Jonathan Day-Reiner Email & Phone Number

Aurora, Ontario, Ca

Sensi Brands Inc. is a global cannabis consumer packaged goods company. Sensi Brands has established an ecosystem of best-in-class cannabis cultivators to supply select cannabis ingredients, which are processed and packaged to support a portfolio of brands for discerning cannabis consumers.

Aurora, Ontario, Ca

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Reporting to the CEO, accountable for all technology operations within the organization. Implemented Agile methodologies and technical infrastructure to drive one of the most advanced cannabis production facilities in Canada. • Provide strategic consulting across departments on technical projects; my mandate was to leverage internal technology and data science competence as a key differentiator within the cannabis industry.• Develop and maintain the IT budget, resourcing and technology roadmap.• Transition the department from privately held organization to publicly-traded corporation on the TSX venture exchange. • Major projects included: Ample Organics Seed to Sale, SAP ERP, Supply Chain Management and Demand Forecasting, data warehouse architecture and implementation, document lifecycle and approval workflows, industrial controls, security and intrusion prevention.

With application management, system administration and both bare-metal and cloud-based hosting offerings, the K2 cloud practice brought the full spectrum of technology and services that enterprise clients need to achieve efficiencies and cost savings, while providing true flexibility and choice.Technology Highlights:• Introduce a strong, platform-agnostic, DevOps focus to all client applications. • Using agile methodologies, utilize tools such as Jenkins, Ansible, and Docker containers for orchestration, management and continuous integration. • Logstash, Packetbeat, OSSEC, Icinga2 and statsd/graphite are leveraged to proactively monitor a heterogeneous .NET, PHP (Drupal, Magento) and Java (Websphere Portal) application environment to ensure SLAs are consistently exceeded.• Deploy and maintain applications across a variety of cloud platforms. While we're an IBM Softlayer partner, I'm also just as comfortable working with Amazon AWS, Azure and Digital Ocean.Strategy and Consulting:• Act as primary systems architect for the organization and engage clients to consult on a diverse set of projects including both custom and off-the-shelf Linux and Windows applications, often with complex security, regulatory and data-residency requirements.• Keep current with latest trends and technologies in the infrastructure space to provide further value internally and externally as an internal SME on emerging technologies, process and policy, regulatory requirements, and systems architecture.• Develop internal process and policy documentation, create statements of work (SOW) for client engagements, due-dilligence evaluation materials and presales consulting.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

80/20 Solutions powers one-to-one marketing relationships through multiple channels using its leading Software as a Service (SaaS) platform, the Marketing Control Centre (MCC). Reporting to the office of the President and operating within the confines of strict budgetary constraints, accountable for the planning and delivery of all infrastructure and IT projects. Transitioned department from startup phase through to established business. Led the successful migration of platform infrastructure from traditional datacenter hardware to the Canadian hybrid cloud at Centrilogic.• Accountable for developing both short and long-term department strategy• Database architecture, capacity planning and administration of Oracle 11g Enterprise Edition infrastructure under CentOS 5, utilizing Oracle DataGuard and RMAN for Disaster Recovery• Provide ongoing technical leadership and consulting to inter-departmental business units, including Sales, Client Services and Development.• Developed infrastructure Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) and leading creation of the organization Business Continuity Plan (BCP). • Planned and executed migration of entire production infrastructure stack from in-house equipment to the cloud (enomaly, KVM, Centrilogic)• Migrated mail infrastructure from custom in-house postfix to SendGrid• Migrated primary internal operations servers to virtualized environments (VMWare, Sun Virtualbox)• Migration from in-house Jira ticket/bug tracking to cloud-based Jira Studio subscription; including Jira, Confluence, Greenhopper, subversion, and elastic bamboo• Management of Atlassian onDemand instance, including integration with Zendesk and Amazon EC2• Administration of product Amazon AWS accounts, including EC2 instances and Cloudfront CDN.• Implemented comprehensive system and network monitoring utilizing Nagios and pnp4nagios -- including trending, escalations, custom service checks for JMX and Oracle, and custom event handlers for "self healing"

Montreal, Quebec, Ca

Led the infrastructure transition of the Interac E-Mail Money Transfer (Bea Weblogic / Oracle) and Interac Online Payments (Sun J2EE / MySQL) systems from Acxsys Corporation to CGI. Project value: $47 million.Accountable for design, deployment and delivery of systems architecture for all new CGI client projects. Deliverables also included full documentation, ITIL standard build-books, transition plans, training operations support staff, and disaster recovery / business continuity procedures.• Consolidated datacenter architecture via a virtualization model utilizing Solaris Zones and Sun Coolthreads servers -- reducing hardware costs by 25%, lowering power consumption, expanding flexibility, and minimizing systems administration overhead.• Acted as subject matter expert for client products and services, specializing in translating complex technical concepts and jargon into understandable business language and “plain English” requirements • Technical lead and primary escalation point for systems administration team executing “Business-As-Usual” activities• Co-lead on all systems transition activities and prime on all application and middleware activities• Successfully decommissioned Entrust CA and PKI infrastructure, including conversion of live XML feed and reconciliation/settlement processes servicing the “big five” financial institutions from Entrust to Open Source tools (GNU Privacy Guard and OpenSSL)

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Working closely with development and major stakeholders, architected the systems infrastructure for the "Interac Online Payments" (IOP) system -- the world's first online P2B direct debit product. Reporting to EVP Operations, managed a team of three UNIX systems administrators, one network administrator and one Oracle DBA. Responsible for all technical purchasing decisions, including a capital budget of $2 million and a yearly operating budget of over $1 million; established good rapport and working relationship with product participants, outside vendors and consultants. • Managed the day-to-day operations of all technical infrastructure for both the Interac E-Mail Money Transfer and Interac Online products• Leveraged the company's Sun Java Enterprise System subscription to replace BEA Weblogic with Sun’s competing servlet engine where appropriate for a yearly savings of over $100k in support costs• Renegotiated corporate Oracle support contract for the Interac E-Mail Money Transfer service, reducing yearly support fees by 60%, a net reduction of $85k per annum• Successfully achieved a workable balance between planned deliverables and day-to-day operational activities; major assignments consistently completed on-time and under budget• Significantly reduced overhead costs and trimmed operating expenditures through server class changes, hardware consolidation, and annual contract reviews• Improved incident response times by implementing a high-speed (EVDO) mobile VPN solution• Acted as primary escalation point for all 24x7 production support issues• Developed systems Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) and worked with Chief Security Officer to develop the overall division Business Continuity Plan (BCP).

Based on trending and analysis of the original systems architecture, led the design and implementation of the first major infrastructure upgrade. Revised architecture both doubled capacity and increased fault-tolerance -- at a net 40% reduction in hardware costs and support fees.• Acted as team lead for all systems activities, provided mentoring and guidance to other members of the team• Worked daily with developers and operations staff to overcome technical obstacles and provide incident response across environments• Oversaw deployments, patches and upgrades throughout product life cycle, from QA to UAT and production in a BEA Weblogic 7/8 and Sun J2EE application environment• Worked with Manager, Network and Systems to architect and deploy initial systems infrastructure • Designed and implemented multi-site database cluster using Veritas Cluster and Volume Replicator• Set up and administered Entrust PKI to secure XML communications with partner FIs• Created monitoring system to evaluate application performance and provide statistical trending• Migrated application middleware from BEA Weblogic 7 to Weblogic 8• Implemented standardized deployment practices and change control policies throughout product life-cycle• Primary 24x7 escalation point for all network and systems issues

Baa, Journalism

High School Diploma