Aug 2025 – Present · 9 mos · NYC · Remote

• Advise CEO and Head of Engineering on technology strategy, organizational development, and platform modernization for digital asset data and software provider serving institutional clients.
• Focus Areas:
• Technology strategy and platform architecture decisions
• Engineering leadership development and organizational design
• Technology processes, practices, and operating model evolution
• Build vs. buy decisions and vendor evaluation

Dec 2024 – Present · 1 yr 5 mos · NYC · Remote

• Advise CEO and Head of Product and Engineering on technology strategy and organizational development for data commerce platform enabling organizations to manage, track, and monetize data assets.
• Investment stake in the company.
• Focus Areas:
• Technology strategy and platform architecture
• Engineering leadership and organizational design
• Technology processes and operating model
• Strategic technology decisions

Jun 2024 – Aug 2025 · 1 yr 2 mos · Canada · Hybrid

• Led technology organization for private travel experience platform serving 200+ airline, hospitality, and cruise partners globally.
• M&A Integration & Organization:
• Unified engineering teams from multiple acquisitions into single 160-person global technology organization
• Consolidated fragmented platforms and established common architecture, tooling, and operating practices
• Built cohesive engineering culture across previously independent product teams
• ML & Platform Evolution:
• Established ML/AI product capabilities and roadmap, transitioning organization from rule-based systems to machine learning-driven personalization and pricing
• Advanced platform infrastructure to support ML model deployment and iteration at scale
• Scope: 160-person engineering organization, private company serving 200+ travel industry partners

Feb 2022 – Jun 2024 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Canada · Hybrid

• Led technology organization for supply chain orchestration SaaS platform serving global enterprises in automotive, aerospace, electronics, and life sciences.
• Platform Transformation:
• Led $25M SaaS platform modernization enabling company revenue growth from $427M to $483M (+13% YoY)
• Delivered 17% SaaS revenue growth while reducing infrastructure costs 20%
• Migrated platform to multi-cloud architecture (Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud) in 12 months while maintaining operational continuity
• Enabled monetization of supply chain data through AI/ML-driven analytics capabilities
• Organization & Operations:
• Led a global engineering organization across North America, Europe, and APAC
• Partnered with Marketing, Sales, and Strategy to align platform capabilities with go-to-market objectives
• Security & Compliance:
• Achieved ISO 27001 and SOC 2 certifications, strengthening enterprise security posture and removing deal blockers for regulated industry customers
• Scope: 140 person global engineering team, multi-cloud SaaS platform serving enterprise supply chain customers

Sep 2019 – Feb 2022 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Toronto, Canada Area

• Led data and platform transformation at $1.4T global financial services organization operating across Canada, US, and Asia.
• Data Platform Transformation:
• Modernized enterprise data lake and advanced analytics infrastructure, migrating from on-premise data centers to Azure cloud
• Built analytics foundation enabling actuarial modeling, risk assessment, and business intelligence across 13 markets
• Established data governance framework supporting regulatory compliance across multiple jurisdictions
• Underwriting Platform Modernization:
• Modernized underwriting platform (Moody's) and migrated to cloud, enabling advanced underwriting capabilities for insurance products
• Improved underwriting speed and accuracy through platform re-architecture
• Digital Experience:
• Led digital transformation of public-facing websites partnering with Adobe, supporting customer acquisition and service across global markets
• Cloud Migration:
• Migrated critical enterprise systems from legacy data centers to Azure, maintaining operational continuity while improving scalability and cost efficiency
• Partnered with security organization to establish cloud security posture and compliance framework
• Scope: Global architecture and engineering leadership across data, underwriting, and digital platforms serving 13 international markets

Sep 2018 – Aug 2019 · 11 mos · Toronto, Canada Area

• Four direct + 9 indirect reports | $6M CapEx | $15M OpEx | Oversee global data support for all our international offices
• Reporting to the Chief Technology Officer / Chief Data Officer I manage and mentor a team of senior developers, and Dev/Ops focused on delivering multi-cloud capability with a data management platform.
• This capability supports significant business process simplification and enables net new advanced analytics across the investment portfolios as they seek alpha.

