Tiran Dagan
Tiran Dagan is a Director at NBC Universal's East Coast operations of the Strategic Initiatives & Analysis group.
Life
Tiran's first experience in computers was while visiting with his father at Columbia University during his Ph.D. studies. He enjoyed the punch card machines and feeding hole-punch strips to the readers. Tiran was only 6 years old at the time.
At the beginning of his senior year in high school, Tiran's family relocated to the U.S. where he enrolled into college based on his advanced placement courses during high school. With a limited amount of time remaining to the mandatory military draft he significantly accelerated his studies and completed a B.Sc. in artificial intelligence and mathematics within 19 months.
In the ensuing 6 years of active military service in the Israeli Navy Tiran was responsible for the development of real-time combat systems and an artificial intelligence-based resource allocation scheduling system.
Tiran spent the next 10 years in the health care industry in various roles: business development, regulatory consulting and as the founder of a successful diagnostic imaging facility network (which was bought out by W.R. Grace).
In 2001 Tiran joined 6FootMedia, a New York based technology consultancy working with a wide array of organizations on technology implementation and print/fulfillment initiatives.
In 2006 Tiran joined a D.C. area consulting firm - CC Pace. Working with financial service firms, banks and life insurance companies, he has helped clients deploy business process initiatives in quality improvement, strategy alignment and lean IT (Agile).
In 2007 Tiran joined NBC Universal's Strategic Initiatives & Analysis group as Director for the East Coast.