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Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Focused on hyper-growth by leading and managing a team of high-performing functional and revenue leaders. Scaling & intricately managing by metrics; customer experience lifecycle - prospecting, sales, onboarding, customer support, and success, strategizing & executing on investments across customer segments; Enterprise, Commercial, and S.M.B. Geo expansion initiatives. Working with vendor ecosystem revamped product portfolio for the iVedha customers.Planning & ensuring R.O.I. for the crucial digital marketing-driven inbound business, implementing robust processes and instrumentation required for each growth stage, impacting non-linear growth through partnerships-Channels, ISVs, Alliances, and start-up ecosystems championing unique entrepreneurial and employee-centered culture to create a highly engaged team.• Cyber Security: Designed and launched the "iProtect360" branded suite of 14 SaaS products addressing business requirements of Cyber Resilience, Data Protection, and Productivity for the Americas.• DevOps & Site Reliability Engineering (SRE): Build practice providing DevOps and SRE services to Canadian, US Banks and Liquor boards in the Canadian market.

Mississauga, Ontario, Ca

Selected to devise Cloud services into services offerings. Implement and administered Security Controls, while leading Internal and External Audits for ISO27001 and PCI-DSS certification. Draft proof of concept, strategic, and marketing plans to maximize attention in targeted communities for branded Cloud services, including Software as a Service (SaaS), Backup as a Service (BaaS), Storage Infrastructure as a Service (STaaS), and Managed Cybersecurity Service.• Designed and launched Back Office Services, including Invoicing, Digital Workflow, Document Management, and Retention, that enhanced customers’ operational efficiencies by transitioning expenses from Capex to Opex.• Built 100% Canadian-hosted SaaS-based secure private Cloud servicing for government, legal, and insurance verticals.• Developed and integrated Azure SaaS Document Management Applications with customers' private networks, that slashed customers’ new capacity expansion budgets by 70%. • Generated 33% of overall services revenue per year since launch (2012) by developing and marketing Cloud services in services portfolio via effective management of multimillion-dollar budget. • Halved costs and improved data security/compliance by launching S3-based Petabyte Amazon Storage created for Cloud-based disaster recovery service.

Mississauga, Ontario, Ca

During my time here, I overhauled the infrastructure to enable opportunity cost and support growth at maximum scale. Moreover, I formulated and implemented the Cloud strategy to transform systems and environments toward the public, private, and hybrid IaaS/PaaS Cloud technologies. In addition, I analyzed and resolved the challenges of working at two highly complex appointments, including due diligence and M&A duties. A few key accomplishments are mentioned below:• Spearheaded business-critical and large-scale integration of acquired IKON Office Solutions business; overcame challenges of consolidating public company with a private company; created new processes and practices.• Directed multiple teams to evaluate and realign corporate system architecture, communications, and information security solutions for complying with evolving business changes and expansion.• Unified infrastructures into virtualized environments via Cisco UCS and Citrix technology as company doubled in size, that allowed employees to work remotely and minimize costs by 50%.• Developed and executed new talent selection plan; conducted behavioral interviews to hire qualified candidates.

Mississauga, Ontario, Ca

In this role, I governed a multitude of technical operations of hardware, software, and networking in physical and virtual environments with a focus on reducing downtime and sustaining business productivity. A few of key accomplishments are mentioned below:• Established 3K sq. ft. Tier 3 Data Centre from Greenfield status by liaising between Architect, general contractors, and multiple vendors as well as managing multimillion-dollar budget; delivered the project within timeframe and budget.• Virtualized corporate Data Centre, that secured significant energy savings and achieved 99.9% uptime.• Spearheaded technology infrastructure by implementing significant changes and upgrades as the company expanded from 23 to 47 offices, while growing servers from 300 to 500.• Drove down expenses by 60% through management of increasing costs and renegotiation of multiple contracts with vendors to secure preferred pricing.• Supervised ISO 27001 Certification for new Data Centre; gained Information Security Management Standard approval.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Science

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Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Science