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Ottawa, Canada Area

• Responsible for the research, development, execution, and implementation of Canada’s next-gen sovereign bank-note design & novel security features.
• Strategic product roadmap development and guidance for short- and long-term planning
• Responsible for full product lifecycle from conception to launch using a stage-gate model strategy
• Risk Management assessment through an established framework, providing risk analysis and mitigations
• Project planning of multi-year, large-scale Industrial Scale Testing (IST), using certified Project Management Principles
• Successfully and accurately managed annual portfolio budgets

Ottawa, Canada Area

• Grew the custom Bullion program to 30% of overall gross revenue.
• Project leader of the Apollo 11 Anniversary coin program and architect of sending the coin to space with astronaut David Saint-Jacques.
• Brand Management; Increased customer satisfaction and sales of Gold and Silver Maple Leaf bullion coins through innovation, marketing, and design. Established #1 in Gold sales and #2 in Silver sales worldwide amongst.
• Managed products, pricing, policies, and procedures while defining overall product strategy.
• Championed product ideation, creation, and execution amongst 20+ member cross functional teams.
• Owned development of product roadmap, gathering requirements from key global customers, market research, and internal stakeholders (R&D, Engineering, Engraving, etc.).

Ottawa, Canada Area

• Reported to Director, MintChip
• Secondment opportunity to lead the future of currency in Canada – acted as Product Owner and Marketing lead for Canada’s R&D digital cryptocurrency dubbed, MintChip™, as a possible cash replacement for the future.
• Led the development of MintChip™ through creating user stories, managing product backlogs, prioritizing needs, developing the vision, and overseeing development stages of the product to ensure the MVP (Minimum Viable.
• Ensured the successful launch of the internal MintChip™ pilot amongst employees – deploying over 200+ accounts and Smartphones to users as part of the beta pilot. Acted as technical support in training staff how to use.

Waterloo, ON

• Reported to the Director, Product Technology.
• Product Champion for Mobile Strategy and On-line product strategy for Sun Life’s Group Benefits business. Influenced key stakeholders within a matrix organization to deliver digital solutions for customer and market.
• Developed and executed the industry’s first smartphone insurance claim mobile app. Collaborated with internal and external teams to piece together customer and user group feedback to build the optimum user app.
• Designed and executed a 12 month product roadmap for product and services in Group Benefits.
• Compiled market insight, user feedback, internal resources, focus groups, and customer feedback to build and produce a suite of products to be compete with competitor offerings.
• Managed and executed a large scale program, Sun Life Financial’s disability online web tool for clients.

Waterloo, Ontario

• Reported to the Director, Product Management.
• Managed P&L of the carrying solutions, and wired audio BlackBerry Accessories portfolio.
• Project led development of over 100+ accessory SKUs annually in support of BlackBerry device launches.
• Managed a supporting cast of 25+ cross functional team members in development of BlackBerry Accessories SKUs to ensure projects were delivered on-time and exceeding customer expectations on quality and performance.
• Responsible for regional pricing, retailer promotions, and dealer incentives – ensuring an effective and comprehensive GTM strategy was in place to support major accessory launches.
• Frequent touch points with major worldwide carriers (AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, Vodafone, Orange, etc.) to ensure the product roadmap met their expectations, and gathering customer requirements to build future programs.

Waterloo, Ontario

• Reported to Director of e-business
• Project led several key internal programs including the redesign of Manulife’s internal RRSP page for business units to sell products to their customers.
• Met frequently with internal customers to provide status updates and proof of concepts to ensure their level of expectations are met and/or exceeded.
• Developed internal progress reports for management to track project scope and delivery to executive level.

Mississauga, Ontario

Assisted the Product and Marketing Manager in developing marketing collateral for Kyocera's enterprise printer machine solutions.

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