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Toronto, On, Ca

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Direct and manage enterprise-wide privacy and FOI operations, including LCBO’s policies, standards, and protocols and a team of highly qualified subject-matter experts; Champion privacy and access issues at the leadership-level across the LCBO to drive change and provide expert-level advice to business owners to ensure privacy and access is integrated into all affected LCBO programs and systems.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Leading a team of experts to develop and implement solutions that help business partners deliver results and achieve objectives to meet our customers' expectations responsively and responsibly and ensuring compliance with legislated and industry best practice obligations related to the protection of personal information (privacy) and freedom of information (access to information).Building a culture of privacy throughout the company by developing internal privacy policies and procedures, developing and deploying training and awareness campaigns, collaborating with business partners on all initiatives and programs, and contributing to the organization's comprehensive emergency management framework to be appropriately responsive to all events and incidents that may occur.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Working collaboratively with experts across the organization to identify opportunities to innovate, modernize, and deliver upon the important mandate of the ministry to protect the current workforce, help people get training and jobs, help employers find and develop skilled employees and contribute to a prosperous and stable economy in Ontario.

Toronto, Canada Area

Part of a dynamic team administering access to government records and protecting privacy under the Ontario Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA) while serving Ministry colleagues and Ontarians by: - providing access to government held records- protecting personal information in the custody and control of the Ministry by ensuring collection, use, and disclosure of personal information is limited, authorized, and in compliance with FIPPA and supported by privacy best practices- providing expert advice on retention of records & information in compliance with the Ontario Archives and Recordkeeping Act (ARA), retention schedules and directives- responding to internal and external stakeholder inquiries with expert, timely, and impartial adviceIn this role, perhaps most importantly, I support the team in achieving the above goals by providing them with the tools they need to be successful.

Toronto, Canada Area

Provided expert advice and guidance to senior executives and OCS colleagues on all matters related to the collection, retention, use, disclosure, and disposition of personal information, privacy-related impacts on projects, responses to privacy information requests, and compliance with relevant legislation, such as the Ontario Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA). An integral part of a terrific team working towards the overall success of the organization and helping to build upon an already great, collaborative, inclusive, diverse and fun culture.

Toronto, Canada Area

Executive Assistant to the Assistant Deputy Minister (ADM) of Corporate Services and Chief Administrative Officer (CAO)▪ Trusted advisor to Senior Executive: sounding board on variety of matters such as Human Resources concerns, to likely reaction/position/view on specific and often confidential issues, including organizational impacts ▪ Strategic business partner: provide strategic and tactical support, seeking out opportunities to advance Senior Executive’s and institution’s priorities; connected to a wide network inside and outside organization to gather information/intelligence▪ Senior Executive office manager: makes optimal use of time, fiscal and human resources, continuously improving processes and administrative procedures within Division while leading Senior Executive’s office team▪ Creative problem solver: manages and coordinates contentious/critical issues, negotiates with and motivates others to think innovatively and creatively to develop optimal solutions▪ Leader within Division and across organization: models behaviours, including service standards and leadership competencies; demonstrates ethical behaviour; operates with integrity; champions inclusion and diversity, openness and fairness▪ Information and relationships manager: anticipates issues and effects of action/inaction to develop timely and effective responses/resolutions; makes effective use of technology and other tools to manage information flow to ensure decision-makers are informed and prepared for all potential outcomes or decision-points

Toronto, Canada Area

Researched, analyzed and provided expert advice and recommendations on compliance related to freedom of information / access to information and privacy laws and best practices. Expertise in collection, use, retention, protection and disclosure of personal information, access to government held records, Open Government and Open Data.

Toronto, Canada Area

Managed a team of Freedom of Information professionals to respond to Access to Information requests under strict timelines and with the third highest volume of requests in the Government of Ontario. Provided expert advice and recommendations to Senior Management on complex issues related to Freedom of Information and Privacy with view towards compliance based solutions while cognizant of operational mandates utilizing political acuity to ensure successful outcomes for both internal and external stakeholders.

Toronto, Canada Area

Managed a team of information management and privacy experts on projects involving changes in existing programs or policies as well as new initiatives to ensure compliance with privacy law and Government of Ontario Directives on record keeping, information security, and I&IT project lifecycle, including fiscal constraints, priority setting, and budgeting. Managed entire privacy breach protocol process from identification, declaration, risk management, notification, assessment, and implementation of mitigation strategies for all privacy and data breaches.

Toronto, Canada Area

Provided expert advice and recommendations to Senior Management through research and engagement with both internal and external stakeholders on the collection, use, retention and disclosure of personal information to ensure compliance with the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act by leading the development of Privacy Impact Assessments, assisting Corporate Security on Threat Risk Assessments, researching and preparing Briefing Notes, and delivering presentations. Responded to privacy breaches through implementation of privacy breach protocol, including notification of affected parties and briefing Senior Management.

Toronto, Canada Area

Provided expert advice and project management leadership to deliver results in the field of Records and Information Management including File Plans, storage and retrieval of unstructured data, and ensuring compliance with Access to Information and Privacy legislation by leading the development of Privacy Impact Assessments. Managed Ministry's entire MS SharePoint infrastructure, including the design, build and implementation of collaboration sites including administration of role based access and security controls. Project lead on migration of network storage from legacy system ensuring data integrity, data security, and clean up tasks were completed on time, on budget, and in compliance with corporate security, records retention, and IT project directives and related legal requirements.

Toronto

Researched Access to Information legislation in Hong Kong, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States for a comparative study.

Toronto

Provided expert advice and assistance to customers looking to build digital recording studios centered around computer technology which included in depth knowledge and use of keyboards, synthesizers, digital audio interfaces, mixers, microphones, computers (Mac and PC), software for recording, processing, manipulating and mastering audio.

Master Of Information Studies

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba)

Honours Diploma In Audio Engineering