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Toronto, ON, CA

• I founded this boutique big data analytics consultancy partnering with my ex-colleagues from Yesmail Interactive where I was VP Analytics and VP Engineering. Our internationally distributed engineering team focuses on.
• Responsible for all business development and brought in all major clients/projects and managed all client relationship
• Architected and integrated Krux data management platform (DMP), Gigya single sign on (SSO), Tealium tag management, Adobe web analytics and Salesforce CRM solutions for major companies
• Designed a big data analytics and BI solution using Hadoop/Hbase and JasperSoft BI for intelligent and “situational aware” ad targeting for an e-commerce platform
• Created a multi-channel marketing platform leveraging data from web analytics, email, social network, online surveys, point of sale systems, and demographics to build a Customer Master Profile using Databricks Spark.
• Designed and developed sophisticated data models to predict customer loyalty based on engagement data from multiple sources, both legacy and web/social

Cincinnati, OH, US

Claritas is a leader in customer identification integration technology. Claritas Identity Graph, the company’s proprietary software, identifies customers who appear in client databases under multiple identities. The Identity Graph software integrates customer identities across databases, platforms and channels.As SVP Data Science and Development, I lead.

Toronto, ON, CA

I spearheaded the effort to transform this traditional marketing agency into a data-centric digital agency by creating a new data analytics and business intelligence practice to support a number of key digital marketing clients including ScotiaBank, Cineplex SCENE, CPA Canada, Coast Capital Savings, McMaster University, and D+H Finastra.

New York, NY, US

• I led a team of product experts and developers in the design and architecture of a SaaS platform for SimplyEngage which offers an integrated, online marketing solution for national brands with local stores, including.
• Managed a geographically distributed inter-disciplinary product development team
• Architected an omni-channel campaign management SaaS platform specially for franchises and franchisees
• Created a comprehensive data tracking and collection solution that enabled a master data store for consumer online behavior analysis, data mining, reporting and prediction
• Provided vision for all technical aspects of the startup’s go to market strategy, and participated in the seed round funding process
• Accountable for both product engineering and cloud-based production operational environment currently hosted at Amazon EC2

US

• Terapeak is a leader in data analytics for e-commerce marketplaces such as eBay, Amazon, and Alibaba. They provide a suite of Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions and tools for online sellers to make sense of the.
• Championed both business and technology sides of Terapeak’s data platform/product strategy, from data acquisition through to ensuring that data ingredients can be readily monetized
• Led the architecture and design of a scalable data architecture using the latest big data stack including Hadoop, Spark, ElasticSearch, and Kafka to support high performance and a tremendous customer experience, while.
• Coordinated the implementation of a highly scalable cloud-based strategy and infrastructure to support the products and the business outcomes of Terapeak’s customers and partners.
• Performed a full assessment of the current data/product architecture, processes, analytics and storage capabilities, and defined the technology and process roadmap for improving product KPIs such as performance.
• Provided strategic guidance to the engineering team towards developing best in class software solutions

• I was part of the founding executive team of this big data analytics startup that secured private venture at an early stage. The company provides a SaaS-based Business Intelligence and Customer Insights solution using.
• Championed all aspects of the design and development of the new SaaS BI and analytics platform for web-based and mobile data reporting and analysis for the Canadian pharmaceutical industry
• Responsible for overall software engineering team management, processes, policies, procedures, development tools and platforms, and technical direction
• Led the architecting of an Oracle based data warehouse that powers the innovative analytics and dashboard portal
• Participated in the architecture of the core data model and the solution design of an intelligent ETL process that combined and aggregated data from many disparate sources
• Built and hired the entire software development organization from the ground up, including a core in-house engineering team and a partnership with an offshore dev shop

I was asked to join a group of original senior executives that left Yesmail Interactive after a successful exit to help found this technology startup to focus on develping a mobile platform called abra using NFC and QR code for the real estate industry. When a house goes on sale, the real estate agent representing the seller cannot be at the house 24 hours.

Chicago, IL, US

Yesmail Interactive is a leader in cross-channel online communication and marketing. They provide a sophisticated technology platform that seamlessly integrates email, SMS, Push, social, display, and other channels to enable some of the world’s best known brands to have a 360 degree view of their customers.As VP Analytics and Research at Yesmail, I.

Chicago, IL, US

Based in Portland OR, Yesmail was the email services provider division of InfoUSA (later became InfoGroup). They acquired our Canadian-based ESP Digital Connexxions where I was the CTO. Since then, Yesmail has evolved into a world leader in cross-channel online communication and marketing. My initial role in the comined company was Vice President of.

Digital Connexxions was initally founded by a team of executives from Doubleclick after they acquired then Toronto-based based Flonetwork, an early email services provider. I joined the company as its first Chief Technology Officer as a result of a merger between Digital Connexions and ResponseLogic where I led the R&D effort to create one of the earliest.

ResponseLogic was a pioneer in intelligent dynamic content personalization technology for more targeted 1:1 online marketing. It was founded by a team of ex-IBMers with offices in New York City and in the Toronto area. I joined ResponseLogic's Canadian R&D division as the Chief Technology Officer and led all aspects of research and development. I.

CA

Brightspark-funded Infotriver was a revolutionary mobile CRM software product startup incubated by one of Canada's best known Venture Capital firms. I joined the startup as its CTO and was part of the original management team that founded the company. I recruited and hired the entire research and development organization, and led all aspects of conceptual.

E-Certify was one of the high-tech spinoffs from Reston VA based TRW (now Northrop Grumman Corporation), the global defense contractor. It was created to build and commercialize a secure email system based on the open-PKI stack.I ran the Canadian R&D Center as the Director of Engineering. I built and hired the entire engineering team, and led all aspects.

Alpharetta, US

Harbinger Corporation, based in Atlanta, GA, was a leader in e-commerce software and network services. It was acquired by Peregrine Systems in June of 2000, and Harbinger's main e-commerce product suite that I helped to build ultimately became part of Open Text Corporation.I joined Harbinger as a Manager of Engineering when they acquired Premenos Corp. As.

Premenos is a leading provider of electronic commerce solutions for established and emerging trading communities. Its standards-based business applications leverage the strengths of traditional EDI systems, TCP/IP networks, secure information and Web technologies.I joined Premenos initially as a senior development engineer, team lead, was quickly promoted.

San Francisco, California, US

CaseBank Technologies was a high-tech spin-off from Atlantis Aerospace Corp. (now Atlantis Systems International). CaseBank’s software solutions leverages sophisticated AI techniques, specifically case-based reasoning, to improve fault isolation and defect trend analysis of complex equipment and systems—supporting engineers and technicians as they respond.

Dublin 2, IE

Accenture (then Andersen Consulting) is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations. As a senior consultant, I worked on several CRM and ERP implementation projects, including a full-scale SAP migration, for some of the largest companies in the.

Systems Design Engineering - Ai And Machine Learning

Industrial Engineering - Management Information Systems