-Recruited and managed the People Analytics Team-Defined and built the roadmap of the people analytics function-Designed and delivered monthly reporting to the top 40 executives of the company-Defined the strategy and transformation needs for the HR Data domain, and oversaw delivery of those needs: data collection, cleaning, quality, governance, distribution, and reporting-Contributed to medium and long-term technical roadmaps of our data pipelines-Contributed expertise and perspectives at the executive level to define the metrics, methodologies, and data needs for the Ubisoft group

-Founded the Data Platform Group, reporting to the Chief Data Officer -Led an engineering group of (325 individuals across six countries) -Managed multi-disciplinary team of engineers, UX designers, product and program managers, customer success agents, and technical support specialists-Federated technologies from both the game telemetry platform (AWS, Kafka, Storm, Hadoop, Java, React, Airflow) and enterprise data platform (Snowflake, Teradata, Informatica, Tableau) into a cohesive, simple, and self-serve solution set-Owned and managed the budget for the entire development group – headcount and labor costs, remote labor costs from other countries, vendor contracts, tools costs, internal bill-back, and internally-loaned talent or budget capacity-Managed dependencies with IT (infrastructure, databases, networking), Online Services (Ubisoft game micro-services stack), key vendors (AWS, Snowflake), and the future ambitions of each game brand-Collaborated with key stakeholders (game brand teams, major game release teams, sister technology groups, executive) to ensure we delivered the right set of features at the right cost and time-Worked closely with internal departments on user documentation, educational content, customer support, sales, HR needs, and each analytics domain-Drove innovation in how we work and create. Led the adoption of more rigorous agile methodologies across the group, encouraged and promoted the use of the latest technologies -Led the organizational design and evolution of the overall group-Collaborated with executive levels on how the company planned to use data for analytics, data operations, and business insights

Led the strategy and planning for the worldwide in-game telemetry solution, machine learning recommender systems, standard analytics toolset, and internal suite of dashboards and dashboard technologies at all levels – from hardware to final customer experienceDirected the work of a distributed team in four countries, as well as external contracting with two more localesLed a global team that offers 24-7 uptime, customer and integration supportLed product management, technology, and UX groupsCollaborated to define the vision for products with executives and senior management

Led development of strategy and planning for the worldwide in-game telemetry solution, mobile display technology, and Uplay service across seven console and mobile platformsLed the vision for products and services with executives and senior managementLed user experience, feature definition, and business analysis initiativesIntegrated with key titles to innovate and bring new online experiences to players

Part of the core technology group in MontrealDevelopment of technical and experiential roadmap for Uplay service across the old generation, and the transition to the next generation, of consolesCollaborating with remote teams in Romania, Sweden, France, and San Francisco

Developed online features with remote teams in the US and ChinaParticipated in social networking feature integration, episodic content, premium membership conversion, and retention initiativesParticipated in feature ideation and user experience testingLed multidisciplinary teams (programming, art, UX, and web development)

Managed two titles and two online community games Mentored associate producers and led multidisciplinary teamsMaintained client relationships and requirements (internal and external)Championed project vision

Functioned as lead for design projects in Java, C, and C# in the optical networking fieldProgrammed custom UIs for prototypesWorked directly for upper management and lead a team of up to 12

Feature Design Lead – Nortel Networks, Ottawa, ON – 2002-2003Design Test Lead – Nortel Networks, Ottawa, ON – 1999-2002