Working on Digital Transformation across all business units at Pembina Pipeline, with a particular emphasis on the adoption and use of Microsoft 365 technologies - Office 365, Teams, SharePoint, Power Platform, Power Apps, Power BI, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agents, Microsoft Compliance suite. Focused on improving business operations to achieve productivity, collaboration, compliance gains through people, process and technology innovations and transformations to change and improve the way… Show more Working on Digital Transformation across all business units at Pembina Pipeline, with a particular emphasis on the adoption and use of Microsoft 365 technologies - Office 365, Teams, SharePoint, Power Platform, Power Apps, Power BI, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agents, Microsoft Compliance suite. Focused on improving business operations to achieve productivity, collaboration, compliance gains through people, process and technology innovations and transformations to change and improve the way the organization works. Show less

I provided support and enablement from the IT Department to the organization - practices, leadership, roadmap and overall direction and guidance to unify all of the business application solutions and systems the organization utilizes, and making sure we chose, designed and implemented things so that they can scale massively. I was the key resource for the following project implementation of Dynamics 365 Business Central:- In six weeks, we migrated and implemented Financials from… Show more I provided support and enablement from the IT Department to the organization - practices, leadership, roadmap and overall direction and guidance to unify all of the business application solutions and systems the organization utilizes, and making sure we chose, designed and implemented things so that they can scale massively. I was the key resource for the following project implementation of Dynamics 365 Business Central:- In six weeks, we migrated and implemented Financials from start to finish..- In another six weeks, we implemented Continia expense management organization wide- In an overlapping six months, we implemented Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and Inventory ManagementI worked in Office365, Dynamics 365 Business Central, Teams, SharePoint, Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, Power Apps Portals, CDS/CDN (Dataverse), Azure (Active Directory, Infrastructure, Logic Apps, DevOps, IoT, and everything else Microsoft Azure), along with incorporating best of breed software solutions for enabling the business operations of a robot manufacturer and automated warehouse operations company. Essentially we were leveraging Microsoft's Cloud platform and established our operations based on how we can deliver and manage a massive amount of warehouse sites (1,000's?), robots (10,000's?) and inventory management and customer integrations, along with all of the manufacturing, project delivery, engineering and operations to support this venture. Show less

Senior Consultant providing leadership, strategy, guidance and leading practices in the Information Technology, Collaboration, Productivity and Information Management space. Working extensively with Microsoft solutions including SharePoint, Office365, Collabware, Dynamics CRM/365, Azure, Document and Records Management .

Responsible for the leadership of an IT team focused on how to make our business more efficient and productive in the way they work by identifying business challenges and opportunities and leveraging our knowledge of web-based collaborative technologies, including the use of Microsoft SharePoint and Dynamics CRM technologies, to deliver effective solutions. Team is also responsible for championing business solutions in the Land, Pipeline Integrity, Drafting, GIS, HSE, IT and other corporate… Show more Responsible for the leadership of an IT team focused on how to make our business more efficient and productive in the way they work by identifying business challenges and opportunities and leveraging our knowledge of web-based collaborative technologies, including the use of Microsoft SharePoint and Dynamics CRM technologies, to deliver effective solutions. Team is also responsible for championing business solutions in the Land, Pipeline Integrity, Drafting, GIS, HSE, IT and other corporate areas throughout Alliance Pipeline. Some examples of the work we do include:- Intranet Portal - delivered a SharePoint 2010 Intranet Portal designed to reduce the time and complexity in finding information; update the company image and align with organizational values; leverage knowledge within the organization and increase networking/mentoring opportunities; and, set up and align with the future direction for the delivery of corporate initiatives.- Business Development/Customer Service customer relationship management - support these business areas with a need to track, manage and maintain customer information, campaigns and contracting efforts using Microsoft Dynamics CRM on Office 365.- Collaboration Extranet - delivered on an Engineering challenge to exchange documents and manage projects in a controlled fashion between internal employees and external business partners by developing an extranet portal in SharePoint 2013 on Office 365.- GIS solutions - support existing solutions to view, manage and maintain pipeline information for a number of business areas and delivering new capabilities in an upgraded solution using Intergraph Framme/Fieldview and GTech/Gmobile solutions. Show less

Responsible for leading a department of 4 staff (developers, network admin, service desk) and managing a budget of $1.5 million, infrastructure of 30 servers, 125 business applications, over 10 geographically dispersed locations, supporting 300+ employees including 6 manufacturing plant operations.- Developed successive three year strategic plans to align IT with business goals and objectives.- Spearheaded the adoption of a strategic Customer Portal Application with a 95% adoption… Show more Responsible for leading a department of 4 staff (developers, network admin, service desk) and managing a budget of $1.5 million, infrastructure of 30 servers, 125 business applications, over 10 geographically dispersed locations, supporting 300+ employees including 6 manufacturing plant operations.- Developed successive three year strategic plans to align IT with business goals and objectives.- Spearheaded the adoption of a strategic Customer Portal Application with a 95% adoption rate over 3 years.- Oversaw the completion of two major ERP projects within an 18 month period.- Reduced overall IT expenditures by 20% through adoption of industry standard practices, total-cost-of-ownership business evaluations, and customer service improvements. Show less

Responsible for leading a department of 4 staff (network admin, service desk, developer), and managing a budget of $1 million, infrastructure of 25 servers, 75 business applications, over a 30 building campus network, supporting 240 full-time and 1200 part-time employees as well as activities related to major events, trade shows and the annual 10 day Calgary Stampede festival.- Oversaw the implementation of a unified organizational IT systems strategy replacing previously fragmented… Show more Responsible for leading a department of 4 staff (network admin, service desk, developer), and managing a budget of $1 million, infrastructure of 25 servers, 75 business applications, over a 30 building campus network, supporting 240 full-time and 1200 part-time employees as well as activities related to major events, trade shows and the annual 10 day Calgary Stampede festival.- Oversaw the implementation of a unified organizational IT systems strategy replacing previously fragmented systems approaches.- Championed the achievement of $400,000 of net profit in under six months through the conception, design and introduction of exhibitor Internet services at the trade show floor.- Realized 20% savings in company IT budget by identifying hidden technology acquisition practices and driving the costs out of these purchases. Show less

Achieved progressively more responsible positions, including holding positions as a Systems Analyst, Desktop/Network Analyst and Project Manager working in both mainframe (CICS/Cobol) and PC/network environments (Windows, Netware, NT 3.51/4, MS Mail/Exchange). Responsible for supporting from 100 to 1800 employees across geographically dispersed locations in a multifacted government organization.- created and migrated the technology infrastructure for an entire office move of 800+… Show more Achieved progressively more responsible positions, including holding positions as a Systems Analyst, Desktop/Network Analyst and Project Manager working in both mainframe (CICS/Cobol) and PC/network environments (Windows, Netware, NT 3.51/4, MS Mail/Exchange). Responsible for supporting from 100 to 1800 employees across geographically dispersed locations in a multifacted government organization.- created and migrated the technology infrastructure for an entire office move of 800+ employees to new facilities over a six month period.- migrated the entire network infrastructure and performed a server consolidation of 30 servers to 5 servers over an eight month period. Show less

Ottawa- worked as a business analyst on a large IT team on the creation and completion of a large multifaceted business application with a fixed 18 month project deadline.- won a Minister's Award for work I completed on this project.