John S. Lee Email & Phone Number

Toronto, On, Ca

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Ottawa, On, Ca

Ottawa, On, Ca

Worked to create, identify, capture, and protect innovations across the Shopify ecosystem. Covered innovations across Ecommerce, payments, fulfillment, retail operations, POS terminals, etc. and led ideation sessions in each of the innovation verticals at Shopify.

Ottawa, Ontario, Ca

Led the design and development of a post-app store instant mobile distribution ecosystem with a focus on strategic design goals set by the SLT. Managed a team of developers to deliver an MVP-build leveraging existing prototypes, and emerging product requirements.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

In his roles as Lead, Blockchain at Bunz, John will work to create and execute on strategic plans in transitioning the BUNZ application to a Blockchain solution. His work will include key strategic deliveries such as: 1. Blockchain research and modelling2. Strategic Partnerships3. Establishment of a Research Programme4. IP strategy and road map

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

In his role as Sr Mgr, Lead Patent Technologist, John led a team of engineers to provide the following capabilities to various organizations within TD:1. Generated ~200 Patent Families across all of TD's verticals2. Author of TD Internal Whitepapers in the area of Blockchain, IoT, and AI.3. Led over 80 Ideations and brainstorming sessions to identify both innovative talent and Patentable aspects of ongoing projects. 4. Created a bank specific Blockchain protocol which led to 40 patent fillings 5. Conduct primary research in emerging Fintech technologies6. Defined IP strategic approaches in the areas of Payment, Emerging tech (blockchain, IoT, AI), Insurance, Corporate banking, Securities, and Branch services7. Create ideation process programmes including tools to enable innovation leaders to lead their own ideation sessions. Under John's leadership, the Patent technology team has been able to generate over 75 Patent applications in 2017 focused on the Fintech space, making TD the industry leader in Fintech patents in Canada.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

In his roles as Manager, Patent Technologist, John was responsible for leading Ideation sessions and mine IP in ongoing projects throughout the TD ecosystem. In this role John was also responsible for: 1. Documenting ideas from every product silo to translate these ideas into technical designs specifications ready for patent submissions 2. Supporting the overall OPI technology research agenda by providing detailed insights on existing and emerging technologies, including the creation of technical White Papers and presentations to industry influencers 3. Exploring upcoming roadmaps and technology plans to determine potential patentable or innovative subject matter 4. Developing tools, illustrations and other forms of stimulus to aid the patent innovation process to help non-technical audiences grasp new technical concepts. 5. Providing technology briefings and patent landscape research in preparation for patent development sessions

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

As Principal, User Experience Researcher, John had the responsibility of standing up Usability research programme at Genesys Telecom. In this role he main areas of activity was focused on user focus: 1. Stand up User research capabilities at Genesys Telecom 2. Educate the existing technology teams on the capabilities and benefits of user research and how the results can be integrated into their development plans 3. Plan, recruit, and execute usability research using both quantitative and qualitative methods to test web and monitoring experiences 4. Translate research findings into actionable functional user requirements to inform product requirements and drive subsequent product improvements, through education and Change requests 5. Work closely with client SMEs to resolve gaps between business requirements and UX designsLed intellectual property and accessibility training across the organization

As Chairman of NSG 16, John has the responsibility to organize and chair the national study group meeting to receive and develop a national consensus position to be presented at ITU-T SG 16 meetings as the Canadian position on telecom media matters. John had to nurture and grow relationships throughout the Canadian Technical landscape. He was responsible in ensuring that the Canadian position on matters of importance for NSG members were presented and harmonized with international positions at the ITU-T meetings

Geneva, Ch

As Rapporteur of Question 26 - Study group 16, John had the responsibility of chairing the International group working on improving accessibility in Information Communication Technology (ICT) product. He worked to gather various international and commercial positions on a global scale to reach consensus and harmonization of accessibility standards.

Waterloo, Ontario, Ca

Led all standards and regulatory activities in the area of Human Factors, Accessibility, and User InterfacesCanadian representative on the International Telecommunication Union study group 16 (multimedia) to drive Canadian position to standard developmentCo-Author of European Accessibility Requirement for Public Procurement as a Human Factors expert Accessibility regulatory expert at BlackBerry to inform mobile product requirements and ensure product accessibilityDesignated Human Factors expert on BlackBerry’s patent committeeConducted Competitive analysis to identify Intellectual Property gaps and opportunities

Waterloo, Ontario, Ca

In this role, John was responsible for managing the competitive patent reviews and review the set of assets included in licensing deals. He also had the responsibility of advising the standards group on the state of the art practices related to User experience and Human Factors.

Waterloo, Ontario, Ca

In his role as Technical Consultant, Patent Committee John has the responsibility to review, search, and present all new invention submission related to User Experience [UX] and User Interface [UI] to the Patent committee for evaluation. John has to bring an in depth understanding of UI trends in the mobile industry to effectively review and conduct a search on invention submissions. John has further responsibilities as a project manager in several wide ranging patent portfolio reviews. John also has responsibilities as the resident UI Expert on the patent team advising on the direction of UI patents. These responsibilities also included mining for potential Intellectual Property [IP] in ongoing UI Projects and played a significant role in the creation of a process to systematically capture UI IP as they are being created.

Waterloo, Ontario, Ca

John led several research projects that helped define various usability features on BlackBerry Products and services. During his time at BlackBerry Inc, he focused his research in improving hardware usability and ensuring that hardware software user experiences were optimized for the mobile form factor. He was the usability lead on several handheld product development projects, and helped improve the user experience of such products as tactile keyboards, virtual keyboards, word disambiguation, and phone. During his time at BlackBerry, some great successes have included the improved usability and tactility of BlackBerry Keyboards, the creation of learning modules for SureType reduced keyboards, and mobile conference call management software.

Sophia Antipolis Cedex - Valbonne - France, Fr

UI expert on the authoring team of Mandate 376 - "Accessibility requirements suitable for public procurement of ICT products and services in Europe"http://mandate376.standards.eu/standard

Waterloo, Ontario, Ca

In his role as a mentor and lead mentor for the PDEng program, he led a team that participated in the creation, delivery and management of an online training program that taught ethics and workplace etiquette to engineering students.Online performance tracking and course-load management was critical in fulfilling this position. He acted as a mentor to several first and second year student in completing the requirements needed to fulfill their professional requirements.

In his role as an Ergonomic Evaluator he conducted field studies to evaluate work stations and propose solutions to at risk tasks. He also conducted time flow studies and critical path studies to optimize work stations at both industrial and office settings. He also provided insights into ergonomic solutions for the working team of the "AFMA Voluntary Ergonomic Guideline for furniture manufacturers". During his tenure in this position he was accredited as an AOEE (Accredited Office Ergonomics Evaluator).

B.A.Sc., Systems Design Engineering, Option In Biomechanics

M.A.Sc., System Design Engineering