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Tom Caddoo

Practice Architect

Banking, Americas Business Transformation

Tom brings over 15 years of experience from the financial services industry. He is a Vertical Solutions Architect within Cisco’s Americas Business Transformation Group.  The Business Transformation Group works with financial services customers to drive transformational change across all delivery channels by ensuring architecture alignment with our customer’s business imperatives.

 As a Vertical Solutions Architect, Tom has recently been focused on the alignment of Cisco Architecture and Solutions to address next generation branch activities that many financial services firms are working on today. These activities focus on driving a differentiated branch experience for a bank’s customers through the innovative use of technology in the branch environment.

 Prior to Cisco, Tom was a Chief Architect for Adaptivity, where he oversaw the solution development and delivery of consulting engagements to large Financial Institutions in the US, Canada and UK.  Prior to Adaptivity, Tom spent over 6 years at Wachovia where he lead and architecture team driving a major transformation of Wachovia’s online banking platform and also drove organizational and technology transformational change in Wachovia’s Corporate and Investment Bank.  Tom currently resides in Charlotte, NC with his wife and two kids.

 

Articles

July 28, 2014

FINANCIAL SERVICES

Banking in the InterCloud: Delivering Additional Computing and Storage

Financial Services firms are being challenged and forced to change the way that their applications, information, content, compute, storage, and network resources are deployed and consumed. It is a multi-dimensional issue that is forcing financial services firms to change of how IT is delivered. They…

July 22, 2013

FINANCIAL SERVICES

The Evolution of Immersive Video in the Retail Bank Branch Series (3): Remote experts in action

In part two of this three-part series detailing the “Evolution of Immersive Video in the Retail Bank Branch,” I looked at Cisco’s Remote Expert Solution more in-depth and discussed how the solution’s contact center enables virtual face-to-face meetings with high-definition video. By offering custome…

June 20, 2013

FINANCIAL SERVICES

The Evolution of Immersive Video in the Retail Bank Branch Series (2): Bring an expert to any branch

In the first part of the “Evolution of Immersive Video in the Retail Bank Branch” series, I discussed how the retail banking industry is currently undergoing organizational changes that are affecting customers’ banking experience, including the knowledge and interaction they receive upon entering a…

January 29, 2013

FINANCIAL SERVICES

The Evolution of Immersive Video in the Retail Bank Branch

Increasingly over the past several months, I have been working with more and more retail banking clients. A common theme has emerged during these discussions that centers on video and collaboration in the branch. The top of mind question is, “how are banks using video in the branch to grow top line…