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Montreal, Quebec, Ca

Head of the Emerging Technology Practice for the US. Our team helps to drive strategy and expand client relationships by using the right technology solutions to solve their business challenges and better connect them to their customers.

Irving, Texas, Us

Facilitating all launch activities including day-to-day business activities, strategy work, setting up key processes to scale, vendor management, partner negotiations, cost containment, staffing and offloading CEO to address strategic acquisitions and funding needs.

Irving, Texas, Us

Provide governance, assess risks, review strategy, assist with funding, promote growth, and serve the company’s and stakeholders’ best interest. Also, evaluate technology designs and patent submissions.

Fort Worth, Texas, Us

Recruited to build a strategic IT capability and lead product development. I was promoted to CIO-CTO with responsibility for all IT strategy, applications, technology, infrastructure, and operations to improve the engagement with our 300,000 client families. To help modernize the organization, I introduced SAFe to the entire enterprise and led the Agile and DevOps transformations with a focus on client value, quality, and empowerment.• Retooled the team, filled skill gaps, and instituted efficient repeatable processes to prioritize and manage work.• Developed strategy that leveraged our partners’ investments in emerging technology to accelerate our product delivery and capabilities while containing costs via joint development. • Worked with the field and business stakeholders to deliver solutions that increased accuracy, efficiency, and product stickiness.• I established IT governance process and set up regular stand-up meetings to introduce new products and keep backlog prioritized.• Quickly modernized an outdated data center with 10 yr. old equipment that lacked a cohesive architecture. Once stabilized, I laid out a plan to migrate to the cloud that focused on agility, resiliency (BCP/DR), and cost controls that avoided ~$2m annual CapEx. On target to close the data centers by 2021.• Deployed industry leading straight through processing which resulted in the elimination of paper forms, automated compliance, reduced the time to open and fund an account from days to minutes, increased sales by 12% and eliminated rework that had been ~40%.• Created aggressive InfoSec roadmap that substantially reduced cyber risk via defense-in-depth program based on NIST.

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

I was brought back as a regional CTO, to re-engage carrier customers via business development and technology marketing. I assisted the carriers with the product/feature roadmap and ranging discussions with an emphasis on deployment implications in terms of cost, network impact, and ROI. Enhanced sales via business development and technology deployment discussions.

Provider of software products and services for the mobile device market, including OS porting for chipset manufacturers.Hired to bring mobile channel expertise to a venture-backed company to build revenue growth via product development. Created and brought products to market, led product P&L, planning, business development, licensing, and strategic partnerships. Launched WalkingHotSpot which was the first cell phone Wi-Fi hotspot.

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

Operational head of the Dallas Product Creation site which included regional strategy, designing, developing and launching products and services for the Americas region, site P&L responsibility, business & channel development, M&A due diligence, member of internal patent & technology boards, and public speaking.

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

Managed three high-volume consumer phone programs which drove Nokia’s US market share over 50%. Launched the first dual-band GSM phone in the Americas and collaborated with the network group to facilitate carrier build-out of the new networks. The products set performance benchmarks and boasted the highest quality of any Nokia product.

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

Ran the Americas' Wireless Data Business Unit which included strategy development, evangelizing data services, and building market demand. Drove re-organization with the Mobile Phones Business Unit to eliminate redundancy, increase product portfolio and execution speed.

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

Led the development of hardware, RF, mechanical, and software design for smart phone products. Instrumental in staffing 1,000+ engineers and established labs for each engineering disciplines.

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

Built and led the local software team. Authored global software process paper and defined the software architecture for data devices.

Fort Worth, Texas, Us

Created service level program and developed software to monitor real-time movement of rail cars with automated daily status. The program increased revenue and customer satisfaction scores as well as on-time shipments as a result of closed-loop scheduling.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Engineering

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