Summary
Patrick Dillon is a senior technology executive with 28+ years leading large-scale payments, treasury and enterprise IT programs, now serving as Director of Technology Strategy & Standards at American Express. He combines deep hands-on experience in application development, infrastructure and QA with a proven track record of driving product innovation, operational efficiencies and large migrations across global teams. Patrick has led and scaled 70+ person international organizations and steered technology for high-volume financial operations at JPMorgan Chase and TransCentra, often blending Java and C# .NET systems with Oracle and SQL Server backends. Known for building strong collaborative relationships with customers and vendors, he uniquely pairs pragmatic delivery discipline with strategic roadmaps that anticipate regulatory and imaging/processing shifts. Based in Phoenix, he brings a journalism-rooted ability to communicate complex technical tradeoffs clearly to business stakeholders.
11 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
School of Journalism, School of Journalism at University of Wisconsin-Madison