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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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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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Education record

Education record

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Science