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Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Director of the group providing IT hybrid infrastructure, IT operations services, and COTS/SaaS based solutions (M365, etc.).

Canada

Victoria, Bc, Canada

Responsible for leadership and direction in planning, delivery and transition to operations of strategic business transformation programs that enable the benefits of business modernization through automation and digitalization. Specifically, focused on the delivery of the Automate program on the shared corporate technology infrastructure and the management of the integration risks related to delivering a new shared technology infrastructure and business functionality simultaneously across a number of key strategic digital transformation programs: Automate key business processes, Modernize the way the work gets done, and develop Business Insights by introducing and maturing business analytics.

Victoria, Bc, Canada

Responsible for the establishment and leading of the Enterprise PMO as part of the Enterprise Transformation Office (ETO) and performing the Portfolio Manager role. ETO is the group responsible to implement the Corporation's Enterprise Transformation Strategy, which represents a portfolio of business transformation initiatives required to efficiently deliver services that meet the evolving expectations of pension plan members and employers.

Victoria, Bc, Canada

Managed the Software Applications Support Unit (SAS) which was responsible for maintaining and enhancing the Integrated Pension Administration System (IPAS), the Corporation’s major web system, the Retirement Member System and the Imaging system as well as a number of smaller applications. SAS's primary responsibility was the building, enhancing, maintaining, testing, and implementing all changes to these Corporate applications, which run in a mixed environment - Windows/Oracle, Linux/Oracle and web-based applications.

Victoria, Bc, Canada

- As part of the Software Applications Support Unit, managed a team of business systems analysts involved in the design, development and enhancement of the Pension Corporation systems and services.- On a continuous basis liaised with business representatives to ensure that business requirements are met by IT. Worked directly with numerous clients (Finances, Communications, Client Services, HR, Client Education and Procurement) and gathered business requirements and ensured that their needs are satisfied. Provided assistance to clients considering the acquisition and/or implementation of technology solutions by analyzing their business, modeling their processes and formulating business and functional requirements specifications, evaluating and recommending potential solutions.- Addressed the needs of internal clients by capturing their requirements and contracting and managing external resources to fulfill them. Produced statement of work and scope documents, went through procurement process, selected contractors, managed them and worked with internal clients from start to completion of work. - Performed various project management duties such as project initiation, work planning and execution supervision, contacts management, etc.

Victoria, Bc, Canada

- Responsible for crafting communiqués and for the timely dissemination of information both to Chapter membership and other external parties using various communications means (email marketing tools, website, newsletter, etc.).- Managed the Chapter’s website, including content publishing and website usability improvements. Significant contributions in publishing the Chapter's first and subsequent e-newsletters.- Completely re-engineered the information architecture behind the Chapter’s website, moved it to a modern Content Management System (WordPress), and significantly reduced the website operating costs (10% of original costs!).- Setup and run the entire IT infrastructure for the Chapter. Proposed, designed, planned, implemented and migrated the Chapter Board to using Google Apps for collaboration purposes and records keeping (GMail, Google Groups, Sites and Docs). - Updated and crafted new policies and procedure detailing the operations of various aspects of the portfolios involved with (i.e. Newsletter Publishing Process, Publishing and Archiving Chapter Events Notices Process, etc.).- Trusted advisor on technology strategy and choices such as info management, infrastructure, applications, vendors, etc.

Victoria, Bc, Canada

- Acted as a volunteer for PMI-VI, a 500 member non-profit organization, whose goal is advancing the discipline of Project Management on Vancouver Island and supporting the professional development of its members.- As President and Chair of the Board of Directors managed the Chapter’s affairs both at the operation and strategic level. Planned and performed both a review and update of the strategic plan and the yearly business operations planning. - Planned and executed the Chapter’s involvement in the PMI North America 2012 Global Congress as a co-host Chapter. Collaborated with the Canadian West Coast Chapter in Vancouver as a co-host Chapter. Capitalized on the Congress by organizing an Executive Breakfast event in Victoria with the PMI Board of Directors Chair and by organizing a PM Professional Development Day in Victoria with 3 international speakers and 100 participants with a 98% satisfaction rate. Facilitated the Chapter members participation into the Congress through volunteering.

Victoria, Bc, Canada

Senior Consultant offering expertise and experience in Management of Software Development, Software Development Methodologies, Design and Build of Software Systems, Unified Communications and VoIP, Project Management and Business Analysis.

Victoria, Bc, Canada

- Acted as Lead and performed business analysis, specification, research and have been involved in the design of a web-based software product for mineral titles and mining & exploration properties management.- Performed business analysis and produced functional specifications documents.- Researched various technology options for implementing the product (Seam, Spring, Magnolia CMS, Drools, jBoss BPM, etc.).- Interacted with the client, captured and gathered requirements, produced use case specifications, and implemented quarry lease related use cases for iMaQs. iMaQs is web-enabled system developed for the Manitoba Department of Energy and Mines that allows Manitoba’s exploration and mining industry clients to acquire, maintain and manage their mineral dispositions online.

Victoria, Bc, Canada

- Team lead and project manager for the Victoria software development office (formerly NewHeights Software) of CounterPath. - Managed the development of highly usable enterprise desktop communication applications (VOIP - SIP UA) integrated with 3rd party PIM applications (e.g. Outlook, Lotus Notes).

Victoria, Bc, Canada

- Acted as team lead, software architect and project manager in the specification, design and development of highly usable enterprise desktop communication applications (VOIP: SIP, non-SIP clients) integrated with 3rd party PIM applications (Outlook). - Participated in the design and development of various reusable software components and a rapid application development framework for building rich UI, highly usable and extensible desktop communication applications.- Participated in the specification and managed the development of a generic scalable secure web-based portal for licensing and provisioning software applications.- Developed and implemented software development procedures and processes used by the development group.- Acted as expert and "go to person" for mentoring, best software practices and software architectural advice.- Performed technical interviews of new developers.

Victoria, Bc, Canada

- Architected/Developed applications and class libraries in C++ (IEEE754 and Interval Constraint). - Performed research (Parallel Constraint Propagation) for the Logic Programming Group.- Prepared, marked and graded assignments and held labs for “Object-Oriented Design” and “Computer and Information Processing” courses.

Timisoara, Romania

- Authored a text book titled “Designing Systems using Microprocessors” and held lab lectures on topics such as embedded systems and the design of systems using microprocessors.- Prepared and instructed various university level labs: “Peripheral Equipment” (to demonstrate various concepts, designed and built a programmable test bench peripheral connectable to a PC through the parallel port; it illustrated interaction with the parallel interface, x86 assembly language usage, interrupts, DMA, etc.) and “Numerical Circuits” (held labs demonstrating numerical circuit concepts and used various lab equipment, such as, test meters, oscilloscope, signal generators, etc.).

Timisoara, Romania

- Managed the sales for the ISP department. - Worked as a Linux and Windows network administrator. - Involved in Internet projects (web programming, web site usability). - Assembled and configured PC and become expert in PC troubleshooting.

Timisoara, Romania

- Administered Novell NetWare networks. - Installed various software packages and trained customers how to use them.

Msc, Computer Science

Focus on Interval Constraints and Distributed/Parallel Computing.

Master'S Degree, Computer Engineering

Focus on Information Processing.

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer And Software Engineering

Major in Computer Engineering.