Project Manager in Toronto, ON, Canada

This custom software and IT services platform generated about $80 million in revenue and is the most profitable of all the company's offerings. I managed a geographically distributed department across four development centers in Canada, the US, and India.

I led the redesign and upgrade of Adesa's Cloud-based online car auction solution to maintain Adesa's market-leading position.
New Wave leveraged the latest advances in online and digital technology to deliver a more simplified user experience and enable seamless use across desktop, mobile, and tablet devices. By integrating the advanced analytics, pricing, and reporting capabilities, New Wave provided an opportunity to take care of the existing customers and provide them a better experience, also representing an opportunity to grow new customers on that platform as we advance.

KAR is the clear leader in upstream auctions, especially in the private-label sector. It runs such auctions for more than 40 brands in Canada and the US, often on behalf of captive finance companies, by tapping the expertise of its Openlane online platform. Roughly 80 percent of vehicles coming off-lease this year will go through a private-label auction powered by KAR.

Scrum Master for an enterprise program portfolio solution roll out at RBC. Responsible for analyzing, describing, improving, and modifying the existing process to fit the requirements of the enterprise program portfolio management and to apply where possible best practices and market best practices. Supported the knowledge transfer to administrators of the tool, testers, business owners, and operational power users under the concept of "teach them how to fish" all of this within the Agile framework.

Facilitated the program-level Agile ceremonies and assisted teams in delivering value and driving relentless improvement. Trained Agile teams, coached them through the process of onboarding and initial project sprints, and aided team members in developing skills to become self-sufficient.

Consulted, educated, coached, and mentored Agile teams, Scrum Masters, product owners, DevOps, and management on Agile practices for delivering high business value. Orchestrated the delivery of Agile-based software deliverables and led the development project team to implement iterative software releases driven by the program.

Scotiabank’s Platform Organization (PLATO) is a development platform, which drives velocity, service enablement, and reusability. It’s an integrated set of technical products encapsulating critical enterprise capabilities, automated processes, and social architecture to enable high-velocity application development.

The PLATO team is comprised of engineers, problem solvers, Agilists, and creatives in roles such as enterprise platform engineering and architecture, enterprise data services, Cloud infrastructure and architecture, product engineering, and product management. Together, the team provides the platform that enables the bank to deliver transformative customer experiences that help our 25 million customers become better off.

This team of engineers used its public Cloud deployments to completely transform how Scotiabank builds new applications and integrates them into business processes. The bank’s own accelerator product now serves as its own integrated development pipeline, which integrates the required security controls and approvals for code as they move through various stages of production.