Kate Armstrong

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Senior Program Manager | MBA & PMP | Leading IT & Legal Transformation in Canada's Top Law Firms | Expert in Innovation, Business Process Optimization & Change Management @ Brain Chain Consulting Inc.
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Canada
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About Kate Armstrong

I'm an advocate for innovation and a catalyst for project and business transformation within Canada's legal landscape. As a Senior Program Manager with an MBA and PMP, I thrive on turning the industry's complex challenges into advancements in business and legal project management. I’m someone that makes challenge and change become a reality in all types of organizations. The passion that gets me up in the morning is to be able to provide more value and innovation to the organizations I work for. My expertise includes: project and program lifecycle mastery, strategic planning and execution, technology and AI transformation, business process engineering, legaltech adoption and change management leadership.Whether you're looking to discuss the next big leap in legal services, seeking guidance on project management, or exploring legaltech advancements, I'm here to engage at kate at Brainchain dot ca .

Kate Armstrong's Current Company Details
Brain Chain Consulting Inc.

Brain Chain Consulting Inc.

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Senior Program Manager | MBA & PMP | Leading IT & Legal Transformation in Canada's Top Law Firms | Expert in Innovation, Business Process Optimization & Change Management
Kate Armstrong Work Experience Details
  • Brain Chain Consulting Inc.
    Principal
    Brain Chain Consulting Inc. Sep 2010 - Present
    Toronto, On
    My consultancy provides a unique mix of program and project management transformation to client centred organizations wanting to achieve strategic brilliance and to improve their client experience and process improvement and technological innovation.
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  • Borden Ladner Gervais Llp (Blg)
    Program Manager
    Borden Ladner Gervais Llp (Blg) Oct 2021 - Feb 2024
    Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • Managed a large program for integrating an acquired ALSP into BLG. Projects included determining strategic approach for legal status, a physical relocation, planning their entire IT roadmap with change management elements throughout.• Managed a national cybersecurity project with challenging vendor management, configuration and deployment elements.• Deployed a program for BLG's Private Client Wealth Group including the launch of new optimized processes for lawyers and paralegals, standardization of precedents, the launch of fee guidance, and the adoption of a cloud based program for Estates Administration.• Provided consulting to improve business development processes for the Commercial Litigation group.• Deployed a Corporate Services Transformation program that released over one hundred product enhancements developed by paralegals.• Managed a pilot for an artificial intelligence application to improve practice efficiencies.• Deployed a taxonomy project to develop and launch phase codes for three practices groups that included attorney consultation and training.
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  • Borden Ladner Gervais Llp (Blg)
    Senior Project Manager
    Borden Ladner Gervais Llp (Blg) Dec 2018 - Sep 2021
    Toronto, Ontario
    • Led a major renovation of BLG's matter lifecycle including upgrades to Intapp, renovation of the firm taxonomy and enabling mobile capabilities, reporting and workflow.\ • Completed a large (200TB) eDiscovery migration to Relativity in the cloud for better case management with artificial intelligence as well as rolling out a mobile solution.• Introduced a solution to capture all of BLG’s Client Term Documents to improve decision data and Client Management. • Migrated a francophone division and developed national processes and precedents for the Corporate Services Group. • Managed a program to digitize all of BLG's Corporate minute books nationally. • Launched the Reynen Court applications sandbox for lawyers to “test drive” innovative vendor legaltech software.
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  • Norton Rose Fulbright
    Senior Project Manager
    Norton Rose Fulbright Apr 2016 - Nov 2018
    Toronto, Ontario
    Launching two net new e-discovery and Legal CRM solutions for the firm. Also manages a large-scale integration programme for our Vancouver office including thirty seven applications, data migrations, process and infrastructure improvements.
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  • Toyota Canada Inc.
    Senior Project Manager
    Toyota Canada Inc. Jan 2015 - Apr 2016
    Toronto, Canada Area
    I was a Senior Project Manager for Toyota Canada and I lead four projects:• Rolling out a cloud-based enterprise wide automotive incentives management system utilizing CallidusCloud• A process consolidation for the Toyota Finance department• A Salesforce CRM implementation for Contact Management• An enterprise wide launch of the Chrome River expense reporting system
