just felt like I needed to get away from computers,” he admits. “I was putting in extremely long hours.”

Hughes wanted to remain with A.G. Edwards, perennially considered one of Fortune magazine’s “100 Best Companies to Work for in America.” He targeted the company’s General Services department due to his respect for department head Sue Weiss. “[Sue] definitely made me a better manager,” he declares.