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Ottawa, Ontario, CA

Ottawa, Ontario, CA

Co-built and managed this boutique private consultancy with consistent annualized revenue and profit growth for 10 years. Achieved this success by nurturing a resilient and unique network of full-time and part-time consultants with very unique skills in telecommunications and cybersecurity. Capitalized on the low-cost, near-shore trend early.

Toronto, Ontario, CA

Advising on cybersecurity, strategy, large enterprise engagements, and brand management for the latest phase of Bitstrapped’s amazing growth. Super happy to be working with Bitstrapped because of their passion and skill for helping companies discover how they want to make the world a better place. Love these people!Work with us at Bitstrapped to create.

Iroquois, Ontario, CA

Bringing a global approach and strategy to research and development, ensuring we continue to innovate, have the right mix of solutions for our customers, and do so efficiently.

Improving outcomes through personalized treatment

Ottawa, Ontario, CA

Fully managed customer communication analytics service

Louisville, Kentucky, US

Making quality health accessible to everyone at a lower cost

Combatting Fake News with Blockchain

Hoofddorp, Noord-Holland, NL

• Led global software and hardware development for Irdeto’s Connected Transport business through entry into new markets and the COVID pandemic with an annual budget up to $12M. 60 reports, 10 direct, in Canada, USA, and.
• Highest employee engagement in company (6 years), top 10% across industries, increased during the pandemic
• Increased market pipeline by $50M (300%) through definition, development, and operation of new product line
• Inspired and optimized team and processes to go from prototype to 12 model production deployments and live service with Hyundai ahead of schedule and under cost targets with very challenging manufacturing timelines
• Successfully drove required compliance processes, passed all audits with increased employee engagement

Hoofddorp, Noord-Holland, NL

• Integrated multiple acquisitions, introduced new products, and operated global cybersecurity services business for the biggest brands in Media & Entertainment with an annual budget up to $20M. 130 reports, up to 15.
• Coached and facilitated integration of an acquisition, leading to all performance targets being met while employee engagement and corporate identity increased
• Engaged and integrated struggling acquisition to grow agile business with high CSAT with world leading brands
• Successfully defended a key customer against a nation state attack on the business
• Negotiated partnership and launched a joint project to trace global illegal distribution of content
• Doubled revenue growth for key products in an untested market two years in a row, exceeding $35M target

Hoofddorp, Noord-Holland, NL

• Led North American engineering, research, and reverse engineering teams across all product lines with a budget up to $30M. 150 reports, up to 23 direct, in Canada and USA, reporting to Vice President, R&D.
• Built strong relationships with customer CxOs and exceeded tier 1 customer acquisition targets 3 years in a row
• Drove introduction of changes resulting in ISO9k and 27k audits without findings for the first time
• Integrated acquisition and successfully transitioned location, beating performance and SLA targets
• Protected 65 million transactions a day for some of the biggest brands in the world

Hoofddorp, Noord-Holland, NL

Acting as Chief Architect and CTO for all online media products, integrated acquisition and supported successfully transitioning location, defined new product line and supported launch, created long term technology strategy, which has led to better than target profit growth for 6 of the last 8 years. Reporting to Vice President Technology.

Plano, Texas, US

• Successfully integrated teams into a new organization (acquisition), including bringing on additional team members.
• Designed a highly effective Agile Scrum oriented office space.

CA

• Was responsible for coordination and planning of 5 Development and Test teams and worked closely with marketing, product management, architecture, sales, customer, support, engineering, supply management and services.
• Brought Agile Scrum to a 50+ person organization with a long history of waterfall development processes, including socializing, training, coaching, and process definition; improving the 7-9-month program variability to.
• Built a team (17 direct reports and 57 indirect reports) from scratch to build an applications platform (VSP 9500) and a first suite of applications (CM 9520) to large scale commercial deployment in less than 2 years.
• Led numerous prototyping and demonstration activities resulting in executive customer engagements and patent filings; the most successful demo was shown by Verizon CTO to analysts at Verizon request in 2007. This.

CA

CA

CA

CTO organization and OAM&P Platform (network management)

• Built and founded iWave Canada, the largest Canadian Wi-Fi operator for marine recreation
• Developed the business plan, the investors’ package, the operations plan, and secured investors and credit facilities. Built network across most of Ontario, including setting up management, operations, and customer.
• Managed accounting including taxation, payroll, as well as partner and vendor negotiations (marina, yacht club, property owners and managers, as well as Parks Canada).
• Designed and built embedded network access gateway devices, the core component of a quality commercial wireless network deployment.
• Defined the physical and logical design of tens of multi-square kilometre Wifi networks and supervised many of these installations.
• Showcased in Boating Business Magazine in 2006.

Transforming the ASIC IP exchange market

Developed Java-based ASIC display capabilities, C-based static timing analysis algorithms for VLSI, and significant intellectual property (IP) work. Worked with CTO on developing a novel SaaS model for VLSI.

Website and Database design services company

Bellevue, Washington, US

Mastering Innovation: Idea To Value Creation, Business

Business Foundations, Business

Master Of Science (Msc), Information Technology

Mathematics

Computer Science

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Psychology