Our team has decades of experience as consultants and as key players in the corporate world. We’ve started from scratch, been in and reported into the C-Suite, won awards from SAP, and have plenty of know-how building high-performance teams. We have built businesses from the ground up ourselves. We know the burdens, the excitement, the highs and the lows, the dreams and the reality. We really love this stuff. Plus we’re really nice, dynamic people with tons of intelligence and business know-how. Why not let us help you navigate around – or avoid completely – those bumps in the road that inhibit your business growth?

E-book and audio book platform. Successfully took the company public.

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Provided ongoing HR and financial consulting.

- Provided regular product margin analysis to the senior management team.- Provided ad-hoc and what-if analysis to assist the product team with decision support.- Responsible for budget creation, support and management for various product departments.

- Responsible for regular management bonus calculation, communication and reporting.- Responsible for bonus plan documentation management.- Involved in bonus plan redesigns and roll outs.- Responsible for mid-year and year end performance review system preparation, training, roll out, management, auditing and reporting. - Provided ad-hoc and what-if analysis to assist various departments with decision support.- Managed an RFP and vendor selection process required to implement a compensation management tool.

• Produced HR metrics reporting and analysis, including headcount, turnover and recruitment. • Provided senior management with adhoc HR-related analysis, enabling supported decision making.• Managed the performance measurement cycle including salary budgeting, performance reviews, merit-based salary increases and profit share.• Managed HR data and systems, including a SuccessFactors performance system and HR SharePoint site.• Key support staff for a recent due diligence completed for the friendly takeover by Dessault Systemes.• Responsible for technical requirements analysis and data consolidation for a PeopleSoft implementation.

• Responsible for HR metrics reporting, including the generation of monthly headcount, turnover, compensation and vacation reports.• Responsible for quarterly bonus calculations and annual merit increases for over 2000 employees. • Involved in end-to-end recruitment process, from job posting to contract signing. Clarified new hire process and file management. • Played a vital role in coordinating employee transfer process during numerous franchise acquisitions. • Involved in the transition to a web based ADP pay@work and people@work implementation.• Actively participated in the planning of numerous events as a member of the Social Committee.

• Responsible for third-party reporting and purchase order generating, as per royalty contracts with major record labels. Report generation included retrieving data from the company’s database system and reconciling against reports from third-party content hosts and aggregators. • Documented all workflow procedures and managed financial tracking reports.• Participated in planning meetings for the automation of the reporting process. Assisted the QA team during the development and testing of the new reporting platform utilising SAP Business Objects.• Other tasks included data entry, generating ad hoc reports and data analysis, all of which assisted the licensing department during contract renewals as well as Business Analysts with television spot planning.

• Responsible for the development and instruction of a two week language and soft skills development course for adults. Most students were hired at business process outsourcing (BPO) companies and required language and accent improvements for their roles as Customer Service Representatives and Help Desk Analysts for major multinational corporations. • Involved in development of curricula for colleges and BPO companies wanting to provide training in specific areas relating to the industry.• Role also included student recruitment and testing.

• Instructed English and English as a Foreign Language classes to secondary students and adults at all levels in Vancouver, Dublin (Ireland) and London (UK).• Instructed Drama classes at secondary schools and professional theatre companies.• Led workshops in Dreamweaver, PowerPoint, Wiki, Garage Band and iMovie to teachers-in-training.

Theatre artist for many professional and university productions. Acted as stage manager, production manager, director, lighting designer, sound designer, actor, choreographer, technician, props master, marketing coordinator and/or board director on numerous theatre productions and Fringe festivals (Vancouver, Victoria and Dublin).