Solutia SDO Ltd. (www.solutia.ca) is an expanding Toronto-based IT and management consulting firm with clients in major cities throughout North America. Our well known and highly regarded clients include Schedule 1 banks, wealth management firms, telecommunications, manufacturing, Automotive, retail, health care, and government agencies. We have two primary consulting practices including Applications (Architecture and Integration, and ERP - Oracle Cloud, PeopleSoft, SAP, Microsoft Dynamics), and Strategy & Operations (specializing in business process re-engineering, business transformation, M&A, and organizational design). We have built a reputation as trusted advisors to our clients – companies who are leaders in their field.Report to the Managing Partner and partner closely with the overall leadership team to continuously develop organization and implement strategic initiatives that enabled the business, empower and engage our team, and maintain our reputation as a consulting firm of choice.Accountabilities:• As a targeted hire played a key role in developing Solutia into a multi-services firm (including three major business lines), building a specialized team of resources and for the securing of new projects.• Led and maintained key operating mechanisms that establish a consistent cadence for focus and accountability of the top priorities.• Ensured operational metrics were defined, established system/process for the most critical priorities.• Partnered, advised and worked with other cross functional business operations teams to deliver on outcomes.• Proactively lead the strategy and execution of all People & Operations initiatives to support organizational growth, including: hiring, employee operations, employee experience, compensation, coaching & talent development, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, internal communications, and organizational development.

Cloudworks (Formally a Solutia SDO company, now part of Accenture.) was a company focused on helping organizations implement tomorrow's cloud-enabled business and technology solutions. We leveraged our expertise to support clients cloud transition, from strategy through execution to help organizations realize the art of the possible.As the Director, led the People & Operations strategy. Worked with Partners (Solutia) and CEO & COO (Cloudworks) to develop and deploy resourcing plans, along with wearing a multitude of operational hats for the growth and success of Cloudworks. Accountabilities:• Scaled and grew the organization rapidly to over 100 within 2 years.• Managed Talent Acquisition and Talent Development, along with total rewards strategy and execution.• As the people leader, motivated and inspired teams to unlock peak performance.• With an analytical and data driven approach, built strategic solutions to attract and retain talent.• Worked in collaboration with folks at all levels of the organization, from CEO to Jr. Analysts to deliver on organizational strategy.

Redwood Global was one of Canada's top firms, specializing in providing exceptional talent solutions to clients in the technology and financial services sectors. When we were successfully acquired, Redwood Global had annual revenues of $30 Million and more than 200 specialized consultants on projects with more than 40 organizations.As the Sr. Manager of Talent & Operations, worked with the executive team and oversaw the exponential growth of the company from the people advisory, operational best practice, business presence, project delivery and total rewards strategy perspectives.Accountabilities:• Joined the organization in the early stages, strategic higher number 6, to develop and grow the organization to over 200 employees and specialized consultants.• Serve as a leader of culture in the organization, ensuring that the values were understood and lived throughout the organization.• Ensure that candidate experience, employee experience and engagement remains high by leading the strategy and execution of all key people operations functions, including: talent acquisition, learning and development, employee experience, recognition, compensation and benefits• Serve as an advisor to the CEO and other leaders on internal communication and organizational design.• Coach, mentor and empower team members to grow and achieve their career goals and ensure a collaborative and inclusive team environment.• Collaboratively work with senior leadership team to help execute company level and departmental goals related to people and advise on people related topics.• Work with the executive team to design a comprehensive compensation and benefits approach that supported the acquisition and retention of top talent.• We placed 4th on PROFIT Magazine's 2012 list of Canada's 200 Fastest Growing Companies.• We were recipients of 2011 PROFIT HOT 50 Award as one of Canada's top new growth companies.

IT Consulting & Resourcing is the specialization upon which Quantum was founded over 50 years ago. Since then, the services of Quantum have evolved to provide customized and complex business solutions to an impressive list of clients including Fortune 500 and 1000 corporations.Joined Quantum Group as a Technology Consultant. As part of their delivery team, assisted with project consulting and business development. Accountabilities:• Provided advisory services, spanning areas of People Advisory (HR Consulting), Project Management, Customer Experience, Analytics, and Assessments across a diverse portfolio of sectors, including Banking, Education, Healthcare, Media & Entertainment, Government & Public Services, Retail, Telecommunications, Oil & Gas, Power & Utilities.• Business Development involved successful engagements with multiple clients.• Worked on projects initiatives across North and South America.• Promoted to regional Resource Management Lead by stretching local market expertise to manage 3 markets and achieving target employee utilization.• Managed a top performing team across 3 markets (Toronto, Ottawa and New York). Constantly attained Manager Choice Award 2006, 2007, 2008 and received Special Recognition Awards.• Received recognition from Financial Services client, TD Bank, for identifying fraud within vendor process.• Involved in several SAP, software development, web development, and application initiatives.

Project: Implementation of SAP – CPC had purchased SAP to replace outdated applications and manual process to improve overall business efficiency.• Part of collaborative sessions with large and diverse business stakeholder groups to drive requirements discovery, analysis and review.• Facilitated requirements walk through and sign off sessions.• Documented and modeled business process current and future state. Analyzed business processes for gaps in future state.• Collaborated with stakeholders to identify opportunities for improvement.• Developed detailed project artefacts such as business requirements documents, business cases, use cases, Requirements Traceability Matrix and related project deliverables.• Created internal training material, job aiding materials on streamlined business processes.