• Managed, coached, and mentored a cross-functional team during rapid expansion across Toronto and Bogota, Colombia.• Roll-out of metrics-based evaluation and growth program that drastically increased repeatability, quality, and professionalism.• Architectural and project delivery oversight of clients across financial institutions, fintech and medtech companies.• Led pre-sales activities to consult and close deals with prospects and to expand and grow in-house accounts.• Engineering and IT Operations leadership and governance with teams in Toronto and in Bogota, Colombia with 50% reduction in IT spend while implementing a corporate security strategy as CISO.

• Elastic Thinking was a non-traditional consulting company focusing on providing elastic (by the hour) technical experts targeting SMEs. • Services provided ranged from strategic needs such as CTO as a Service to tactical needs such as Solutions Architecture, Pre-Sales, Security, and Scalability.

• Talentuar seeked to provide tailored SaaS/PaaS solutions to the market of a varied selection of often overlooked long-tail niche social networks• Worked as the technical strategist, full-stack developer, and cloud ops manager• Developed several pilot services centered on Artists, Amatuer Sports Leagues, and General Contractors with a rich platform including social networking, ratings/reviews, rich media including video, and E-Commerce where appropriate.

• Provided technology and project management consulting services for projects-at-risk for the Professional Services division of Cisco VideoScape• Led the solution architecture for a multi-million dollar carrier program extending out for 3+ years. The first deployment of Cisco VideoScape worldwide.• Met with clients for requirements gathering, schedule commitments and technical details.• Met with internal and external executives to provide status, evaluate risk, roadmaps, challenges and future opportunities.• Technical architect and lead of iPhone/iPad and Android handset/tablet apps for video e-commerce and consumption of ABR video with PlayReady DRM connected to Cisco’s MediaSuite product and 3rd party software.• Led the client execution with multiple teams of developers, internally and using outsourcing companies driving towards many parallel but integrated deliverables.

* Led the architecture, design and development of a new cloud-based SDK product suite encompassing a wide range of in-house and 3rd party technologies intended for sale and for use by the offshore development.* Led the architecture and development team to create a mobile script language for creating enterprise mobile applications to deliver a customized experience across multiple platforms each providing optimization on a per-device level. * Led the architecture and team that delivered a multi-tenant server designed to optimize for mobile applications providing features like dynamic device configuration, language, styling, scripts updates on-the-fly as well as features like messaging optimization and 3rd-party SDKs.* Developed and upgraded over 7 enterprise applications using the above systems in less than 9 months with minimal staff and offshoring office. * Managed and deployed a customized web, mobile-web and mobile-app product suite into a national telecommunications company in South America as a hosted service. Worked closely with South American developers, hosting partners and clients.

* Delivered multiple client web applications for video streaming and download with aggressive timelines and rich feature sets with a minimum of defects and excellent client satisfaction. * Completed solution architecture and design for several projects while initiating a peer review program for requirements and solution documentation from other leads. * Managed a dynamic team of varying experience levels to deliver regular maintenance releases with Enterprise-grade uptime (99.999%+ uptime). * Developed and implemented processes and standards that increased efficiency, accuracy and time-to-market.

* Drove the design and architecture of the next major release of the premier enterprise product of the company which became the patented (WO/2007/137403) Tira Jump 2008 Developer Desktop product. * Lead a team of developers to meet ambitious deadlines with high-quality code while acting as a Project Manager for a support & maintenance team of developers.* Worked on the development team for two releases of the company's flagship product.* Designed and ran several training courses and seminars with leading Enterprise customers.