CTO of NYC + Mayor's Office of Data Analytics present: Big Data in the Big Apple
Minerva Tantoco
Chief Technology Officer for the City of New York
Dr. Amen Ra Mashariki, Chief Analytics Officer for the City of New York
CTO of NYC + Mayor's Office of Data Analytics present: Big Data in the Big Apple
Dr. Amen Ra Mashariki is the City's Chief Analytics Officer and leads the Mayor's Office of Data Analytics (MODA). Dr. Mashariki is an accomplished leader within government, private sector and academia with experience in bringing Big Data processing and analytics for large and complex data management efforts. He started his professional careers as a software engineer at Motorola working on over-the-air data transmission projects and led a team of user-interface developers to build components of security features for handheld devices. Most recently, Dr. Mashariki served as Chief Technology Officer at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management.
Dr. Mashariki previously worked at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab as a computer scientist and research scientist where he led a team working on data mining and data fusion projects in the bioinformatics domain. Prior to that, he served as Assistant Director of Informatics at the University of Chicago Comprehensive Cancer Research Center and taught computer science courses at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and robotics at Northwestern University.
Dr. Mashariki holds a Doctor of Engineering from Morgan State University, a Master of Science in Computer Science from Howard University, and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Lincoln University. Amen is a Brooklyn native and attended Brooklyn Tech High School.
The NYC CTO and Mayor's Office of Data Analytics will discuss the NYC technology ecosystem, explain how each of their relatively new offices operate, talk about how data impacts their work, and present opportunities for engagement with the data community.
Minerva Tantoco, Chief Technology Officer for the City of New York
Dr. Amen Ra Mashariki, Chief Analytics Officer for the City of New York
Minerva Tantoco is New York City's first-ever Chief Technology Officer (CTO). As CTO, Tantoco directs the Mayor's Office of Technology and Innovation with responsibility for the development and implementation of a coordinated citywide strategy on technology and innovation and encouraging collaboration across agencies and with the wider New York City technology ecosystem.
For more than 25 years - from launching her own start-up to directing technology and innovation for large enterprises - Tantoco has worked to affect business transformation across a range of industries from advertising to finance. With her appointment to the administration of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, she brings this wealth of experience in technology-enabled transformation to government.
Raised in Flushing, Queens, Tantoco is a product of New York City public schools. She attended Bronx Science High School and while still in college, moved to Silicon Valley where she co-founded technology startup, Manageware Inc, which was successfully sold five years later. Since then, Ms. Tantoco has led emerging technology initiatives including artificial intelligence, e-commerce, virtualization, online marketing and mobile applications.
Ms. Tantoco holds four US patents on intelligent workflow and is a speaker and author on mobile, security, big data, and innovation. As Senior Product Manager at Palm, Tantoco pioneered mobile enterprise solutions in the early 2000s which helped pave the path in mobile technology, developing and deploying some of the world's earliest mobile applications.
As Chief Architect at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Tantoco led the re-design and implementation of the company's Investment Banking data warehouse, a project that mirrors many of the City's big data and analytics initiatives. Ms. Tantoco most recently served as UBS APAC CTO for client-facing technology and innovation, with regional responsibility for the Asia Pacific region.
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