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Montreal, Quebec, Ca

Provide Architecture and Leadership for large Enterprise Health Care project. As part of Canada’s Infoway initiative (http://www.infoway-inforoute.ca/), work closely with business stakeholders, health care professionals and other technical thought leaders to design an efficient Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) to meet performance and capability requirements. Key Accomplishments:• Designed multi-point SOA solution for initial release of Saskatchewan Health’s eDelivery project. This will provide connectivity between Lab systems and medical clinics for real-time delivery of patient lab results.• Wrote business case for CGI Calgary’s office to justify investment in a Centre of Excellence in the delivery of Infoway healthcare solutions.

Calgary, Alberta, Ca

Manage a technology department of cross-functional development teams building high-quality software products. Oversee multiple parallel projects to successful completion on time and on budget. Lead initiatives for improved structure and best practices including: implementation of realistic development processes, Agile Methodology, Continuous Integration and the introduction of new key roles such as Usability, Product Management and improved Release Management. Collaborate with Marketing, Sales, Senior Management and other department leads on Product Roadmap & Product Strategies initiatives along with Business Development efforts in acquisitions, new opportunities, international strategies, etc.Key Accomplishments:• Reorganized a department that was enduring numerous struggles with rapid successive acquisitions. Recognized for bringing necessary processes, structure, quality, architecture and integration initiatives for more adaptable, extensible product development. Built up Project Management roles to thrive in a fast-paced agile environment.• Manage multiple business-critical projects in Program Management capacity to ensure budgets, release deadlines, and a high-degree of customer satisfaction were met.• Improved Business-focus of the department by championing Product Portfolio, Product Strategy, and Product Management concepts.• Built a top-tier development staff and a culture of innovation, excellence and fun.• Restructured approach to building more market-driven software and maximizing ROI on technology investments. Teams are shipping successful releases and are showing vastly improved results.

London, United Kingdom, Gb

• Provide design expertise on new product initiatives• Work closely with product and program management worldwide to establish best system requirements and architecture strategies for several international products• Provide process and methodology know-how to maximise quality and functionality• Work with other teams worldwide, mentoring and helping architect systems and processes• Design and develop core Application Framework for application integration• Using .NET platform (C#), Domain-Driven Design, Agile strategies and Total Quality Process• Participate in customer focus groups to help understand product focus, direction and workflowKey Accomplishments:• Introduced core architecture concepts for extensible, pluggable highly componentized framework. Essential design for integrating multiple products.• Technical Lead on 2 teams – one in Calgary, the other in London (UK) – to successful product releases• Received Circle Of Excellence Award for Architecture, Quality and Accurate Release

Zurich, Ch

• In the Cash Equities department of this large Investment Bank, lead a small, highly productive team which designed and implemented an entire Enterprise Application Integration system that facilitated a cohesive connection between numerous trading applications. Exported numerous .NET XML WebServices to clients and utilized external Web Services for data verification (i.e. from Reuters). Business enrichment rules were applied to the data by reading external XML files maintained by business experts.• This system was developed in a generic fashion using C++ and C# on NT, Sybase, XML, MQSeries so as to act as a framework for future (and existing) applications that required similar functionality in different business areas. System offered: guaranteed delivery; component processes distribution for performance and disaster recovery; support for multi-platform development; full data routing hub and simplified distributed design.• Ported most components to .NET environment using C# and .NET XML WebServices.• Development platform was primarily Windows 2000 with some Solaris.• Languages and tools used were: C++, C#, XML (Xerces, MSXML), ADO, Sybase, MQSeries, ASP, .NET WebServices. Incorporated XP as primary Agile methodology.