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Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Product lead for the development of a retail media advertising platform for one of Canada's largest organizations. Lead a team of product managers in the strategy and requirement definition for the platform, collaborating closely with business, UX, and development teams to succesfully build and launch the platform within 3 months. Defined the product strategy and objectives as it was enhanced for a successful self-serve launch, gathering feedback from campaign managers and customers.

Toronto, Canada Area

Worked as a product owner, product manager and delivery lead across multiple industries, including: • Logistics: Led product strategy and roadmapping, managing scope and sprint planning to ensure product delivered met business need. • Mining: Established agile delivery framework and delivery strategy for a complex, multi-platform implementation• Consumer automotive: Lead engagement defining the framework for marketing & content governance, as well as omnichannel personalization strategy. • Public sector: Worked with business identify product startegy, prioritize and define scope based on customer analytics and identified KPIs, and establish product plan and agile cadence based on prioritized backlog.

• Worked as the product owner/ product lead for a team developing an intelligent voice application for a large Canadian company. This project was the first of its kind globally. Lead and facilitated between a team of designers, developers and testers using agile methodologies, working with business stakeholders to determine scope and functionality of the application, as well as facilitating sprint planning and retrospectives.• Managed budgeting and costing of project extensions, and interfaced with client project leads to ensure application delivery exceeded expectations.

• Worked on a team of 7 on the implementation of a major management information system for a client, replacing 72 legacy systems with one integrated system. This system is the largest of its kind being developed in Canada, representing the digitalization of large financial organization• Facilitated defect management and a variety of triage meetings for this project, participating in the daily standup with client executives ensuring both short and long term targets were achieved• Developed new techniques to ensure integration of systems was defect free, working to ensure that the project goes live with minimal effect to the business functions of the organization• Assisted in the timeline planning for the restructuring of different organization to a new ERP system, to allow for strategic decision making regarding project scope• Produced a brochure for the Deloitte Internet of Things Practice group, presenting how IoT technologies can revolutionize management information systems through the automated gathering and analysis of data

• Produced and analyzed reports and rec lists for senior management and dealerships, while assisting in strategic decision making.• Automated weekly and monthly reports using Excel macros and VBA, resulting in 12 hours saved monthly. Provided insights on the data contained in these reports and distributed it• Synthesized industry sales and performance data using Pivot Tables and VLOOKUPs for the Board Research Report such that company strategies could be directed by the Board• Researched funds on Bloomberg and Morningstar, participated in due diligence meetings for sub-advised and external funds to review model portfolios

Burlington, On

• Oversaw management, training, scheduling, and evaluation of 12 staff and over 25 volunteers which ensured excellent customer service and program execution for Camp Can-do• Marked leadership and customer service capabilities lead to a promotion from Program Staff to Program Manager after two years working for the City of Burlington•Developed and marketed the program and various events, through booking special guests and creating brochures

Master Of Business Administration (Mba)

Activities and Societies: President of the DeGroote Consulting Association

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Psychology