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Newmarket, ON, CA

Toronto, Ontario, CA

Toronto, Ontario, CA

Toronto, Ontario, CA

Toronto, Ontario, CA

Toronto, Ontario, CA

Toronto, ON, CA

• Managed a multi-project suite focusing on upgrading Toronto Hydro’s Microsoft platform to the latest product suites in the desktop, application deployment and email domains. Responsible for contract negotiation with.
• Lead RFQ and negotiations with LARs to establish establishing Toronto Hydro’s first Microsoft Enterprise Agreement worth $3.3M over 3 years.
• Lead RFP and negotiations with System integrators to delivery statement of work to deploy program deliverables worth $1.4M over 12 months
• Established cost plan, resource plans and acquired necessary technical resources to deliver the programOutcome:
• Delivered fully executed Microsoft EA within 2 months to meet all business requirements and meet quarter end earning Toronto Hydro a bonus from Microsoft.
• Negotiated seven vendors down to a winner while getting a fixed price bid from system integrators to deliver the project’s statement of work in 3 major areas.

Toronto, ON, CA

• Managed a team of two Project Control Officers and a Quality Control specialist to develop and deploy quality control processes, standards and metrics for all IT projects as well as develop a updated IT project.
• Developed a quality control process for IT projects and deployed it resulting in a quality improvement of project data deliverables from 48% to 80% within 6 weeks of rolling out the new process and CA Clarity Project.
• Managed project to create, release and train staff on a new standard project schedule and metrics resulting in an update from 18% of projects with schedules to 100% of projects
• Migrated all existing active project schedules to new measurable schedules in 6 weeks, reducing the time to review schedules from 4 man-days/week to 4 man-hour/week with automation and standardized metrics.
• Managed the migration all active projects into standard project management framework reducing the manual work required for audit and Quality Control.
• Managed the development and automation of standard weekly project metrics and dashboard and migrated all projects to these metrics resulting in an improvement in project quality to 70% from 37% in 12 weeks.

Toronto, ON, CA

• Managed from business case through closure multiple phases of the Toronto Hydro Mobile application deployment. Responsible for contracts, budgeting, resource plans, status reporting and customer satisfaction for the.
• Hired Business Analysts and Business Systems Analysts to gather requirements and specifications from the business and IT Support.
• Managed budget and schedule and relationship with 3rd party vendor for delivery of the project.Outcome:
• Delivered on time and budget and to the Business’ satisfaction.
• Brought knowledge of application and infrastructure of the mobile platform from 3rd party vendor back into Toronto Hydro eliminating need for 3rd party support at level 2.

Toronto, Ontario, CA

• Managed a team of six to nine Level 1 and Level 2 Client Services resources to operationalize and deliver day to day support for a corporate office of 200+ users. Responsible for RFPs, resource planning, IT.
• Reduced overtime from 40 hours per week to less than 4 within 3 months for incident management staff.
• Conducted quarterly staffing reviews of contract staff and bi-annual reviews of full time staff.
• Managed a department budget of ~$2M including resource, vendor, operational and capital costs
• Coordinated the signing of a new 3 year cellular contract that will result in a savings of ~$200k/year over the previous contract.
• Reduced new incidents by 66% and service requests by 13% from January to October while increasing supported users by 25%

Toronto, Ontario, CA

• Responsible for all IT projects related to the move of the corporate office, including contracts, procurement, and support. Role also included acting as the IT liaison to the building management for construction of the.
• Managed environment reviews and P2V plans and schedules to ensure capacity.
• Managed the physical build to ensure all power, network, A/C, UPS and physical move requirements of the new server room met requirements
• Finalized RFP with Co-lo office and coordinated move of servers from existing locations to new locations.Outcome:
• Server room move was completed successfully and there was no loss of service outside the agreed upon windowProject: New Cisco Corporate Network and VOIPRole: Project Manager reporting to CIO. Responsible for managing.
• Managed the final technical requirements gathering for the new environment and submitted RFPs for this equipment.

Toronto, Ontario, CA

• Managed a team of 2 resources to review and improve Global IT Project Management processes and reporting and to set up a Centre of Excellence for Project Management and Process Improvement for a Global IT Team.
• Improved product release quality from 29% to 90% within 6 months
• Led project to reduce manual follow up time with project managers by 1 person-week/month
• Increased the number of project records that were current for weekly reviews from roughly 50% to 95%.
• Lead sub-team of global process improvement initiative to successfully reach CMMI Level 1 processes in IT Project management processes.
• Set up a Centralized Global Centre of Excellence for IT Project Management and IT Process Improvement for ~25 PMs in 12 locations through Asia, Europe, South America and North American.

Toronto, Ontario, CA

• Managed the delivery of several multi-million dollar projects using global teams. Project: SOx Compliance 2006Role: Project Manager reporting to Director of Operations. Responsible for managing project teams to deliver.
• Managed project to document all access control processes related to Corporate financial systems and get approval from auditorsOutcome:
• No material findings were found for 2006
• Received Merit Award for successful delivery of the programProject: WEEE/RoHS ComplianceRole: Project Manager reporting to Director of Supply Chain Management. Responsible for managing projects to deliver WEEE/RoHS.
• Managed SAP MM project to migrate all parts globally to a new part numbering standard.
• Managed SAP SD project to update all interfaces for customer ordering to be able to include all historical part information and compliance information for Sales Orders and receipts

Toronto, Ontario, CA

• Responsible for a team with two direct report to review existing IT contracts and monthly operational spend for savings or discrepancies
• Worked with telecom provider to reduce long distance rates to locations with corporate offices resulting in a savings of $40k/year.
• Prepared and provided operational budgets reviews for Quarterly CFO meetings