Nov 2016 – Sep 2018 · 1 yr 10 mos · Toronto, Canada Area

• 5 direct + 140 indirect reports | $45M CapEx | $9M OpEx | 4 sites in Toronto, Calgary, off-shore in Mumbai, Ukraine
• Reporting to the Chief Information Officer, I led diverse technology groups responsible for data governance, data architecture, data product builds, data integration, and the machine learning platforms for the cognitive retail platforms.
• Legacy: Transformed the legacy data systems into a modern data platform in the cloud and on-premise to save $22M over three years, boosting productivity by 25% and contributing to a 5% revenue growth year-over-year.

Aug 2016 – Nov 2016 · 3 mos · Toronto, Canada Area

• 3 direct + 90 indirect reports | 20M CapEx | 6M OpEx | 2 sites Toronto, Off-shore in Ukraine
• Selected to design and build a robust modern data management platform to sustain exponential e-commerce load during peak times after the antiquated data domain crashed on Black Friday and Cyber Monday two years in a row.
• Planned and built the CTC data lake on-premise and for the cloud to successfully operate without any issues
• during 2016 Black Friday and Cyber Monday with no lost sales.
• Recruited and coached a senior team of developers tasked to architect and modernized the platform to move towards an event-oriented micro-services layer to eliminate old infrastructure unable to sustain current business processes and minus the ability to expand into new business lines.

Dec 2015 – Present · 10 yrs 5 mos · Toronto, Canada Area

• I work with the founding team as a technology adviser. I advise and coach on technology-related activities.
• I specialize in building banking platforms and applications, Including security and identity.

Jan 2015 – Aug 2016 · 1 yr 7 mos · 600, rue De la Gauchetière Ouest, 28e étage, Montréal (Québec), H3B 4L2

• 7 direct + 100 indirect reports | $5M CapEx | $21M OpEx
• As the chief architect, I reported to a matrixed organization which included the Vice President of Digital Banking, Vice President of Data Technology, Chief Information Security Officer and the Chief Information Officer of the Bank.
• I have transformed the enterprise architecture practice into an agile delivery team to generate 60% productivity gains and a 25% operational cost saving.
• I oversaw all solution designs for both the technical and business architectures of the retail and commercial banks. I also led the team responsible for Identity and Access Management and supported the information governance during audits.
• My teams and I were instrumental in redesigning and transitioning the legacy monolithic banking applications to a responsive framework using native cloud technologies.

Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 · 2 yrs · 2351 Alfred-Nobel Blvd., Suite N-410 Saint-Laurent, Qc, H4S 2A9 Canada

• I developed business and product strategy in collaboration with the Chief Executive Officer, Chief Technology Officer, and Vice President of engineering. I travelled internationally meeting customers supporting sales.
• The result of this was the acquisition of new strategic global accounts such as T-Mobile, Thomson Reuters, and BT-Radianz.

Jan 2010 – Dec 2012 · 2 yrs 11 mos

• Reporting to the Chief Technology Officer at TELUS my leadership role was to build and lead the adoption of TELUS’ products and solutions in partnership with the vendors across the entire organization.

Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 · 1 yr

• I managed the national labs across Canada.

Jan 2004 – Jan 2009 · 5 yrs

• I managed the TELUS Innovation Centre’s across Canada.

Jan 2001 – Jan 2012 · 11 yrs

• I held various roles at TELUS, ranging from sales, marketing, product development, and network operations. I started as a single technical contributor, where over time I was mentored to expand my leadership skills and lead highly successful programs and product launches.

Jan 2001 – Jan 2004 · 3 yrs

• I was in a pre-sales engineering role, responsible for supporting complex customer accounts.