Ken Kranz

Acting CTO Drone Venture at Cognizant Technologies

Sayville, New York, United States

About Ken Kranz

Ken Kranz is Acting CTO Drone Venture at Cognizant Technologies. Location: Sayville, New York, United States.

I am a Senior Enterprise Architect and thought leader focusing on the emerging Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) market. Tasks routinely include business and partnership development, technology evangelism, solution architecture, and patent development. I have a rich background in large-scale, Agile-driven product development, with a proven track record of bringing software and hardware projects to fruition on time and in budget. Acting CIO for the Cognizant Drone Venture. Focusing on business growth, client solutions implementation and growing our partnership base in the aerial inspection vertical. Additionally, responsible for delivering big data based sensor storage designs, best practices, design patterns and various white papers for the aviation, banking/financial, healthcare and utility industries. Finally, I am an established author, public speaker, patent developer, a private pilot, and a certified commercial remote drone operator as per CFR 14, part 107.

Skills

  • Cloud Computing
  • Multi-tenant
  • SOA

Additional experience

  • Member FAA Unmanned Aircraft Safety Team (UAST)

    Cognizant Technologies

    Started December 2016

Education

  • MSCS, New York University - Polytechnic School of Engineering
  • BSCS, New York University - Polytechnic School of Engineering