Management of IT health across all Best Buy stores in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba. Regular store visits, building relationships with store associates and management, teaching stores best practices with IT health management, and deployment/management of new retail IT initiatives.

Retail Project Management: Manage budgets and timelines to ensure projects are completed within budget and on time. Exercise problem solving skills to resolve unanticipated issues.Retail Store Renovation: Manage internal and third party resources to execute changes in retail environment, including complete store renovation and transformation. Work with numerous internal departments to coordinate IT labour to achieve business objectives.Vendor Management: Plan, manage and… Show more Retail Project Management: Manage budgets and timelines to ensure projects are completed within budget and on time. Exercise problem solving skills to resolve unanticipated issues.Retail Store Renovation: Manage internal and third party resources to execute changes in retail environment, including complete store renovation and transformation. Work with numerous internal departments to coordinate IT labour to achieve business objectives.Vendor Management: Plan, manage and coordinate third party resources to execute transformation activity in over 200 retail locations.Improve and Create Process: Build processes and documentation to standardize methodology of work and communication between departments internally, and vendors externally. Change existing and outdated process to improve communication, streamline deliverables and cut cost.Notable Project Work:HP POS Refresh - Canada-WideJune '16 - Dec '16Role: Project Management, Implementation CoordinatorDesigned and implemented strategy to replace 3000+ IBM POS with HP POS units, while in production, across all Best Buy retail locations in Canada.Best Buy Prototype 1.0 and 2.0 StoresMay '15 - December '16Role: IT implementation coordinator, IT floor plan and physical network designThe first wave of Best Buy prototype stores required a complete revision of the retail IT loadout, including a ground-up approach to physical network design. I spearheaded a modernization and standardization of retail space physical network, alongside a rework of the logical network design to suit. I directly oversaw the design for all 7 stores' physical networks, and personally acted as coordinator for all IT equipment.Canada Headquarters - Core Network Refresh ProjectJune '14 - January '15Role: PMI coordinated the CHQ Core Network Refresh including replacement of Canada Headquarters' core networking switching architecture, and implementation of new data centre switching and routing equipment. Show less