Max Li

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About Max Li

Sr IT executive with strong leadership, business acumen, organization skills & technology experience. Enable high-tech companies to drive growth by aligning technology development & corporate strategy to anticipate, shape/lead major market transitions. Drove a world-class Fortune 250 company’s industry and world-wide leadership & value creation by enabling it to become the world’s industry leader in Human Capital Management (HCM) solutions & by helping anticipate/respond to market changes. Expertise in strategy creation/execution; enterprise software; IT mgt; product dev/mgt; business integrations & building partnerships. Innovative/collaborative mindset; pragmatic vision capable of translating strategic plans into executable programs; ability to drive multiple, large-scale initiatives to completion & build/develop high-performing teams. As Global CIO at ADP, achieved significant cost reductions & increased NPS score. Maintained business continuity during 2020 Covid-19 by adapting ADP to the new environment in less than two weeks. Led effort to switch 60K employees to work from home with no visible impact to productivity. Started IT transformation from cost center to business enabler; established ADP Cloud strategy & currently completing 1st of the 3-year initiative’s execution to reduce hosting cost annually. Working closely with the Chief Security Officer, led risk mitigation/strengthened ADP’s security posture. Before, as SVP, Product Dev associates in 5 locations, US, Canada, India), drove industry/world-wide leadership for ADP & significant value creation. Provided clear market definition of HCM. Transformed ADP product platform, enabling Company to become world’s industry leader in Human Capital Management (HCM) solutions with one of the largest B2B Cloud application world-wide. Led global initiative in transforming products into globally-suitable solutions (while elevating user experience) by integrating/transforming multiple legacy products into one cloud-based modern HCM suite. Serving as VP, Product Dev, drove explosive growth of online-payroll client base by completing ADP's next gen payroll product & increased client satisfaction survey score. Before, as VP, Internet Development, partnered with Marketing & significantly contributed to growth of TotalSource from 3d largest to largest PEO in the US. Earlier, held progressive roles with tech firms in China/the US. MBA, Kennesaw State University; Master’s of Eng.(Electrical/Computer), University of South Carolina-Columbia; Master’s of Industrial Mgt & BE, Zhejiang University, China.