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Toronto, ON, CA

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Responsible for the business relationship and delivery of digital solutions to the Lumino Health portfolio.
• Partner and negotiate with internal and external stakeholders across business and IT organizations to deliver technical projects
• Build, coach and mentor agile delivery teams
• Ensure effective utilization of internal teams, external consultants, vendor SaaS products, offshore Sun Life Financial IT teams with respect to project work and ongoing solution delivery
• Build highly effective relationships with other shared services groups, including sales and marketing, data and analytics, business operations and support service groups to ensure resourcing, planning and functions are.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Responsible for Lumino Health solution delivery and related account management functions.
• Negotiated vendor cloud solutions and staff augmentation contracts ranging in value from $50K to $2M.
• Built highly effective relationships with shared services groups, including sales and marketing, data and analytics, and business operations to ensure feature enhancements and solution dependencies were managed and.
• Drove the intake and discovery process for new product development through analysis on available technical solution options, scope, project cost, timelines and risk (technical & reputational).
• Led high-performing technical teams and worked with business partners to build innovative solutions, pilot concepts, and build prototypes.
• Ensured effective utilization of alternative sourcing means through external IT consultants, vendor product consultants and offshore Sun Life Financial IT teams with respect to project work and ongoing solution delivery.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Responsible for the initiation of project teams and leading them through the successful execution of assigned projects/programs in the Group Benefit and Group Retirement portfolios
• Provided oversight on project, resource and vendor execution
• Built effective project teams though collaboration with Directors, Managers and Technical Leads
• Engaged with business and IT partners to effectively manage demand forecast and supply needs
• Managed billable time and resource rates as per portfolio budget and forecast expectations
• Partnered with Delivery Directors and Practice Managers to develop strategies for driving staff engagement

Toronto, Canada Area

• Responsible for defining and evolving software development and design practices to support the growth of Web, Mobile and Call Centre Development team.
• Managed team resources based on forecasting and best-fit resource assignments.
• Coached and mentored staff to develop a high performing, highly motivated team of professionals.
• Established and evolve development practices to ensure compliance with audits and guidelines.
• Promoted a learning environment to align with industry developments and organization goals.
• Set performance plans and objectives that recognizes talent and provides direct feedback.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Responsible for the successful delivery of all software development for CGI’s applicant tracking system. Achieved building a strong development team that is creating innovative and useful product enhancements by.
• Manage a team of five senior web developers.
• Manage multidisciplinary project teams of 10-25 members.
• Continually monitor and improve on processes to ensure business and technical alignment.
• Work with our data center team to maintain application hardware infrastructure and operations.
• Work with key clients: The Senate of Canada, Bank of Canada, Canada Post, Shaw, LaPresse.

Markham

• Responsible for the development of the CGI’s applicant tracking system front end public sites. Built and sold front-end web solutions by successfully presenting ideas to senior management and getting buy in from.
• Developed web sites in HTML, CSS and JavaScript based on client guidelines and requirements.
• Built and sold online marketing campaigns which included SEO, social media marketing and analytics.
• Subject matter expert on UI design and web accessibility internally at CGI and externally for clients.
• Identified and corrected key development and implementation process bottle necks

Shanghai City, China

• Responsible for the creation and management of the online marketing sourcing program for global recruitment for EF, the world’s largest privately-owned education organization with over 400 offices and schools around.
• Managed the creation, setup and execution of multiple online marketing programs.
• Performed SEO, SEM, PPC and monitored success through Google Analytics
• Significantly reduced marketing costs by 50% while increasing lead generation by 5% month-over-month.
• Redesigned the corporate website with in-house designers and a development team in India.
• Developed campaign reports that provided insight into visitor behavior, leads, conversion rates and budget.

China

• Managed services for small/medium sized businesses that required end-to-end solutions for their online presence.
• Specialized in web design, web development, online marketing and project management.
• Sold and managed end-to-end online solutions.
• Hired on and managed additional resources to ensure the delivery of all projects.
• Developed scope documents, pricing estimates, invoicing and managed client relationships.
• Maintained excellent client relationships which lead to new sales through referrals.

Taichung, Shanghai, Toronto

• Owner and founder of ESL Job Project, a job board for English teachers seeking opportunities to teach English abroad. ESL Job Project was my main focus of effort from May 2003 to March 2014.
• Built a job search source for English teachers in North America seeking teaching jobs abroad.
• Mentioned in an article on CNN.com as a job search source for college/university graduates.

Business Information Technology Management

Mandarin Chinese

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