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Vancouver, Bc, Ca

Vancouver, Bc, Ca

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A Design Platform for the Metaverse

Built the world's first AI streetwear designer, STiCH who collaborated with hundreds of creators to create unique capsule collections, presented to end users via our own WebGL powered viewing experienceMicroservice based architecture deployed on Google Cloud Platform and KubernetesApplied MLOps principles for our AI workflowWeb3 smart contracts and DApps architecture for NFTsNow building our design platform for creativity in the Metaverse

Mosaic is a cloud-native financial model building and collaboration tool for investment professionals

Calgary, Alberta, Ca

Lead the implementation of the MiPulse Platform for Mitsubishi Motors, with teams based in Toronto, London, Calgary, Japan and Vietnam. MiPulse has been adopted by dozens of Mitsubishi Motors subsidiaries, and continues to evolve. MiPulse is one of the first marketing platforms to make use of Adobe Experience Manager as an enterprise headless CMS, and the use of composable Microservices in a digital marketing context.Created one of the first AI conversational user interfaces implementations to be localized to dozens of languages, for various Infiniti Motor subsidiaries.Lead the team responsible for Blizzard's Merchandize e-commerce platform implementation.Technology Leadership and management of technology teams in Toronto, London and Costa RicaPart of the Global Technology TeamProvided Solution Architecture for a multitude of projects and clientsPartner Management and procurementTechnology Strategy & Consulting for various clients and projectsParticipated in various internal Technology initiatives

Vancouver, Bc, Us

Overall management of the Technology practiceManage project technology scope, budget, risks, schedule, quality planning, and requirements definitionOversee needs analysis and risk assessments, produce estimates, and provide oversight of the technology teamProvide technical project sponsorship and act as a project escalation pointProvide technical strategy and insights at the enterprise levelAct as a key participant in business development and proposalsEstablish long term professional relationships with senior client technology personnelEstablish and maintain vendor relationships, including offshore/near-shore partners

Vancouver, Bc, Us

Mainly responsible for the rollout of the NIVEA.com platform to over 80 global markets. Platform enhancements and several campaign executions in multilingual scenarios. Technology leadership, orientation and mentorship. Pitch support.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Architected, developed, released and managed the Aviva Community Fund multilingual web platform. Built with an Open Source MVC Framework, CakePHP, this platform allowed Aviva Canada Insurance to give away $500,000.00 to communities around Canada.Architected, developed and released the beta of MIT’s Global Challenge platform. Designed to allow teams of students and MIT alumni to work together to solve world problems.Responsibilities:Technical ArchitectureTechnical context and leadership to client delivery projectsManagement of both internal development resources as well as near- shore contractorsProject estimation and scoping supportTechnical and project risk identification and managementDevelopment process and standards implementationWork with cross-disciplinary teams, business strategy, creative and development to deliver on projectsInternal technology decision makingMentorship and managementFramework and platform selection

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Supervisor of the Microsoft Solutions development team. Responsible for mentoring, career path planning, training and resource planningImplemented development standards and practices and introduced Open Source technologies to the organizationSuccessfully architected, planned, developed e-procurement platforms (Ariba, SAP/OCI and Oracle Procurement)Architected various www.softchoice.com enhancements and performance enhancements

Vancouver, Bc, Us

Tasked with the architecture and delivery of a SOA based software platform for Newell RubbermaidLead and mentored a team of software developers and technical architectsRecognized by the Blast Radius technology team as a leader and mentor in the implementation of practices such as Unit Testing, design patterns, systems integration, and innovative technologyRecipient of the 2006 Blast Radius Outstanding Contribution AwardArchitected the evolution of an e-commerce application to serve multiple store fronts, varied fulfillment systems and languagesResponsible for the migration and re-engineering of www.aeroplan.ca from a legacy WebSphere platform into a fully Open Source based application architecture

Holon, Israel, Il

Designed, developed and implemented large-scale enterprise applications for, MDS Capital, OneBeacon Insurance in the US and McGraw-HillMentorship of internal and external client development teams.