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Toronto, On, Ca

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

We are a team of creative realists who combine technology, data and design to build brand experiences for the consumer of today.Building, leading and overseeing Engineering, Security, Cloud, Production Support and Architecture practices. Providing Strategic guidance for new initiatives to ELT/SLT. Assessing potential M&A opportunities.• Creating leadership structure, hiring resources and driving Engineering vision, strategy and roadmap• Acting CISO in ISO and TISAX certification efforts• Involved in M&A analysis from technology perspective• Leading in crafting Company strategy for technology growth and shift to Digital products• Creating technology partnerships with other Kyu collective companies and vendors

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Viafoura partners with over 800 media brands to engage, convert and monetize their digital audiences. With best-in-class engagement and content moderation solutions — including real-time conversations, live blogs, community chat, personalization tools and AI-powered moderation — Viafoura helps companies create active, civil and loyal online communities. Advanced data analytics also offer customers access to unique and valuable insights into their audience's behaviors and preferences. As a result, the Viafoura solution drives higher registrations and subscriptions as well as better-targeted content and advertising.• Reporting directly to the CEO, as part of the Executive team, I provide guidance and support of Business needs• Creating leadership structure, hiring resources and driving Engineering vision, strategy and roadmap• Leading Front End, Back End, QA, SRE and Technical Integration teams• Leading company through first SOC-2 Type I and Type II compliance audit in place of Chief Compliance Officer and as acting Chief Security Officer• Building the right culture around Learning, Continuous Improvement, Empowerment and Engineering Excellence• Modernizing our stack, automating everything possible, working towards QA as a developer competence• Advising and building on Data first strategy vision

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Leading software development teams, on cutting-edge technologies to deliver the the best e-commerce experience. Building a culture of mentorship, ownership, excellence and technical mastery within my teams and across the organization. Providing technical oversight and guidance.• Leading six development teams (Managers, Front End, Back End and Mobile devs) including Canada's largest rewards program PC Optimum, Joe Fresh, PCid, Shared Components, Digital Experience and Mobile Productivity teams• Previously Led the entire Loblaw Digital Mobile (Android and iOS) development teams across all businesses• Establishing Centers of Excellence for Developers, building an internal Design system• Defining and championing Best Practices throughout Digital

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Consulting, Architecture and Delivery lead for Customers in US region. Working collaboratively with customers to identify their needs, refine business requirements, define solutions and win over customer’s internal teams to proposed solution. Working intensively with Customers to build business cases for budget and resource allocations. Consulting with customer internal teams to plan, develop and deliver solutions. Collaborating with Executive Leadership Team, Project managers, development and delivery resources. This role involves leading the Development teams, Project Management, Relationship Management, Sales lead generation,cross and up-selling, Solution Architecture, and Delivery Excellence.• Led delivery team on $30 million dollar multi-year IT transformation project• Covering Tier 1 customers in the US region • Architected and Delivered first Cloud project for Sigma’s flagship product to the largest customer in the US• Delivered highest margin and highest quality project in the Company• Chief Scrum Master, Agile mentor (customer and internal teams) and Agile EvangelistMajor Customers: Charter, Time Warner Cable, Cox, Columbus, Cable and Wireless, Frontier, Bright House Networks, Windstream and Viasat.Technologies: B/OSS, AWS (Cloud) Hosted solution, Provisioning, Product Catalog, CPQ, OMMajor Projects: Led first full Sigma Stack project to successful delivery, Designed and delivered first SaaS based solution for Sigma (8 month engagement, and 3+ years in production)

