Founder at Carrow Consulting
Greater Philadelphia Area
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- Leader at Carrow Consulting
- Founder at Carrow Consulting
- Past
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- Sr VP Strategic Accounts at Unisys
- CIO at Unisys Corp
- CIO at City of Philadelphia
- Business Development Manager at General Electric Aerospace
- General Manger at GE
- Education
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- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- United States Military Academy at West Point
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John Carrow’s Summary
John Carrow is a global business leader and executive advisor to both the public and private sector. He is experienced in business technology management, process and product innovation, enterprise transformation, outsourcing and large scale business development. He is a visionary leader and communicator who performs with the highest of ethics and fiscal responsibility
John Carrow’s Specialties:
IT Management, Product Commercialization, SAGE- Stratedy, Alignment,Governance and Execution. IT Sourcing and Outsourcing, Enterprise Transformation
John Carrow’s Experience
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Leader
Carrow Consulting
(Information Technology and Services industry)
March 2009 — Present (9 months)
John Carrow is a global business leader and executive advisor to both the public and private sector. He is experienced in business technology management, process and product innovation, enterprise transformation, outsourcing and large scale business development. He is a visionary leader and communicator who performs with the highest of ethics and fiscal responsibility,
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Founder
Carrow Consulting
(Information Technology and Services industry)
March 2009 — Present (9 months)
Strategic Consulting, including business plan & sales strategy development. Our focus is: Strategy, Alignment and Governance; Technology Management; Enterprise Transformation; IT Sourcing Strategies.
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Sr VP Strategic Accounts
Unisys
(Public Company; UIS; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 2006 — February 2009 (2 years 6 months)
Worked as a “trusted advisor” to key public and private sector clients in the top accounts of the company. Demonstrated to clients and prospects Unisys value by promoting innovative business solutions across all lines of business on a global basis. Collaborated with the Executive Committee, their leadership teams and the global sales force to achieve profitable revenue growth. Lead strategy and execution on large deals and critical proposals.
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CIO
Unisys Corp
(Public Company; UIS; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 1997 — September 2006 (9 years 9 months)
Responsible for worldwide Information Technology across the $6B enterprise consisting of 35,000 UNISYS employees; operating in 119 countries. Directs the centralized 650 person IT organization and manages the global IT budget of $200M. Responsible for the strategic information technology direction for the diversified UNISYS global business.
• Revamped the UNISYS internal systems through the worldwide implementation of the Oracle ERP, PeopleSoft HR and Siebel CRM to achieve significantly reduced costs with Shared Service Operations in 5 regions of the world. Drove standard business processes for efficiency and effectiveness.
• Restructured the IT organization into a high performance team which has been benchmarked by the Hackett Group (in 2004 and 2006) as world class in efficiency and effectiveness. Institutionalized the CoBit control framework across the IT organization to achieve a control environment that meets the Sarbanes Oxley compliance. Effectively outsourced non core IT activities and off shored certain functions for cost competitiveness,
• Achieved major cultural change in the company by implementing standard business processes and systems worldwide, supplemented with a strong training component. Provided key leadership in moving the business from a hardware intensive business to a service oriented business with an underlying infrastructure of systems and processes. -
CIO
City of Philadelphia
(Government Agency; Government Administration industry)
August 1993 — December 1997 (4 years 5 months)
As the first CIO in the history of Philadelphia, established the strategic direction for the use of Information Technology across the diverse enterprise of 45 departments, 25,000 employees and a $2.5B operating budget. Effected the infusion of high technology, productivity enhancing solutions to achieve increased revenues, lowered operating costs and improved services.
• Established the Mayors Office of Information Services (MOIS) as the Center for Information Technology leadership with auspices over the $80M Information Technology budget. Developed the City of Philadelphia Strategic Information Technology Plan (1994-2000) to focus the direction of the city. Lead the 200 person IT organization and recast its image and performance as a leading city agency -
Business Development Manager
General Electric Aerospace
(Information Technology and Services industry)
1985 — 1993 (8 years )
Business Development leader for a major GE component. Responsible for the generation of over $800M in annual orders and the management of a $25M research and development/proposal budget. Grew the business from $650M to $880M over 3 years while reducing marketing base costs by 15%.
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General Manger
GE
(Public Company; GE; Financial Services industry)
July 1983 — September 1988 (5 years 3 months)
General Manager of a $120M P &L center. Responsible for a 600 person multifunctional Information Systems business in 5 locations across the US. Major product lines were the systems development and integration of information technologies using sophisticated image processing and mapping technologies.
