WILLIAM ANDERSON

Media Technology Leader. Artist. Philanthropist.

I’m passionate about empowering organizations to achieve meaningful impact through advisory roles, mentoring talent, and contributing to non-profit boards.

With experience in technology leadership at top companies, I excel in building high-performing, outcome-focused teams. As an accomplished artist, I bring creativity, flexibility, and a commitment to delivering on ambitious visions.

William Anderson - Technology Leader specializing in emerging technologies

Core Competencies

Emerging Technologies

Cloud, Blockchain, AI, and whatever is next. For the last 10 years of my career, I’ve helped major brands adopt AI strategies, for the last 2 I’ve helped them understand how blockchain is relevant (or not), and for 13 years I’ve been living in the cloud.

X-Functional Leadership

I’ve led Engineering, DevOps, Security, Quality, Project Management, and Mobile teams on products, agency teams, and more. I strive to be an amazing coach to my senior leaders and relatable to ICs.

Change Management

I’ve led the Agile transformation on team, division, and company level scales. I’ve led major product pivots, agile adoptions, team re-skilling, cutting departments, and more.

Stakeholder Relationships

Every organization has politics because corporate politics simply means that people have opinions. I work with partners inside and outside organizations to achieve success by aligning on what that success is.

Transformative Impact

Intentions are fantastic, but they aren’t the end game. What matters to people, companies, and the world is results and how we get there. I leverage data and set the right KPIs to track progress and find a way to

PASTE

I ALWAYS adhere to my core values and goals at work and home. My goals are to be a pillar of support and to build legacies. I achieve this and help others do the same with a value system, PASTE.

PASTE makes it all stick together; its ingredients are Passion, Accountability, Strength, Transparency, and Empathy.

How We Can Work Together

  • Leverage my strategic insights and industry expertise by inviting me to support your organization's vision, direction, and decision-making in a board or advisory role.


    Past Boards:
    NY Coalition For The Homeless (Junior Board)

  • Engage your audience with thought-provoking discussions led by me on emerging technologies, leadership, and transformative impact in the tech industry.

  • My team at Bloomberg is usually hiring for several roles. Keep an eye out on my LinkedIn and apply if you are interested.

Speaking Engagements

I explore the fusion of emerging technologies in mid-size organizations, highlighting the significance of cost, speed, and value with a unique, hands-on approach that emphasizes tailored strategies for technology and people to drive transformative impact.

  • My talk “What’s Holding Back Blockchain?” focuses on exploring the lack of infrastructure startups and the mis-directed marketing focus of Web3 and how we can fix it.

  • “The Future of Digital Art” is a talk designed to inspire. Given on the mainstage of NFT NYC ‘22 I drew parallels to the traditional art world and where NFTs can go beyond speculative trading.

  • I guest lecture at universities such as Princeton and The New School on a range of topics from early career planning advice, to avoiding burnout, to techniques for learning context.

  • At Google Cloud Next, me and a colleague filled an iMax theater for our talk about Forbes migration to GCP. How we rearchitected to a SOA, went from 1 deploy a week to 12 a day and its impacts on the company.

  • I’ve led, participated in and organized small meetups and gatherings and roundtables of all sizes, privately and for brands on topics including, compliance, data, accessibility, caching, cloud, decentralization and branding.

Thought Leadership

  • Mastering Cloud Cost Management

    Strategies for Optimizing Your Cloud Infrastructure

    Read on Medium

  • SBOM: Software Dependencies & Security

    Managing Open-Source Risks and Streamlining Your Development Process

    Read on Medium

  • DIDs On The Blockchain

    How Decentralized Identifiers Are The Future Of Online Identity

    Read on Forbes

  • How To Write GREAT AI Prompts

    Artificial Intelligence is ready for your day-to-day use, if you know how.

    Read on Medium

  • The Value of Code Versus The Value Of A Product

    Does the advent of AI mean an end to writing code as a profession?

    Read on Medium

  • How To Value R&D for Emerging Tech Adoption

    3 Steps to Mastering the Art of Context-Driven Innovation in a World of Emerging Technologies

    Read on Medium

Get In Touch

The best way to get in touch with me is via LinkedIn. I reply quickly and we can switch to email or text from there.

William’s
Art Practice

I’ve been coding since I was 12, but even before that, I was making art. Maintaining a creative practice is important to me and I am always working on something new.