Derek Barnes, P.Eng. Email & Phone Number

Toronto, On, Ca

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Project: Large Canadian FintechOwned cheque fraud platform and associated product suite which included running regular sessions with users to receive feedback, creating user stories, leading backlog refinement sessions, coordinating production releases, defining the roadmap, and working with all stakeholders to create contracts for the onboarding of 4 new clients including 2 Big 5 Canadian banks Successfully brought to market the first real-time cheque fraud solution in Canada. Worked with marketing to develop advertising strategy, created sales enablement documents, and led a team of internal and external stakeholders to solution, develop and deploy functionality that overcame final technical roadblocks. Successful launch resulted in customer adoption and a 2022 Fintech Breakthrough Award nominationCreated and presented business case with associated roadmap based on market research for new fraud product that leveraged machine learning to C-level executives, resulting in full funding approval. Collaborated with Technical team to solution and develop MVP utilizing scrum methodology with Beta released in May 2022

Developed go-to-market strategy with focus on product-market fit and scalability by evaluating the ability to create and capture value through market research and conducting potential customer interviews to determine pain-pointsDefined customer discovery process based on go-to-market strategy, by utilizing customer personas and experimentation, to identify the most effective communication channels and beachhead customerConducted competitive analysis on all incumbent and disruptor solutions. Findings resulted in new marketing strategy and website overhaul that was implemented after my tenure

Led comprehensive investigation and cost-benefit analysis on the use of intelligent process automation for a new flagship product and presented findings to senior management.Developed solution leveraging RPA to address COVID-19 related impacts and led virtual, multi-department team of 30 to implement under aggressive timelines resulting in the avoidance of $1MM in costs for fiscal year1st place in GLDP & TLAP Summer Project competition; designed and presented strategy to combat effects of COVID-19 on diverse clients to executive leadership and CEO panel with solution implemented in Fall of 2020

London, Ontario, Canada

Led multifunctional teams of up to 10 to develop new and improve existing products for Scoreboards division; portfolio consisted of more than 100 products in all stages of product life cycle including products in the NHL, NFL and NBAIdentified new product enhancements, including implementing BLE applications for outdoor scoreboard product line, adding differentiating factor over competitors which led to exceeding projected sales

London, Ontario, Canada

Designed and developed new products for healthcare, professional sports and industrial manufacturing applications. Development of new products included electrical schematic and PCB layout specializing in DFM/DFA and EMC as well as low level firmware and Real Time Operating Systems (RTOS) in C language that utilized I2C/SPI/RS485/RS232 communication protocols and USB/BLE/TCP IP stacks.

London, Canada Area

Responsible for full embedded system design focusing on full product life cycle. Designed electrical schematic and PCB layouts specializing in DFM/DFA and developed low level firmware.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

President of the Rotman Business Technology Association 1st Place - Design Your Own Startup Case Competition Finalist - Wasserman Case.

Bachelor Of Engineering And Management, Computer Engineering

Activities and Societies: Professional Engineers Ontario McMaster Engineering & Management Society McMaster Engineering Society