Paul Schwartz

Paul Schwartz is a forward-thinking and influential business IT management executive with over 30 years of experience in leveraging technology to drive organizational growth, improve performance, increase profitability, and expand intellectual property. He is known for transforming businesses by integrating IT with the business model for maximum shareholder value. With a broad experience in leading all aspects of corporate IT, including business and technology strategy development and execution, application delivery, technology infrastructure management, integration, and web and eCommerce strategies.

Schwartz is a change agent who is capable of orchestrating business transformation strategies through data-driven decisions. He encourages innovation by empowering people who focus on developing flexible, scalable, and sustainable solutions to customer and organizational problems. His experience in high-growth, high-transactional, high-availability, and highly regulated organizations has given him extensive knowledge of the financial services and high-tech industries.

Schwartz has a track record of exceptional accomplishments such as turning a company from near bankruptcy to profitability in just three months, leading a paradigm shift from legacy systems to web-based architecture, reducing costs, and increasing revenue. He instituted IT and corporate governance policies that saved millions in revenue and attracted new customers. He successfully integrated technologies, ensuring successful M&A and leveraged business rules locked in legacy systems for use in new technology platforms, retaining over $1M in revenue.

Schwartz holds an MBA in business from Colorado State University and a Bachelor of Science in computer science from the University of Louisville. He has worked in several organizations, serving in various capacities such as project manager, executive board member, board of director, MBA student, and chief information officer (CIO).

In summary, Paul Schwartz is a highly accomplished and experienced business IT management executive who has expertise in strategic vision, business/IT alignment, organizational development, project/product/program portfolio management, governance and risk management, disaster recovery/business continuity, budgeting/P&L, change agent/innovator, relationship/vendor/data management, outsourcing, legacy systems/business/technology transformation, enterprise software, cross-functional leadership, shared service, enterprise architecture, SDLC, integration, social media, and business development.