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Brantford, On, Ca

Brantford, Ontario, Canada

Eliminate the Echo Chamber. As a Leader of a successful business, you guide and direct your organization using your own experience and the team that you've built around you. I connect you to a team of CEOs and Business Leaders that offer a perspective on the challenges and issues that you and your business face from the exact seat that you are in. I provide industry leading Thought Leadership sessions and help you remain focussed on the issues driving your business allowing you to get home to your family and sleep better at night.

Greater Toronto Area

Delivering high quality Cybersecurity and AI solutions.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

As an executive member of the leadership, I led the response to all Services. I matched the skill-sets of our team and extended team to the assignment and drove the Professional Services from the PMO. I stepped in as Project Manager when necessary.

Toronto, Canada Area

Focused on Secure Digital Transformation of Enterprise Data Centres to Cloud or Cloud-ready Infrastructure. Helping clients modernize their: security, storage, network, compute, operations, Business Intelligence, DevOps and Public Cloud.Pre/Post-Sales engineering and architecture including client discovery, partner collaboration and on-site implementation

Brantford, On

Toronto, Canada Area

Executed Capacity and Performance architecture and infrastructure adjustments to extend life and customer size for premier mobile client (utilized application and data centre for an additional year, 200% of initial content and 10 times the customer base). Resulted in the product being able to capture additional market share and retain revenue growth (+$100 million)Production operations management ensuring 24x7 operation of real-time system to millions of customers world-wide ($10 million annual capital budget)Implemented managed service infrastructure in two Cloud data centres in Asia with auto-scaling for customer loads resulting in increased performance and both client and customer satisfaction.Drove a strategy for the migration of all business-to-business services to Cloud infrastructure to save capital costs and increase agilityLed a team of up to 25 technical professionals, spread over three countries with accountability for the Design and Build, L2 and L3 Support for the infrastructure of a managed service that delivered services to our Global Customer Base. Utilized On-Premise, Cloud and IAAS capabilities.Consolidated Data Centres achieving $600,000 annual savings by moving clients and services that were providing end-consumer services. (2 Data Centres closed, 20 racks & 14 racks) utilizing Private and Public Cloud ServicesInstigated a Global Network connecting facilities in a five-phase plan to Video Streaming services, MPLS connectivity and Internet services increasing capabilities and simplifying management.Implemented Next-Generation Firewall capabilities, Software-defined networking, and private and public-Cloud infrastructure.Collaborated with Sales and Finance teams to translate the Sales Contract into the Invoices that were sent to Clients that accurately reflected the Services that we were providingMaintained stable relations with providers by assuming accountability for the Accounts Receivable function after the Start-up was acquired

As the Portfolio Director for the Infrastructure I was the steward of the assets that "IT uses to run IT" (hardware, OS, Network, SAN, etc) and the applications that IT uses (ITSM, schedulers, monitors, etc). My team scanned our vendors looking for End-of-Sale/Support/Life situations with our asset base and launched projects to remediate the situation. We solicited our internal customers to determine their satisfaction with the existing assets and remediated if there is a gap between what the asset was doing and what the customer wanted done.As the PCI Portfolio Director, I initiated projects to allow SDM to remain PCI Compliant.

Accountable to design and deliver all Infrastructure Projects and the infrastructure for all projects

Lead a technical IT Team to upgrade the Store Infrastructure. New cabinets, servers, operating systems, Point of Sale system.

Maintained the Technology Roadmap for Storage, Mainframe, Servers, Desktops and Network. Initiated projects to remain current on the Roadmap. Proactively provided guidance to the Architecture team on the project's infrastructure design to ensure that it aligned to standards.

Artificial Intelligence Group. Computer simulations of track environments, Expert Systems. Initiated Data Warehouse development - extracted data from transactional systems, designed and populated the Warehouse and trained users on how to access the information.

Honours Bachelor Of Mathematics (Co-Op), Combinatorics And Optimization

Activities and Societies: Math Orientation Committee 1986 & 1988 Math Sociey - Class Rep, Speaker, Vice President Math Grad Committee.

Education record