At BIMM, my responsibilities are to guide, mentor, and coach the Product Management team in order to help the organization scale as the business continues along its growth path. The Product Team that I oversee is made up of the following roles:- Product Managers - Business Analysts- Scrum Masters

As an elected member of the Toronto Humane Society's Board of Directors, I contribute to providing strategic direction for the THS animal shelter, as well as help raise the organization's profile and increase the effectiveness of its community outreach programs. I am also the board's elected Secretary for the board's executive committee - my responsibilities include taking minutes for all meetings, ensuring meeting minutes are approved and signed, scheduling meetings with all other board members, and other tasks to support the treasurer, chairman, and president. It is the mission of Toronto Humane Society to promote the humane care and protection of all animals.https://torontohumanesociety.com/about-us

As a Product Leader at Rangle, my goal is to help develop the product team's competencies, build long-lasting relationships with our client partners, and to deliver exceptional technical solutions that contribute to net-positive outcomes for our client's businesses.

I work with closely with our strategy team, developers, designers, and a wide array of clients to identify their business needs and provide them with technical solutions and a roadmap plan for growth.

Leading our Toronto office’s strategy practice, I specialize in digital transformation and eCommerce. My responsibilities vary but include building trust with my clients by defining their financial goals and implementing feature roadmaps to meet their growth targets, conducting research using user surveys / interviews, and data analysis, as well as working with product designers to produce delightful user experiences that put customers first while addressing business needs and market trends.Some of my clients include Shake Shack, Princess Cruiselines, M&M Food Market, Staples Canada, ELTE Furniture, The Octave Group, and Home Hardware

Leading teams in the building of both custom and SaaS-based solutions through Teamwork, Communication, and Coordinated Execution.

VentureKids’ mission is to provide free HTML and CSS coding classes to underprivileged youth.In this volunteer role I developed a strong relationship with the Toronto Public Library, partnerned with a digital agency for a donation of 12 Macbook laptops to our classrooms, and organized an interactive on-site visit for VK students to the Twitter head office in Toronto.

Demac Media - Product Manager / Product OwnerPrior to its acquisition, Demac Media was one of Canada’s leading, privately owned eCommerce digital solutions agency. As product manager, my role required that I understand my client's business needs and translate those into useful features and functionality on their eCommerce stores, as well as to define requirements, and to lead development, design, testing, and launch. Examples of products that I have been involved in from start to go live:www.ca.tokyosmoke.comwww.manduka.comwww.haggar.cawww.avenue-road.comwww.manofparts.comMy primary responsibilities include:Managing Product Delivery- Translate customer needs into detailed functional requirements- Scope and prioritize activities based on business and customer impact- Conduct user research to determine most desired functionality - Work with strategic documentation such as taxonomy, user flows and user profiles,competitive analyses- Collaborate daily with creative and technical teams to ensure projects are properly scoped and requirements are fully understood- Assess market competition by comparing the company's product to competitors' products- Help Project Manager prepare internal and external project presentations- Work with Project Manager to create a detailed work plan which identifies and sequencesthe activities needed to successfully complete the project- Develop a schedule for project completion that effectively allocates the resources to theactivities and share with senior management when necessaryRelationship Management- Develop relationships with prospective partner agencies, existing customers, and colleagues- Work side by side with Project Manager, design, development, testing and client relationsteams to ensure execution quality- Manage expectations of both client and internal teams- Monitor the progress of the project and make adjustments as necessary to ensure thesuccessful completion of the project

goMake is organized and operated exclusively for the purpose of furthering the principles ofexploration, discovery, and personal growth through project-based learning and hands-ontechnology. goMake's primary objective is to provide curricula, software and hardware components, as well as logistics coordination for middle and high school students and their instructors to learn about standards-based STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, & Math) concepts through a series of hands-on lessons and powerful culminating activities. Current projects include a microscope that students will build themselves using new, low-cost computing hardware and 3d-printed parts, as well as a student constructed high-altitude balloon that reaches altitudes up to 115,000ft that can be tracked in real-time by students, teachers and parents in a smartphone app that receives location and sensor data via satellite.Goals include:- Prepare students for the shift in the modern workforce by exposing them to practicalcoding applications, good engineering practices, the scientific method and scienceconcepts, and data-analysis.- Encourage students to work as a team to achieve goals that, at the outset of theproject, may seem impossible to them. To offer students the opportunity to realizethat they are capable of more than they could imagine.- Through grants and re-invested profits from sales, enable students fromdisadvantaged schools and communities by providing highly subsidized projects inorder to break down the prohibitive cost barriers for those who most need help beingexposed to STEM education.Twitter: @gomaketeamInstagram: gomaketeamwww.gomake.io

