Mar 2025 – Dec 2025 · 9 mos · Toronto, ON

• Led enterprise-wide Platform, IT, and AI strategy, translating executive ambition into coherent, multi-year roadmaps that balanced innovation, risk, cost, and delivery realities across complex and regulated environments in the cloud and on-premise.
• Partnered closely with executive leadership to assess and prioritize AI and technology initiatives, helping distinguish high-impact, scalable opportunities from exploratory or premature efforts. Built and socialized an AI adoption framework for building a strong AI strategy.
• Designed practical operating models for technology and AI adoption, aligning governance, architecture, and delivery teams to ensure strategies could be executed and sustained beyond initial momentum.
• Guided cross-functional stakeholders through complex trade-offs, sequencing decisions, and investment prioritization to build confidence in the strategy and maintain organizational alignment. Led and facilitated individual sessions and workshops to forge the right path forward for platform modernization, strategic technology decisions, and AI adoption.
• Served as a strategic sounding board for senior leaders, pressure-testing assumptions and ensuring technology decisions remained grounded in measurable business outcomes.

May 2024 – Mar 2025 · 10 mos · Toronto, ON

• Led the Enterprise Architecture practice, shaping enterprise-wide technology strategy and guiding large, cross-functional initiatives from abstract direction to executable roadmaps. Served as a trusted partner to senior leadership while coaching architecture and engineering teams on delivering sustained business value.
• Led and developed a team of enterprise and solution architects through servant leadership, shaping architectural direction, coaching for impact, and aligning technology decisions with evolving business priorities.
• Defined and institutionalized a practical framework for technology and architectural standards, aligning C-level expectations with delivery realities and creating shared clarity across business, architecture, and engineering teams.
• Established outcome-driven OKRs, KPIs, and multi-year roadmaps for Enterprise Architecture working closely with the Vice President of Architecture & Platforms to translate strategic intent into measurable execution across the organization.

Jul 2022 – May 2024 · 1 yr 10 mos · Toronto, ON

• Lead software design and architecture for a flagship cloud-native Open Banking initiative to securely connect financial institutions and fintechs in Canada
• Built and socialized standards to harden development and architecture practices and align them to business value. Created technology delivery roadmaps and plans to help teams deliver high quality, secure, reliable, scalable software solutions.
• Mentored and guided development teams in software engineering and architecture best practices by running initiatives such as Lunch & Learn, Architecture Review Board, and developer coaching sessions.

Mar 2021 – Mar 2022 · 1 yr · Toronto, ON

• Built and institutionalized a multi-year technology adoption and implementation roadmap that aligned to business vision, organizational strategy, and product goals
• Established and coached an architecture team responsible for overarching architecture and system design decisions. Trained, guided, and mentored senior and staff engineers in becoming software architects.
• Provided extensive technical and strategic guidance and advisory service to all levels of leadership, including c-level, on the architectural vision for a rapidly expanding 2-Billion Dollar Unicorn.
• Conducted architectural and system design reviews for multiple teams and provided feedback and guidance on the architecture and integration of various systems, components, and technologies.
• Mentored and trained software engineers (Junior through Staff) in various aspects of software development, architecture, best practices, and the software development life cycle (SDLC)

Apr 2020 – Mar 2021 · 11 mos · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Lead a team of developers and QA in the design and development of a distributed cloud-native IoT applications for Bell’s Smart Retail initiative.
• Initiated and facilitated team and stakeholder workshops to introduce, guide, and cement the adoption of new technologies that aligned to the organization's product goals and strategic vision
• Provided guidance and mentorship on the development of distributed highly available cloud applications
• Guided teams on how to architect and build resilient serverless applications in Azure

Sep 2019 – Jan 2020 · 4 mos · Toronto, Canada Area

• • Spearheaded the modernization and hardening of a core billing application by leading its redesign for security, scalability, and operational excellence while conducting workshops and coaching sessions to train the team, business stakeholders, and leadership in applicable best practices.

May 2019 – Aug 2019 · 3 mos · Toronto, Canada Area

• Contributed hands-on to a digital transformation initiative by designing and implementing cloud-native services, while advising the team on modern engineering practices, service design, and maintainability in a distributed environment.
• Designed and implemented a centralized authentication and authorization capability, working with the team to align security concerns with platform and delivery constraints.
• Partnered directly with business stakeholders to clarify requirements and translate them into a cohesive technical solution, delivering a complex, cross-cutting feature within a single sprint through tight alignment and pragmatic trade-offs.

Jan 2019 – Apr 2019 · 3 mos · Toronto, Canada Area

• Led the development of a POC for a mobile inventory tracking application within tight timelines and constrained resources, managing to deliver a complete and working prototype.
• Provided consulting services related to the development and architecture of digital transformation initiatives in AWS cloud

May 2018 – Dec 2018 · 7 mos · Toronto, Canada Area

• Led the architecture for a financial AI ROBO Advisor platform while mentoring the team in best practices, security foundations, and trade-off anaylsys
• Ensured alignment to enterprise standards and successfully presented and defended architecture in front of the Architecture Review Board
• Collaborated closely and aligned competing priorities with multiple development teams, senior leadership, business stakeholders, and operations laying down the foundation for a smoother and more effective agile delivery process and alignment to overall vision.

Jan 2013 – Apr 2018 · 5 yrs 3 mos · Toronto, Canada Area

• Spearheaded an early AI initiative across the organization, including C-suite, by pitching, researching, building, and evangelizing the proof of concept of an enterprise-grade chatbot application to assist with customer support thereby saving the organization upwards of two million dollars per year.
• Lead an initiative to rewrite a flagship legacy application in making it cloud-native, secure, scalable, and aligned to modern architecture, engineering, and delivery best practices.
• Initiated and conducted workshops to introduce various technology concepts to different teams
• Provided extensive production support and troubleshooting of mission critical systems across multiple support tiers.

Jan 2010 – Jan 2013 · 3 yrs · Toronto

• Designed and built key parts of the company’s flagship fraud management SAAS products
• Mentored and guided junior developers throughout the Agile process in best practices, code quality, and performance optimization.

Jun 2005 – Aug 2010 · 5 yrs 2 mos · Toronto

• Technology consulting and advisory to government, insurance, and legal organizations
• Developed, maintained, and supported enterprise applications

Jan 2003 – Jan 2004 · 1 yr · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• • Collaborated with faculty and staff and built key parts of the organization's educational platform