Chief bottle washer & guy that turns the lights out after everyone has gone for the evening. Building an organization to help folks continue to love their older vehicles, while inspiring & mentoring next generation of professionals living/working in automobility capital of Canada - YQG.

➤ Selected by GM Executive Leadership to certify as SAFe Program Consultant and to provide GM product development training, coaching, mentoring to 3000+ senior leadership, cross-functional teams, and Release Trains.➤ Collaborating to move GM to Lean-Agile methods rooted in the Scaled Agile Framework, for greater customer -focus, delivery efficiency, and predictability. ➤ Assisting with establishing and delivering training in various focus-areas to the organization while providing governance to GM Quality to uphold and verify the transformation.➤ Expertly defining a timing card extraction process including P-BI dashboards, enabling GM leadership to track significant CCMS vehicle program milestones.➤ Spearheaded CCMS Product-Integrity by establishing a repeatable and scalable D-FMEA process, and upholding NFRs for GM connected vehicle solutions.➤ Responsible for designing a patented protocol machinery/message transport for GMs car-share platform Maven, including architecture of Key Pass, BLE advertising, message structure, and crypto-key aspects of solution.➤ Developing and implementing a dashboard platform that increased GM’s revenue based on merchant and retailers adding points of interest and offers to Marketplace/AYS to production GM vehicles and mobile device channels. ➤ Defined and established end-to-end experience for in-vehicle purchases and proximity payment for GM Consumers while driving out vehicle infotainment capability and revenue sharing opportunities with partners including Audiobooks.com.

➤ Joined GCCX as Senior Technologist to review, analyze, and report on technologies impacting mobile commerce focusing on in-vehicle m-Commerce and defining clear business problems.➤ Led GCCX Support Operations, partnering with product teams to drive key investments in areas including New Product Introduction or Product Quality to partner in end-to-end development.➤ Communicated effectively with cross-functional product leadership to provide updates on roadmaps and projects with a GCCX lens, while ensuring the right level of tracking and transparency on milestones.➤ Provided Marketplace marketing detailed technology assessment of GM + payment partners – e.g., Apple Pay, and PayPal.

➤ Assisted on the design or development of service layers based on established geo-fences as well as infrastructure to support network quality measurements for IP services running concurrently on different physical network topologies.➤ Led efforts as BlackBerry technology prime for presence/location services, serving as the representative within the Open Mobile Alliance standards body, elected in 2009 by peers as vice-chairman of OMAs Communications work group.➤ Invented technology solutions in support of BlackBerry's IP portfolio including working closely with BlackBerry licensing/legal teams regarding the technical aspects of patent-filings, claim-language and USPTO office actions.➤ Led team of 5 developers participating in IP-review sessions to establish technical validity of patent filings related to BlackBerry business and technology.

Product Owner/Solutions Architect – 7-24 Solutions Inc., Toronto – 2004 to 2007Software Technical Product Manager – Redknee Inc., Toronto – 2001 to 2004Senior Software Architect/Technical Team Lead – ExtendMedia Inc., Toronto – 2000 to 2001Senior Software Engineer – DataMirror Corporation/IBM DataMirror, Markham – 1999 to 2000Senior Software Engineer – Algorithmics Incorporated/IBM Algorithmics, Toronto – 1995 to 1998Senior Software Engineer – Enghouse Systems Limited, Markham – 1992 to 1995