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10 Paramount IT leaders
These ten Paramount IT leaders hold director, senior director and vice president roles in infrastructure engineering and operations, cloud engineering, network engineering, enterprise solutions and corporate systems at Paramount, Paramount Pictures and Paramount International. A reader can learn how IT leaders work at Paramount from people who have held the role.
Professionals to explore
01—10Bryan Williams
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director Network Engineering · Paramount
Senior Director Network Engineering at Paramount since 2026, and Director Network Engineering at Paramount since 2022. Former Director Network Engineering at ViacomCBS (2020–2022), and former Lead Network Engineer, NY Engineering Team Manager (2019–2020) and Lead Network Engineer (2018–2020) at Viacom.
Heather Sands
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director, Corporate Systems · Paramount
Senior Director, Corporate Systems at Paramount since 2022, listed at Director level. Former Consultant, Rights Management Solutions at ViacomCBS (2021–2022), Director, Strategic Business Solutions at ASCAP (2016–2020) and Business Analysis Manager at Viacom (2010–2016).
John Tomasulo
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director, Infrastructure Operations and Services · Paramount
Senior Director, Infrastructure Operations and Services at Paramount since 2019. Former Senior Director, Global Data Center Operations at Meredith Corporation (2016–2018) and Director, IT Service Management (2014 to February 2017) at Time Inc. (2014–2016), and former Manager, Data Center Operations at ABC News (1994–1998).
Joseph Paduano
LinkedInExperience: Director Enterprise Solutions · Paramount
Director Enterprise Solutions at Paramount since 2022, ensuring the smooth operation of the company's Sales Application Suite. Former Technical Sr. Manager, Sales & Affiliate Systems at ViacomCBS (2013–2022), and former Technical Product Manager, Sales Systems (2010–2013) and Senior Apps Dev. Production Support and Implementation Engineer (2007–2010) at Viacom.
Keith Hodes
LinkedInExperience: Sr. Director - Platforms & Automations · Paramount
Sr. Director - Platforms & Automations at Paramount since 2026, and Director, Application Management, Enterprise Solutions, Platform and Automation at Paramount since 2021. Former Team Lead (2019–2021) and Senior Business Analyst (2018–2019) at CBS, and former Senior Business Applications Analyst CRM Administrator at Kayne Anderson Rudnick (2012–2018).
Marcin Kiełek
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director, Infrastructure Engineering · Paramount
Senior Director, Infrastructure Engineering at Paramount since 2021, based in Warsaw, and former Director, Infrastructure Engineering at Paramount (2018–2021). Former VP, EUS Collaboration Services Head - EMEA at Credit Suisse (2016–2018) and Regional Infrastructure & Application Technology Services Head at Liberty Mutual Insurance (2015–2016).
Sham Yavagal
LinkedInExperience: Director - Cloud Engineering · Paramount
Director - Cloud Engineering at Paramount since 2021, listed in Engineering and Technical at Director level. Former Lead Engineer - DevOps & Cloud at Paramount (2019–2021), building cloud infrastructure, and former Sr. Staff Cloud Systems Engineer (2018–2019) and Sr. Network and Security Engineer (2015–2018) at SHOWTIME.
sivaram kommana
LinkedInExperience: Vice President of Cloud Engineering · Paramount Pictures
Vice President of Cloud Engineering at Paramount Pictures since 2025, accountable for architecting and implementing cloud infrastructure to support AI and ML workloads. Former Senior Director, Cloud Engineering at Paramount (2021–2024), Director Of Cloud Engineering at Viacom (2017–2020) and Director of Operations & Support Services at NBCUniversal (2013–2017).
Stuart Sapsford
LinkedInExperience: Director, Compute Cloud and Storage · Paramount International
Director, Compute Cloud and Storage at Paramount International since 2018, based in London and listed at Director level. Lead Server Engineer at MTV since 2000, and former Technical Specialist at Viacom (2000–2005) and Server Engineer at PKF (UK) LLP (1996–2000).
Tom Fitzsimmons
LinkedInExperience: Director SAP Basis Engineering · Paramount
Director SAP Basis Engineering at Paramount since 2016, with the profile describing ownership and operation of large-scale SAP landscapes across on-premise, cloud and hybrid environments. Former SAP Basis Architect at Paramount Pictures (2014–2016) and SAP Basis Lead at The Walt Disney Studios (2013–2014).
Choose the right perspective
Match the IT area named in the person's title to the question you bring. Check whether the person's Paramount role is current before asking about today's systems.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How does an IT leader decide between building, buying and extending enterprise systems?
- 02What does an IT leader look for when a business team asks for a new internal tool?
- 03How do infrastructure and enterprise applications teams split ownership when a large system is replaced?
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