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Toronto, ON, CA

Toronto, Ontario, CA

Powering Startup Growth - specializing in impact-driven early-stage B2B ventures. See www.chrisbardos.com

Montréal, Québec, CA

Impact-driven PropTech meets NatureTech - first product leader joining at Series A, managing a team of 10 engineers, designers and product managers building a new innovative SAAS product category fed by on-site (eDNA, bioacoustics, camera traps) + virtual data capture (geospatial, open source DBs) technology to power Commercial Real Estate's ESG needs.

Quebec, Quebec, CA

Impact-driven startup winning Quebec’s AI Startup of the Year. (2022)Deloitte Technology Fast 50™ and Fast 500™ rankings (2021)Globe and Mail Canada's Fast 100 (2021)'Trading Solution of the Year' Winner by Agtech (2021)On a mission to feed the world while saving the planet. Works across the $37 billion shrimp farming industry to help businesses grow with.

Toronto, Ontario, CA

• Digital innovation lab crafting next generation digital web and mobile apps for banking and personal finance. Clients include Scotiabank Retail Banking & Wealth divisions. Managed Impact-Driven portfolios including.
• Commercialized a “Personal Financial Management” disruptive value-added-product and multi-year program in an emerging product category aiming to leapfrog the competition, leading the cross-functional team through.
• Transformed, managed and coached strategy, discovery and operations for the mobile app team (next-gen GTM launch to steady state) and product teams in digital identity, payments, borrowing, activation and wallets.
• Transformed, implemented and coached an end-to-end operating model for software delivery within the 100-person mobile app team from strategy and objectives, to discovery and prioritization, solutioning, development.
• Stood up and lead a skunkworks pilot program driving new product innovation in digital banking with a focus on sustainability and green products
• Delivered a digital commerce roadmap across product portfolios uncovering a colossal +20%PP lift opportunity in gross annual digital revenues within an underserved market space, showing continued growth potential

New York, New York, US

• Company Brief: Impact-driven disruptive proptech startup providing design economics software to architects and building owners. Clients include WSP, Skanska, Gensler, Stantec, HNTB, HoK, ARUP, Dialog, SFO, MTA, ATL.
• Drove a 20%PP lift in sales-win-rate and shortened sales cycle from 12 to 3 months resulting in record sales performance more than doubling MRR reaching $20K MRR early traction milestone for a new disruptive product.
• Restructured product/market portfolio to sunset 3 out of 4 products and pursue the winning product with the greatest success likelihood considering customer value, business viability and management feasibility

Toronto, Ontario, CA

• Company Brief:One of Canada’s top 50 fastest growing digital firms (Deloitte Tech Fast 50 ‘16/’17) providing Professional Services for enterprise.Clients include Rogers, Telus, Bell, Wind, Nokia, Huawei, Alcatel et..
• Conceptualized, managed and delivered a $2M user-centered product redesign project generating $15M in operational savings across 2 core web products with a full market launch to millions of Canadians. Enabled major.
• Turned around & operationalized a flailing mission critical group of digital adoption and engagement products, managing them as a portfolio. Responsible for 4 core products of Rogers & Fido consumer websites and mobile.
• Kick-started, championed and handed off multiple high return product management process initiatives that have been adopted within the digital org; including a user-centered Digital Product Performance framework, an.

Toronto, Ontario, CA

• Company Brief: Leading Canadian email marketing & communications SAAS startup for large enterprise clients built on a REST API. Clients include CBC, RCI, BC Hydro, Economical Insurance, City of Toronto, TMX et al. My.
• Collaborated to lead a development and ops team of 10 members to completion of an MVP (minimum viable product) in a new vertical; gaining early market acceptance and customer buy-in
• Championed, led and managed a successful transition into a Scrum Agile workflow; increasing product team's efficiency and effectiveness (Velocity gains are >50%) while greatly reducing re-work and pivots
• Created a product portfolio out of a large enterprise product, enabling product team to focus efforts on products with greatest ROI; Collaborated with management, marketing on product roadmaps and strategy
• Discovered, elicited, analyzed, managed and communicated product requirements as a BA including managing UX and visual wireframes, collaborating on technical architecture and providing UI design feedback and UAT

Toronto, Ontario, CA

• Company Brief: Web development startup serving over 500 clients in 7 different countries. Built on a custom ERP implementation.Clients include private, public, political and non-profit organizations.My Role:First.
• Successfully developed, deployed and handed off two service based products from initial business cases up to limited releases; capable of producing a ~230% gross ROI per employee servicing said products; integrated.
• Crafted full scale Business Requirements Documents (BRDs), Technical Specifications, Product Roadmaps, Groomed/estimated/prioritized the Product Backlog, Managed Reporting & Data Visualization

• Company Brief:Boutique Management Consultancy focusing on B2B growth. Preferred supplier for an Impact-driven Cleantech Venture Capital fund.Clients include American Express, BDC, Richter, NAO, OSPCA, Bladder Cancer.
• Recommendations lead to search and recruitment of a top Fund Manager, Financial Analyst and re-evaluation of a first fund portfolio for a startup Venture Capital Fund, identified through detailed Enterprise/Capability.
• Analysis lead to securing >$150,000 in angel investment for a B2B COTS Software startup through market research and analysis resulting in a pricing strategy and realistic sales goals/performance targets for investment.
• Performed current state firm level, industry and marketplace analysis and future state firm projections to build Business Cases and High Level Business Requirements Documents and Business Roadmaps

• Company Brief:Boutique Media Production Agency, serving primarily institutional and government clients in video & web work. Clients include Govt. of Ontario, Ryerson University, Ontario Arts Council, Goodlife Fitness.
• Personally sold and managed >$100,000 in first year projects in video production and web development, pivoting to re-position company from SMB to educational & institutional markets and subsequently increased gross.
• Consulted with clients including Government of Ontario, Ryerson University and Ontario Arts Council to create strategic communications & marketing tools considering their business objectives, brand considerations.
• Defined and managed process work, including project discovery, requirements elicitation, proposal writing, project management and requirements management and communicationOur team managed award-winning projects.

• Company Brief:Startup venture developing a Canadian University Sports Network & Marketing Platform in partnership with Rogers Sportsnet/The Score. My Role:Identified an entrepreneurial opportunity for a Canadian.
• Built prototype model, produced recurring pilot TV, radio & web content with repeatable documented workflows to exhibit a minimum viable product
• Conducted market research, interviewed subject matter experts, created an in-depth business plan, pitch decks and investor collateral for angel investors and university executives
• Raised >$185,000 of in-kind donations in time and resources during project discovery and prototype development

Certificate In Business Analysis

B.A. Radio & Television Arts - Rta School Of Media, Television & New Media