Nelson Lah

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Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, Canada
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About Nelson Lah

Nelson is a highly-motivated strategist who leverages the innovative use of technologies for business, with over 30 years of proven delivery, coupled with strong organization developmental skills in leading large transformative change. He understands public good and held executive leadership positions in the British Columbia provincial government for over 20 years, including being the CIO at the former Ministry of Forests and the first CTO for Shared Services BC.Under his strategic leadership, innovative approach, and business acumen the ministries won numerous awards including multiple GTEC, CIPA, and BC Premier’s awards.In the private sector, Nelson led major pursuits over $500M, created partnership agreements with key products vendors in global markets, and delivered mission critical projects to client satisfaction.He is a trusted advisor on acquisitions, strategic planning, complex partnerships and linkages with other government, academia and industry alliances. He chairs the Simon Fraser University’s Business Technology Management (BTM) Advisory Board and is a mentor at both UVic’s Gustavson Mentor Program (BComm and MBA students) and SFU Beedie School of Business, winning Mentor of the Year. His service to the community includes being Past Presidents of the Victoria Conservatory of Music, Victoria Chinatown Lions Club, and Inter-Cultural Association.He continues to forge new paths as Founding Director of the Open Data Society of BC, created the Canadian Open Data Summit that is gaining both grassroots and government support.He has a keen sense of balance between the strategic needs of the enterprise and the immediate business priorities.Specialties: Ability to change and transform lives and businesses. Inspiring leadership and change agent. Strong sense of balance between family, work and community.Strategic thinker, mentor/coach, and ability to deal with complexity.

Nelson Lah's Current Company Details
Grand Pacific Solutions Inc.

Grand Pacific Solutions Inc.

Leveraging technology and transforming organizations
Nelson Lah Work Experience Details
  • Grand Pacific Solutions Inc.
    President
    Grand Pacific Solutions Inc. Oct 2015 - Present
    Independent Management Consultant working on several projects, advising companies globally and leading change. Produced IT strategic plans and digital strategies for local governments and police departments. Successfully secured several large, multi-millions projects by leading the RFP response, shortlist presentation, contract negotiation, onboarding and account management. A Strategic Advisor on a large business transformation project in the health sector that involve leading identity management practices, delivering business value in adherence to regulations and extensive stakeholder engagement with users, colleges, associations and vendors.
  • Cgi
    Partner And Director
    Cgi Apr 2010 - Sep 2015
    Victoria/Vancouver, Bc Canada
    Key senior executive responsible for account management, client services, account delivery, business development and human capital investment. Responsible for emerging sectors that include creating and negotiating partnerships with product vendors in global markets to provide implementation services. Lead strategic initiatives and large bids over $500M and successful expansion into Greater Vancouver market and private sectors. Created and lead new practices such as ERP, Executive Advisory Services, and Content Management Services to expand and grow into key strategic markets. Consistently exceeded sales and revenue targets, client satisfaction surveys and sales calls.
  • Bc Ministry Of Citizens' Services
    Chief Technology Officer And Executive Director
    Bc Ministry Of Citizens' Services Nov 2007 - Mar 2010
    Victoria, Bc Canada
    First CTO in Shared Services BC (revenue of $280M, 37,000 workstations, 1,600 servers, 50,000 phones, 6,700 blackberries, in over 4,000 locations) responsible for translating government’s business objectives and priorities into infrastructure services, protecting government’s information assets and ensuring business continuity....balancing innovative changes, operational efficiencies and budget constraints.
  • Bc Ministry Of Education
    Executive Project Director
    Bc Ministry Of Education Apr 2007 - Nov 2007
    Victora, Bc Canada
    Create a vision to pilot “School of the Future” for K-12 Education system, leveraging the use of technologies in demonstration schools centered around completion of the needed outcomes in a non-directed, self-paced, multi-pronged approach versus the current, highly prescribed path of sequential grades and courses.
  • Bc Ministry Of Forests And Range
    Chief Information Officer
    Bc Ministry Of Forests And Range 2002 - Nov 2007
    Victoria, Bc, Canada
    Strategic leadership on a large, 5 years, business transformation initiative during core business changes, workforce adjustment, budget reduction, implementation of shared services, and increase in public-private partnership....basically changing the airplane when it is flying in the air!
  • Bc Systems Corporation, Victoria, Bc, Canada
    Progressive Positions
    Bc Systems Corporation, Victoria, Bc, Canada Aug 1989 - 2002
    Victoria, Bc Canada
    Realized a 30% saving in BC government maintenance costs by initiating the first negotiation of a major contract directly with a prominent offshore consultant company. Lead innovative procurement practices by using a Request for Proposal (RFP) process to select a software package with a 90-day delivery timeline with progressive penalties, ending with zero payment after 180 days. Awarded the first Joint Solutions Procurement (JSP) contract in BC, advocating strategic partnership with vendors. Created the first comprehensive 10 day CIO Leadership program in the BC, strengthening internal capacity and "Being the Best".
  • Actc Technologies Inc
    Senior Software Engineer
    Actc Technologies Inc 1985 - 1989
    Calgary, Ab Canada
    Converting and optimizing oil and gas modelling programs to run effectively on supercomputers. Wrote most of the built-in math routines that your programs are using. Patched C socket code through 3A/3B layers to get IP services using a cryptic programming language. Ran the operations of a small server farm just because I can...

Nelson Lah Skills

Strategic Thinking It Strategy Governance Business Analysis Business Transformation Change Management Sdlc Program Management Strategic Planning Business Process Business Process Improvement Pmp Vendor Management It Management Integration Leadership Strategy Consulting Enterprise Software Management Consulting Business Intelligence Itil Professional Services Government Strategic Partnerships Solution Architecture It Service Management Service Delivery Project Portfolio Management Project Management Management Budgets Saas Professional Mentoring Information Technology Cloud Computing Pmo Outsourcing It Outsourcing Software Project Management It Operations Erp Requirements Analysis Security Project Delivery Software Development Data Center Infrastructure Enterprise Architecture Microsoft Technologies

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