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Vancouver, BC, CA

San Francisco, US

• Technical Leadership: Led business growth through tech innovation, driving ~2,000 new organization sign-ups per month, serving 250,000+ monthly users.
• Award-Winning AI Innovation: Created and executed AI-Assisted Performance Reviews product, earning a 2024 Webby nomination. Transitioned from proprietary NLP models to OpenAI for real-time AI performance reviews and.
• Platform Development: Oversaw development of a meeting management platform with integrations for identity, calendar, and HRIS systems, managing 20,000+ active calendars (~5M events), and processing ~1.25M daily requests.
• Technical Expertise: 15+ years in API integrations and authentication protocols, covering identity management, calendar, and payment systems. Skilled in PHP (Laravel), iOS/Android, Python (ML), EmberJS/React, with 10+.
• Team Mentorship: Supported senior engineering and product managers with individualized growth frameworks to enhance team performance, make strategic hires, and lead impactful projects. 90% team retention rate.

• Founded an independent studio to develop mini games using Unity and C#. Won a 2024 indie game hackathon at GDC. Sold creative IP for six figures.
• Experience developing multiplayer game systems using Netcode for Game Objects, comprehensive inventory and equipment management, combat and AI-movement systems.
• Led game development teams (fulltime and contract), collaborating with concept artists, 3D modellers, animators and game designers.

Toronto, Ontario, CA

• Led business growth through tech-innovation, scaling engineering, product, and infosec operations for enterprise platforms:
• Key architect, led development for SaaS platform, Web, iOS and Android clients, supporting employees from 65 enterprise customers, generating ~$150k MRR.
• Oversaw Engineering and Product departments (~35 people).
• Led the Growth Team, an organization-wide cross-functional initiative to align all departments with business goals, leading to improved product adoption rates, user activation and retention.
• Awarded “Best Workplace in Canada” (2016) in the inaugural Small Business category for fostering top-tier workplace culture.
• Developed and enforced InfoSec policies ensuring compliance across mobile, platform, ML, and web teams.

Toronto, Ontario, CA

• An experienced faculty member and tech innovator, driving impactful change in academic services:
• Led award-winning projects, establishing the library as a tech innovation leader among other universities.
• Recognized with ‘Most Innovative Patron Service’ and OLA’s ‘Innovation Award.’
• Published peer-reviewed author and conference speaker on integrating technology into academic services and classrooms.

Toronto, Ontario, CA

Led the development and design of the University’s mobile platform, collaborating with key department and faculty stakeholders to gather and integrate essential content into the apps.

Toronto, Ontario, CA

• Developed impactful web applications for the University, including:
• A study room booking system serving over 65,000 students.
• A discovery platform for the library, showcasing new items in an ‘Amazon-style’ interface.
• A user-friendly statistics tracking tool, utilized across multiple service points.

Toronto, On, CA

Lecturer in System Design and Object-Oriented Programming, leading hands-on lab sessions and guiding students through complex concepts. Evaluated exams and assignments, ensuring clear understanding and practical application.

Masters, Information Studies, Information Systems

S21 Batch

Ba Hons., Information Technology

Dip., Computer Programmer Analyst