David Liao

About David Liao

High performing Enterprise IT head and senior technology delivery lead with 20 years experiences in Financial Services, Health Insurance, and Government industries across the U.S, Singapore, India, ASEAN, and Greater China in delivering hundreds of millions dollars in complex custom software development programs, digital transformation, cloud migration and innovation, applied intelligence and data analytics.Results-driven, strategically focus, and hands-on executive with demonstrated ability of inspiring large cross-cultural teams, managing complex, critical program across multiple geographies to deliver milestone targets. Consistently exceeding customer expectations and scripting sustainable growth models.Specialty in:• Business IT Integration• Project Management and Process Improvement• Software Product Development, Agile Delivery, and DevOps• Digital and Cultural Transformation• Quality and Warranty Management• Human Centered Design Thinking• Strategic Innovation, applied intelligence & machine learning, NLP, AI, VR, AVR• Fintech, business intelligence and data warehouse, data analytics• Cloud migration, adoption, native development, operation• Technology consulting, architecture design• Automation, Operational Efficiency and Optimization• Financial Budgeting and Forecasting• Change Management

Experience

1. Director, Enterprise IT Solutions and Innovation

   CalSTRS

   Jan 2019 — Present · Sacramento, CA, US

   Lead enterprise IT in CalSTRS, a financial institution with $300+ billion assets under management. Spearhead FinTech and customer-centric innovation initiatives, cloud native development, enterprise custom development at scale, COTS products integration, IT service delivery, business analysis and design, quality management, and mainframe pension system M&O.• Delivery Excellence and Culture Transformation by motivating and leading cross teams 80 IT professionals to enhance 1,028% IT service delivery efficiency, boost 175% IT projects productivity by enterprise Agile adoption, high-performing culture transformation• Oversee portfolio of 10+ enterprise IT projects, reduce portfolio risks by proactive program management approach and skills. Lead delivery teams to implement enterprise-grade cloud native solutions.• Partner across organizational boundaries, build relationships, foster high performing and continuous improvement culture, and achieve enterprise strategic goals. Present results to C-suite and gain high recognition.• Manage and launch Enterprise Agile/DevOps program, AI/ML, Automation, Live Streaming CalSTRS board meetings with multi languages and captioning, sentiment analysis in social media and phone recording, virtual assistant, automation, fraud detection in Google Cloud Platform, Azure, and AWS.• Deliver enterprise digital transformation - cloud migration and innovation, business intelligence & data warehouse, DocuSign electronic signature and power form, and SAP ERP, HR SuccessFactor, and pension ecosystem integration.

Education

• Soochow University

  Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science

• Syracuse University

  Master of Information Management

Skills

• Business Intelligence
• Sql
• Visio
• Management Consulting
• Agile Methodologies
• Software Development
• Databases
• Agile Transformation
• Program Management
• Project Management
• Systems Analysis
• Business Process Improvement
• Software Engineering
• IT Strategy
• Pmo
• Pmp
• Leadership
• Requirements Gathering
• Devops - Automation
• Business Process Design
• Data Warehousing
• Analysis
• Integration
• Ms Project
• Requirements Analysis
• Programming
• Sdlc
• Solution Architecture
• Vendor Management
• Testing
• Operations Management
• Software Project Management
• Business Process
• Business Process Re-Engineering
• Business Analysis