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• Owner/Operator of a retail business, catering to dancers, entertainers and hotels on the North Coast, providing professional footwear, Bodywear and make-up. Marketing make-up, jewelry and accessories for the general public as well.

Brainhunter had acquired Treklogic, Protec, and wanted all systems to be integrated and converted to ensure efficient performance of service offerings.

• As Senior Consultant, for one of the largest online recruiting and placement firms in Greater Toronto, of computer, engineering and diversity personnel on a contract and full-time basis, assisted in the amalgamation of 4 companies in the summer of 2004.

Self-employed as a contract Senior Project/Program Manager, taking assignments throughout Canada, the United States and the Dominican Republic.

• As Owner/Operator, managed the start-up of a group of enterprises in the Dominican Republic. Enterprises included an Internet Café, Laundry, Book sales & rental, Car and Scooter Rentals, beach chair rental, beach bar, Cafeteria and Beverage service. Currently, operating a beach vending business which sells t-shirts, towels and other beachwear to tourists visiting the island.

ADSL Program (Asymmetrical Digital Subscriber Line)

• For a major telecommunications company, acted as Senior Program Director, ADSL (Asymmetrical Digital Subscriber Line) Program, providing an affordable high speed Internet access solution. Created the infrastructure base for the program, determined short and long-term requirements, hired and deployed experts in areas of discipline, directed and managed critical path and total program to first product launch.

IP (Internet Provider) Billing Project
BID (Business Internet Dial) Project

• For a major telecommunications company, acted as Senior Program Manager, Internet Provider (IP) Billing Project, implementing Portal Software Inc.’s Infranet rating and billing package solution. Managed in a matrix environment the development of a dial-up Internet access service, managed the implementation of an e-mail solution, web-based customer self-administration and service selection and web-based billing and reporting. Initial product launch was implemented on time.

Works & Emergency Services, Finance Department, Community & Neighbourhoods Services

• For the largest municipality in Canada, acted as Senior Consultant/Facilitator, Y2K Contingency Planning, Project Management Office. Managed and interfaced with Works and Emergency Services, Finance, and Community and Neighbourhood Services, to ensure that contingency planning for Y2K was complete and risk was assessed. Role included assisting in building confidence factor with respect to City’s overall Y2K preparedness. Project was completed with no critical problems to be addressed;

Y2K Project

• For a major communications firm, assumed the role of Program Manager, Year 2000 Program. Led 11 Business Unit Project Managers towards achieving Year 2000 readiness across all business critical processes, applications and infrastructure. Project was 91% completed by December 15th, 1998 and within budget;

PROCOM – Professional Computer Consultants Group Mar 95 – Oct 98
PROCOM PROJECTS (Self employed)                                 Sept 90 – Dec 92

• As Director, PROCOM PROJECTS and Managing Consultant, duties included performing feasibility studies, provide consulting to clients with major projects, assist in planning, staffing, organizing, and building relationships between users and I/S groups and acted as strategic advisor and consultant on strategic and tactical projects for a diversity of clients. Duties also included providing computer personnel on a contract basis to clients;

Executive Workstation Roll Out

• As Senior Project Manager. Workstation and Laptop Rollout for Executives and Assistants of a crown corporation, worked collaboratively with existing personnel and a crew of consultants to organize the project from conception to final implementation and training. Project was completed on time and within budget;

Amalgamation of 3 major companies to one

• Acted as Liaison Project Manager for a major manufacturing and distribution company in a mainframe environment, to establish the project mandate, budget, set and communicate goals and strategy, organize the project, manage the critical path of the project across all disciplines,  select and deploy staff and implement the changeover for three major user communities to new accounting systems. Effected business process engineering throughout the organization, ensured appropriate documentation and complete training of all users. This project was delivered on time and within its operating budget of $1.6M;

Retail Point of Sale Projects
• As Application Product Manager for a major retail operation, coordinated the successful evaluation, strategy development, planning, design, coordination with internal and external third parties. Responsible for launching a corporate MasterCard, installation and implementation of Debit Cards at the retail store level and delivery of an internal marketing program throughout Western Canada. Projects that went forward were delivered on time;

Project Management Office – Major Projects

• As Project Manager, for a major financial institution, responsible for the management, design, process re-engineering, and implementation of a $20M+ system client server project, including determining functionality, adherence to timeliness, quality and resource management and client management. In a DEC client server environment, effected the successful implementation of 1200+ new workstations in 58+ branches across Canada. This project was delivered on time and $1.5M under its budget of $20.1M; effectively coordinated all re-engineering requirements at the branch and head office levels for all applications and equipment implemented;

 • Performed feasibility studies, provided consulting to clients with major projects, assisted in planning, staffing, organizing and building relationships between users and I/S groups and acted as strategic advisor and consultant on strategic and tactical projects for a diversity of clients.

Information technology solutions and services are provided through the Functional Systems Team assigned to a Company Functional Unit and through the use of integrated mainframe/ mini/micro facilities and related software.

As Coordinator, Financial Systems Projects:

Coordinated the design, re-engineering, development, enhancement, maintenance, retirement and implementation of package solutions in a client server MAC/DEC environment for a complete suite of accounting systems including General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Fixed Assets and other sub-system requirements. Effected business process re-engineering throughout the functional group, ensuring appropriate documentation and complete training of all users. These assignments were successfully implemented at the client site;

As Functional Systems Team Leader:

Provided effective and responsive automation services in the support of local system development and the daily operation of production applications of the company functional unit. Coordinated all Information Systems’ services and acted as the first point of contact for requests for services and/or resolution to problems in the CFU.

As Senior Business Analyst

• Performed preliminary user requirements and analysis of financial systems to be replaced with software financial packages, using interviewing techniques and conducting JAD sessions.

As Management Consultant
• Analyzed existing systems, proposed solutions, studied proposals from vendors, conducted cost/benefit analyses by function and package requirements, and made recommendations as to which financial packages to choose and implement.

• As Account Manager for a major international retailer based in the Pacific Basic, responsible for the design, re-engineering, installation, initialization, conversion, transfer and implementation and support of General Ledger systems at client sites on S/38. This assignment included design of logical chart of account structuring, task and resource planning and scheduling, re-engineering of all business and systems processes, training material development, system testing, platform migration, data conversion, user education and company/client coordination. Project completed on time and within budget.

Worked in Toronto, Canada, Andover, Mass, San Francisco, Ca and Honolulu, Hawaii.

As Director of Operations
• Planned, performed studies, determined feasibility, analyzed data, and directed projects, while adhering to budgets and deadlines of all market research studies across Canada.

As Project Manager
o Through marketing previous clients and responding to requests, increased new business 32% in a 6-month period
o Estimated costs, formulated budgets, coordinated the work of sampling, data processing, and data output departments and wrote post-study evaluation reports. Projects varied from $5K to $500K budgets;
o Recruited, trained, supervised 130+ people across Canada, to include supervisors, staff, clericals and third party services.