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Ottawa, On, Ca

Gatineau, Qc, Ca

Technical Lead for the EI on Benefit Delivery Modernization (BDM) Programme at Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC).

Toronto, Ca

MM+O helps our clients realize business value through digital transformation. Working with our clients' leadership teams, we help plan and implement digital transformation programs that dramatically improve business performance. Select clients include Emploi et Développement social Canada (EDSC) / Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC), Pratt & Whitney Canada, BC Milk, Albert Milk, Dairy Farmers of Manitoba, Dairy Farmers of New Brunswick, Dairy Farmers of PEI, Dairy Farmers of Nova Scotia, Fonds de solidarité FTQ; Radialpoint; Noventum (Amsterdam); Mobidia/BDC Capital; Wind River; SiteBrand.

Montreal, Quebec, Ca

Spiria helps our clients successfully execute their digital projects. Our team of nearly 200 professionals, made up of strategic advisors, client experience specialists, UX/UI designers and expert developers, designs and develops custom software and solutions to optimize processes and generate growth through digital transformation.

For BCMilk, AlbertaMilk, Dairy Farmers of Manitoba, Dairy Farmers of Nova Scotia, Dairy Farmers of PEI, Dairy Farmers of New Brunswick rescued a distressed supply chain management systems development program years behind schedule and millions over budget. Engaged to audit the program and make strategic recommendations to management and governance, re-engaged to lead the re-planning and program management for the completion of the program. Led the program re-planning, estimating, contract negotiations, and program management through the completion of the recovered program, delivering the the program under budget. Acting as CIO and program executive, led the multi-partner team to deliver the cloud-platformed solution, thousands of requirements, over 3 million lines of code. The solution was successfully delivered in the summer of 2019. Oversaw system support agreements, master services agreements through 2022.For BCMilk, AlbertaMilk, and the Dairy Farmers of Manitoba. Led the modernization and cloud migration program of the boards’ milk logistics system, a business-critical mobile data collection system supporting the milk transportation and supply-chain integrity from farm to processor. Led the project chartering, business requirements definition, business case development, RFP production, vendor selection and program management through final delivery and roll-out.Led the strategy, planning and preliminary change management programs to merge the back-office operations of the five western provincial dairy organizations to enable organizational resilience, reducing operating costs and increasing their market power at the national level. Designed and led a series of strategy workshops at the board through line management to design the future-state organization and develop the change management plans to be implemented in late 2023. The newly hired CEO of the Western Milk Pool inherited the well-developed organization designs and change management plans.

Longueuil, Ca

In the role of chief enterprise architect and co-program manager of a highly-complex, eight-figure, global eCommerce business transformation program, I helped Pratt & Whitney Canada’s executives envision and execute a digital transformation program to improve aftersales service levels dramatically while reducing costs and delivering a platform for growth and market leadership. From project conception through implementation of a System Development Life Cycle (SDLC), I co-led a team of over 150 professionals, including solution, data and technical architects, developers, business analysts, QA specialists, internal IT resources, and change management professionals across five major suppliers (Deloitte, Accenture, Avanade, CSC, and Thoughtworks). The program engaged and aligned hundreds of business stakeholders, dozens of business processes across a highly-complex, regulated customer-service and sales organizations serving tens-of-thousands of customers worldwide. The program delivered detailed industry benchmarking, capability assessment and portfolio plans, business value assessment, business and technical architectures, roadmaps and implementation strategy, system design, implementation, testing and launch, change management and value assurance programs.Technical environment: SAP, Oracle, Microsoft (Dynamics, SharePoint), .NET, Java.

The Russell Mitchell Group was a management consulting firm dedicated to advising our clients on investment opportunities in the clean technology sector in Canada. Russell Mitchell earned a reputation as the go-to firm for strategic advisory services for federal and provincial ministers, senior policy-makers, governmental agencies, institutional and venture capital investors, national law firms, and merchant banks. The firm was the author and publisher of the ground-breaking “Cleantech Reports”, an annual industrial survey and analysis of the commercialization capabilities of the Canadian clean technology industries. Advisory clients included: TMX Group, OMERS, RBC Royal Bank, Norton Rose, Blake, Cassels & Graydon, Sustainable Development Technology Canada (STDC), MaRS, Export Development Canada, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Industry Canada, Department of Research and Innovation (Ontario), Ontario BioAuto Council, International Trade (BC), BC Hydro ,Cenovus, Canadian Venture Capital Association, Business Development Bank of Canada, Province of Quebec, Province of Manitoba, Province of Alberta, Environment Canada, and Western Economic Diversification Canada.

Mobidia is the provider of the popular and award-winning My Data Manager iOS and Android application - a solution that helps smartphone users save money on data plans while increasing revenue and reducing costs for mobile operators. Mobidia’s mobile analytics and metrics platform provides unique insights into mobile usage trends while driving the next evolution in application discovery, recommendation and mobile advertising.

Markham, On, Ca

Advised management of junior technology companies on product and go-to-market strategy. Advised dozens of entrepreneurs on sales, marketing and financing.

Geosoft was an application software development and services company focused on specialized geophysical and geological software, and geospatial server technology for professional geoscientists involved in natural resource exploration and related earth science disciplines.

Montreal, Qc, Ca

Radialpoint was the leading provider of white-label cloud and technical support services for businesses and consumers. The roster of Radialpoint clients included: AT&T, Verizon, Bell Canada, Virgin Media, Windstream, Bell Alliant, Rogers, TELUS, Videotron, Ono, and Panda Security.

Tomoye was an enterprise application software company focused on delivering cloud and on-premise collaboration, knowledge management and community-of-practice platforms enabling user-managed environments designed to promote knowledge-sharing and discovery. A pioneer in remote, federated digital work environments, Tomoye earned the a blue-chip client roster including, John Deere, Microsoft, Booz Allen Hamilton, SAIC, US Department of Defence, the Internal Revenue Service, The World Bank, The Smithsonian, The United Nations, UNESCO, and numerous departments of the United States and Canadian federal governments. Tomoye's platform was instrumental in hosting the digital collaboration for diplomats and officials engaged in the negotiation and implementation of the United Nations Security Council resolution 1386, authorizing the establishment of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) to assist the Afghan Interim Authority in the maintenance of security in Kabul and surrounding areas. Tomoye was awarded the Fast Company “Fast 50 Award” (‘03), and the runner-up for the Branham Award (‘02).

Ottawa, Ontario, Ca

Calian is an diversified engineering and technical services firm offering specialized engineering services to a diverse set of clients across a number of industrial sectors. Clients include blue chip clients in the aerospace and defence, public sectors, health, public security, environment and nuclear, among others. With a workforce of over 4,400 employees, Calian is one of Canada's FP500 companies.

Waterloo, On, Ca

Microstar Software was a leading pioneer in the development of SGML/XML-related technologies and professional services. Microstar built a reputation for world-class expertise in large unstructured information management systems, with a roster of clients that included McDonnell-Douglas, Boeing, Lockheed-Martin, CSC, Texas Instruments, Hitachi Semiconductor, and numerous federal government departments. Microstar was acquired by OpenText in1998.