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Joggins, Ns, Ca

Consulting Services:Advising on Public Safety Communications Technology including Land Mobile Radio and Public Safety Broadband NetworksCreating cutting edge professional education programs in management and business skills for clients globally. Coaching and mentoring project managers and working to bring practical project management to organizations everywhere.

McApples Enterprises Ltd - Empowering you to Deliver. Champion of Project Sustainability Management; Introducing and managing effective governance processes for complex programs of work; Training and development of project managers; Project process management and re-engineering; Process rationalization to realize maximum benefit from best in class project management tools and techniques, from Agile to Traditional. Clients included Dofasco Steel, the Canadian Federal Government, Telecom New Zealand, and many others

Grimsby, Ontario Canada

Explorus Group, Inc. is a boutique management consulting firm specializing in the development and management of leadership training and mentoring programs within your organization.We provide a complete portfolio of products from consulting to curriculum development, training programs and long-term, one-to-one leadership mentoring.

Vancouver

Providing leadership and strategic direction to the wireless and telecommunications teams to enable the highest level of availability to these critical emergency communications systems. The E-Comm radio system serves the Police, Fire and Ambulance services in the lower mainland of Britisih Columbia, providing our client agencies with the communication tools to save lives and protect property. The telecommunications team supports the technology that provides 911 call answer services to 99% of the population of British Comumbia. This support extends to BC Emergency Health Services, Health Link BC and several other client agencies who rely on the telecoms platform supplied by E-Comm. In addition to ensuring that my teams have the resources they need to succeed. Building for the future is critical as we face increasing demand on emergency services and I am working closely with external agencies to plan for the future of emergency communications. E-Comm is in partnership with the Province of BC, BC Hydro, PowerTech Labs, Simon Fraser University, and Emergency Management BC to build a demonstration system for Public Safety Broadband in the lower mainland. As E-Comm is a not-for-profit organization, financial planning is key to our ongoing ability to provide services and my role works closely with all aspects of E-Comm to ensure that we are investing in areas that support our ongoing vision and strategic plan

British Columbia, Canada

Vancouver, Canada Area

Responsible and accountable for the vendor contract with Motorola Solutions for the supply and implementation of an ASTRO P25 overlay Land Mobile Radio network in the Metro Vancouver area. The success of the project (on-time, under budget and with enhanced functionality) was due in large part to the development of a strong professional working relationship with Motorola and rigorous attention and management of changes to the project. Additional projects supporting the new radio network included a major building renovation of electrical, and HVAC systems for our main facility in Vancouver; the addition of a new state of the art server room; and set up and successful negotiation and acquisition of a secure alternate data center to support the geo-redundant requirements of the radio network as well as other aspects of E-Comm's business.

Grimsby, Ontario

We are your boutique consulting firm, providing high level mentoring to help you and your organization better achieve your goals.

Toronto, Canada Area

Focused on providing best practice Project Management tools and processes to support sustainability in all organizations.

Toronto

Overall program lead for a 450 million CAD project to build and operate a new cellular network in 5 markets across Canada delivering cost effective voice and data services. Delivered on time to key markets (Toronto, Vancouver, Ottawa, Calgary, Edmonton) and on budget. From initial design of a voice network we successfully delivered a high speed data capable network to position Mobilicity as a new face to the Canadian wireless industry

Delivery of outstanding seminars on Project Management, Management and Business Skills

Various positions with Ericsson worldwide ranging from developer and tester, implementation engineer and support specialist, project manager, organizational development, to senior staff management positions. I worked in Montreal, Mexico, Stockholm and New Zealand during my time with Ericsson.

Building high performing teams and creating value for customers through effective project and communication planning and execution

Besc, Electrical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Student Coucncil and Engineering SocietyConcurrent degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Bsc, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Mature Students Association, Student Council