Kelly Walker Email & Phone Number

Vancouver, Bc, Ca

Port Coquitlam, Bc, Ca

InsureLine provides a simple and elegant insurance buying experience - we are Simplifying Insurance! Now available to everyone in BC, Alberta and Ontario, and soon to all Canadians. InsureLine's core values are centered around Simplicity, Innovation and Choice. With our own proprietary insurance brokerage management system and CRM, proprietary online quoting tools, and access to Canada's biggest and best insurance markets, InsureLine's goal is to build Canada’s largest property and casualty insurance brokerage group. Home, Auto and so much more.As the CTO, I am charged with establishing our technical vision, leading all aspects of technology, from concept through development and deployment of cutting edge custom applications and web presence. Using technology trends associated with InsureTech startups to develop corporate offerings within a franchise model which propel the insurance broker industry. While leading a progressive InsureTech, focused development and execution of an enterprise-wide information security plan that protects the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the company’s data and servers deployed across private and public clouds and onsite environments.

As an Enterprise Solutions Architect, I work with organizations to develop and support strategic digital transformation initiatives. Responsibilities include crafting and executing technology infrastructure, enterprise architecture and software objectives to drive enterprise value, growth, sales and profits. An experienced technical executive driven to provide unique, cutting edge solutions to complex business requirements. Helping educate businesses on best practices when employing technology has been a personal mandate.

Vancouver, Bc, Ca

Uniserve believes that any owner or manager of an SMB in Canada has more important things to deal with than stick handling their organization’s IT challenges. We know that your time is better spent on your core responsibilities and adding value to the business. Our job as we see it, is to assume the proactive management of your IT infrastructure and support of its users, making it our challenge not yours. Let our technology professionals assume the responsibility, and deploy our complete suite of SMB services so you can streamline and simply your IT; allow yourself to concentrate on the impactful things in your business, the Uniserve team has your back.

Port Coquitlam, Bc, Ca

Dominion Lending Centres is Canada's largest mortgage broker network. The DLC Group operates three distinct brands (Dominion Lending Centres, Mortgage Centre and Mortgage Architects) which represent 5000+ mortgage brokers across 1000 locations Canada wide. As the VP of Technology, I was charged with developing, prioritizing and leading the execution of digital strategies and initiatives to support the overall company growth objectives in partnership with the business. This involved creating unique roadmaps with drive software and infrastructure projects across multiple teams, business units, partners and phases, aligning business opportunities with the appropriate, cost-effective investment of financial resources in IT systems and resources.Over my tenure at Dominion Lending Centres, we accomplished a number of key initiatives. Some highlights include1) Successful acquisition and asset integration of two major broker networks; Mortgage Centre Canada and Mortgage Architects2) Data Centre virtualization projects which reduced server footprint by 50%3) Hybrid cloud deployments which increased availability and reduced companies exposure4) Successful delivery of numerous high profile software projects which drives sales growth5) Successful Analog to VoIP telephony deployment which provided multi site calling while reducing overall costs by 35%As the organization grew rapidly priority and attention was given to ensure an appropriate risk management framework and methodologies were in place and maintained including information and physical site security.

Innovator, creator and expert problem solver. Kelly lead a team of experienced technical, creative and marketing professionals which provided high impact solutions for some of Canada’s top businesses. An experienced technical professional driving unique, cutting edge solutions to complex business requirements. He holds a PMP designation and is an expert in both the Agile and Waterfall methodologies implementing SDLC processes. As the President and Founder of 604media, he started the company with a vision to educate clients on the best approaches to software development for their business needs. He has a passion for excellence and focuses on the entire customer experience, complete service offerings and profitability to drive year over year company growth.

London, Gb

* Delivered infrastructure support for a distributed environment comprised of HP NonStop and IBM iSeries systems monitoring replication of data between environment nodes utilizing Orion Datacenter. * Created support procedures and documentation in a key role on the Disaster and Recovery Management team. Participated in High Availability and Disaster Recovery Exercises.* Planned, coordinated and executed system upgrades to hardware, operating system and applications to increase enterprise reliability while minimizing down time.

London, Gb

* Provided oversight for high impact issues ensuring necessary resources were assigned speeding incident resolution. * Project Manager for new Help Desk initiatives driving process improvements to production on time and within budget.* Created a certification process for analysts to handle high impact issues, developing a training manual and reference material. * Contributed to 20% improvement month over month of Help Desk results utilizing tools such as Symposium.* Hired and coordinated training plans for new analysts, developed schedules and conducted semi-annual performance appraisals for a 200 member team.

London, Gb

* Provided first level support for over 65000 internal users maintaining computer hardware, MS office suite and HUB proprietary bank software improving business efficiency by reducing down-time.* Monitored WAN and LAN network infrastructure connections and the ABM network distributed across Canada and Host / Network Interfaces routing outages to speed incident response. * Participated in the population of the knowledge document repository to improve troubleshooting quality and reduce process variance.