Andy
Ivory

Andy leads with a customer experience focused approach and passion for new product innovation. Andy guides collaborative, cross-functional teams through product development programs and ensures the outcome is a meaningful, relevant user experience. His expert coding credentials, intellectual curiosity, and creative thinking are brought together as he solves complex challenges. A veteran of numerous digital transformation initiatives, Andy balances disruption and process discipline to drive bold product concepts that yield competitive advantage. His broad industry experience spans consumer products, retail, transportation, financial services, and insurance (P&C, life, reinsurance, health). He successfully recruits, grows, and mentors IT professionals to support rapid and profitable corporate growth. Andy puts a laser focus on market trends as he seeks opportunities for disruptive innovation.

Most recently, Andy has led the design and delivery of applied AI platforms focused on learning, career development, and personalization. His work includes building a source-grounded AI tutoring engine that anchors responses exclusively to course materials while incorporating proven pedagogical techniques to drive genuine learning outcomes. He also created an intelligent career-mapping platform connecting student interests to degree programs and real-world job data, enabling longitudinal tracking and AI-driven execution of custom backend tasks. In addition, Andy has contributed to a mental health platform leveraging custom and off-the-shelf AI models to analyze personality characteristics using behavioral and survey data, enabling highly personalized insights.

As a CTO, Andy developed the strategy and framework to align IT resources with company mission. He established technology priorities, set project timelines, and engaged contract partners to accelerate product development. His application development skills and engineering knowledge were essential to the launch of new products that captured consumer attention. Recognizing the central role of user experience in product innovation, Andy invests time meeting with current and prospective customers to understand their needs. His practice is broad, with specialization in mobile application architecture and development, SaaS product innovation, digital transformation, and AI-enabled products.

A thought leader on numerous topics, Andy has published articles on insurance strategies for IoT, digital transformation, and WebSphere applications, among many other topics. He holds more than 60 patents spanning social network technology, application server performance, and collaborative browsing functionality.

Andy graduated from Penn State University with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering. He worked as a student programmer in the University’s famed Applied Research Laboratory, which brought together researchers, scientists, and manufacturing experts since 1945. Away from his desk, Andy spends time with his family, a classic Pontiac Firebird, and in the outdoors where enjoys hunting and fly fishing.