CTO and Technology Leader with 25 years of experience driving business value through innovative technology solutions with amazing teams. Expert in aligning technical goals with business objectives, optimizing scalable cloud-native solutions, and fostering a collaborative team environment. Passionate about culture, customer experience, and delivering robust, distributed systems across multiple industries, while championing strategic initiatives and advanced AI & Machine Learning solutions.

HireFractionalTalent.com

Consulting Fractional VP of Technology/CTO

2022-10 - Present

Highlights

• Mentor startups and SMBs in FinTech, Health, Retail, Agriculture, and Energy sectors.
• Specialize in SaaS, IoT, SaMD, and e-commerce platforms.
• Implement CRM and sales automation using HubSpot and Salesforce.
• Modernize applications with Kubernetes and CI/CD/CT pipelines.
• Implemented advanced AI & Machine Learning solutions, significantly improving operational efficiency for diverse SMBs in FinTech and Health sectors.

OnTheClock

Site Reliability DevOps / Full Stack Engineer / Dev. Manager / CTO / Architect / Agile Practitioner

2024-04 - 2024-11

Highlights

• Led onshore/offshore product engineering web & mobile teams and multiple vendor partners to deliver over 200 features in 8 months.
• Modernized all engineering processes by teaching Scrum and establishing metrics/scorecard by launching Jira.
• Transformed Release Management into DevSecOps + GitOps + Jira enabling the teams transition from manual 'ad hoc' to monthly delivery.
• Automated manual builds reducing cycle time and increasing deployment frequency.
• Transformed the Production release process to use SYMLINKS for near zero downtime deployments/rollbacks.

Alliance Inspection Management

VP of Technology/CIO

2021-08 - 2024-01

Highlights

• Reduced operating costs by $1.79M through IT process modernization and contract renegotiation.
• Lowered attrition by 90% by fostering a performance-based, people-first culture.
• Increased ticket completion by 92%, enhancing IT support and customer satisfaction by 30.
• Boosted product delivery efficiency, improving story completion from 57.45% to 84.8%.

Career Now Brands

EVP/VP, Product & Technology

2019-03 - 2021-09

Highlights

• Increased project completion rate by 175% while cutting costs from $4M to $1.7M in the first year.
• Delivered 3 new products generating $6M+ in revenue within 2 years using a single framework.
• Instituted CI/CD and Agile best practices, restructuring software development processes.
• Led migration from DigitalOcean to AWS, ensuring seamless re-platforming and consolidation.

United Wholesale Mortgage

Solutions Architecture, Team Lead

2017-12 - 2019-03

Highlights

• Led a 10+ member cross-functional Solution Architecture Team, enhancing collaboration and efficiency.
• Defined Data Governance and Product Architecture strategies, driving 'nextgen' system development.
• Implemented SonarQube for SAST, significantly improving code quality and security.

Urban Science

Principal Full Stack Software Engineer (Application Architect)

2014-10 - 2017-12

Highlights

• Led development of Contact Manager SaaS, managing 10+ engineers, enhancing user engagement.
• Optimized KPI Generator Microservice, improving performance and efficiency with a team of 5.
• Established CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps, streamlining deployment processes.

Dassault Systèmes 3DEXCITE

Software Development Manager

2013-10 - 2014-10

Highlights

• Led three SaaS product teams with $3.5M budget, enhancing cross-functional collaboration and efficiency.
• Implemented SCRUM and TFS for RTT USA's Application Development, standardizing ALM Governance.

Urban Science

Software Development Manager / Sr. Full Stack Software Engineer

2008-03 - 2013-10

Highlights

• Managed and developed multiple SaaS products, ensuring timely and budget-compliant delivery.
• Implemented a real-time OLAP SSAS solution for advanced reporting, enhancing data analysis.

Compuware

Full Stack Software Engineer

2006-04 - 2008-01

Highlights

• Modernized VB6 applications to C# .Net, enhancing performance and maintainability.
• Implemented VMWare, reducing development setup time and costs.

RelatedNews.ca

Founder

1999-01 - 2005-01

Highlights

• Founded and sold RelatedNews.ca, a startup for custom websites with unique CMS solutions.
• Architected Just-A-Click CMS, utilizing .Net, VB, C#, JavaScript, Java, and PHP.

University of Windsor

Bachelor, Psychology

1999-01 - 2004-12

University of Windsor

Bachelor, Computer Science

1999-01 - 2004-12

Mentors in Tech (MinT)

Mentor

2023-01 - Present

SCORE Mentors

Certified Business Mentor

2022-12 - Present

Micromentor

Mentor

2022-12 - Present