David Sigler Email & Phone Number

Jupiter, Fl

David has been instrumental in helping The Alternative Daily become a highly profitable multi-million dollar significant player in the health and wellness space.Financial management - financial systems, relationships with vendors, accounts payable and ensure all financial transactions are handled accurately and promptly.IT team - lead the technical team, including website development and maintenance (high availability sites), all components of sales offer creation, quality assurance and general technical direction.Customer Service team - set up and lead the customer service team, providing excellence in customer service while keeping costs down. Foundational is the design and oversight of a quality process, including providing rapid response for telephone and e-mail based customer contact.Logistics - prime responsibility for manufacturer interactions in order to set up and maintain an inventory of print publications and a line of supplements. This included the role of providing timely inventory refresh and troubleshooting delivery issues.Other responsibilities:- Author and Editor- Human Resources (payroll management and primary hiring role for writers, editors, graphic designers and customer service reps);- Contract oversight (including legal review); and- Project management for major new initiatives that frequently arose.

Ottawa, Canada Area

Interactive Leader designs and markets a collaborative content management system that improves expert engagement on structured content (standards, policies, regulations, etc.), resulting in improved content and better buy-in. Development environment is Ruby on Rails and MySQL.David's focus was on product/feature design, product development and product marketing. He took the product commercial (Collaborase), with 20 customers and 1,000 users. He designed and built the corporate website at http://collaborase.com including writing and overseeing the creation of the storyboard for the overview video.

Perth, Ontario, Canada (Telecommuting)

The Greenhouse Gas Management Institute is a US-based non-profit with its mission to train and develop a global community of experts with the highest standards of professional practice in measuring, accounting, auditing and managing greenhouse gas emissions. The Institute is primarily a provider of e-learning courses and operates as a self-funded non-profit. E-learning development environment was based on PHP and MySQL.David was responsible for product and service planning (e-learning content), marketing, financial management, contract management, human resources and general management. David led the redesign of the website (ghginstitute.org), led the successful partnership with ECO Canada on a new certificate program and led marketing and sales for the GHG Management Software evaluation service.

Huntsville, Alabama (Most Work Done Remotely)

Alabama Electronics Recyclers was founded by a successful Ottawa-based General Manager of an e-waste recycling business who decided to start a similar business in Huntsville.David was responsible for business plan development, company financials, corporate setup, assistance with raising capital, and general advice and coaching for the founder.This assignment was part-time and carried out remotely while David was the main contractor on an eco-friendly house renovation (David’s own house). The home was energy audited and is considered one of the tightest homes in Canada. (Note: David is passionate about energy efficiency.)

Ottawa, Canada Area

Direct Loyalty incorporated Voice of the Customer and Customer Rescue capabilities in an easy-to-use, powerful, and low cost customer satisfaction and customer loyalty solution for small businesses. Product was based in a .NET environment.David was responsible for company strategy and operation. His main focus was product / project management and marketing & sales of the solution.

Ottawa, Canada Area

Next Analytics produces an innovative analytics software product which takes volumes of data and produces actionable insights to help organizations make better decisions. Development environment was based on .NET with heavy use of C#.David was responsible for taking the core technology and applying it to specific industry verticals. David had complete profit and loss responsibility with his main roles being business plan creation, product definition, marketing, and sales.David created a new restaurant-focused customer satisfaction and loyalty vertical. He designed the system, the web-site, and the go-to market strategy, ultimately forming a new company with this focus (Direct Loyalty).

Ottawa, Canada Area

David’s main roles at In-Touch were: product champion (with a focus on a line of kiosk and clipboard products); head of software development; and manager of technical support. He consistently delivered customer projects on time and often under budget. David took a very customer-centric ‘do-what-it-takes’ attitude, leveraging the strengths of the team, resulting in a very satisfied customer base.David led the technical review of a mystery shopping company that was purchased by In-Touch. David co-led the team that signed a large multi-year contract for marketing research kiosks deployed at auto shows in the US and Canada. David designed an XML-based survey product to run on kiosks. David expanded the In-Touch kiosk with the incorporation of digital sign technology. David led the technical team in the overhaul of the In-Touch enterprise reporting system.

Ottawa, Canada Area

E-learning and blended learning expert. Provided consulting services to government and private industry on learning effectiveness. Built e-learning on software products for large government deployments.