San Jose, Ca, Us

Mentored under the Principal Regional Consultant evaluating potential opportunities and planning strategic approach to engagements. Member of team providing IT infrastructure, transformation, Business Process and Architecture Management Consulting, Mentoring, and Business Case Analysis for IT OPEX, CAPEX justification. Responsible for engagements at VP to CxO level providing oversight to internal delivery teams of SME, Architects and Engineers.• Evaluated and short-listed Key accounts to target for next fiscal year.• Developed individual Engagement strategies aimed at increasing our wallet share.Major Customers: Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Saudi Ministry of Education, Qatar Ministry of EducationTechnologies: Cloud computing, Campus wide Wifi rollout, CollaborationMajor Projects: Saudi Ministry of Education Country wide and Campus integration and Wifi rollout (3 month engagement)Ministry was looking to integrate all the University campuses in the country into unified Research Network utilising Collaboration technologies and rollout Wifi connectivity to all Campuses. We were brought in to help customer with vision of the solutions, assist in requirements analysis and put together a proposal based on Cisco technologies.Qatar Ministry of Education (3 month engagement)Customer had built a cutting edge fiber optic Research Network to a newly built Education City in the capital but the problem was that no one was utilising it. We were asked to come in a provide strategy on how they can increase utilisation of the network and propose new services that could be offered to the Research community.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Built new team (developers, tech leads, and architects) responsible for Middle East and Africa region; handled large regional customers with customized collaboration platforms and doing customized work for Cisco Collaboration products for branding, UI, and look and feel. Worked with regional Sales to promote and sell our services and offered Consulting services directly to customers.• Delivered several major enhancements to customer's customized collaboration platform in Education/Training industry in Qatar on time to facilitate their service rollout.• Successfully, negotiated along with Customer account team to deliver a new collaboration platform for customer in Textile industry in Turkey.• Successfully managed the delivery of product alignment to customer’s needs, including software development, testing, on-site deployment, verification and customer acceptance ensuring schedule and budget adherence.Customers: Silatech (Qatar government backed NGO), Qatar Ministry of Education (National Research Network), Turkey Textile Industry, Turkey Ministry of Trade (Textiles)Technologies: Collaboration (Cisco Quad and customized solutions) platforms, Regional data centres

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

Managed several new teams located in the region, doing contract and custom work for NSN products. Consulting Pre-sales to delivery position coordinating and managing customer contact through to off-shore development teams. Responsible for screening, hiring and competence development of development teams. Detailed requirements analysis following Agile/Scrum principles, • Trained and mentored Engagement Managers and Development team on Agile. Proved process to organization by delivering critical enhancement in a month for a demanding customer for our first project with new team.Provided Solution Architect services for the second largest telecom company in UAE. Consulting and developing solutions in responding to RFP/Qs directly with various customers in Middle East including IT expansion, modernization, new services and mobile features. Preparing Solution Descriptions involving working with many stakeholders; Solution Consultants, Technical Architects, Project Managers and Customers • Led the VAS portion ($12 million) and key member of the successful $120 million Network expansion and modernization bid.Proposed and delivered many solutions such as Billing enhancements, TRA mandated Mobile Number Portability, Major Upgrades, Vendor Swaps and new mobile applications.

Ca

Built the development team from scratch, to ultimately 40+ developers, including interviewing and hiring Junior/Senior Developers and Managers. Championed adoption of Scrum Agile methodology to deliver 1.0 version in 10 months.SOA/Web Applications: Communication Enabled Business Applications thatTransform Architectural concepts into implementation, introduced development patterns, provided mentorship to team leadersResponsible for delivery of features and functionality implementing JEE technologies such as EJB3, JMS, JPA and Spring FrameworkMultimedia Converged NetworksArchitecting, Designing and integrating network wide solutions for E911, STUN and TURN services Recognized SIP subject matter expert, responsible for various SIP enhancements, including IETF Normalization service on P-CSCF, Legal intercept, and E911 etcResponsible for ensuring the SIP stack implementation meets the “carrier grade” requirements when used in various products such as Proxy Call Session Control Function, Service CSCF etc.• SIP stack work – designed and implemented JAIN SIP compatible SIP parser, later optimized and more than doubled performance and significantly reduced memory footprint. Stack utilized on P-CSCF, I-CSCF and S-CSCF Wireless NetworksTechnical Lead responsible for leading a team of four designers to design, test and deliver Diagnostic capabilities on Element Management System (EMS)Responsible for developing strategies for in-service and out of service patching and upgrades of the software. Optical NetworksResponsible for insuring Robustness and Stability of system. Created process and tools to stress test system.Developed real-time deterministic software layer to communicate to legacy base C/native code while preserving data structure integrity between the two languages.Analysed various performance and reliability characteristics from various 3rd party Java Virtual Machine vendors.

Bsc Honours, Computer Science

High School Diploma