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London / Toronto Canada

Providing leadership and advisory services to CIOs and other senior IT executives enabling them to drive their strategic business goals through technology.

London, Canada Area

One of three founding partners responsible for the vision and strategy to create innovative digital solutions that connect Brands to Consumers to inform and inspire confident, pre-store, in-store, and post-store purchase decisions through an innovative, contextual and geo-located marketing channel.Responsibilities included product & project management, technical operations & cloud infrastructure, strategic partnerships, and business intelligence (BI) implementations that deliver data insights for Brands to be more successful.In spring 2018 TUKU achieved Microsoft One Commercial Partner (OCP) status through its innovative Internet of Things (IoT) SaaS platform and usage of Microsoft Azure cloud services.

London, Canada Area

Responsible for the strategic technology roadmap, Salesforce deployment, and leading the Information Technology department to deliver high-quality, integrated products and services that meet the business needs of Ivey, its students, its program departments, and its administrative departments.

Toronto, Canada Area

The Digital Solutions technology group defines and provides Transcontinental Media clients with leading-edge solutions associated within distribution/delivery channels including mobile, email, digital promotions, web, and social media.Notable customers included Loblaw Companies Limited, Shoppers Drug Mart, Air Canada, Aeroplan, Future Shop, Best Buy, Staples, Home Depot, Hudson Bay Company, Home Hardware, Metro, Duane Reade, and Sobeys

Toronto, Canada Area

Conversys Inc., a Transcontinental company acquired in January 2009, is an enterprise-level rich media and image management company transforming print materials into dynamic and interactive digital content. Responsibilities included the planning and execution of I.T. strategies to support the company’s strategic vision.

London, Canada Area

Conversys established the digital flyer / circular business in Canada and provided enterprise Digital Promotions Management services to Retailers in Canada (70% market share), United States and Mexico. Pre-print materials were transformed into dynamic and interactive digital content for geographic (GIS) omni-channel delivery and analytics analysis.

London, Canada Area

BGL Group Inc. is an information technology consulting company specializing in project management, I.T. contract resourcing, and custom software development. While at BGL, executed roles as Director of Professional Services for Phoenix Interactive Design (acquired by Diebold Nixdorf), Information Technology Team Director for Stratford Festival of Canada, Senior Software Architect for Phoenix Interactive Design, and Integration Consultant for TD Canada Trust during the Toronto Dominion and Canada Trust merger.

London, Canada Area

Managed the technology team responsible for Teller applications executing in the retail branch (400+) environment and call center. The team included groups responsible for new development, support, and quality assurance. Responsible for budgeting, resource planning, and project management.

London, Canada Area

Involved in the architecture and development of the bank's first PC-based object oriented retail banking teller application that became known as ServeTech, followed by S3. Leading-edge at the time, the solution delivered the first graphical user interface (GUI) to the teller line.

London, Canada Area

Held Programmer, Programmer Analyst 2, and Programmer Analyst 1 roles. Gained experience with the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), enterprise architecture, batch systems, and online real-time CICS systems. Developed proficiency with C++, C, COBOL, and IBM 370 Assembler.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

H.Bsc., Computer Science