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  • Mcmillan Llp
    Senior Project Manager
    Mcmillan Llp Jun 2011 - Feb 2014
    Toronto, Ontario
    Project management of end-to-end enterprise wide projects for a variety of legal stakeholders through the full SDLC lifecycle. Types of projects included legal process improvement and business transformation, delivering data integration projects including an enterprise wide-DMS merge, managing launches of new legal applications, technical infrastructure, and telephony projects. • Delivered a merger of more than 18 million documents from four Autonomy FileSite Document Management systems (DMS) which included facilitating a national group of 40 lawyers to develop the new system design. • Developed and provided recommendations on the McMillan IT Roadmap.
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  • Katz Group Canada Ltd. / Rexall Pharma Plus
    Merchandising Project Manager
    Katz Group Canada Ltd. / Rexall Pharma Plus Sep 2010 - Mar 2011
    Mississauga, Ontario
    Project Manager on a large scale supply chain transformation project responsible for driving the process and technology changes within Rexall’s Merchandising organization. This included facilitating timely Merchandising group inputs, managing business SMEs, facilitating project milestone execution, and briefing senior executives.• Facilitated a process for managing promotional distribution that reduced the approval and revision time by 19% while improving collaboration between Merchandising and Marketing.• Established a new vendor contract for use with more than 440 vendors through consultation with executives in the Merchandising, Legal, Supply Chain and Finance departments.• Managed the development of sixteen Merchandising Standard Operating Procedures.
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  • Capgemini Canada
    Management Consultant
    Capgemini Canada Feb 2008 - Mar 2010
    Partnered with clients through performing strategic roles on large ERP and JDA solutions implementation including: • Facilitating requirements and RFP for a grocer’s supply chain and merchandising multi-million dollar ERP implementation.• Developing an IT Competitive Analysis that framed an automotive retailer’s five year IT strategy.• Creating structure and content Supply Chain Best Practices SharePoint site as a repository for North American Supply Chain best practices and thought leadership.• Developing Capgemini’s business transformation and OCM offerings for the Canadian market.• Creating OCM Deliverables for a large SRM utilities implementation.
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  • North Pole Canada
    Key Accounts Manager
    North Pole Canada 2004 - Jan 2008
    Mississauga, Ontario
    Led large international cross-functional teams to develop, market and launch differentiated consumer products with clients that resulted in over $100MM net new company revenue. Partnered with major Canadian retailers including Canadian Tire, Wal-Mart, Home Depot, COSTCO, and Loblaw and developed a specialty in procurement, sourcing, demand planning, inventory performance improvement and logistics for Orient products.
  • North Pole Canada
    Account Manager
    North Pole Canada 2000 - 2003
    Mississauga, Ontario
    Responsible for forecasting and planning demand for Canadian retail accounts as well as managing EDI and 3PW fulfilment.
  • North Pole Canada
    Customer Service Manager
    North Pole Canada 1998 - 1999
    Mississauga, Ontario
    Managed the Canadian Customer Service office for North Pole including technical content creation, CSR training and sales representative management.
  • Halltech Environmental
    Customer Service Rep.
    Halltech Environmental 1996 - 1998
    Guelph, Ontario
    Co-ordinated the web and catalogue presence of this specialty Canadian wholesaler

Kate Armstrong Skills

Project Management Management Consulting Strategy Business Process Improvement Management It Strategy Cross Functional Team Leadership Leadership Business Transformation Change Management Process Improvement Pmo Customer Relationship Management Vendor Management Crm Outsourcing Software Development Life Cycle Project Management Office International Project Management Stakeholder Management Technology Roadmapping Procure To Pay Risk Management E Discovery Consulting Machine Learning Managing Large Scale Projects Supply Chain Optimization Agile Project Management Integration Consulting

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Kate Armstrong works for Brain Chain Consulting Inc.

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Kate Armstrong's current role is Senior Program Manager | MBA & PMP | Leading IT & Legal Transformation in Canada's Top Law Firms | Expert in Innovation, Business Process Optimization & Change Management.

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Kate Armstrong attended University Of Toronto - Rotman School Of Management, University Of Guelph.

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