Summary
Ray Arias is a veteran technology and operations leader with 8+ years of recent experience and decades-long career delivering large-scale telecom, ERP, and public-sector IT transformations. As Managing Partner and founder of a veteran-owned consulting firm, he has driven over $40M in projects, secured strategic partnerships with Microsoft, Cisco and IBM, and led multi-year SAP and ERP rollouts that generated multimillion-dollar revenue uplifts. Ray combines hands-on systems integration expertise in AMS, TBOS and ITS with a sales-first mindset that repeatedly converts technical programs into sustained business value. He is equally comfortable leading field engineering crews or designing data governance and migration strategies for government agencies, and brings formal training from Kellogg, MIT and Wharton in systems thinking, design and sales. An avid coder, musician and lifelong Chicagoan, Ray blends analytical rigor with creative problem-solving and a pragmatic focus on execution and client satisfaction.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
MBA, Finance, MBA, Finance at Illinois Institute of Technology
Certification, AI and Data Science Leadership, Certification, AI and Data Science Leadership at University of Chicago
Certificate in Global Supply Chain Management, Certificate in Global Supply Chain Management at The Wharton School
Certification, System Dynamics with Jay Forrester, Certification, System Dynamics with Jay Forrester at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Certification, Design Thinking, Certification, Design Thinking at MIT Professional Education
Kellogg School of Management