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Toronto, On, Ca

Ambassadors Capital is a premier growth studio dedicated to empowering startups and emerging businesses by transforming visionary ideas into successful enterprises through the use of Web3 and AI. Our comprehensive support services encompass product strategy, Go-To-Market (GTM) design, Marketing support, Minimum Viable Product (MVP) development strategies, and general development support. We assist in crafting robust product strategies, validating concepts, and providing continuous technical expertise. Additionally, we excel in event management, planning impactful events to boost brand visibility and engage with key stakeholders.

Waterloo, Ontario, Ca

REBL is an Omnichain Collaboration dApp & Protocol empowering creators, brands, & developers with AI and tokenization infra. With the REBL dApp it’s easy to build and launch AI-driven, collaborative, self-sovereign communities for your content, brand, or dApp. The REBL Protocol allows developers to easily incentivize communities to join their apps, collaborate with them, and then monetize together all while respecting user IP, data and identity.

Event Simplified is a pioneering SaaS company that empowers users to master event management from day one. We leverage cutting-edge AI to streamline the entire event lifecycle, offering automated task generation and prioritization, intuitive timelines, and seamless day-of management. From Ideation to Ticketing support to day-of change management Event Simplified will support you from start to finish.

New York, Ny, Us

• Driving the Avenue One product portfolio’s vision and strategy with a focus on evolving ML and AI solutions to optimize business and developer. • Leading a team of Sr and Jr product managers driving a focus on the customer and enforcing longer-term strategic product planning. • Developing frameworks that increase team efficiency and effectiveness in delivery features and applications.• Eliminate roadblocks and drive collaboration, speed, innovation, excellence and a fun work environment through improved communication and cross department collaboration.

Seattle, Wa, Us

• Managing a global team of technical product and program managers to support Amazon's growing regulatory and compliance needs through scalable machine learning and policy management systems. • Support a 150+ product portfolio with a supporting development team of ~500 developers with an ML first approach to enabling product and trade compliance in over 187 countries and all Amazon business lines.• Supporting fierce prioritization to ensure the safety of our customers come first and ensuring we maintain compliance with regulators and international trade bodies. • Working directly with development, program, and operations teams across multiple time zones and cultures to deliver tier 1 systems to support all compliance and regulatory needs of Amazon's logistics network.

Seattle, Wa, Us

• Leading a team of product managers within Amazon Consumer to design, develope, and launch two distinct product lines in the Environment, Health, and Safety and the Learning Management Systems spaces• Setting, managing, and reporting product goals, financials, and strategies to senior leadership • Providing product vision and strategy to guide 50+ developers across 4 teams in Toronto, Canada and Austin, Texas to deliver ground breaking systems within Amazon's global ecosystem

Seattle, Wa, Us

• Managing two product lines from concept to delivery to reduce annual operating costs by $150M• Envision and implement long-term product strategies and roadmaps to support high-quality products that are both effective and easy to use• Build high-level system design and technical use cases to support product development and delivery• Create financial models for product funding and maintain both business and operational metric dashboards for executive reviews• Collaborate with end-users to test and iterate on UX design to ensure positive customer experience

Helping companies take their products to the next level. Focusing on customer centric design, product scale, and market penetration.

Kitchener, On, Ca

• Worked directly with customers and researchers to understand market and user problems to build product development plans• Translated business requirement into features for the development team, guiding them to build successful products and improve customer satisfaction• Product owner for multiple teams and products to support other teams during a colleagues maternity leave• Lead the Technical Product Manager Community of Practice (COP) to build coworkers product management skills• Developed thin slice based plans for Agile teams to ensure continuous delivery of customer value

Kitchener, Ontario, Ca

• Responsible for the profit and loss on projects between $500K and $2M • Maintaining superior customer relationships by managing expectations and communicating needs to the project team • Managing project scope internally with the project team and externally with clients • Managing resource assignments and utilization for all resources, assigned and forecasted • Identifying risks and road blocks to the project and work with customers and management to resolve any issues• Ensure quality of the end solution through implementation of standard project and development processes• Creation and management of project schedules

Waterloo, On, Ca

• Developed and launched Sandvine’s In-Browser Notification product and developed the portfolio plan for the Subscriber Communication product line• Manage the Sandvine Global Services portfolio which includes Professional Services, Support Services and Education Services• Development and implementation of strategic long term plans for both the Global Services and Network Security portfolio• Create service definitions, requirements, pricing and execution strategies• Develop company-wide processes, including the product pricing process• Market analysis of target segments, competitive analysis, and industry trends • Forecast revenue and sales expectations for the Global Services portfolio• Develop product positioning and business partnership efforts

Waterloo, Ontario, Ca

• Project manager for internal application development projects and assisted with the program management of the BlackBerry PlayBook • Produce monthly carrier analytics for the North American sales and development teams to trend sales drivers for near term marketing initiatives and long term product development• Create global market forecast for all competitive mobile manufacturers and operating systems• Conduct competitive analysis of all competitors within the mobile phone market• Present regularly to sales, marketing, product management, and executive leaders on the competitive landscape• Actively create and develop patents to enhance current and future product development

Waterloo, Ontario, Ca

• Created the Product Management 18-month rolling forecast for global handheld demando Managed the demand for full GSM portfolio, ~$13B/year revenue• Created product specific lifecycle forecasts for business cases and carrier launch scenarios• Developed quarterly 4-year manufacturing forecasts to drive plant capacity planning • Worked with RIM Senior Executives to make the global full year planning and product road mapping by region• Forecasted total mobile shipments by carrier by country for 20+ countries• Worked with Sales Business Unit Executives to reconcile short term demand forecasts• Assessed and quantified handheld risk and opportunities stemming from frequent market changes

Waterloo, Ontario, Ca

• Designed and calculated the global company carbon footprint• Primary writer of carbon footprint report used for policy analysis and creation• Surveyed employees and collected data for analysis

Waterloo, Ontario, Ca

• Provided insight and market intelligence to internal clients• Forecasted key market variables as well as market demand• Complied results from major projects into formal written reports and verbal presentations for managers and directors• Created market demands for products and services• Searched and summarized industry analyst reports • Researched and compiled industry data and forecasts into spreadsheets• Created PowerPoint presentations on various topics for senior level executives• Maintained online library of industry information• Managed industry analyst handheld seeding program• Helped maintain relationships with strategic industry analysts

• Responded to internal and external requests for economic and business information by sourcing and reporting information in a timely manner• Maintained data sets including but not limited to: business, economic activity, labour force and real estate indicators• Assisted in the development and production of such publications as an Annual Report, Business Directories, statistical publications, community profiles and custom information/research requests • Provided information and research support for the preparation of Council and committee reports• Seasonally adjusted labour force and retail sales data with X12-Arima• Worked with the City of Toronto economic model

Masters, Economics

Honours Arts And Business, Economics - Finance And Econometrics

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Education record