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Montreal, Canada Area

Now leading a major initiative aiming at providing UQAM with a new system to manage students' journey from admission to graduation.

Montreal, Canada Area

- Currently leading the Expedia Strategic Initiative team, leveraging innovation in a start-up fashion (www.expedialabs.com, Virtual Reality, Social Media Integrations, Hackathons)- Responsible for a software development team of 30+, focused on Hotel content management (4 years)- High availability and high performance environment- Agile methodology

The first car sharing service in North America and one of the largest of its kind. Innovative business, socially and environmentally concious.

A non-profit conference, that aims at bringing together researchers, decision makers, and practitioners interested in exploring the many facets of Internet applications and technologies.

- Responsible for mergers and acquisitions (search for target enterprise, analysis, business valuation, negotiation, due diligence process, closing). Acquisition costs of $5M+- Integration plan for newly acquired businesses- Business and strategic planning- Corporate development

- Led many key projects ranging from rebuilding the core software with an object-oriented approach to the implementation of several B2B and B2C Web-based platforms. Multi-million dollar projects- Design and development of an electronic software procurement system. Joint venture with IBM- Technological due diligence- Technology and market watch- Management.

- Following restructuration, responsible for knowledge and technology transfer of FlowSystems' operations from Quebec city to Montreal- Customer support center- Project management- Management of a team of 10 employees

- Design and implementation of an electronic exchange platform for Intellectual properties- Design and implementation of an electronic exchange platform for MRO, jointly with RONA- Management of a team of 5 employees

- R&D for emerging technologies related to the Connectware for Oracle product- Creation of prototypes using embedded java, Oracle Lite, XML, EJB, etc.

- Design, development and implementation of the 'Connectware for Oracle' product. This tool is a bridge between Oracle Applications (ERP) and data collection devices, such as barcode readers. These products were implemented across the world, at companies such as Xerox, Eaton Corp, Dana Corp, Infocus, Electronic Arts, etc.- Responsible for the strategic.

- Joined Connectware, a start-up focused on mobile and data acquisition applications for primarily ERP systems. Contributed to its growth to 70+ employees and its acquisition by Epic Data.- Participate in the development of the DataConnect product, which is a communication toolkit for data collection devices- Programming in 'C', Perl, Oracle ProC, under UNIX

- Design and development of an interactive lotery system- Responsible for the UNIX environment

- Design and development of video games- Assembler 6809 and 'C' language

- Design and development of a page layout management software for schools

- Various plant engineering projects