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Canada

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Our team is responsible for a suite of transformative tools that digitise and revolutionise the smallholder agricultural supply chain. Our mission is to drive positive change, enhancing efficiency, transparency, trust, and opportunities for smallholder farmers and stakeholders alike.

Vancouver, Los Angeles, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur

• Provide consulting services in the areas of product strategy, custom IT solutions, process improvement, and media production for clients such as SCB, IBM, Fairtrade, S&P, FoodX, CirclesUBI, Eco Games and AgUnity.Key.
• Designed, managed the development of, and deployed new terminal planning tools to manage SCB’s $100M+ annual Market Data spend. Worked with back office to improve Marker Data management processes.
• Drove transformation as a member of IBM's Agile Academy. In this role, wrote & directed mock documentary on Agile practices that went viral inside the firewall, won a Brandon Hall silver medal, and became a key.
• Developed extensive set of enablement materials on cloud, AI, big data, and analytics solutions for IBM's Cloud & Cognitive Patterns, winner of a Brandon Hall gold medal.
• Developed information architecture & content strategy for IBM's Leadership Academy and led the development of dozens of smaller learning solutions.
• Established back-office processes and systems for a Singapore-based start-up.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

• Set up and manage back office. Product Owner for client learning and media projects.Key accomplishments:
• Supported the growth of the business to 6.4M USD annual revenue.
• Product owner for 500K custom learning platform designed for IBM's Communications team, winner of a Brandon Hall gold medal.
• Team lead for the development of sustainability hub for a consortium of companies in the fashion industry led by the London College of Fashion.
• Developed model for the pricing of IBM bid for multi-million dollar learning solution.

Tokyo, Japan

• Manage deployment communications across Asia Pacific geography. Drive New Media strategy and adoption in AP. Play operational role in IT and non-IT related projects.Key accomplishments:
• Managed AP project office for IBM's $1.75 billion divesture of its PC division to Lenovo. Established and managed deployment communication process for the geography’s 5 regions and 17 countries. Drove changes that.
• Formulated Japan intranet and Web 2.0 strategy. Drove threefold increase in adoption levels of social media in IBM Japan through communication campaign, consulting activities, and enablement sessions for Japan’s top 60.
• Wrote and produced video series to drive adoption of Lotus Connections, which went viral, and was used at Lotus events, by business partners, and for training.
• Established deployment communication process for the geography’s 5 regions and 17 countries.

Tokyo, Japan

• Responsible for business development and client management for a small team of IT professionals. Provide IT and business consulting services. Client & project management, contracts, requirement gathering, testing.
• Secured first major client within one month of founding the association.
• Initiated and led a project to develop a structured wiki for foreigners in Japan to provide information on services available in languages other than Japanese. The project gave bluejava exposure and credibility in the.

Tokyo, Japan

• Oversee and improve all aspects of operations for an IT product and services company. Manage administration and infrastructure staff.
• Reduced annual attrition from 50% to 3% through values initiative.
• Managed development of mobile middleware product that made the company an acquisition target for a NASDAQ-listed software company.
• Designed, developed, and implemented internal tracking systems and processes for HR and recruitment.

Fukuoka, Japan

• Worked to change the culture of the program in Fukuoka Prefecture by emphasizing professionalism, education theory, cultural awareness, and community in seminars, regular meetings and communications with team of 60.
• Rationalized information strategy by designing and building employee and job database, editing and reformatting local guidebook, redesigning web page, implementing new distribution strategies, and setting up procedures.
• As part of a three-person team, ran over 60 days of seminars per year for both foreign and Japanese teachers, and for supervisory staff.

Montreal, Canada Area

• Job Description: Design enhancements for the AEI Application (used to automatically feed a variety of reporting systems with data collected by remote antennas using RF technology). Prioritize, test and implement these.
• Designed, tested and implemented changes to the algorithm used to identify train IDs, increasing its success rate by six to eight percent without increasing its error rate. As fully automated reporting can only occur.
• Designed, tested and piloted data feeds and user interface required to automatically report the interchange of railcars with other railroads through EDI with AEI data.
• The above changes allowed additional benefits of $500,000 per year to be realized through AEI.

Montreal, Canada Area

• Job Description: Seek out opportunities to use AEI data to enhance data integrity and improve productivity. Design, test and implement software required to take advantage of these opportunities. Major accomplishments:
• Was one of 4 on the core project team responsible for the design, testing and successful implementation of a suite of AEI products which led to a savings of over $20,000,000 per annum.
• Designed, tested and implemented algorithm used to automatically identify train IDs based on AEI data. Identifying which train generated any given read was a necessary first step to feeding any reporting systems. This.

Montreal, Canada Area

• Job Description: Assist the Project Manager in the implementation of the Crew Management Application (CMA) and the centralization of the crew calling function by: preparing presentations and financial analyses.
• Developed tools to reduce duplication of effort by testers, and ensure more thorough testing of the product.
• Developed plan to reduce implementation time from twelve to five weeks, allowing 34 calling centers with complex operations to be centralized into one location in a period of 2 years, dramatically reducing crew calling.
• Developed procedures and built custom PC tools to speed up one-time data setup at each site and reduce the potential for error.
• Wrote user manuals so that pilot could begin on schedule.

Montreal, Canada Area

• Job Description: Develop mathematical, financial and computer models to assist other departments in day-to-day or one-time decision making. Provide documentation explaining the software and/or methodology, as required..
• Developed an algorithm to identify rail type based on digitized images. This was used to create a system that could identify rail wear in real time using data gathered by a railcar-mounted laser camera. This system is.
• Designed and programmed multi-functional, menu-driven PC tool that identifies the optimal ballast source for any given resurfacing project. The tool uses a financial model that takes the following into account: the.

Mba, Operations Research

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, History And Philosophy Of Science

Dec, Pure & Applied Science

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