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Advise small business clients on corporate strategies for market entry and penetration, growth, and use of IT to cut costs and increase revenues. My areas of strength are competitive strategy through differentiation as well as creating sustainable competitive advantage using technology.Combine expertise in business/technology to devise strategic IT solutions for clients in the areas of CRM, Document Management, marketing, and office automation.Manage the implementation of devised IT solutions and deliver high-quality, user-friendly, easy to maintain solutions.Perform lead generation, requirements analysis, and architecture of solutions (e-commerce, document management, and office automation systems).Break down projects and outsource development of each component to a separate offshore team. Teams are located in India, Croatia, Philippines, Romania, etc. and I remotely manage the development process. This componentization helps hide from each individual team the algorithm and idea behind the solution as a whole, which is particularly helpful for strategic, competitive solutions.

Provided/delivered world-class program evaluation consulting including Social ROI assessment and training to clients like SCIF, Toronto Police, YMCA, Manulife, TD, Sick Kids, EY.Served as consultant to the CEO in strategic matters such as procurement, pricing, technology, and refinements to firm’s consulting framework.Designed and developed Excel-based Decision Support Systems (e.g. C/B Analysis) for the CEO.Created a sophisticated Excel model used by management to set prices for training events.Embraced the culture of teamwork and collaborated with remote team (in Calgary) on a daily basis to create tremendous value for clients by applying Data Science techniques.Expanded the company’s internal capabilities – e.g. took the initiative to design, and later went on to fully implement, a new IT system that helped the firm stay up to date with news and events related to the industry, competitors, partners, and clients – saving the entire organization hundreds of hours annually.Coached fellow consultants on best practices in market research, financial modeling, and valuation calculations – served as a sounding board for co-workers as they faced unique and challenging client cases.Created strategic promotional material which was used to win over large clients.

Gathered, analyzed and documented requirements for technology-based solutions that streamline and automate internal processes at this successful real estate investment firm, formerly called Dundee.Successfully completed an 8-week project where I modeled and analyzed a manual, document-intensive business process; further elicited and prioritized requirements with the help of stakeholders; and designed and implemented a SharePoint solution that automated the process, saving the company dozens of man-hours per month. I used modeling technologies, SharePoint Designer (for workflow design) and ASP and jQuery to customize the solution.

Received funding from the Ministry of Economic Development to launch this business during Summer 2013 by presenting a business plan to a panel of judges. Also received a certificate from the ministry for successfully launching the business within 4 months.Company provided real estate analytics for small, local businesses such as restaurants and spas, helping them pick the optimal place within a city (in Canada), given their target customer demographics, to locate and establish their business.The company generated some revenues and even received some testimonials, but it became apparent that a pivot was necessary, not only in terms of the target market (or the distribution channel), but also the level of automation required to provide these analytics reports within a few seconds, as opposed to hours. The automation task is not technically challenging, but requires investment of time and effort; therefore, this initiative will be on the back-burner until a re-assessment of the opportunity in the future warrants a relaunch.

Used J2SE/Swing to develop GUI-based features for an elaborate MES (Manufacturing Execution System) for solar and MEMs manufacturers.Uncovered customer requirements and developed features to help monitor their manufacturing operations by tracking defect rates, utilization rate of equipment, and productivity of labour; and finding root causes of problems.

Part time instruction of the following courses:- Sales & Marketing- Economics- Business Math- Business Law- Business Communication

Automated generation of Excel reports for VP Operations of this natural gas retailer.Used Excel forms, VBA, and SQL/ODBC to connect to corporate Oracle DB and retrieve, organize, and then present data and charts in insightful ways.Analyzed sales reports and market data and recommended regions to consider for expansion and pinpointed troubled consumer markets requiring attention.

Created custom, web-based, Document Management Systems using JSP/servlets.Designed new reports for clients using JSP, T-SQL, and Jasper (on J2EE).Initiated and created a procedure for fixing document conversion bugs using XSLT on XSL-FO files, which impressed management.

Promoted sales of Microsoft Office and Windows products within Canada through online marketing campaigns and overseeing website content and newsletter submissions.Streamlined the bi-weekly website maintenance process using Microsoft Outlook Forms, reducing the cycle time from 9 days to 4 days.Coordinated marketing campaigns with partners across Canada.