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Arthur Filip was named vice president and managing partner of Unisys Global Commercial Industries in September 2005. In North America he leads all operations including sales, consulting, and delivery of services and solutions to clients in the transportation, communications, media, consumer and industrial products, and pharma/life sciences industries.
Prior to this role, Arthur was vice president and managing partner of Unisys Global Transportation, where he re-engineered the division from providing clients with legacy system support to becoming a provider of strategic services. He led the division’s sales and delivery organization, which won projects with major airlines in the North American and Latin American regions. He worked with major airlines, logistics, and travel and transportation companies to build and execute their strategies for next generation information systems to support their changing businesses.
Arthur also led the construction and growth of field delivery capabilities for Unisys AirCore, Global Visible Commerce, Customer Relationship Management, Open Source, System Integration and Application Management Services lines of business.
He joined Unisys in 2004 from IBM Global Services, where as a practice leader he founded the IT Services on Demand practice, serving travel, transportation, retail, consumer package and pharmaceutical companies. This practice became a leading alternative to outsourcing for clients seeking transformation and the establishment of global IT capabilities. As a client partner he grew one of IBM’s most successful airline services relationships, building one of the first 24/7 Global Support Center infrastructures in the U.S., Canada, Brazil and India, and transforming the way the airline performed IT services projects in application development and systems integration.
Prior to joining IBM, he was a consultant and sales manager for Comport Consulting Corporation. Arthur began his career in a management training program with Digital Equipment Corporation, where he progressed to sales and consulting positions, serving rotational assignments in pharmaceuticals, biotech, molecular modeling and Alpha silicon computing R&D. | 