Tom Adler

About Tom Adler

A highly effective leader with industry recognized credentials, I am skilled at motivating large IT organizations and driving them to success. In my role as Vice President of Data Engineering Excellence, I continually deliver execution excellence against the most difficult data projects that deliver business valuable to our customers.Hard earned professional certifications coupled with my 20+ years of enterprise software development experience have contributed to my career growth. I have been a featured speaker for IT industry organizations such as Info World, Gartner and third party IT and software developers.Specialties-Strong leadership-IT management-Launching enterprise-wide IT initiatives-Budget management-Off-shore, in-house and remote team building-Motivational strategies-Staff mentor and trainer

Experience

1. Big Data Advisory Board Member

   Rutgers Lifelong Learning And Innovation

   Jul 2018 — Present

   Advisory Board member leveraging knowledge of big data management and strategic decision making ability to support the development of programs focusing on- Big Data Strategy- Big Data & Operations- Reducing Risk through Big Data- Driving Innovation through Big Data- Big Data Technologies & Infrastructure - Implementation Issues with Big Data

Education

• Penn State Great Valley

  Masters of Engineering, Software Engineering

  1991 — 1993

• The Wharton School

  Certificate, Business Analytics: From Data to Insights program.

  2019 — 2019

• The Wharton School

  Certificate of Professional Development, Organizational Leadership

  2016 — 2016

• University of Scranton

  BS, Computer Science

  1987 — 1991

Skills

• Software Development
• Scrum
• Unix
• Software Project Management
• Vendor Management
• Business Intelligence
• Software Engineering
• System Architecture
• Service-Oriented Architecture (Soa)
• Application Architecture
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Professional Mentoring
• Web Services
• IT Management
• Sdlc
• Solution Architecture
• Oracle
• Governance
• Integration
• Saas
• Requirements Analysis
• Cloud Computing
• Certified Scrum Product Owner
• Sun Certified Java Programmer
• Agile Methodologies
• Databases
• Agile Project Management
• Sharepoint
• Soa
• Strategy
• Team Leadership
• Information Technology
• Java
• Leadership
• .net
• Java Enterprise Edition
• Enterprise Architecture
• Telecommunications
• IT Strategy