David Dutch

Get organized, establish accountability, incrementally improve.

Ontario, Canada

About

I have played many roles in the management of technology companies. My technical background is balanced by education in Business Administration, 10 years of running a consulting business, and 1 year as the GM of the Active Outdoors Division. My greatest strength lays in my ability to recruit, motivate, and manage people. While strong on execution and definition of vision, I understand the organizational requirements to ensure success. I’ve always driven for success while putting people first and have gained the trust and respect of senior executives, managers, architects, developers, QA, PMO, and operations staff that I have had the privilege to work with. The years of experience below can be segregated into 4 phases; 80's - Realtime Systems, 90's consulting company, 2000-04 Corporate leadership, 2004-2016 C-Level ReserveAmerica (various owners), 2016 -> Work with trusted colleagues to bring compliance and accountability to all aspects of the organization. Specialties: Technology Management, Software Architecture, Requirements Engineering, Quality Assurance, Project Management, Financial analysis, Organizational Efficiencies, Slaughtering sacred cows :) Tech Stacks: C, C++. J2EE. .Net, Microservices, AWS, MS Cloud, Domains: Finance, Scada, IoT, Software Tools, Security, Identity

Experience

  • Installation Manager at NFTC - North Frontenac Telephone Company
    Sep 2025 - Feb 2026 · 6 mos

    Manage Installation backlog. Establish tracking metrics, historical analysis.

  • Deficiency Czar at London Properties
    Jun 2025 - Sep 2025 · 4 mos

    Dave The Door Man - Install 400+ security locks Deficiency Czar- Establish defect management and resolution process with all trades. Deliver New University of Windsor Rodzik Residence on time!

  • Solutions Delivery Manager at Tender Retail
    Nov 2023 - May 2024 · 7 mos

    6 month contract. Document & automate service workflows using Jira and Confluence Create project management processes, jira projects, stakeholder dashboards Add compliance management, BA & Product Processes,. Release Management

  • Engineering Delivery Manager at Gen™
    Nov 2022 - Oct 2023 · 1 yr

    Norton & Avast became Gen. See SecureKey for job details. This is a personal career record of 4 different companies in the same year. This is it, I have officially checked every box, I have done it all :) I'm really looking forward to help you all make your digital experience a safe one.

  • Product Engineering Release Manager at SecureKey Technologies Inc
    Aug 2020 - Oct 2023 · 3 yrs 3 mos

    Accomplishments Set up release process in Jira, Git, and Gitlab. Automate Jira workflows, task creation, assignments. Develop Security, Development, and QA Dashboard Metrics is Jira. Responsibilities (i) Work with development teams, testing teams and system administrators for development, evaluation, test and launch phases of software development life cycle. (ii) Manage SDLC to configure and release software application updates to QA, Staging, UAT along with Production environments. (XML, JSON, MS SQL, Image Management) (iii) Manage risks and resolve issues that affect release scope, schedule, and quality. (iv) Measure and monitor progress to ensure application releases are delivered on time, and that they meet or exceed expectations. (v) Collect and provide ongoing project feedback to change management organization. (vi) Automate processes using ServiceNow, Jira, Confluence, ScriptRunner, Jenkns, Git, Github CI/CD (vii) Troubleshoot applications. (ix) Adhere to ISO/CISSP governance