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Ottawa, On, Ca

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Ottawa, Canada Area

Led a 3 year program to modernize the NAV CANADA Corporate Network. • selected and deployed a Software Defined Wide Area Network (SDWAN) solution to over 100 sites nationally• expanded capacity of the existing national MPLS Network• implemented a hybrid WAN with Internet circuits nationally• improved latency through the implementation of secured Direct Internet Access at 7 sites across the country

Ottawa, Canada Area

• Led teams in Canada, India and the United States who supported and operated the source code management and product load build systems.• Managed a team of developers who architected, designed and deployed a secured and globally distributed Source Code Management (SCM) system based on SVN/Git. This solution controlled access to all of Avaya’s software globally. The SCM systems were operated 24X7 and were used in software production load build for Avaya’s line of mission critical… Show more • Led teams in Canada, India and the United States who supported and operated the source code management and product load build systems.• Managed a team of developers who architected, designed and deployed a secured and globally distributed Source Code Management (SCM) system based on SVN/Git. This solution controlled access to all of Avaya’s software globally. The SCM systems were operated 24X7 and were used in software production load build for Avaya’s line of mission critical products.• Migrated SCM users out of ClearCase to SVN/Git enabling a savings of $120K US in annual software licensing and maintenance. • Implemented a virtualized (KVM) build service that allowed Avaya R&D to decommission physical servers used in software load build. Service covered Linux, Solaris, Windows and OS X. Show less

Ottawa, Canada Area

• Project managed and drove the change management process to migrate usage of Rally’s Agile software development platform to the Avaya Forge environment based on Atlassian’s Jira and Jira Agile. This resulted in the elimination of $450K US yearly software licensing and support cost.• Project managed the build and move of the Avaya R&D data center to a newly leased location. The move resulted in less than 24 hours of downtime for over 6,000 users globally who rely on these tools 24X7 to… Show more • Project managed and drove the change management process to migrate usage of Rally’s Agile software development platform to the Avaya Forge environment based on Atlassian’s Jira and Jira Agile. This resulted in the elimination of $450K US yearly software licensing and support cost.• Project managed the build and move of the Avaya R&D data center to a newly leased location. The move resulted in less than 24 hours of downtime for over 6,000 users globally who rely on these tools 24X7 to manage software design and production. This new regional data center housed over 20 racks of servers, storage (SAN) and network equipment.• Managed a team of developers who built and supported a fully featured, integrated Agile software design and production environment based on open source and Atlassian’s tools. The suite of tools was used by over 6,000 developers, testers and project managers globally in a business critical 24X7 environment. The deployment of this environment was a multiyear effort that involved significant process change management to accomplish. Teams were solicited via internal communications, including a worldwide developer conference where key team members and existing user teams would present the business benefits of Agile and the Forge environment. Show less

• Established and managed a business unit focused team to provide the core designer services required by the Enterprise Solutions R&D teams• Leading teams in Canada, India, Europe and the United States responsible for delivering the product load build, software design tool environment, hardware design tool environment, lab operations and test/verification tool support for the Enterprise business unit.• Direct planning and management of a $15M budget with over $3M in external software… Show more • Established and managed a business unit focused team to provide the core designer services required by the Enterprise Solutions R&D teams• Leading teams in Canada, India, Europe and the United States responsible for delivering the product load build, software design tool environment, hardware design tool environment, lab operations and test/verification tool support for the Enterprise business unit.• Direct planning and management of a $15M budget with over $3M in external software spend.• Developed and directed the execution of a software escrow process to meet the needs of Nortel’s sales teams and their customer base.• Driving cross-regional collaboration and co-operation in the development of processes and tools for product development. Show less

• Responsible for the Acquisition, Operation and Cost Recovery of a $14M portfolio of software applications used within the global technology community. By using a suite of internally and commercially developed tools and by working closely with the software vendors, was able to drive significant year over year cost reductions while improving customer satisfaction and tool availability.• Established and implemented a business continuity plan (BCP).• Managed a team of finance… Show more • Responsible for the Acquisition, Operation and Cost Recovery of a $14M portfolio of software applications used within the global technology community. By using a suite of internally and commercially developed tools and by working closely with the software vendors, was able to drive significant year over year cost reductions while improving customer satisfaction and tool availability.• Established and implemented a business continuity plan (BCP).• Managed a team of finance professionals responsible for the budged planning and oversight of a $100M portfolio of software and internally provided services.• Established a data security architecture for Nortel’s R&D community that satisfied both Intellectual Property and Export Control requirements. Regularly interacted and presented the status to the Chief Technology Officer and other members of the Nortel Senior Executive Team. Show less

• Working directly with the CIO, planned and executed an aggressive plan to grow this division as a spin off of Nortel by 500% over a 2 year period.• Acted as the single point of contact for escalation of all IT issues affecting the Chief Technology officer and his R&D community.• Directed all IT projects that had impact on the R&D Community and Product Development teams• Managed the rapid acquisition of IT services for newly acquired R&D teams during a time of extremely rapid… Show more • Working directly with the CIO, planned and executed an aggressive plan to grow this division as a spin off of Nortel by 500% over a 2 year period.• Acted as the single point of contact for escalation of all IT issues affecting the Chief Technology officer and his R&D community.• Directed all IT projects that had impact on the R&D Community and Product Development teams• Managed the rapid acquisition of IT services for newly acquired R&D teams during a time of extremely rapid growth and subsequently the rapid decommissioning of IT services when the division was shut down. Show less

Ottawa, Canada Area

Honours Bsc, Physics, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: President, Physics Society

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