Ottawa, Ontario

One of 14 corporate universities within Alcatel world-wide. David’s prime responsibility was the certification of the Canadian Alcatel corporate university, which was completed successfully. David designed a more effective learning methodology to be used within Alcatel Canada and led the Alcatel University team (20 people) to deliver learning programs using this new model. An additional responsibility was to lead the purchasing of e-learning content for all Alcatel corporate universities.

Ottawa, Canada Area

Student at Lansbridge while working full-time. Part of inaugural class, finishing #1 in class with a GPA of 3.94 (out of 4).

Ottawa, Canada Area

Wrapped Apps created a proprietary Internet 'wrapping' technology, allowing software tool suppliers to 'wrap' their applications so they became Internet-ready - turning the offline application into a Software-As-A-Service application. Development environment was Java.David led the transition from a company focused on having shopping cart (e-commerce) technology to the emerging Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) marketplace. David led a company rebrand and a financing round that resulted in a $2M investment.

Ottawa, Canada Area

David was responsible for the design, development, and delivery of Learnsoft's Global Adaptive Learning Environment (GALE). GALE provided a secure e-learning environment for organizations, including content delivery, directory, threaded discussion, chat, administration, and test authoring and delivery. The development environment was PHP and MySQL. The GALE product powered Lansbridge University, Canada’s first purely online university.In addition, David was responsible for a division of the company, Learnsoft Solutions, which was focused on providing complete online learning solutions for organizations. David signed international partners in the UK and India and successfully negotiated a $600,000 custom e-learning development contract.

David led his family on the Sigler Six Trip of 99, covering the bottom half of the United States (started from home in Ottawa, Canada). This included planning numerous adventures, home schooling four children with David's wife, tutoring youngest son in computers (including writing a Java-based Yahtzee program while on the road), and dealing with the challenges of a family of six.

Ottawa, Canada Area

Accredo Systems provided best-in-class Internet-enabled portfolio management products. Special emphasis was put on resource management and project management tools to optimize business decisions in the new product development arena. A secondary core business area was the development of a highly sophisticated middle-ware technology. Software developed was built in Java, C++, Visual Basic (MS Project software bridge) and Oracle. David’s main areas of focus were in product management and product development.

Ottawa, Canada Area

Delivered a suite of tools to optimize all new product development within Newbridge. This product was built as a commercial tool to be used as the primary product of a spin-off company (Accredo) focused in this area. Software developed using C++ and Oracle.

Ottawa, Canada Area

Co-led the project management of ‘Action 95’ – an organization-wide restructuring of the Newbridge business. This initiative involved eleven focus groups and spread out to affect 3,000 employees worldwide. David was responsible for coordinating the project schedules of eight working groups as well as providing facilitation skills to the New Product Development working group. He prepared the final company-wide presentation for the Chief Financial Officer, the overall leader of this re-engineering project.

Ottawa, Canada Area

Primary mandate was to lead the network management business unit in the delivery of a suite of network management software products. Rapid time to market, high quality, and breadth of functionality were the parameters to optimize. David operated in a matrix organization where he was responsible for the new product work of approximately two hundred people with an overall budget of approximately $25M. In this role, he was responsible for authoring all Release Functional Specifications. Concurrent with the above job, David championed a new function at Newbridge known as the Large Network Program Manager. The focus of this function was to provide a head office prime for Newbridge's largest customers to ensure they had an extra inside champion to coordinate their more difficult support and development needs. In addition to the above, David was the corporate project management trainer for Newbridge. This included running a half-day project management training seminar quarterly for all new business unit personnel. He was also a Creativity Trainer, with a particular emphasis on how to apply creativity to the new product development process.

Ottawa, Canada Area

Working within the Network Management R&D organization, the dual purpose of the group was to enhance the architecture of the product and make software changes to fix design requests and problems reported from the field.

Ottawa, Canada Area

Working within the Network Management R&D organization, the purpose of the group was to design and deliver the best network management graphical user interface available anywhere. This state-of-the-art product helped lock up many complex network sales for Newbridge.

Ottawa, Canada Area

Working within the Network Management GUI R&D group, David was the senior software designer in a “C”, Unix, and X-Windows development environment. This role included heavy emphasis in human factors analysis along with a lead software development role.

Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island

Ottawa, Canada Area

Ottawa, Canada Area

Ottawa, Canada Area

Mba, E-Businesss

Co-valedictorian and finished #1 in class.

B.Sc., Math/Computer Science