During my time at Bayer I strategized and executed bilingual negotiations with universities, hospitals and private clinics that agreed to conduct Bayer-led clinical trials across Canada. My deliverables were mutually agreed-upon contractual frameworks and budgets with Bayer’s partner institutions, which I conducted with a friendly and respectful approach. - Ensured the successful negotiation and on-going management of clinical trial agreements as well as budgets for conducting clinical trials with investigative sites.- Appraises contracts for completeness and accuracy and ensures adherence.- Worked cross functionally with Clinical Operations and Project Management in support of timely site start up for the conduct of clinical trials including accurate forecast of contract execution timelines.The following recognition was granted to me by the head of Bayer Canada's Site Management department, Doreen D'Souza. This was presented during a quarterly meeting to the entire Site Management group"I would like to recognize Nicholas Kanhai for his work in resolving a very challenging situation with one of our Investigators in a CRO run trial. The Investigator was quite upset with the CRO and did not want to continue on the study and additionally refused to speak with the CRO. Nicholas took the lead in managing this situation by listening and working with the Investigator over several weeks to turn his position around and negotiated a resolution that was acceptable. He had to work with various stakeholders to understand their needs to manage the challenge, ie Compliance, Legal, Medical Affairs, and the CRO. He had a well thought out plan and executed with diplomacy and finesse. He demonstrated a send of urgency and customer focus by keeping everyone informed about the plan on an ongoing basis. he also worked with the CRO to look at other sites/studies proactively to mitigate further risk."

'Intrepid Media Solutions' is a small side-business that I started when I noticed a need for well produced video marketing in the town of Grand Falls. I used the video filming, editing and Adobe After Effects skills that I had obtained during my many backpacking trips to put together promotional videos for local businesses. As an example, I worked with the Laforge Biogas facility in New Brunswick in order to illustrate how a self-sustaining and environmentally friendly biogas facility functions. After several meetings with the lead engineer, I spent several days filming on site, after which I animated processes and recorded the voice work to pain a picture of how theBiogas facility produces clean, renewable energy by using cow manure and recycled foods from local food production plants. This video has over 5000 views on Youtube, and it can be seen at the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlImPgLbg0M

As a federally sponsored not-for-profit organization, the CBDC’s mandate as a high-risk lender is to bolster economic development in rural Canada through competitive loan packages for new and existing businesses.- Personally managed thirty-six portfolios worth upwards of $1.23 million in lent funds in a variety of sector including, but not limited to, forestry, trucking, restauranteering, and construction. Each loan required a firm understanding of how the funds would be used, how the industry performed in the region, and evaluated the company’s repayment capacity based on past performance and financial projections.- Met with existing and potential business owners, evaluated their needs, gathered data required to produce an in-depth risk-analysis for the possible lending of funds to their pre-existing or future businesses, presented findings to the board of directors for approval of financing. Further responsibilities for the position required the preparation of legal documentation including Chattel Mortgages, Affidavit of Corporate Executions, Promissory Notes, and Letters of Offers to clients, and that these be presented to our clients along with the terms and conditions for their final signature and approval.- Managed clients by maintaining lines of communication throughout the loan repayment period. Would often be required to help find other means of financing if the CBDC could not cover 100% of the project costs. This would necessitate taking a lead role in coordinating partnerships with local banks and personal financiers, then negotiating terms of the lending agreement including but not limited to the dividing of collateral and guarantees amongst lending partners.

Based out of Concordia University’s Oral History Center, Histoire de Vie Montréal is a project aimed at collecting and disseminating the oral histories of nearly 500 refugees who have fled political violence and genocide.- Developed a marketing campaign that involved a combination of traditional poster based advertising with digital QR links to a host of relevant materials.- Coordination involved assuming a variety of different roles including: Negotiator for a major ad-campaign; Press agent tasked with contacting journalists and aiding with the organizing of a press conference; Translator written and oral, French to English and vice versa.

SHAPC is a Vietnamese NGO that specializes in the field of HIV/AIDS prevention amongst high-risk individuals injection drug users and sex-workers. I worked with them as an Intern, sponsored by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). Tasks included:- Wrote and edited two funding proposals for funding from the USA’s President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) for multiple projects, such as a café and ‘safe zone’ for the homosexual community, as well as a Health Center that offered free HIV/AIDS and STI tests.- Maintained regular communication with student groups and the homosexual communities in Hanoi, monitoring the progress of the peer-outreach project developed along with fellow SHAPC employees.- Was featured as the primary subject for an episode of the French Canadian Television series Professionnels sans frontières, depicting daily life and work in Vietnam as an international volunteer and intern for a professional NGO. The episode aired on Canadian television channels TFO and Radio Canada, and can now be viewed in the attached video below.

Held a part-time job as an officially trained guide and presenter for the Parliament Buildings in Ottawa.