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Toronto, On, Ca

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Alignment with business stakeholders on new strategic capabilities• Research and development• Strategic vendor analysis and relationship cultivation• Product testing• Proof of concept development

Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

• Analyze existing processes, design and champion change to improve efficiencies in accuracy, productivity, onboarding, and employee morale.• Lead and contributing towards asynchronous interdepartmental projects and initiatives with local, remote, and offshore resources.• Created new corporate revenue department inclusive of team composition, process optimization, application development, establishing communication channels, and training documentation.• IT owner over client facing applications & hardware driving efforts to optimize existing application processes and workflows.• Lead a team of 7 direct reports towards the core S.P.I.R.I.T. values of the company (Service, Price, Integrity, Results, Innovation, & Teamwork).

Mississauga, Ontario

• Coordinated efforts between business and technical resources to bring innovations to the company’s technology offerings. Led the development of requirements which helped the company offer better services to its customers as well as increase internal efficiencies• Managed a cross-functional project team of both offshore and remote employees to implement tablet and data capture innovations based on identified business requirements• Ensured open lines of communication between all members of the team ranging from business and product owners (sales, marketing, operations), quality assurance testers, and developers. This was done by hosting daily stand ups, acting as SCRUM master, and by identifying the best project management approach for each request• Managed projects using both Agile and Waterfall methodologies in order to achieve the best results• Attended and contributed project status and issues to monthly executive steering committee meetings

• Mentored and trained a team of developers towards coding best practices• Organized and conducted group training seminars to bring the company's programmers up to speed with new technologies.• Managed offshore development group to meet strict deadlines with a high quality of work• Performed risk analysis on business requests to identify potential technical hurdles before they became road blocks

• Implemented customer specific logic into a proprietary corporate system using VB.net, C++, C#, SQL, Crystal Reporting.• Adapt quickly to changing customer needs and deliver solutions in a timely manner• Complete projects and learn new skills as required

• Tutored students on concepts ranging from simple math to advanced programming theory

• Assisted students experiencing problems on the computer

Bachelor Of Business Administration - Bba, Business Administration, Management And Operations, 4.02 Gpa

• Graduated top of my class with distinct honors • Actively participated in group activities as both a leader and contributor

Advanced Diploma, Computer Programming And Systems Analysis

Activities and Societies: Part Time Student Technician, Peer TutorAttained Leadership Award for high academic standing along with great.