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Ottawa, Canada Area

Ottawa

Senior Project Manager in Business Solutions Delivery group. Led various projects for Purolator and Canada Post including an SAP Tax upgrade, testing and implementation phases of customized SAP Transportation Management System (TMS). Led $5 MM redesign of Canada Post Mail Forwarding / Hold Mail solution. Project involved managing both Scrum and Waterfall.

Waterloo, Ontario

Application Services, Senior Project Manager in Group Benefits. Led $12 MM project to replace group benefits management application through requirements, design, development and testing phases. Solution included workflow/document management application integrated via custom REST services for use by agents across Canada and the US.

Waterloo, Ontario

• Led and completed multiple large, complex IT projects with budgets from $500K- $3 MM. Globally distributed teams up to 50. Internal & external facing web services based application development, IT Infrastructure.
• Led development and deployment of secure BlackBerry maintenance tool integrated with multiple internal applications for global use by carriers to reduce costs and improve customer experience.
• Led implementation of 3rd party solutions including a digital dashboard solution for sales and marketing and a contract lifecycle management system to improve workflow for the legal dept.
• Led the development / deployment of improvements to the BlackBerry Developer Portal - Jam Zone leading to an improved BB application developer experience.
• Led the performance testing and deployment teams for AppWorld portal updates.

• Managed 9 member technical team responsible for support and maintenance of all advertising systems across multiple Torstar properties.
• Developed strategic roadmap for advertising systems with plans to migrate numerous properties onto a single new advertising platform to imporve operational efficiencies and reduce costs.
• Led the technical implementation required to enable 3rd party access to advertising systems to support outsourcing of ad taking.

• Managed 7 person technical team supporting and maintaining all Financial, HR, payroll and data warehousing systems. Implemented 3rd party solutions and developed custom applications. Developed strategic plans and.
• Led development and deployment of custom electronic form processing solution across Torstar resulting in savings of 2 MM in capital and over 500 K in annual operating costs.
• Led development and deployment of custom web reporting solution across Torstar resulting in significant cost savings and improved user reporting access.
• Led implementation of several 3rd party solutions including LongView Financial reporting, Kronos time entry and Halogen performance management.
• Led conversion of RedBrick data warehouse to SQL Server reducing operational costs and improving performance.

Project manager handling implementation of client/server accounting, HR and payroll solution across Torstar Media Group daily and weekly publications.

Developed a client/server Condominium management application and marketed the product directly to property management firms.

Responsible for overall architecture of Client Server ERP application as well as Product Manager & Development team lead for financial, inventory and procurement modules. Helped grow the core development team from 4 developers to 13. Developed configuration management/release management software and processes. Led the building of an independent Quality.

Evaluated new database and development tools. Development work on HR and Training software.

Design and development of EDI based freight management system and rating engine.

Software development tools research & development. Design and devlopment of parts catalogue/POS/inventory system.

Programming and development of custom billing, inventory and accounting systems.