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Oakville, Ontario, CA

Mississauga, Ontario, CA

Asked by the owner to transform this mature and stable, but stalled, business. I drove growth, attracted a highly qualified leadership team, and readied it for succession. I increased revenue by 67% in four years.

Mississauga, Ontario, CA

Engaged to design and implement a corporate growth and business development plan for two separate companies. The initial focus was on stabilising multiVIEW Locates Inc. (a separate but associated underground locating firm), where I drove the re-organization of the leadership structure and team, and a new General Manager position was created and filled. I.

Successfully consulted to a variety of organizations in healthcare, local government, education and business on organizational and management topics as well as implementing HR processes. My consulting included an association with Western Management Consultants.

I was the first full-time HR VP, responsible for stabilising the staff after integration, leading cultural change and establishing an HR function. I partnered with the CEO and executives collectively and individually & led the strategic planning process. I focussed on improving business and management processes as a way to drive behaviour changes. We.

Appointed by the Board to lead during a time of crisis after the departure of the CEO. Support was uncertain from our funders in government, clients in Universities & Colleges, and the organization was in turmoil. A condition of taking the role was not being a candidate for permanent assignment as CEO, for conflict of interest reasons. The organization.

Scarborough, Ontario, CA

I was the first Director from outside healthcare and from the private sector, engaged to transform HR and focus on operational effectiveness. I drove change within the Hospital and in HR and by creating a clear vision, identifying and supporting formal and informal ‘change agents’ and making creative use of opportunities. I successfully managed employee.

Charlotte, North Carolina, US

For the second year of my ex-pat assignment, I was HR Director for a 650-person pan-European business services operation (Finance, IT infrastructure, & employee services) responsible for HR strategy and programs across Europe as well as the provision of employee services (Payroll, HR admin) to 7500 employees in the UK and Ireland. My time was split between.

I led Human Resource Integration activities after the acquisition of a 1400-person Aerospace business in the UK. I provided leadership to HR Directors in the UK and France to align HR practices, transform the business and drive cultural integration. It was a 2-year ex-pat assignment in the UK.

Following my successful work in HR, this was a development assignment to improve my knowledge of customers and the business and develop my financial skills. I provided the day-to-day operational management of an engineering development group of over 200 professional and support staff. I received my second AlliedSignal Aerospace special performance award.

Directly responsible for the delivery of HR support to 450 people in manufacturing and procurement. I was asked move to HR to bring my general management skills and understanding of the business to the HR team. It broadened my exposure to the leadership team and developed my interpersonal skills. I championed the deaf community at the firm which led to.

I was given the opportunity to complete an 18-month mandate to transform the software quality process using a software maturity model as a framework, with little prior experience in Software. This included managing the software quality team and passing responsibility and personnel over to the Engineering department, a significant cultural change in this.

Responsible for product quality management in development and manufacturing environments in a team producing military thermal imaging and electro-optic equipment, supervising Quality Engineers, Test Technicians and Inspectors. I received an AlliedSignal Aerospace special performance award for resolving a product delivery and management team crisis in a.

I was responsible for Product Assurance activities on a Canadarm redesign project for NASA.

I completed their 2-year engineering intake process, working in all departments of the company for periods of 2 to 12 weeks each. I was responsible for QA activities in defence electronics development & manufacturing. I moved between Racal Defence Electronics (Radar) and Racal SES during this period.

Bsc, Applied Physics

Mba, Business