Carlos Miguel Collazo is a global entrepreneur, technology inventor and strategic technology business advisor.
Early career
Collazo started his career working in the international trade industry where he was exposed to business and the importance of information to support business. Collazo was able to apply his core skills in technology, analytics and business development across a wide variety of industries by virtue of his early exposure to global business. In 1980 and 1981, Collazo, having qualified as an FMC practitioner, created and filed the . That technical correlation of commodity classification systems for the Brussel's and the United Nation's SITC in FMC-18 provided the private sector technical contribution needed to facilitate a successful implementation of the United States objectives via the CCC and the ITC processes for the creation and adoption of a harmonized international trade commodity classification system. Today, these tariff and commodity classification systems are known as the Harmonized System for Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System. The HS is the international standard for reporting goods to customs and other government agencies. Globally adopted by 180 countries and covering 98% of merchandise trade, the HS has been administered by the Brussels-based World Customs Organization since 1988.
Business
In 1982, Collazo founded and served as its Chairman and CEO until the company was sold in 2013. Marsys was part of the Marsys Group of global technology and IT service companies delivering services and technologies to . Some of these companies included MetiLinx, Akhela, Generation 3, Terremark, iBase, McCullockGroup, Barkawi, DWTI, EMS, XyberShield, RedHerring, Tradecom Solutions,Omix, Marsys Digital and Xecuritas to name a few. Since 1982, Collazo has also founded and/or led several successful technology companies and programs that have proven successful. Collazo was the strategic business and technology architect for companies such as Marsys Digital which designed, built, implemented and operated global digital media platforms for The Coca-Cola Company and others, also MetiLinx which delivered enterprise system management technology to Compaq, HP, Microsoft, Computer Associates, BMC, Nokia, Telecom Italia, JP Morgan and others, also Decision Dynamix Corporation which data analytics automation to the pharmaceutical distribution market with its industry leading proprietary technologies for companies such as Bergen Brunswig Interlinx system, Cardinal Health and McKesson among others, also Infotiva, provided services to Merrill Lynch Online, Trade.com, and Intuit's small business integration for lending in its early days and Partner E-Learning Connection with Ernst and Young for Cisco Systems which became the premier online training and e-learning platform serving 30,000+ Cisco Systems channel partners. In June 2013, Collazo concluded state and federal cases between and among inter alia Collazo, his prior company, on the one hand, and Red River Resources on the other hand. Collazo was not found liable or culpable for any misconduct in any of these proceedings. The proceedings were partially dismissed on various motions and then concluded by Settlement and Mutual Release. In 2014, Collazo expanded innovative consultancy and advisory practices with strategic data analytics, business development and cyber intelligence. In 2015, Collazo introduced advanced process and methodology business curation technology into consultancy and advisory practices based on his design of evolving and identifying strengths in company strategies. These processes and services were applied as part of RADE Technology, a service platform for customers.
Technology
Collazo has invented various technologies across key technology areas and has applied those patented technologies across applications and platforms to the benefit of businesses and customers. The derivative works from these core technologies are still in productive use in the market via licenses and/or acquisitions. Amongst others, the patented and trade secret technologies have been applied in several areas including cyber security, systems optimization, digital media, data analytics, education, trade systems and others. Collazo's patented technologies have been referred, cited and applied in over 55 patents by many of the world's leading technology companies including industry leaders such as: Hewlett - Packard Corporation, Intel, Microsoft Corporation, Oracle, Google, Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Honeywell International, International Business Machines Corporation and many others. Collazo has been the leading proponent of the analytical correlation of innovation and inter-operable frameworks used in combination with cyber intelligence to guide strategic business and organizational decisions. Collazo presents, advises and instructs company management and cyber professionals in this innovative discipline via the
