Mark Schwartz

AWS Enterprise Strategist

"Maintain a game-changing vision but move towards it in small increments."

-- Mark Schwartz

Mark Schwartz, AWS Enterprise Strategist

Getting to know

Mark Schwartz, AWS Enterprise Strategist

Mark's AWS beginnings

Mark Schwartz joined AWS as an Enterprise Strategist and Evangelist in July 2017. In this role, Mark works with enterprise technology executives to share experiences and strategies for how the cloud can help them increase speed and agility while devoting more of their resources to their customers.

Mark's expertise

Mark has extensive experience as an IT leader in the government, private sector, and the nonprofit world, and with organizations ranging from startup to large. Prior to joining AWS, he was CIO of US Citizenship and Immigration Services (in the Department of Homeland Security), where he led a large digital transformation effort, moving the agency to the cloud, introducing and refining DevOps and Agile techniques, and adopting user-centric design approaches. From his work at USCIS, he developed a reputation for leading transformation in organizations that are resistant to change, obsessed with security, subject to considerable regulation and oversight, and deeply bureaucratic. Before USCIS, Mark was CIO of Intrax Cultural Exchange, a leader in global youth exchange programs, and CEO of a software company.

Mark's publications

Mark is the author of The Art of Business ValueA Seat at the Table: IT Leadership in the Age of Agility, War, Peace and IT, The Delicate Art of Bureaucracy, and Adaptive Ethics for Digital Transformation. Mark speaks at conferences internationally on such subjects as DevOps, Leading Change, Driving Innovation in IT, and Managing Agility in Bureaucratic Organizations. He has been recognized as a Computerworld Premier IT Leader and received awards for Leadership in Technology Innovation, the Federal 100 IT Leaders, and a CIO Magazine 100 award. Mark has both a BS and MA degree from Yale University, and an MBA from Wharton.

Mark's career

  • CIO, US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)
  • CIO, Intrax Cultural Exchange
  • CEO, Auctiva Corporation
  • Board Member, DigitalTown
  • MBA, Wharton
  • BS, Computer Science, Yale
  • MA, Philosophy, Yale
  • CIO Magazine CIO 100 award
  • Computerworld Premier 100 award
  • Computerworld Elite 100 award
  • Federal Computer Week Fed 100 award
  • Leadership in Technology Innovation award
  • Overcoming the Business-IT divide
  • Understanding and delivering business value
  • Dealing with bureaucracy
  • Business risk and information security
  • Using DevOps and the cloud to transform organizations
  • Public sector, private sector, and nonprofits

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