Aziz Ismail

About Aziz Ismail

Strategic, business-oriented, and service minded IT leader with substantial experience planning, designing, leading, and implementing a broad range of corporate growth and realignment initiatives. Ability to position IT as a strategic partner and change agent within all business units. Leverage value-based approach to establish technology priorities, standards, policies, and best practices to ensure stable technology operations that will drive brand awareness and support the revenue and customer growth. Proven talent to lead multiple cross-functional teams and leverage business acumen, financials and technical knowledge, to help organization achieve strategic objectives while ensuring customer satisfaction. Excellent interpersonal, communication, and “call to action” skills. Core CompetenciesDigital Strategy & Transformation, Strategic Business & IT Planning, Business & IT Alignment, Service Delivery Management, Data Interpretation, Utilization & Monetization, Business Intelligence & Dashboard Implementation, Contract/Vendor Management, IT Program & Project Management, Organizational Change Management, Business Process Redesign & Best Practices,\"Non Core\" Process and System Developments Outsourcing & Offshore Team Management, Policy and Compliance Development, Security/Disaster Planning, Budget Development & Management, Cost Containment, Application Development, Systems Integration/Migration, Analysis & Turnarounds, SaaS, ERP (SAP, Microsoft Dynamics and Netsuite), CRM (Salesforce, Netsuite, Microsoft Dynamics), Microsoft Office 365, Cloud Computing & Collaboration, Agile/Scrum Development, Feasibility Studies, Mobile Strategies for the Enterprise, Social Media, CMS, SEO, PIM, DAM, Web Redesign, B2B Content Syndication and Site Linking Projects, High-Performing Teams, Training/Mentoring & Team Building.

Experience

1. CIO & Transformation Officer

   AXA Partners

   Jan 2018 — Present · Chicago, IL, US

   Responsible to drive organizational change and growth, leveraging existing and emerging technologies, uncovering opportunities, and directing innovative strategies to improve operations and develop leading-edge digital products. Foster and cultivate a high-performance collaborative culture to tear down silos to boost creativity and innovation, build trust, and create flexibility to support the changing and demanding needs of business.

Education

• Kellogg Executive Education

  Executive Scholar Program, Operations & Technology

  2019 — 2019

• Coursera

  Design Thinking for Innovation

  2017

• Keller Graduate School of Management of DeVry University

  MBA

  2003 — 2006

• Northwestern University

  Business Analyst Certificate

  2007 — 2008

• DeVry University

  Bachelor’s Degree, Technical Management Program

  1997 — 2001

• Northwestern University

  Project Management Certificate

  2006 — 2007

Skills

• Change Management
• Erp Implementations
• Collaboration Solutions
• Salesforce.com
• Contract Negotiation
• Full Life Cycle Implementation
• Disaster Recovery
• Social Media Marketing
• Microsoft Office
• Pmp
• Project Management
• Office 365
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• E-Commerce SEO
• Outsourcing
• Sharepoint
• Risk Management
• Cloud Computing Iaas
• Business Process Improvement
• Middleware
• Software Documentation
• Tableau
• Business Intelligence
• Cloud Computing
• Thought Leadership
• Private Cloud
• Servers
• Crm
• Itil
• Magento
• Backup
• Erp Selection
• Disaster Risk Reduction
• Program Management
• Netsuite
• Six Sigma
• Emr
• IT Procurement
• Human Capital Management
• Strategy