Chris Edwards Email & Phone Number

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

In addition to the standard CFO responsibilities I am investing heavily in building internal research and data tools that increase the efficiency, accuracy, and productivity of our great team.

Calgary, Canada Area

An evolution of my previous position -- as Director Product Management, and member of the Senior Leadership Team my role is now more purposefully focused on: - Feature definition and prioritization; - Competitive and market research and analysis; - Driver of product road-map through ongoing collaboration with Sales, Marketing and Development teams; and - Customer contact for feedback and feature requestsTools: Microsoft Power BI, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, JIRA, UXPin

Calgary, Canada Area

A world-class Online Video Platform (OVP) provider. As Director Strategic Relations and member of the Senior Leadership Team my role includes: - Identification of strategic relationships; - Collaborate with Sales and C-level on tailored business cases / material for strategic prospects and shareholder communications; - Competitive Analysis; - Business Intelligence / Sales Cycle Analytics and Reporting; and - Ongoing development / collaboration with Sales / Development on the Sales & Product Roadmaps.Tools: Microsoft Power BI, Microsoft Dynamics CRM

Toronto, Canada Area

The company performs consulting services for acquisitions, divestitures, financing, valuations and strategic advisory. It serves mid-market companies in North America and Europe.As Research Director I was responsible for internal research for either ongoing deals and deal origination. I was the first-line decision maker for data subscription decisions. Data resources I used and became proficient with at CFA included Capital IQ, Bloomberg, OneSource and Hoovers. I gained experience running and assisting with buy-side and sell-side deals at various stages of the process. Responsibilities included deal origination, preperation of go-to-market materials including NDA, CDR, blind teaser profiles. I was involved with many aspects of the deal process with experience from origination to close.I performed financial modeling and forecasting. This included building a cash flow and income model for a customer to project future cash flows / earnings to assist with a financing.I significantly optimized the deal flow process in the office. This included moving office from excel deal flow tracking to a custom CRM-based platform. Planning, development, implementation and support of custom CRM modules for Zurmo CRM (Open Source). Submitted several contributions back to the Zurmo project. The end result of this was significant reduction in time spent tracking deal progress, launching deals, and increased visibility of current deal progress. It has also enabled collaboration on deals that was extremely clumsy in the past.Throughout my time there I was involved with consulting to various industries including agriculture, transportation, logistics, distribution, manufacturing, construction, technology and business services.I spent a year and a half of my time at CFA working remotely from France.JavaScript, PHP, MySQL/MariaDB, jQuery, Angular, Zurmo CRM, Yii

Vancouver, Canada Area

Experienced Senior Associate at PwC. Was the lead senior on audit teams, including a large SOX mining client and several junior mining companies in Canada.

IT Management for small-medium size businesses in the Calgary area.

Hobby website that I ran since 2000 providing forums and other content for cutting edge mobile device users. I attended several trade shows as a press participant, including volunteering as event staff at the Pocket PC Summit in Hollywood in 2002. The website received ~500,000 page views per year in its' prime and was considered the go-to website for multimedia and gaming users.

A member of the product management team for consumer related BlackBerry products such as internet browsing, instant messaging, and third-party applications for BlackBerry. Assisted with the product planning for BlackBerry's messaging products and supported marketing efforts for the internet browser product.

Responsible for the continued development of the BlackBerry retail in-store demo application.Java, C++

Responsible for developing in-house bug-tracking application and creating mobile website pages.PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS

Chartered Accountant, Accounting / Assurance

Bcs, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Enterprise Co-op Dean's Honour List in last term. Co-op program.

Education record