Richard Rees, Popm Email & Phone Number

Waterloo, On, Ca

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

• Customer focused ensuring our delivery products our customers will love• Driving Full stack Shift Left initiative to build in quality and the ability to measure it through the SDLC (KPIs)• Identifying ways to effectively use the power of AI in more effectively delivering consumer solutions• Established and continuously cultivating a culture of quality throughout the software development process with key measures to ensure ongoing success• Built scalable , teams, processes and… Show more • Customer focused ensuring our delivery products our customers will love• Driving Full stack Shift Left initiative to build in quality and the ability to measure it through the SDLC (KPIs)• Identifying ways to effectively use the power of AI in more effectively delivering consumer solutions• Established and continuously cultivating a culture of quality throughout the software development process with key measures to ensure ongoing success• Built scalable , teams, processes and technical infrastructure to support 1600 cloud engineers• Managing budgets for multi-million dollar programs• Orchestrated the development of high-performing Agile teams (Scrum & Kanban) , emphasizing functional, non-functional, and UX aspects for optimal product delivery• Partner and Collaborate with cross organization stakeholders across 7 global sites Show less

Kitchener, Canada Area

Leading a distributed international development (Dev & QA)team to bring Cloud solutions to a millions of users and>30 million devices in our global market place.- Strategic planning - Looking beyond the day to day challenges- Team Development - without the right team all you have is a plan!-Cutting Edge Solutions - Java Microservices - React frontend - CI build pipeline/deployment (Jenkins, docker, kubernetes) - Production Monitoring and… Show more Leading a distributed international development (Dev & QA)team to bring Cloud solutions to a millions of users and>30 million devices in our global market place.- Strategic planning - Looking beyond the day to day challenges- Team Development - without the right team all you have is a plan!-Cutting Edge Solutions - Java Microservices - React frontend - CI build pipeline/deployment (Jenkins, docker, kubernetes) - Production Monitoring and Alerting (New Relic, Kibana, Grafana, VictorOps) - Work Management (JIRA) - Amazon Web Services- Delivering "great" products that customers want to use and our partners want to sell- Keeping the Budget and operational excellence in mind - We're a business after all- Working with global teams to deliver a coordinated product launch- Partnering with Future Marketing to identify product road maps- Working with Sales, Marketing and Support on post production activities- Driving approaches to deliver product faster to the market place on a consistent basis (CI/CD)- Driving Quality from the idea through to delivery- Delivering the right solutions with the right technologies. Show less

Kitchener, Canada Area

Auxiliary constable with the Waterloo Regional Police Service. Supporting the WRPS with events, RIDE programs and other activities within the community of Waterloo region.This is an awesome role where I meet people from all corners of the community and get to be an ambassador in other regions. I get to help people on their best days and worse days of their lives. There is no greater feeling.http://www.wrps.on.ca/volunteers/auxiliary

Kitchener, Canada Area

PrinterOn (ACQUIRED BY HP) is the premier mobile printing solution that enables users to securely print from any smartphone, tablet, laptop or desktop, to any printer, no matter the networks in between. With PrinterOn you can “Print Simply Anywhere®”Out teams are creating industry leading solutions used by healthcare, manufacturing, legal , airlines and most industries across the globe. We are using the latest tech stacks leveraging cloud technologies to meet ever evolving customer… Show more PrinterOn (ACQUIRED BY HP) is the premier mobile printing solution that enables users to securely print from any smartphone, tablet, laptop or desktop, to any printer, no matter the networks in between. With PrinterOn you can “Print Simply Anywhere®”Out teams are creating industry leading solutions used by healthcare, manufacturing, legal , airlines and most industries across the globe. We are using the latest tech stacks leveraging cloud technologies to meet ever evolving customer needs of today and tomorrow. Show less

