Patrick Clancy, CISO, Bronx Botanical Garden
PAtrick Clancy is Director of Information Technology, Bronx Botanical Garden. Prior to this position he was IT Director at New York Academy of Medicine. Prior to joining the Academy, Mr. Clancy was the first Director of IT for Songbird Hearing, a startup manufacturing company which developed and sold the world's first disposable hearing aid. As Director of Information Technology for a brand new company in a brand new market, Mr. Clancy was challenged with developing a unique Business-to-Business-to-Consumer e-commerce model as well as building Customer Relationship Management, Enterprise Resource Planning and corporate IT support infrastructures. From 1978 through 1999, he performed a variety of engineering and technology duties with the US Army Corps of Engineers, and was appointed Information Management Officer and head of Information Systems for the Pittsburgh Engineering District in 1996. With the Corps, Mr. Clancy was responsible for strategic initiatives such as local and wide area networking, Internet/intranet services, consolidated Help Desk services, and various engineering technology migrations.
He is the author of several Internet related publications for QUE Books, and he writes and speaks professionally on a variety of IT issues. Mr. Clancy holds advanced degrees in Civil Engineering and Information Sciences from the University of Pittsburgh.