Helping Source Elements scale their industry-leading remote recording solutions by designing, implementing, and managing secure, scalable cloud infrastructure solutions. Ensuring adherence to security best practices and compliance regulations. Highly skilled in AWS with experience in GCP, Azure and Digital Ocean. SOC 2 compliance project lead overseeing policy, controls, & audit readiness.

I bring a diversity of experience to the table, enabling me to provide valuable leadership and guidance regarding digital trends, strategy, and best practices across industries. I'm skilled at identifying the next important wave of technology that serves real business objectives, becoming an expert on the subject, and establishing best practices. I then assist companies to implement it well ahead of the pack to obtain a strategic advantage. - Solution Design, Delivery and Technical Project Management- Technical Leadership and Client Management- M&A Due Diligence and Technical Assessments- Cloud, DevOps and SaaS Strategy and Implementation- Digital Transformation, Machine Learning, Ecommerce- Best Practices, Mentoring and Resource Management- Vendor Selection and Management

Helping small and mid-sized food and beverage manufacturing businesses improve performance and profitability through data analytics. Building a SaaS platform for the ingestion, processing, and analysis of ERP and other operational systems data. Unlocking value hidden in data, enabling better pricing models, smoother acquisition integration, and monitoring of performance management metrics.

Specialized in delivering and managing enterprise class digital experiences for industry leaders in retail, finance, entertainment, hospitality, and health using web, mobile and social media. Successfully delivered dozens of projects worth $1MM - $12MM by building and managing highly effective remote teams, earning trust and respect from clients and managing healthy vendor relationships. Developed a reputation as a thought leader and go-to advisor to senior leadership by being an expert in emerging technologies and best practices, developing centres of excellence and mentoring. Technical leadership for major pitches, RFP responses, pitch decks and presentation to clients. Topic expert at Forrester interviews regarding digital transformation strategy and enabling software platforms. Known for turning troubled projects around.Instrumental in the adoption of machine learning and artificial intelligence cross-discipline by promoting it through use cases and case studies, by developing training curricula, managing innovation pilot projects, and selling new client work. Helped shape tech strategy for the company resulting in increased client acquisition in emerging areas through thought leadership and evangelism. Increased company expertise in Cloud and DevOps by 500% by developing and promoting Cloud and DevOps best practices, establishing training and certification protocols, and by coaching and mentoring. Presented a case study at AWS re:Invent 2015 regarding reducing deployment times for a key client by 83% and operations support requirements by 75% by building a continuous delivery pipeline and fully automating dev, test, and production environment management.- Technical Leadership and Client Management- Remote Solution Delivery and Technical Project Management- Cloud and DevOps Strategy and Implementation- Digital Transformation, Machine Learning, Ecommerce- Enterprise Assessments and Architecture- Vendor Selection and Management

Technology professional specializing in the architecture and delivery of web-based enterprisesystems with a focus on Java/JEE and Javascript. Broad experience with exposure to the Retail, Finance, Telecom, Tech and Entertainment sectors. Assisted in the selection of tools to improve software quality and project delivery. Early adopter of AWS and related Cloud platforms and DevOps best practices including automation and continuous delivery. Spearheaded a new focus on Big Data and Data Analytics as a strategic capability to support our clients' emerging data needs. - Solutions Architecture - Enterprise, Ecommerce, Hybrid Cloud - Remote Team Leadership and Agile/Scrum Management- Release and Change Management- RFP and Pitch / Technical Sales Support- Resource Management and Mentoring- Vendor Selection and Management

Co-founder of Vancouver's first multi-family cohousing community, designed by the future owners and families who later moved in. - Helped raise $15M to finance land assembly, demolition, design and construction with private and commercial lenders- Development Committee Co-Leadership - managed relationships, communication and process with city planners, architects, construction and project management for four years- Held professionals accountable to budget, timeline and project priorities- Achieved zoning approval by presenting on behalf of the project to Vancouver City CouncilDesign facilitated by Charles Durrett, architecture by Ankenman Marchand, development management by 8th Ave Group and construction by Noble Construction.

Responsible for tech leadership and strategy at getitnext.com - an eBay mashup designed to find products in the overwhelming selection of items on the eBay marketplace. We narrowly missed a genuine buyout opportunity as the market crashed in 2008 and development ceased shortly after that. - Hired and managed developers - Raised private seed capital- Managed vendor relationships- Developed partnerships- Learned that part-time ventures are extremely challenging

Led architecture and development at marketmagnet.com - offering full service web site design, hosting, content management, search engine optimization, internet marketing and ecommerce. Business phased out.

Analyzed, evaluated and documented enterprise systems from an IT controls perspective in preparation for Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) audit compliance. Helped to define internal IT control standards and performed internal compliance audits to enable management to assert in their annual filing that adequate controls existed in the areas of data integrity, change control, and internal and external security to prevent misrepresentation of financial reports. Designed, architected and developed a comprehensive intranet application to manage the business processes of account reconciliation, certification, tracking and reporting to meet the regulatory requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

Team lead and senior developer for enterprise web applications in the finance, ecommerce and telecom verticals.