About Shawn Sehy

Who writes ACW

Shawn Sehy writes and publishes AutomotiveCloudWatch.

30 years in Tokyo technology: former Japan Consumer Banking CIO at Citi, General Manager at Nissan, and Automotive and Manufacturing solutions architecture lead at AWS.

English is his native language, and he works in Japanese at a native business level.

Career

• Citi, 2002 to 2019. Chief Architect and Consumer Development Head from 2002 to 2012, then Japan Consumer Banking CIO from 2012 to 2019. That is nearly two decades in Japan's financial services, 1997 to 2019.
• Nissan, 2019 to 2022. General Manager, G&A and B2E Systems, and global technology lead for corporate functions.
• AWS, 2022 to 2026. Senior Manager, Solutions Architecture, APJ, as the Automotive and Manufacturing solutions architecture lead.

What ACW is

AutomotiveCloudWatch is independent analysis for leaders shaping the future of automotive, manufacturing, AI and physical systems. Each analysis takes one real signal, a filing, a deployment, a standard, and turns it into the decision it forces. The signals that matter, before they become obvious.

Independence

ACW is independent analysis. Sponsored work is offered selectively and may be paid placement, but conclusions are never paid opinion. The full standard is on the methodology page.

How the work is made

Primary sources are read by the author. Drafts are in the author's own words, with tools used only for cleanup and the ACW content engine as an assistant. The post How I make this says more about how a piece is researched, written and checked.

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