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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.
• 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.
• 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

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.
• 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.
• 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.

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.
• 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.

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.
• 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.

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.
• 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.
• 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.

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.
• 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.

Bsc Honours, Computer Science

High School Diploma