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Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

• Built consensus on a new business model to transform the organization from a systems integrator to a product developer• Led the development of the target and transition architectures to maximize reuse of existing investments, in collaboration with lead developers• Performed Chief Operations Officer duties like managing key partner, client relationships, and talent, providing internal leadership and direction, and driving operational excellence through culture and technology• Created the application architecture and deployment architecture diagrams which: increased efficiency internally by aligning on terminology and function, and providing a framework for guiding employee training and development on configuring, maintaining, and developing system components

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

AppLovin is a mobile games company that fuels many of the world's most popular mobile games through its game studios and marketing technology. Since 2012, the company’s platform has been instrumental in driving the explosive growth of mobile games around the globe, resulting in a richer mobile game ecosystem and better games for people everywhere. AppLovin is headquartered in Palo Alto, California with several offices globally. Learn more at applovin.com.

Toronto, Canada Area

Toronto, Canada Area

• Led a team of 4 to deliver 150% more business processes, ahead of schedule, and under budget, for a mid-sized organization• Brought project wide clarity and consistency through consultation and consensus building by defining standards and templates, and by aligning processes across 7+ delivery teams• Developed 2 junior resources as in-house experts on the requirements management tool (RDNG) by guiding them on how to configure it for the projects needs, and how to create and deliver training material for internal and client teams• Uncovered 3 critical issues impeding the Go Live schedule, by facilitating collaborative discussions with all stakeholders (5 consulting firms, several independent contractors, client, parent organization...)• Summarized the issues and recommended solutions to the client leadership steering committee• Aligned client groups and delivery teams on the proposed solution by focusing on the user experience• Delivered an application architecture model showing the various system/application components in progressive detail, required to achieve the business goals. It also contained relevant information like how the components connected to each other, the technology they used, new vs modified vs existing components, etc.• Reduced release planning from 3 weeks to 1 week by creating an effort estimating model (Excel) based on the application architecture model, allowing client teams to quickly see the effort impacts of adding/removing a feature from the releaseLed a team of 4 solution architects on a digital delivery project of over 150+ resources across multiple continents. My team was responsible for working with the appropriate stakeholders to determine the functionality of the entire solution, and supporting the various teams through design, development, testing, and training.Increased clarity and productivity for 100+ developers and testers by leading a team of 4 offshore BAs to transform 7000+ requirements into 50+ Use Cases

Toronto, Canada Area

• Led 5 junior solution architects in creating a requirements traceability matrix by completing a fit/gap assessment between the client’s requirements and the existing solution on a $50M+ projecto Completed in 30% less time compared to similar past experiences while adding more value to the customer• Increased work quality throughout the entire SDLC lifecycle by providing architecture leadership, mentoring, training, and reviewing deliverables• Authored a one-page practical guide on being a good solution architect• Supported concurrent projects by preparing and reviewing formal contractual documents in response to RFx, SOW, and Change Notices, and by providing SME support during client meetings

Toronto, Ontario

• Authored and edited 120+ design documents including conceptual and logical data models, within an Enterprise Architecture Framework• Increased program consistency by documenting a step-by-step practitioners guide to creating a client approved requirements traceability matrix• Performed root cause analysis on high and critical priority production issues, and worked with operations and developers to solution issues

Kitchener, Canada Area

Enhance current features and design/implement new features. Investigate and implement improvements to increase performance, data consistency, and scalability.Redesigned and automated reporting strategy and reduce time from 2hr to 5minTools: SQL Server, SQL, Reporting Services, Visual Studio

Yellowknife, Nt

Provided high quality IT consulting services to internal clients by learning and understanding their core business, needs, and concerns, and implementing solutions to make their job functions easier to perform with more accurate and reliable results.Streamlining workflows, defining/implementing new cost-saving and revenue generating strategies, implementing projects and reports to increase productivity, enabling interdepartmental collaboration on highly visible projectsTech: SQL, Access, MS Office, Crystal Reports, MS Reporting Services, VBA, SDLC (like Waterfall, JAD and RAD), AD Scripting

Ottawa, Canada Area

Root-cause analysis and automated testing on black berry devices which led to designing a fix that reclaimed ~90% of "would be thrown out" devices, resulting in a 0.1% projected increase in total revenueTech: LabVIEW, Access, VBA, C, Visual Studio, Visual SourceSafe

Ottawa, Canada Area

Designed and implemented an inventory management system for increased accountabilityAmalgamated several databases and augmented the existing design to make response times decrease from 5-7s per refresh to < 0.5sResponsible for managing the private network of 30+ computersTools: Access, VBA, LabVIEW, Hardware and peripheral knowledge, Network administration

Toronto, Canada Area

Provided a full range of service from Business Analysis, managing projects, resources and time lines, to developing custom solutions for collecting/validating data and generating reports for clients at various levels of management.Formerly known as ExultTools: Access, VBA, Excel, Cognos, Lotus Notes, SQL

Toronto, Canada Area

Analyzed and authored a report outlining improvements to mechanical, electrical, and software components of a patented in-house developed instrument critical for grading the quality and accuracy of photocopies.Created and delivered a professional presentation to representatives of each team in the Research Center, on the team's initiatives, and received excellent reviews.Tools: Hardcore engineering analysis, presentation and mentoring skills, LabVIEW

Basc, Systems Design Engineering

Activities and Societies: - VP (Big Cheddar) for the Campus Crusade for Cheese - Co-President of Waterloo Ismaili Students Associate (220+.

Education record

Exchange for one semester