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Eastman, Quebec, Canada

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

* Led the Data, Platform, and Infrastructure teams for a total of 12 individuals, across three critical areas of the organization.* Achieved a remarkable 35% reduction in key infrastructure costs through strategic optimization initiatives and efficiency improvements, representing 1M$ of annual savings.* Implemented a robust audit system to ensure compliance with SOX and PCI standards, enhancing the organization's regulatory adherence and mitigating risk.* Spearheaded the launch of a middleware platform, facilitating a seamless transition and enhancing system reliability and scalability.

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

* Planned a 3 years strategic roadmap for digital transformation, creating value along the way.* Delivered a commerce platform 50x more scalable, 2x faster and enabled international sales.* Saved 800K annually by negotiating SaaS contracts and implementing a FP&A process.* Managed 40 software developers, managers and IT professionals.

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

* Hired and Coached a team of 3 managers to scale the engineering department.* Budgeted the headcount, hardware and software expenses for the engineering department andprovided monthly updates on costs, investments, capitalization and SRED.* Identified actionable opportunities for cost saving, resulting in 10% cost savings for cloudinfrastructure through 30% sales growth over the year.* Increased site speed by 25% and reached Green Core Web Vitals on all storefronts.

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

* Streamlined the hiring process, interviewed and hired software developers to grow the team from5 to 30 developers.* Facilitated 4 teams' agile ceremonies on the day to day and prioritized their activities.* Met 15 developers in regular 1o1s, providing constructive feedback, driving growth conversationsand evaluating individual performance.

Montreal, Canada Area

* Enabled a digital transformation plan to transition from monolithic to event-driven microservicearchitecture to decrease synchronization time from 12h to less than a minute.* Reduced return rate by 20% through data-analytics and user experience improvements.* Integrated live monitoring of critical applications and automated alerting through Datadog tomeet SLA of 99.9%.

Montreal, Canada Area

* Optimized monitoring and development process to improve stability of GraphQL APIs and reach99.99% availability.* Migrated 8 spring boot applications to Amazon EKS to improve resiliency and scaling.* Decreased response times of APIs by 75% through parallelism, caching strategies and stresstesting.* Scaled a GraphQL API from 4 transactions/s to 2000 transactions/s by usingKubernetes autoscale and optimizing pods starting time

Montreal, Canada Area

* Improved the architecture of the email campaign manager using Amazon SQS, increasing the email per campaign limit from 100 to 10000.* Refactored a monolithic CRM into a series of Spring Boot microservices deployed on AWS.* Automated code analysis process with SonarQube to reduce technical debt and code smells by 25%.

Montreal, Canada Area

* Managed a team of 17 software engineers in order to successfully deliver an annual portfolio ofprojects worth 17M$.* Implemented DevOps best practices within the different web development teams to improveownership and reduce lead time.* Recruited talent to grow the development team from 10 to 17.

Montreal, Canada Area

* Established a system architecture requirements to achieve Continuous Delivery, reducing lead time from 2 weeks to 1 hour* Consolidated over 100 brands’ websites into a single CMS platform to create content synergiesand cost savings.* Planned project development efforts for 2 teams using Agile tools such as JIRA* Mentored 10 developers and gave constructive feedback during performance reviews

Montréal

* Led the design of a data collection system aggregating millions of events to personalize content based on user preferences and behavior* Improved our release management workflow using script automation to avoid delay and systeminstability leading to 50% faster deployments.* Launched Video on Demand capabilities for 5 Bell Media French TV Channels.

* Prepared, presented and graded the Multimedia Data Structure laboratory* Supported Students in their learning

Quebec, Canada

* Designed and implemented a dynamic web user manual using Apache Lucene asa search engine.* Wrote performance report and recommended software improvements to maximizequery response time and memory consumption.

Quebec, Canada

* Supervised and reviewed the development of offshore resources.* Designed and implemented automated scenarios for computer generatedsimulations* Implemented C++ model for new type ground vehicle.

Quebec, Canada

* Designed and implemented a calibration operation tools for the R&D department.* Improved board computer software to optimize truck transport operations.* Wrote comprehensive test scenarios for the quality assurance experts.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Technology Innovation And Commercialization, 3.65

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.Eng.), Information Technology, 3.9

Completed with a focus on e-commerce, machine learning and information technology management.

Technical Degree, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Vice President at external affairs AGEECVProgram focusing on management systems and web applications.