About Charlie

In his position as a Director in Cisco’s Consulting Group, Charlie has been a catalyst for value-added change for many organizations.  Charlie brings his customers an expansive knowledge spanning many industries from semi-conductor manufacturing to financial services, along with expertise in process innovation within supply chain, operations, sales and IT. This makes him uniquely qualified to guide organizations through their digital transformation journeys.

Today Mr. Martin and his team focus on designing new business models enabled by the blurring of digital and physical worlds.  Using information and analytics introduced by the connection of “things” to drive adaptive processes is a passion of his. Martin’s aim is to discover new ways of achieving a business opportunity to unlock new value and competitive advantage.

As an example,  he led the re-engineering of IT operational processes, for a high-tech manufacturing company, which drove 25% increase in efficiency and a 50% reduction in incidents caused by changes.  He also developed a new process model for a global distributor enabling them to increase services attached to hardware sales by 20%.

A ten-year Cisco veteran, Martin has championed business enablement both internally, within Cisco IT, and externally, to Cisco clients, across a variety of industries. Prior to Cisco, Mr. Martin held leadership positions at Digital Equipment Corporation, Ernst & Young, and MicroAge in the areas of consulting, operations, finance, supply chain, and IT. He also served as a RosettaNet board member, and as CTO for the Arizona Partnership for the New Economy.

Martin holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Arizona State University and is a certified ITIL practitioner in Change, Configuration and Release Management. He also proudly served in the US Navy, and is a veteran of the Submarine Service Nuclear Propulsion Program. He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina with his wife and daughter, and is an enthusiastic (if not particularly talented) soccer player.

See more on my LinkedIn Profile: www.linkedin.com/in/cemartin/