Benjamin Hess Email & Phone Number

Gatineau Quebec

Senior project manager (Hybrid Waterfall-Agile methodology), financial manager, IT release manager, risk manager, and business analyst delivering system changes to one of Canada’s largest financial databases and IT business components responsible for calculating and paying benefits to 5.9 M Canadians. Financial management lead managing $100M in spending. Release management lead guiding large group of stakeholder inputs for significant IT release installations. Quality assurance lead. Deliverables include Treasury Board submissions, Financial Period Forecasting, consulting joint-ventures, quality management plan, quality review framework, sprint reports, implementation plans, approval to deploy, acceptance report, handover document, providing inputs for installation, transition, and organizational change management plan. Provided expert advice to senior decision-makers at the project, portfolio, and corporate levels. Monitored progress to match output to burn rate and apply block funding methodology. Increased Level of Effort estimation accuracy, improved quality of story points and held teams accountable to estimates. Provided quality coaching in Agile scrum methodology. Performed deep dives into ADO and maintained situational awareness of true progress of development. Tracked development items across multiple sprints to determine true blockers and identified problem areas. Built a new quality review framework from scratch and implemented it to increase quality of code development for the project. Lead workshops to improve Agile development approach, quality assurance. Previous roles:Automated Testing Business Analyst OAS SIS- wrote pseudo-code for developers to follow in developing automated testing scripts in Selenium. Lower level design documentation/ system documentation. Technical Writer OAS on BDM- Wrote Project Dossier for launch of the project. Portfolio Manager for OAS SIS, CPP SIS, CPPe projects managing integrated schedule and release management.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Leads a team of talented financial, import-export, supply chain management, and business management professionals. Full-service import-export, business management, and legal consultant trusted by a wide international network of business people, government officials, and other consultants to faithfully and loyally represent the interests of partners in transactions where I add value. Provides honest evaluation of real economic value of transactions, risks and issues, and empowers capital rationing for various business decisions for clients. Secured quota opportunity during global pandemic for export of medical masks from South Korea to Canada and completed an offering for a federal RFP on behalf of the manufacturer. Acquired license to represent manufacturer with Canadian state-controlled alcohol distribution and retail organization in order to place African wines in Canada. Sourced interior appliances and fixtures for housing project in Africa. Provided supply chain management and logistics service including granular shipping schedules for wheat export from multiple sources to a former soviet state (FSU) including a highly competitive, warm shipping rate that was roughly 30% below the market rate. Connected parties to resolve financial gaps during multiple import export projects (bank guarantee, SBLC monetization, purchase order financing). Negotiated with municipalities and counties across the USA to acquire large quantities of buildable undeveloped lands in strategic locations at discounted tax foreclosure pricing and coordinated with developers, lawyers, to resolve legal issues and develop profitable projects on acquisitions. Facilitated multiple 10x land deals for clients.Provides turnkey B2B sales, project generation, marketing, and localization services. We represent product and service providers in securing purchase-orders from major distributors.

Ottawa, Canada Area

Strategic, tactical, and operational level supply-chain manager of international infrastructure projects. Engaged in project evaluation, post project audit, capital budgeting, capital rationing workflow including creation and validation of net present values and internal rates of returns of different business decisions. Lead credit control office and managed sensitive vendor and client relationships. Managed cash flow conversion cycle balancing accounts receivables with clients and accounts payables with vendors internationally. Authored project management strategies assessing and elaborating upon project risks, issues, solutions, and finances. Implemented risk- driven structural integrity programs. Reduced volume of on-site interactions between employees and infrastructure using world-leading automated sensorsolutions and back-end data management procedures that reduced labour costs on all projects. Reduced volume of personal interactions between management and clients using automated reporting and user interfaces. Lead Change Management efforts in transition in data access layers to web services. Managed bid on USD $5 billion projects in bridge engineering. United visions of conflicting cultures toachieve mission objectives and organizational mandates. Lead challenge studies with clients to adapt service model to meet needs of wider industry. Served as primary point of contact with senior management at Fortune 500 companies including high-level joint venture talks with one of the larger industrial conglomerates in Canada. Headed multinational business discussions with Indian,Saudi, and Canadian stakeholders. Served as spokesperson with senior government officials including Prime Ministers Office during official trade mission. Negotiated revenue share arrangements with partners and joint venture terms. Drafted contracts and quotes for products and services. Served as company spokesperson with senior partners and clients.

