-Provide senior leadership to drive a new strategic transformation priority for the organization in data and digital innovation-Revitalized a workforce to reflect a modern data driven organization, with expertise in GIS remote sensing, data science, text mining, data architecture, solution architecture, behavioural science, human-cantered design, data visualization, product management, and data-savvy executives to lead them;-Shaped and led a Digital and Data Roadmap for the organization, which accelerated enterprise projects that automated core operations, used text-mining to modernize regulations, liberated decades of high-value scientific data, worked with Indigenous communities to be better stewards of traditional knowledge, as well as created data visualizations that built public trust;-Developed a robust data and information request process for internal and external stakeholders (including Parliamentarians and via legislated processes);-Established an enterprise-wide focus on innovation and sustainability, including novel partnerships with NGOs, environmental groups, and universities-Designated Chief Privacy Officer and Executive Champion for Diversity and Inclusion

on interchange with Health Canada's COVID testing secretariat

• Teaching Masters of Design students in the Strategic Foresight and Innovation program about design methodologies applied to non-traditional fields such as business and social innovation and public policy• Developed and delivered new Public Policy Design and Innovation graduate course• Supervising graduate research projects in foresight and innovation

• Launch and lead a new division responsible for understanding the experience of newcomers to Canada in order to design and test new human-centered policies, programs and services• Recruit and develop talent across multiple disciplines (e.g. design, data analytics, behavioural sciences) to form a centre of expertise that can take ideas from field observations to testing• Collaborate with internal and external partners to co-design actionable ideas that improve client centric outcomes• Drive the strategic direction of the division, including identifying new opportunities and partnerships

• helped establish the Government of Canada's Central Innovation Hub and leads the design-insights and data analytics practice• Manages multi-disciplinary team of designers, researchers and data scientists to imagine and deliver projects that create new ways of thinking and doing across the government • Supports government departments and agencies in applying new approaches—such as behavioural or "nudge" economics, design-thinking, big data, and social innovation— to complex policy, program or service challenges• Provides expertise and advice on emerging areas and help change the way the Public Service does business• Sample completed projects: service design to improve the client experience for spousal immigration; developed an open data bot to improve regulatory surveillance for consumer products; developed strategies to improve Old Age Security enrolment for vulnerable seniors

• Redesigning and teaching core MDes Studio course in Carleton's Masters of Interdisciplinary Design (IDES 5103) where a team-based studio project draws on interdisciplinary design methods to solve a complex social policy challenge• 2016 Project Challenge - designing improvements in Old Age Security to better serve marginalized seniors

• Developed syllabus, reading list and delivered core course in the Faculty’s graduate (Masters-level) certificate in Engineering and Public Policy

• Managed the regulatory process for environmental assessments of mining projects;• Led emerging policy research on social, environmental and economic issues in mining;• Advised Senior Management on key priority mining policies• Established strategic linkages and relationships with NGOs, industry and other stakeholders• Responsible for over 15 employees

• Developed policies to modernize the regulation of vaccines, drugs and biologics and provided science and policy advice on the Food and Drugs Act and associated regulations

• Provided scientific, regulatory and policy expertise and advice, on emerging science and technology issues (e.g. ethics of biotechnology/nanotechnology, safety of animal cloning)