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Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Projects:• [June-2019]: Corus launches STACKTV on Amazon Prime• [November-2020]: Nick+ now available through Apple TV Channels across Canada• [February-2021] Corus Entertainment’s Nick+ adds Bell Fibe TV, Alt TV and Virgin TV to its growing offering in Canada• [December-2021] Corus team member receiving a Media Innovation Award for AI-Powered Creativity. Contextual Lower Thirds on linear TV.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Product Manager: Media Asset Management• Product Manager: On Air Promotions• RESTful APIs Project Management• Contracts and Rights APIs• ELK: Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana

Toronto, Canada Area

• Extensive experience working with Waterfall implementations and trained in Agile methodologies. • Design and implement RESTful APIs to support large-scale broadcast management systems.• Design new UX for broadcast management systems and work directly with external UX Company. • Ability to define and manage the scope of complex, high profile business solutions by leading requirement sessions, facilitating workshops, and keeping all team members engaged and informed. • Perform requirements analysis to identify end to end business processes and responsibilities.• Develop plans and accurate estimates for completion of requirements.• Manage risks, assumptions and constraints for requirements, and communicate to appropriate parties.• Lead requirements prioritization and leverage BA techniques to drive out business priorities.• Facilitate collaborative sessions with large and diverse business stakeholder groups to drive requirements discovery, analysis, and review.• Analyze and document scope and subsequently detailed business and system solution requirements.• Assist in evaluation of 3rd party vendor solutions and requirements. • Analyse data and convert analysis into quantitative and qualitative information to support decision making.• Prepare requirements for review and lead requirements walkthrough and sign off sessions.• Support Implementation and QA teams in Functional System test cases and training.• Support UAT activities including planning, defect triage, and root-cause analysis for requirements-related issues.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Manager to Team Leaders and Implementation Consultants located across multiple time zones (London, US, Canada, Romania) including annual appraisals and staff performance tracking. • Daily interaction with clients, and internal contact with regional managers, project managers, senior developers and quality assurance teams.• On-site configuration, data migration support and business process documentation. • Conducted super-user and end-user training and workshops.• Support the development of the end-user documentation and training.• Prepare thorough research and documentation of technical issues.

London, United Kingdom

• Manage Implementation Consultant Team Members located around the world• Collaborate with Senior Managers to progress with internal initiatives• Lead internal and external Project Team throughout the implementation process• Provide IBMS training, targeting process improvements and efficient system use• Manage, document and train application configuration• Provide on-site and remote training and technical support for all areas of IBMS Functionality• Provide support on operational or Oracle issues to resolve through investigation and SQL• Provide front line support of live systems to ensure technical and workflow issues are resolved• Elicit, document and prioritize client business and user requirements• Document client departmental and inter-departmental business processes• Liaise with multiple business groups to improve departmental and inter-departmental processes• Create design documentation and collaborate with BAs to satisfy client requirements • Collaborate with internal and external development resources on application features and designs• Oversee QA processes for application enhancements• Manage the scheduling and delivery of IBMS fixes and enhancements• Manage migration and testing for data transfer from legacy Broadcast Management System• Create and execute UAT scripts and scenarios testing• Deliver to deadlines and system Go-Live

• Lead internal and external Project Teams throughout the implementation process• Provide on-site and remote training and technical support for all areas of IBMS Functionality• Manage, document and train application configuration• Provide IBMS training, targeting process improvements and efficient system use• Liaise with Project Managers, Business Analysts, Development and Quality Assurance teams• Collaborate with Business Analysts to provide solutions to client requirements • Manage migration and testing for data transfer from legacy Broadcast Management System• Create and execute UAT scripts and scenarios testing

London, United Kingdom