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Vice President Of Technology
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Adam is an experienced technology leader with a proven track record in directing significant business expansion initiatives across diverse regions including MENA, APAC, and the USA.
As the current Vice President of Technology at Monstarlab in Dubai, he specializes in spearheading technical business development and ensuring the highest standards of delivery in sectors like Real Estate, Insurance, Financial Services, Sports & Gaming, and Culture & Tourism.
His expertise encompasses developing strategic partnerships, leading large distributed technical teams, and driving innovation in technology integration. With his comprehensive background, he is eager to contribute to visionary organizations aiming to leverage technology for transformative business outcomes.
He is a UAE Golden Visa holder, and is also open to contract roles.
Area of Specialization:
- Business Expansion Leadership
- Technical Business Development
- Strategic Partnership Cultivation
- Large-scale On-shore, Near-shore, and Off-shore Technical Team Leadership
- Innovation in Technology Solutions
- Global Service Offerings Strategy
- Client Engagement Excellence
- Cross-Regional Project Management
Experience: 11 years
Yearly salary: $240,000
Hourly rate: $125
Nationality: 🇺🇸 United States
Residency: 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates
Experience
Regional Technology Director, APAC
VML (WPP) 2019 - 2022
- Led, mentored, and continuously grew a team of 100+ technical staff across several offices in Asia, providing support for and standardization of best practices, strategic direction, account management, and delivery excellence to clients in industries including automotive, financial services, media, and consumer product. - Developed strategic regional technology practices and off-shore centers of excellence, allowing for efficiency and effectiveness in large scale delivery. - Drove new business initiatives across the region, enabling all offices to provide a wider range of services to local clients, leveraging the larger network of capabilities. - Drove innovation initiatives based on collaboration with design, technical landscape, and business needs of existing and potential clients.
Regional Technology Director, APAC
Concentrix Tigerspike 2018 - 2019
- Managed and mentored a technical team of 20+ members with disciplines including technical management, development, quality assurance, and service delivery. - Collaborated on all business development initiatives, providing technical feasibility, strategy, estimation, and architecture proposals. - Collaborated with network of global technical leadership to gain efficiencies and standardize processes.
Technology Director
MullenLowe Profero (IPG) 2017 - 2018
- Directed Digital Transformation initiatives for multiple clients in industries including automotive and hospitality. - Managed processes and working relationships between interdisciplinary global teams and vendors. - Evolved and promoted the Enterprise Platform, Analytics, and Search Engine Optimization (SEO) capabilities in the APAC region as a global offering for the network of agencies. - Collaborated on all business development initiatives, providing technical feasibility, strategy, estimation, and architecture proposals.
Technology Director
Havas Health 2014 - 2017
- Managed technical team of 30+ members across New York and Costa Rica. - Directed the technical architecture and strategy of all digital marketing and advertising engagements and functioned as the technical point of contact for all project managers and clients in the healthcare industry. - Collaborated on all sales initiatives, providing technical feasibility, strategy, and architecture proposals. - Oversaw research and development efforts to drive innovative business development initiatives for existing and new clients, including virtual reality, augmented reality, and machine learning.
Associate Technology Director
Ogilvy & Mather (WPP) 2010 - 2014
- Served in a technical director capacity for the digital marketing and advertising portion of several large accounts, in various industries, such as financial services, consumer products, insurance, and healthcare. - Collaborated on business development initiatives, providing technical feasibility, strategy, estimation, and architecture proposals. - Collaborated extensively with creative team members on leveraging technologies on the earlier side of the adoption curve to increase campaign success.
Engineering Manager
Huge (IPG) 2008 - 2010
- Managed the Server-Side Development and Quality Assurance teams consisting of 15+ team members. - Worked with senior team members to establish standards, and processes to be used for all projects. - Functioned as the Technical Project Manager for several large web projects at the client-site and internally in various industries, such as media, nutrition, and academia. - Responsible for all technical aspects of projects, including technical strategy, project planning, architecture, implementation, quality assurance, and maintenance.
Solution Architect
National Financial Partners 2003 - 2008
- Managed the Corporate Technology Application Development Team in the analysis, architecture, implementation, testing, deployment, documentation, maintenance, and project management of multiple systems, which were imperative to the daily business operations. - Managed the technical relationship with several vendors, including graphic design, information architecture, security, and financial data services firms. - Designed and continuously improved the Corporate Technology Application Development documentation and deployment process in compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley regulatory requirements.
Senior Software Engineer
Icon MediaLab (Publicis) 1999 - 2003
- Functioned as the senior developer and architect on large and small teams for several web site projects, which included custom and third-party Content Management Systems and eCommerce systems in various industries. - Responsible for architecture, data model, implementation, testing, infrastructure, and deployment. - Defined and enforced the departmental quality assurance practices, including processes to increase the efficiency of development, establish coding standards, and enhance the quality provided by the organization.
Software Engineering
Approach Consulting 1998 - 1999
- Functioned as a developer on large team at the client-site and internally, implementing multiple subsystems for web and client/server applications in various industries, such as real estate and telecommunications.
Software Engineer
Coopers & Lybrand (PwC) 1997 - 1997
- Functioned as a developer at a large financial services firm where I worked with a team on the implementation and testing of the data analysis software for several financial systems.
Technical Support Engineer
Binghamton University 1996 - 1998
- Functioned as a Technical Support Engineer for campus technology facilities, including execution of various operational activities and assisting students and faculty with troubleshooting.
Skills
cto
english