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Ottawa, On, Ca

Ottawa, On, Ca

Ottawa, On, Ca

Montreal, Quebec, Ca

Vend is a cloud-based retail software platform, enabling more than 15,000 active retailers, in over 100 countries to accept sales, both in store and online, manage their inventories, reward customer loyalty, and garner insights into their business.As a software engineer, I was responsible for development of a real-time and highly scalable analytics solution, providing Vend's retailers with actionable insights for managing their business. From a technical perspective, this included numerous services written in Go, with ElasticSearch and MySQL for data storage as well as an Angular front end built in CoffeeScript.

Auckland, Nz

Consulted on the curriculum development of the Yoobee School of Design's Web Design and Development bootcamp. The help boostraped the course I also completed several cohorts teaching and mentoring beginning front-end web designers and developers though a 12 week intensive web design and development bootcamp covering HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Sass, jQuery and Git with a dash of Ruby on Rails and PHP's Laravel.

Management of the entire Apple product lifecycle from a strategic planing and operations perspective.Identification and analysis of potential partner relationships for the complimentary products within the Apple and Yoobee ecosystem.Development and maintenance of Apple product documentation and case studies for internal and external training.Management of vendor relationships, including scoping and delivering tailored solutions to meet vendor expectations.Development of innovative marketing campaigns to boost awareness of Yoobee’s product offering in unison with the marketing department.

Produced and presented slide decks and printer material to support channel partner inductions.Project coordination of simultaneous nationwide product launches of Apple products.Development and maintenance of the Apple product configurator, spanning numerous product lines and pricing tiers.Reviving our go to market strategy after Apple moved being a sole distribution model to a dual distribution model.Identifying regional trends that could be used for competitive advantages.Development and implementation of innovate pricing strategies which were positioned to increase profit in excess of $300 thousand per year, with minimal impact to channel partners.

Inventory management and stock control for Apple and iPhone products within our warehouse and channel partners.Ordering and forecasting with a budget in excess of $100 million per year across multiple vendors.Manual stock allocation to channel partners based on sell in and sell through trends and identifying areas at risk of aged inventory.Price list management and computation across a core range of 500+ products with extensive pricing tier and discount structure.Management and reconciliation of channel wide price protection claims, commissions and sell through incentives, up to and above $1 million.

Postgraduate Diploma In Business, Business Administration And Management, General

Bbim, Marketing, Information Management