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Toronto, Canada Area

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Led a team of 30+ developers, business analysts, project managers and network operations professionals building solutions for 120 locations and 2000 employeesEnabled Information Services to partner with business leaders to champion and implement high-impact and high-value projects such as POS software improvements, Contract Management System, Inventory Management, Commission Payroll Management and customer facing digital products etc.

Toronto, On

Led multiple projects and redesigned numerous business processes resulting in efficient, streamlined and error free operations.Defined product roadmaps for critical business systems - including contract and inventory management systems.Managed the implementation of SalesForce.com for the Cemetery Sales division used by 500+ sales representatives and managers.

Reporting to the Chairman and CEO led a broad change management initiative aimed at optimizing and improving all aspects of cemetery sales. Scope included 40 cemeteries across 8 provinces as well as head officeHighlighted numerous automation opportunities and worked with the IT department to develop new automation modules to enable the optimization of manual processesMade detailed recommendations for organizational changes in head office and branches to better align the departments with the organization's strategic goals

Spearheaded migration to standard business systems throughout the enterprise; 3 countries, 4 locations. This included standardizing on a core set of third party and in house applications for managing all business processesInitiated and participated in the selection and implementation of a new ERP and Financials Management system capable of dealing with the company’s global requirementsReporting to the President and CFO, executed a “Buy vs. Build” strategy in IT in line with business objectives – reducing staff footprint and maintenance costs while improving overall employee productivityManaged the separation of software systems and infrastructure from Alliance Atlantis/CanWest without business disruption; impacted systems included– physical network, MS Exchange, document management system, financial system and various business systems, application servers, databases etc.; including shared license agreements, hardware, software and co-developed intellectual propertyMigrated corporate email from MS Exchange/Outlook and related systems to Google Apps, Google’s cloud based collaboration and communication solution – resulted in significant cost reduction and improved service levelsManaged the design and deployment of new server farm which resulted in reduced cost of ownership and increased uptime, redundancy and improved application performanceDeployed Cisco Call Manager and Unity based VOIP telephony solution at offices in Toronto, Montreal, London and MadridImplemented a MPLS network between offices and data center with Cisco Wide Area Application Engine resulting in a high availability, high speed , redundant network and improved employee productivityManaged all IT vendor relationships, including fielding proposals, contract and cost negotiations and continuous relationship management

Reporting to the VP of IT, exhibited strong leadership and execution skills by proposing and implementing a new unified Sarbanes-Oxley compliant System Development Life-Cycle, encompassing in-house development, third party tool acquisitions and infrastructure roll outsImplemented project portfolio management creating a consistent and objective methodology for project selection as well as for measuring project value - strong focus on ensuring that all IT activities deliver measurable business valueMaintained a collaborative relationship with business functions and ensured that IT followed a streamlined requirements gathering methodology delivering consistent high-quality results with every engagementInvolved in key strategic decisions regarding capital budget allocations, outsourcing and IT resource/budget forecastsEnsured that IT drove multiple transformational initiatives readying the company for new distribution channels, revenue models and integrating acquired companies. Approaches included company wide business process mapping and analysis, ROI analyses, RFPs etc.Expertise in the development/implementation of numerous Media/Entertainment specific systems including program scheduling, ad trafficking, and billing system for 13 specialty broadcast channels (Harris’s Paradigm), in-house affiliate/BDU revenue tracking system, program rights management and sales/acquisition contract tracking, digital asset management using EMC’s Documentum, in-house participant royalties and residuals tracking system etc.Oversaw the development/implementation of numerous general automation systems including corporate financial system (Epicor), financial reporting and planning (Hyperion System 9), payroll and HR systems (Avanti, ADP), expense reporting and approval system (Necho), PO/invoice processing (Doclink), Microsoft Sharepoint 2007, intranet and collaboration portal, Microsoft’s Project, Project Server and Project Portfolio Server etc.

Part of a 4 member senior management team involved in defining the future direction of the web technology groupInstrumental in migrating all Rogers’ consumer publications’ websites to a single third party content management system (Interwoven). Major successes include Chatelaine, Macleans, MoneySense, Profit, Canadian Business, Todays Parent and SportsnetNegotiated with Rogers’ publishing groups as well as vendors on technical aspects of implementations, pricing etc.Responsible for project managing core technologies involving third party vendors and in house development. Products included Net Gravity (Doubleclick), WebTrends (Net IQ) and othersInvolved in managing software development in all stages of the software’s life cycle including requirements gathering and analysis, application design and development, quality assurance, application deployment and application maintenanceManaged technology teams of 6 – 12 developers and analysts in the development and maintenance of J2EE solutions which used Interwoven, HTML, JSP, XML, EJB, Oracle, Weblogic and Orion

Played a key role in the planning and execution of the merger of i|money and Canoe’s (www.canoe.ca) technologies. Instrumental in the transition of the Financial Portfolio Manager, Fund Screener, Stock Graphing, Fund Graphing and the Asset Allocation Manager applicationsLed teams on a number of projects and exercised significant influence on product vision and application design. The technologies involved were Perl/CGI, Java and Oracle on Linux and Solaris

Responsible for analysis and scoping of web applications proposed by the business development group and leading development teams in the implementation effortKey member of the re-engineering team responsible for moving the web site to a J2EE based platform, helped with the component level breakdown and object oriented analysis, design and Java/SQL implementation of the stock quotes componentCreated server-side Java and Perl web applications using Object-Oriented concepts. Involved technologies included EJB, JSP, Servlets, JDBC, SQL, PLSQL, Javascript and HTML