Miami-Fort Lauderdale Area
Darryl Maraj is a Senior Executive leading digital transformation initiatives that create sustainable competitive advantages while driving high ROI on new business and technology investments. 20+ years of experience fostering highly collaborative/high-performance teams, reinventing cost centers, and decoupling business processes to unlock new business potential within a culture of accountability, integrity, respect, and continuous improvement. Darryl believes in high sustainability and fostering creative communities. He serves on the board of several organizations with the intent of promoting tomorrow's leaders and volunteers his time to help address community challenges. Specialty areas include - Digital and Technology Transformation, Building Strategy and Business Technology Roadmaps, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Datacenters, Operational Agility, Business Process Engineering, Product Leadership, IT Governance, IT Workforce Transformation, Thought Leadership, Data and Analytics, ERP and Migrations, Integrations, CRM, Risk Management, Cyber Security and Blockchain.
Darryl Maraj is the Field Chief Technology Officer at Workato, where he partners with executives and technical leaders to bridge the gap between complex technologies and strategic goals. With over 24 years in technology leadership, including roles as CTO at TBC Corporation and Global CIO at GA Telesis, Darryl excels at driving digital transformation for sustainable competitive advantage and maximizing ROI. As a Field CTO, Darryl aligns technology initiatives with business objectives to deliver measurable outcomes, accelerate time to value, and enhance operational efficiency.
Developing, leading, and scaling a strategic, new, customer-facing, technology division of GA Telesis transforming complex technologies into easy-to-use, industry-accepted solutions. Over the past three years developed teams across three different SaaS businesses to produce: - Green-time management software to help commercial airlines increase their service availability, lower costs and maximize profits. Developed to transform traditional inventory management, distributed logistics, repairs management, and introduce inventory monetization. - FraudBlock, an AI-enabled, Fintech SaaS solution designed to protect businesses against phishing and payment fraud. Initially developed to address an internal problem, this SaaS tool is now available to all businesses to help solve a $20B payment fraud problem by securely onboarding vendors, eliminating payment fraud, and helping protect their employees from phishing attacks. -Blockrails, an AI-enabled, Real Estate SaaS solution designed to help Realtors, protect a homebuyer's right to property, making home-buying safe and easy. Repurposing our team's fraud tool to help solve a $7B problem in the real estate space. https://www.ic3.gov/Media/PDF/AnnualReport/2021_IC3Report.pdf
CIO-level position, responsible for strategy, leadership, team development, and IT operations. Designed and delivered scalable customer-facing software solutions, implemented Agile and DevOps transformed IT operations and led the team to provide operational efficiencies while enabling new revenue streams to all businesses across 5 continents. Promoted a business-first mentality and developed IT strategy, budgets, and team development initiatives to support it. Built long-lasting vendor relationships and managed multiple third-party teams. Architected a hybrid cloud environment as well as delivered cloud-first, highly scalable, efficient, and cost-effective server-less applications. Developed teams responsible for all artificial intelligence initiatives, business intelligence, and production-ready applications.
Introduced technology as a driver of success in the College of Business and Adams Center for Entrepreneurship. Implemented a CRM system for student and donor lifecycle management, standardized and improved processes, mentored entrepreneurs on making technology work for them, and managed all college marketing initiatives.
Planned and executed the university’s ERP conversations for students, finance, and human resources. Automated repetitive business processes, reporting, and entire departments. Developed and implemented all financial processes including encryption protocols, campus-wide PCI-compliant payment systems, ETL processes, automated disbursements, and reconciliations.
Coordinated and executed the digital transformation of the University’s Police department serving 30,000+ students and staff members. Heavily researched, documented, and trained law enforcement personnel across different agencies on computer-based crimes.