Jon Holt, Icd.D Email & Phone Number

Calgary, AB, CA

Developed and implemented an online application system for NRCB, aligning with the Government's red tape reduction initiative. Led project planning, budgeting, architecture, and development to enhance the application process for CFO operators of the province by providing an online application portal.

• Led the applicaiton maintenance and support of NRCB’s CFO2 system, establishing robust incident, problem, and change management protocols for ongoing system reliability and compliance.
• Actively engaged senior leaders to secure commitment throughout the process.
• Ensured compliance with corporate standards during the roll out of new enhancements.
• Actively developed and deployed enhancements to the NRCB CFO 2 system

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Vice-Chair Audit and Finance

Edmonton, Canada Area

Elected to Servus Board of Directors, 2021-2022 Vice Chair of the Board2020-2021 Vice Chair Audit & Finance2019-2020 Member Enterprise Risk Management and Audit and Finance committees2018-19 Member Enterprise Risk Management and Audit and Finance committees2017-18 Vice-Chair HR and Governance Committee2016-17 Member Enterprise Risk Management.

• Transitioned direct oversight of development to a new Director of Technology to focus on transforming E-By Design from a product focused consultancy to a SaaS development and live operations firm through product.
• Accountable for Revenue, Product Management and Data Insights.
• Accountable for innovation, usability, and design to maximize revenue and retention.
• Responsible for the messaging, positioning, and branding our products in the market.
• Developed seed-funding strategy, delivered go-to-market strategy for new product lines, managed product management team

• Expanding my purview from the Directory of Technology into overseeing the information management of the entire E-By Design / Triton Verify / CRD Division group of companies as CIO.
• Managed the significant operational risk of GDPR, PIPEDA, PCI, and SOC 2 compliance
• Managed technology use and deployment with accountability for Information Security
• Expanded security and compliance standards to top clients using the service and software (Public companies, Police organizations, Provincial Governments)

• Led the development team and the technical infrastructure team in the efficient and cost-effective deployment of hardware and software to support the business.
• Responsible for the platform development arm of the group of companies (including Triton Verify and CRD Division) that grew out of the original startup Triton Background checks
• Manage the remote team of developers (5) delivering 2 separate platforms which we grew from $5,000 monthly recurring revenue (MRR) to well over $500,000 MRR in 2018
• Coordinate the scale up of resources to integrate key partners such as Uber Canada, the Government of Ontario and Bell Canada.

Calgary, Canada Area

Director for Region A2015-18 Chair, Governance Committee2014-15 Vice-chair, Governance Committee2013-14 Member, Governance Committee

• Entrepreneurial startup owner and the project manager for the initial development using outsourced remote contractors, ran online marketing, development and production support.
• Observed an opportunity in the market: to help licensed dayhomes coordinate their interaction with parents and to help independent day home owners get noticed
• A custom web platform focused on connecting parents and early childhood educators

• Oversaw the delivery of a program of 50 individual initiatives to transform the information technology department.Based on an analysis completed by Deloitte, the organization planned to migrate IT from a basic service.
• Transformation of everything from the technology architecture to organizational governance
• Successfully implement 8 of the identified projects in just under a year
• Transition the program to the newly formed, internal Project Management Office.

• Lead architect on a large Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) project ($7.2 million)
• Focused on both short term and long-term objectives for the ministry
• SOA strategy and middleware wrapper for two legacy Courts mainframe systems
• Established enterprise IT governance, change management, service governance and overall Program Management
• Established trust and buy-in from the Ministry, the Courts and law enforcement on a common vocabulary for data exchange between the three independent entities

Edmonton, Canada Area

Member of advisory board for a startup developing a software offering to facilitate leveraging their bricks and mortar connections online.

Partner in an IT services company based in Vancouver and Edmonton. Offered creation and construction of custom software products, including software maintenance and bolt-on engineering for our existing products. Offering included coaching services on leadership, effective management, team and relationship construction and communication.

Management of a full-service, fully remote, custom development team of 10. We took a base development framework purchased from another vendor and implemented a fully customized, enterprise scale, health and pensions benefits administration application.

• Operations project manager with a key focus of building the ongoing development team for two new core applications that began the decommissioning of a legacy mainframe.
• Supported struggling project teams and grew their AMS competencies
• Operationalization of the apps through an ITIL process
• Managed the continuing development of the products and coaching the teams in best practices
• Coached the entire operational unit through the organizational change process
• Facilitated visibility and collaboration with Directors and CIO at the ministry level

Edmonton, Canada Area

• New Solutions Architect and Technical Lead – WCB Mar 2006-Dec 2007I led 4 teams of 2-5 in the scoping, planning and delivery of new solutions at the WCB Alberta as part of the new solutions delivery team at Sierra.
• delivered new software architectural standards, an external stakeholder security migration, a custom content management solution redesign and enterprise content re-platforming for the WCB Alberta.Application Managed.

Ba, Film Studies And Computing Science

Mit Fintech: Future Commerce

Product Management Diploma