Ottawa, Canada Area

Co-founder serving as business lead/decision maker for the group. Connected us with required parties and concluded third party vendor negotiations (consumer credit reporting, EFT, bank relationships). PocketLoan is a financial technology startup founded in 2018 with the purpose of establishing an alternative loan marketplace between the pay day loan and conventional bank loan industries. Our rates are in the middle of the two and we allow retail investors to loan money at increased rates to higher-risk borrowers. We undergo conventional credit check and auditing procedures to evaluate the risk profile of borrowers and match them with lenders with a similar investor risk profile. This allows investors to streamline access to diversified growth channels while also meeting the needs of individuals who may not qualify for a bank loan.

Ottawa, Canada Area

➢ Developed resource extraction life-cycle illustrating exploration, development, production, and reclamation phases of resource development➢ Assisted with production of case studies for GAC employee training modules as part of new Trade-Aid platform in GAC linking humanitarian and development efforts to trade and international business development

Vancouver, Canada Area

➢ Prospected leads in chemical and primary manufacturer groups in South Korea, India, China, to secure financing for Lithium exploration in Ireland and Argentina in response to global Security of Supply concerns➢ Developed network reports of mineral producer- refinery and chemical manufacturer- secondary manufacturer supply chains➢ Translated geotechnical investor presentations from English into Russian

➢ Translated technical documents from Russian or French into English

Ottawa, Canada Area

➢ Cleaned CSV data including hundreds of thousands of data points creating a Tableau-ready Excel file➢ Developed leads on new websites to test for suspicious censorship patterns based on conflicts in Russia and other former Soviet states➢ Visualized internet censorship patterns and trends in an interactive map available to the public➢ Wrote synopsis of findings in Russian and English for publishing on www.digital.report➢ Developed academic contributor leads for follow-up on research findings

Kandahar Afghanistan; Trenton, Shilo, Esquimalt, Edmonton, Suffield Canada

Detachment CommanderRecruiterInstructorArtillery TechnicianHelicopter Operations Specialist➢ Excelled at full-cycle recruitment and onboarding of new recruits meeting 12 month quota in 3 months resulting in a 50 candidate wait-list to join our regiment➢ Managed aerial supply chain for 400 forward-deployed soldiers in Afghanistan as junior leader in team of 15 supply chain management professionals➢ Liaisoned between private aviation contractor Skylink Afghanistan communicating with unilingual Russian pilots and Canadian Armed Forces leadership in order to accomplish organizational goals➢ Lead 15 soldiers as detachment commander managing the careers of new recruits including training scheduling and direct instruction➢ Instructed basic training and managed logistics for 40 soldiers including transportation of ammunition and firearms➢ Served in artillery technical role utilizing applied mathematics in orienting/aiming howitzers➢ Strong individual contributor with advanced specialisms in personal marksmanship, artillery gunnery, observation post technical ('Forward Observer'), dismounted mortar, advanced driving (MSVS+) troop lift and gun tow, communications technical including the repair of radios e.t.c.

Petrozavodsk, Russia

Ourense Area, Spain And Tours Area, France

Master Of Arts (Ma), Russian, Central European, East European And Eurasian Studies, Masters Research Paper

Activities and Societies: Co-Founder Carleton Natural Resources and Energy Organization and Carleton Energy Citizens

Bachelor Of Arts Degree, Political Science And Government

Activities and Societies: President UVic Pre-Law Club, UVic Toastmasters Club, UVic AERO Drone Construction Club.

Private Pilot'S License, Aviation