Derek Adams
CIO Principal IT Strategy Business Transformation Operational Excellence
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolDerek Adams is a seasoned CIO and IT strategy executive with over 13 years in senior leadership and 20+ years of cumulative experience driving enterprise technology transformation across insurance, financial services, and global firms. He specializes in aligning IT vision to business outcomes—leading cloud and claims transformations, enterprise architecture, PMO and operational excellence to deliver sustained value. Known for a "business first" governance style, he builds collaborative partnerships with C-suite peers and empowers teams by raising standards while keeping himself approachable and accessible. Derek has repeatedly rebuilt and scaled IT organizations—from turnaround roles to global divisional CIO—demonstrating a rare mix of consulting discipline and hands-on delivery. He blends strategic planning with deep experience in M&A, vendor management and analytics, often translating complex change into measurable operational improvements. Based in Atlanta, he pairs executive education from Stanford and Harvard programs with a practical, people-centered leadership approach that accelerates growth.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Executive Education, Executive Education at Stanford University Graduate School of BusinessBBA, Computer Based Information Systems, BBA, Computer Based Information Systems at Howard UniversityExecutive Education, Executive Education at Harvard Business SchoolLandmark Forum, Landmark Forum at Landmark
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Github Skills (126)
zookeeper10
data-management10
cryptocurrency10
data-ingestion10
infrastructure10
internet10
thingsboard10
microservices10
architecture10
mqtt10
big-data10
iot-framework10
industrial10
desktop-application10
pods10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
ngocphu811/sitewhere-core
Jun 2013 - Jan 2014
Contributions:101 commits in 6 months
core-librariessitewhere
sitewhere/sitewhere-rest-api
Feb 2019 - Mar 2021
JavaScript model and REST API calls for interacting with a SiteWhere instance
Contributions:2 releases, 90 commits, 10 PRs in 2 years 1 month
apicallsjavascriptsitewhererest
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