Waterloo, On

I lead multiple teams providing the core engine, artifacts creation and maintenance, Project Management and Data Generation.My two main focuses are developing my teams and delivering results.Throughout my career, I have worked with large global teams and local startups. This includes onshore and offshore outsourcing vendors. In traveling the globe, you understand there's no "one size fits all" solution. However, delivering the right thing at the right time is always… Show more I lead multiple teams providing the core engine, artifacts creation and maintenance, Project Management and Data Generation.My two main focuses are developing my teams and delivering results.Throughout my career, I have worked with large global teams and local startups. This includes onshore and offshore outsourcing vendors. In traveling the globe, you understand there's no "one size fits all" solution. However, delivering the right thing at the right time is always welcomed.Having worked with delivering products and projects both large and small, I have had to grow teams that utilize many methodologies. My current world is continuous delivery through continuous integration. This leads to continuous improvements. By using agile methods with cross-team collaboration, Magnet is consistently delivering the most important value to our customers.To be successful, you have to love what you do. I do. I love building teams and seeing them succeed in delivering results. At Magnet, we have those teams and continue to grow and improve them.Magnet focuses on having teams that work well together and excel at what they do. The individuals that make up our teams are passionate about our mission to bring to light evidence that would not normally be available to law enforcement and corporate investigators.https://www.magnetforensics.com/ Show less

Kitchener, Canada Area

D2L transforms learning for everyone from Kindergarten through to the corporate world. The company is growing in many exciting ways. How amazing is it that the work I do today directly affects how my children learn. Across the globe we are enabling people that previously were not in a position to learn easily, to now do that in a way that works for them. How cool is that!In doing so I get to work with some of the smartest people I know with the newest technologies available. We… Show more D2L transforms learning for everyone from Kindergarten through to the corporate world. The company is growing in many exciting ways. How amazing is it that the work I do today directly affects how my children learn. Across the globe we are enabling people that previously were not in a position to learn easily, to now do that in a way that works for them. How cool is that!In doing so I get to work with some of the smartest people I know with the newest technologies available. We are constantly looking at ways of better developing and delivering our solutions to customers. There have been many a long day where we all bring ideas to the table to create fantastic solutions.I currently lead a team of professionals in Product Development Operations. This team enables the Development organization to operate at optimal levels, with systems, software, information, data and support. In the Operations team we enable many of these things to happen and help provide the feedback to the teams across D2L that validate those solutions were effective. That means sourcing data from internal and external systems to provide data in a meaningful and useful way... remember the comment about cool technologies ... this is one... many people talk about big data .. we live it!!My role here has many facets, in some its to lead the change, in others its purely to remove the roadblocks for the teams speed along successful. My approach in doing so has been to use my knowledge and the culture of the organization to bring about change in way that is sustainable. So far that has been the catalyst for the launching of multiple solution teams within D2L including the Operations team itself. Show less

Kitchener, On

Led two development teams focusing on a number of key initiatives from the latest Big Data analytics, Mobile (iOS, Android, and Blackberry) , Integrations and middleware. These newly formed teams and their products were Key Contributions- Grew two teams to twenty five people into effective development teams - Two further teams were spun off from the incubation teams (Analytics and Mobile)- Consistently delivered new integrations and product

Firefighter with the North Dumfries Fire Department

Managing the Professional Services team delivery and implementing Mobile based medical reporting devices. Helping grow and drive a startup organization into a more mature and effective business unit. Key Contributions- Managing partnerships with key customers- Managing Professional service budgets

Kitchener, Canada Area

The Group Retirement and Savings provides a number of services, and planning tools. I was brought in to lead the GIP development and implementation program. Approaches in the past were over budget, scope and late. The new processes were required to increase the project dynamics for a high quality and more cost effective delivery.- Created effective and efficient processes and implemented them on the largest project in GRS history- Saved 1M delivering a 4 million dollar… Show more The Group Retirement and Savings provides a number of services, and planning tools. I was brought in to lead the GIP development and implementation program. Approaches in the past were over budget, scope and late. The new processes were required to increase the project dynamics for a high quality and more cost effective delivery.- Created effective and efficient processes and implemented them on the largest project in GRS history- Saved 1M delivering a 4 million dollar project- Coordinated efforts of over 40 team members in both business and IS units- Created and implement efficiency drives across multiple projects Show less