Elisa Cunningham
Chief Technology Officer at Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolElisa Cunningham is a seasoned technology executive with 12+ years in senior leadership and a proven record modernizing large public-sector transit and municipal systems as CTO for SEPTA and Metrolink. She specializes in cloud migrations, cyber resilience, enterprise architecture, and deploying customer-facing mobile and payment platforms at regional scale—reducing security vulnerabilities by 87% in one role and driving 90% cloud adoption in another. Known for turning governance into tangible savings, she established enterprise policies, IT steering committees, and agile delivery practices that tightened vendor SLAs and accelerated product delivery. Her background spans aerospace SAP integration to city-scale payment systems, and she’s currently a PhD candidate at the University of Denver, blending academic rigor with pragmatic operational leadership.
12 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
MBA Information Technology, MBA Information Technology at University of RedlandsDoctor of Philosophy - PhD (Candidate), Doctor of Philosophy - PhD (Candidate) at University of Denver - Daniels College of BusinessBS Mathematics Computer Science, BS Mathematics Computer Science at Louisiana State UniversityExecutive Education Business Analytics , Executive Education Business Analytics at The Wharton School
Github Skills (6)
maccatalyst5
ios5
md54
php3
crm2
suitecrm1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
septadev/GTFS
Aug 2015 - Aug 2021
Contributions:227 releases, 197 commits, 1 PR in 6 years 1 month
septadev/SEPTA-iOS
Mar 2015 - Nov 2022
Source Code for the SEPTA iOS App
Contributions:1 PR, 4 pushes, 25 branches in 7 years 9 months
iosseptamaccatalystios-app
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