CIO, CTO, AI expert

John Remmler

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Summary/Professional Profile:

Highly accomplished CIO with 20+ years of experience driving digital transformation and innovation within diverse industries, including a $27.2 billion market. Proven ability to align technology initiatives with corporate goals, build high-performing teams, and deliver significant improvements in profitability and efficiency. Expertise in AI, cloud migration, cybersecurity, SaaS platform creation, and agile methodologies. Adept at strategic planning, budget management, and risk mitigation.

Professional Experience:

Chief Information Officer Lavitt Group Syosset, NY August 2010 – Present

Leadership & Strategy: Report directly to the CEO of a conglomerate in the $27.2 billion window and door market. Serve as a key member of the Executive Committee, driving growth and expansion strategies by aligning technology initiatives with corporate goals. Led corporate acquisition integration.

Digital Transformation: Build and optimize AI, Automation solutions to achieve corporate goals. Formed a high-performing IT team to support enterprise-wide digital transformation. Pioneered best-practice business processes through data modeling, business intelligence platforms, AI agent integration, and Epicor ERP implementation.

Operational Excellence: Boosted corporate profitability and efficiency by implementing Agile Scrum and Agile-DevOps methodologies. Formalized multi-year department and project budgets, consistently delivering projects on time and within budget.

Technology Innovation: Migrated mission-critical systems to cloud-based distributed systems, enhancing scalability and resilience. Authored and mobilized a contingency plan for remote operations and management years ahead of the pandemic crisis, ensuring business continuity.

Vice President, Software Development & Project Management IQM2 Inc. Ronkonkoma, NY September 2009 – August 2010

Software Development Leadership: Reported to the President and CEO. Increased development velocity through Agile Scrum methodologies, resulting in two major software product releases within six months for an award-winning SaaS product suite.

Process Improvement: Established standard operating procedures for software release and grey-box testing. Instituted software development standards, software specifications, and database modeling templates. Spearheaded an automated software setup/upgrade platform.

Technical Expertise: Provided technical leadership in video streaming projects and related marketing efforts. Successfully managed numerous outsourcing projects within timeline and budget constraints.

Vice President, Online Engineering Chyron Corporation Melville, NY June 2000 – July 2009

Strategic Initiatives: Reported to the CEO. Spearheaded strategic initiatives, including a company acquisition (and technical assimilation), patent application, and implementation of a global SaaS platform for content creation, management, and distribution.

Business Development: Launched an International Business Unit with a range of products for the digital signage and emergency alert markets. Established the marketing strategy, product line, business plan, manufacturing processes, and long-range growth plan.

Technology Leadership: Engineered award-winning software and hardware products for the television broadcast industry. Started a global technical services group providing video-on-demand streaming technology and web-driven custom applications.

Technical Innovation: Rolled out a global Content Delivery Network and a robust streaming engine utilizing a meta-network approach with high-availability server architecture. Managed budget by division and project, including revenue projections, pricing policy, and P&L projections.

Director, Project Management Applied Information Management Great Neck, NY March 1999 – June 2000

Business Development: Reported to the Vice President of Technology. Enhanced the company's strategic position through new business development.

Project Leadership: Managed software product development for an entertainment industry expert system. Led project teams both internally and with offshore strategic partners for a major migration project.

Account Management: Secured a multi-million-dollar account in the entertainment industry while repositioning the technology strategy.

Director of Information Systems Three Village Central School District Setauket, NY May 1988 – March 1999

Technology Planning: Reported to the Superintendent for Business Services. Spearheaded a district-wide technology plan in coordination with academic staff.

Cost Reduction: Achieved major budget reductions (22%) through a complete system migration from mainframe to client-server environments.

Strategic Support: Enabled strategic decision-making through MIS reporting, systems analysis, software engineering, project implementation, and support.

Education:

M.S., Management Science Stony Brook University, College of Business

Engineered an expert system for budget creation based on the Guru platform.

B.S., Computer Science Stony Brook University, Computer Science Department

Dean's List

Implemented MC68000 Assembler platform on IBM Vector Array Processor for the Computer Science Department.

Expertise and Skills:

Executive Leadership: CIO, CTO ERP Implementation

AI Agentic Integration

Cybersecurity & AppSec

Data Analytics using AI

Migration to cloud

Scalable IT Architecture

SaaS Platform creation

MS SQL Server

AI Implementation

.Net Platform

DevOps, Continuous Integration

C#, Python, WordPress

EMR, EHR

ERP MS Dynamics 365

Epicor, PeopleSoft, Oracle, Infor

CRM Salesforce.com

AWS, GCP, Azure

Jira, Confluence

Business Intelligence

Decision Intelligence

Vendor Management

Contract Management

IT Project Management

Budgeting/Planning

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