Toronto, Ontario, Canada
At the helm of Argo Digital Gold as COO and CTO, my focus is on leveraging technology to drive strategic growth and operational excellence. Coaching and mentoring our team, I've fostered a culture where business analysis and strategic operational review (SOR) are integral to our success. With almost 3 decades of building financial technology solutions, I bring a wealth of experience to the table, ensuring that our technology initiatives are seamlessly integrated with business goals. My accomplishments include orchestrating digital transformations that resonate with core business objectives, all while maintaining cost effectiveness. My leadership philosophy centers on transparency and collaboration, empowering our teams to contribute to the broader corporate mission and achieve collective triumphs.
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Independent non executive director at Gemini Canada.
I was promoted to this role in 2010. Among my various responsibilities, I... ▪ Provided oversight and direction for global middle and back-office technology team distributed across five sites. ~ ~ ~ ▪ Consolidated and integrating the remote teams into a single “shared-services” global function to increase operational effectiveness. ~ ~ ~ ▪ Was appointed to global technology committee, developing and maintaining consistent approach to innovative development, technical strategy, implementation, deployment, quality, and service, e.g. > Leading a team of global resources to modernize legacy systems and User Interface, moving to service orientation > Consolidating shared services to boost efficiency and reduce cost-to-serve, enabling the same user experience globally ~ ~ ~ ▪ Was appointed Chief Technology Officer of Canadian operations, leading end-to-end strategic development and full-scale operations of the Canadian technology team. In this role I: > Led a team to build out national technology strategy, deploy infrastructure and execute projects and initiatives to stabilize operations > Led the technology team through Canada’s first major restructuring, reducing 25% of the team while maintaining overall team performance. > Reduced time to generate critical reports by greater than 7X after month-end close by increasing automation and bridging legacy with modern systems. > Transformed client billing process by leveraging process and data automation, reducing the time to create, verify and send out invoices by 75%.
As the Director of Product Development, I was charged with ensuring that all technology requirements were met in the organizations. In this role, I... ▪ Was appointed lead architect in building Middle Office, Reporting and Risk Management systems and key member of an initial start-up technology team. ~ ~ ~ ▪ Built teams across Software Development, QA, Infrastructure and Client Services that rapidly expanded and transitioned with the firm as the business grew ~ ~ ~ ▪ Established software Quality Assurance program in Canada, hiring and building team with oversight and accountability for the quality of products and services deployed for clients ~ ~ ~ ▪ Was responsible for internal controls across product development, deployment and support of systems. ~ ~ ~ ▪ Coached and mentored my team to ensure retention and growth of top talent.