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Vaughan, On, Ca

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Creates, curates and delivers client-driven, project-based, practical research and advisory that helps IT leaders drive real results in their organizations as the leader of the Applications and Data + Anallytics Practice areas.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Creates, curates and delivers client-driven, project-based, practical research and advisory that helps IT leaders drive real results in their organizations as the leader of the Applications and Data + Anallytics Practice areas.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Creates, curates and delivers client-driven, project-based, practical research and advisory that helps IT leaders drive real results in their organizations as the leader of the Applications Delivery Practice.

Toronto, Canada Area

Info-Tech Research Group is the world’s fastest growing information technology research and advisory company, proudly serving over 30,000 IT professionals. We produce unbiased and highly relevant research to help CIOs and IT leaders make strategic, timely, and well-informed decisions. We partner closely with IT teams to provide everything they need, from actionable tools to analyst guidance, ensuring they deliver measurable results for their organizations.* Develop research blueprints… Show more Info-Tech Research Group is the world’s fastest growing information technology research and advisory company, proudly serving over 30,000 IT professionals. We produce unbiased and highly relevant research to help CIOs and IT leaders make strategic, timely, and well-informed decisions. We partner closely with IT teams to provide everything they need, from actionable tools to analyst guidance, ensuring they deliver measurable results for their organizations.* Develop research blueprints, workshops, templates, and support content.* Improve member companies by delivering onsite focused workshops and structured support calls.* Expand commercial value, demand, and success of advisory practices services and content. Show less

Toronto, Canada Area

- BrainStation is a global leader in digital skills training, empowering businesses and brands to succeed in the digital age. - Lead Instructor for part-time Product Management course. Has achieved consistent 4.5-5 star ratings.- Acknowledgement from BrainStation management for exceptional contributions

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

(Note: Organization name and rebrand occurred during employment -- was called Lanamark when hired)Lead the product team on growing their best-in-class Systems engineering automation product suite resulting in increased adoption. Introduced agile methodology to a remotely distributed team resulting in broad alignment on businessdeliverables across support, engineering, testing, and management.

Whitby, On

Part of product leadership team that drove an agile transformation process to help enable significantly improved product planning, and execution.Leading a team of product managers, owners, and BA's -- worked to ensure the team had the support necessary to be successful in driving their specific product areas forward in support of 360s channel success platform and offerings.Working closely with our account executive team, addressed product issues and drove long lasting success… Show more Part of product leadership team that drove an agile transformation process to help enable significantly improved product planning, and execution.Leading a team of product managers, owners, and BA's -- worked to ensure the team had the support necessary to be successful in driving their specific product areas forward in support of 360s channel success platform and offerings.Working closely with our account executive team, addressed product issues and drove long lasting success with a number of key customers . Show less

Toronto, Canada Area

As part of the product leadership team, I helped introduce a customer-centric design and development process that changed the company's understanding of requirements and was used to successfully delivered a new mobile platform that dramatically expanded the offering's TAM.Consolidated four distinct roadmaps into one that furthered capabilities while retiring technical debt and managed numerous customer commitments.Developed, launched and managed a cross departmental, gated… Show more As part of the product leadership team, I helped introduce a customer-centric design and development process that changed the company's understanding of requirements and was used to successfully delivered a new mobile platform that dramatically expanded the offering's TAM.Consolidated four distinct roadmaps into one that furthered capabilities while retiring technical debt and managed numerous customer commitments.Developed, launched and managed a cross departmental, gated launch process designed to give the company better visibility while ensuring focus was on differentiation and ROI. Show less

Toronto, Canada Area

"Forewards makes it easy for small business owners, like you, to improve your online marketing efforts by embracing the power of customer referrals. We built our own business through word of mouth and know the power of customers referring other customers.That’s why we’ve made Forewards the easiest, most effective way to reward your loyal customers for helping you share your brand online."As part of the executive team, I was tasked with pivoting an existing services based… Show more "Forewards makes it easy for small business owners, like you, to improve your online marketing efforts by embracing the power of customer referrals. We built our own business through word of mouth and know the power of customers referring other customers.That’s why we’ve made Forewards the easiest, most effective way to reward your loyal customers for helping you share your brand online."As part of the executive team, I was tasked with pivoting an existing services based organization into a software based startup to build, deliver, and support a real software product.Built up a team to create referral marketing SaaS platform for SMB e-commerce shops to enable them to grow their business through social media word of mouth.Successfully launched Forewards referral marketing platform from idea to MVP within 6 months, reaching over 500+ users and revenue traction within initial 6 months of launch and being recognized as Startupranking.com top 50 startups in Canada Show less

Toronto, Canada Area

As one of the product management leaders at Blueprint, I drove the delivery of various feature areas of the product taking ownership from concept to delivery and ongoing roadmaps for Blueprint's world class Requirement Definition and Management (RDM) productWorked very closely working with Architecture, Engineering, and QA to ensure significant innovation and exceptional customer value. Embraced agile development processes to enable rapid iteration and feedback during the development… Show more As one of the product management leaders at Blueprint, I drove the delivery of various feature areas of the product taking ownership from concept to delivery and ongoing roadmaps for Blueprint's world class Requirement Definition and Management (RDM) productWorked very closely working with Architecture, Engineering, and QA to ensure significant innovation and exceptional customer value. Embraced agile development processes to enable rapid iteration and feedback during the development cycle. Outbound, I worked extensively with the field to enable the sales team to succeed in selling and evangelizing the product. I also aggressively involved myself with key enterprise accounts to help enable adoption and to ensure their needs are being met. Show less

Senior Product Manager for NexJ's Reporting and Analytics offerings in their Next Generation CRM product. In this position, I worked closely with all parts of the company to produce a roadmap that takes NexJ's Reporting and Analytics capabilities forward.Eventually took ownership of other high profile areas inside NexJ's core CRM product

(Novell Acquired PlateSpin Feb 2008)I was the product manager for PlateSpin Migrate and PlateSpin Protect. These are the products which I helped build from the ground up as one of the original PlateSpin founding group. I was extremely successful in making the transition between development and Product Management at this time.

I was part of a founding group of employees where the technology I was key in helping to build drove a very successful business that got eventually acquired by Novell for $205M in Feb 2008.Through most of my career at PlateSpin I was a senior developer on engineering team for PlateSpin’s flagship product, PowerConvert. I was a core developer responsible for many technical advances surrounding PowerConvert’s workload portability technology on the Windows platform.This… Show more I was part of a founding group of employees where the technology I was key in helping to build drove a very successful business that got eventually acquired by Novell for $205M in Feb 2008.Through most of my career at PlateSpin I was a senior developer on engineering team for PlateSpin’s flagship product, PowerConvert. I was a core developer responsible for many technical advances surrounding PowerConvert’s workload portability technology on the Windows platform.This engineering work led to co-inventor status on patent (http://www.google.ca/patents/US8606886) Show less