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New York, Ny, Us

Head of Canon Americas Corporate Front Office Systems supporting services and solutions that deliver over 9 billion in revenue spanning the US, Canadian and Latin American geographies. Direct oversight and accountability for the organization, budget and Information Technology systems that deliver Marketing, Indirect Commerce, Direct to Consumer Commerce, Big Data Analytics, Sales Automation, Sales Quota and Planning, Customer Support / Service, and Infrastructure Shared services with an organization of over 300 + staff. Accountable for leading and coaching staff, business alignment, demand/pipeline management, system operations, capital investment and P&L.• Break down silos in Innovation , Digital Marketing and Corp IT Applications with laser focus on driving Transformation, Innovation, Business enablement.• Bring a disciplined approach to the management of strategic technology investments with a focus on capacity, pipeline, financial, resource, and risk management. • Lead “Centers of Excellence” that provide best in class high tech delivery & sustaining in Commerce, Data & Analytics, UI/UX, MarTech, Middleware, Customer Engagement, AI/ML and Dev-Ops.• Collaborate with and advise executive leadership team on the emerging technologies and digital trends that are most relevant to the company's goals and evolving needs.• Collaborate with and advise executive leadership team on potential Information Security risks and opportunities that influence our information security posture.

Responsible for seeking opportunities and driving innovation, modernization, and transformation by forging partnerships and alignment between business stakeholders, our R&D centers, Corporate IT, and external partners.• Head of technology and champion for Canon’s Digital transformation program; Responsible for advising and collaborating with the executive leadership team on all aspects of Canon’s digital transformation efforts; Responsible for defining strategy, roadmaps, organizational change plans, budgets, resource plans and execution plans. Oversaw execution of numerous projects within the DT program that focused on Commerce, customer engagement, big data analytics, SEO, omni-channel marketing, commerce, Digital Asset Management, Web Content Management & Loyalty. Accountable for directing over 200 plus program members.• Strategically and tactically aligned with BU executive level leadership, developing business cases and Pro-forma projection models. Led numerous “Pitch” discussions with Canon USA Executive leaders resulting in an award of millions in funding to drive transformation in technology, organization, governance, and new customer experiences for the direct consumer vertical.

Sub-Division head of Enterprise and Solution Architecture, IT Governance, Quality Management, Identity and access management, Data Integration and Dev-Ops.• Development of policies, standards and guidelines that direct the selection, design, implementation and use of Information Technology within the enterprise with a focus on reducing cost yet improving information flows.• Defining Enterprise and Solution architectures for Custom Application Development, Application Integration, Data Integration, Data Architecture, Data Warehouse, eCommerce, Identity and Access Management, Single Sign On.• Building knowledge and skills in new and emerging areas of expertise broadly within Corp IT• Oversee solution architect(s) that provide consensus based enterprise solutions that are scalable, adaptable and in synchronization with ever changing business needs.• Oversee Integration Center of Excellence focusing on delivering enterprise and customer facing API and Data Integration initiatives and operations• Led Identity Management and Single Sign On Center of Excellence focusing on securing identities, ensuring compliance while reducing friction • Led IT Governance and the definition of IT processes and controls related to Dev Ops.• Led Quality Assurance focusing on Functional and Performance Test Management Strategies and Execution.

Hands on Chief Architect responsible for leading an organization of highly skilled, multi-disciplined engineers (IT SWAT Team) that set strategic direction and executed end-to-end solution design for Custom Application/Framework Development, Cloud, Business-to-Business E-Commerce, Direct to Consumer E-Commerce, Identity and access Management, Big Data Analytics, and Data Integration Services. Key successes: establishment of Enterprise Service Bus, Service Oriented Architecture and an API economy, Identity and Access Management, Business to Consumer and Business to Business eCommerce, Big Data Analytics, Data Loss Prevention, Fraud Detection.

Reporting directly to the President and CEO, responsible for promoting and synergizing R&D activities with Corporate IT and other business units. • As an advisor to the President and CEO, provide counsel on organizational change, opportunity building, partnerships, and R&D operational effectiveness.• Facilitate growth driving revenue through new business opportunities and strategic initiatives in Customer Engagement, Bigdata Analytics, Computer Vision and Fed Ramp.• Establish strategic partnerships with Silicon Valley based startups and other technology industry leaders with a focus to expand capabilities in the areas of AI Computer Vision, Bigdata and Cloud Platform expertise.

Deer Park, New York, Us

Co-founded a company that strived to improve the state of education by bridging educational stakeholders in a data driven, journey driven educational eco-systems. Leveraging data derived from obvious educational data points, such as grades, coupled with novel data points such as in class behavior using Computer Vision, sensor information captured from class room surroundings interactions and an online, mobile experience, we sought the ability to identify, maximize and realize both the teachers and students full potential while identifying opportunities, propensities or other models that could lead to event driven positive corrective action.• Responsible for product development and solution R&D• CO-Developed business plans, pro forma forecast, market competitive analysis, feature maps, product brief and investment pitch decks