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Ottawa, Ontario Canada

Ottawa, Ontario Canada

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Ottawa, Canada Area

As Assistant Deputy Minister, I was responsible for both transformation and informatics in the department. As the Chief Transformation Officer, I was providing whole of department leadership for the strategy, planning, design, change management, implementation and management of business transformation across all business lines; the delivery of modern.

Ottawa, Canada Area

Accountable for providing corporate leadership to the Department on the accountability and management excellence agendas; providing integrated, flexible, cost effective and timely corporate services; providing vision and strategic direction for the sound stewardship of the department's accountability agenda, creating and delivering an integrated.

Ottawa, Canada Area

As Director General, I was responsible for working with internal and external stakeholders to develop and implement the solution and tools required by CBSA's Commercial Trade Chain Partners to efficiently and effectively meet their trade compliance responsibilites. CBSA is the second largest collector of revenue for the Government of Canada and through.

Ottawa, Canada Area

As Director General and the corporate functional authority for project management for Shared Services Canada (SSC), I was accountable for providing department-wide executive leadership for the development, implementation and monitoring of overarching governance, accountability and management frameworks, policies, standards, processes, performance reporting.

Ottawa, Canada Area

As a member of the Board of Directors for Hydro Ottawa which comprises of 11 members, collectively we have the accountability for the effective oversight of the Corporation and its subsidiaries and to provide direction to the Corporation on behalf of the shareholder, the City of Ottawa. Additionally, the board provides leadership for the company within a.

Ottawa

As the co-champion for diversity, my role was to help SSC understand the business case for being inclusive of the diverse mix of employees. I worked with other government departments and employee groups and committees to put in place policies, culture and services which were inclusive. Additionally, I leveraged opportunities to be connected with other.

Ottawa, Canada Area

As a member of the Board of Directors for United Way Ottawa, collectively we had the accountability for the effective oversight of the Corporation and to provide direction to the Corporation. Additionally, the board provided leadership to the organization within a framework of effective controls that enabled risks to be assessed and managed, and were.

Mandate included implementation of structures and processes that oversaw the social governance, administration, guidance, supervision and coordination of the activities of the members of the ismaili community which led to the improvements in the quality of life of the community through appropriate policies, programs in the areas of education, health.

Accountable for strategic leadership of initiatives to assist in the development of international trade in particular in relation to infrastructure projects between Canada and emerging and developing countries; for strengthening relations with major partners and clients, as well as for contributing to the corporation's strategic planning and sound.

Ottawa, Canada Area

Responsibilities included development of policies and the management of decision-making process for policy advancement and significant stakeholder relationships with senior executives in federal government departments and central agencies. Mandate included the development and implementation of a research division responsible for analyzing foreign and.

As Chair for the HR Board, I worked closely with the President and the senior management team to build the necessary human capital strategies and programs to drive the organization's continued growth. Working with leaders managing over 6,000 volunteers, developed best practice strategies and execution methodologies to deliver continued organizational.

Responsible for the overall strategy and practice expansion for Global Business development in the domain of business process outsourcing and business process reengineering which included the esablishment of new partnership deals globally.

As Chair for the Economic Planning Board’s, my mission was to improve the economic well being of the community by providing guidance and assistance towards a sound financial base and to empower individuals to acquire the skills and knowledge to become gainfully employed.

Ottawa, Canada Area

As Chair for the Settlement of Refugees Committee for Ottawa, my mandate was to work with established non government organizations to develop agreements, frameworks and support structures for the effective settlement of refugees from Afghanistan.

Led CEO sponsored 15-member task force focussed on designing and deploying a global New Hire process and systems. Mandate included turning around operations, establishing consistent and appropriate business practices and building staff/client morale through the re-enginering of the New Hire Process. Responsibility included delivering customized workflow.

Mba, Masters In Business Administration

Accelerated Executive Development Program (Aexdp)

Certification: Digital Transformation: Leading People, Data & Technology, Executive Education

Certification: Driving Digital Strategy