Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Hands-on Development Manager/Solution Architect with 15 years of experience delivering Microsoft .Net solutions for multiple industries including Financial, Legal Services, Loyalty, and Hospitality. I have considerable expertise in leading technology teams, mentoring team members to deliver high-value, high-priority projects. My expertise includes deep experience with complex and challenging projects, high-pressure environments, hands-on technology challenges and dealing with on-site, near and offshore teams and resources. I work with the development and business teams to build a Roadmap, creating user stories and managing the product backlog priorities
Responsible for monitoring technical progress of multiple concurrent projects, track technical issues and implement solutions in a prompt manner. I provide expertise for escalated quality problems and anticipate bottlenecks in the development cycle, identifies technical impacts on the organization as they relate to business requirements, and defines strategies/share Build high performing teams by putting the right people in the right job at the right time.
Responsible for the delivery of enterprise system design, development, release, and communication. Perform closely with Engineers, Developers and Product Management throughout the organization to influence product development assisting or improving products. Manage and execute software development projects from beginning to finish.
Participated in the full lifecycle of client implementations including overall project management, requirements gathering, business analysis, system configuration, design, testing, and support. Own the product roadmap and prioritize building what matters most to achieve the strategic goals and initiatives behind the product. Interacted directly with clients to interpret and analyze business requirements to identify risks and develop appropriate solutions that extended the core of the platform. Developed and determined new and enhanced technology solutions to meet business requirements. Developed recommendations for process changes and improvements. Ensure client needs are being supported by business system teams, and monitor client satisfaction levels. Provided guidance for business decisions from a technical perspective on issues such as performance, scalability, reliability, and security. Drive buy-build-partner analysis, and where necessary, review potential partner relationships for the product.
Complete software development life cycle experience. Led and coordinate the onshore and offshore vendor/team in multiple disciplines Designed, developed and led the development of the Content Management System (CMS) integration with the Web Booking Engine (WBE), and the SharePoint portals with multiple datacenters Responsible for the selection of a wholly new technology platform to replace aging CMS. Responsible for all technical aspects in all stages www.fairmont.com | www.raffles.com | Sharepoint Portals
Developed a complex firm-wide Knowledge Management Application that allows Knowledge Integrators the ability to contribute, classify and apply taxonomy to information surrounding a Client/Matter. The application is all loosely coupled with the Financial System (CMS), CRM System (InterAction) and DMS (Document Management System). The technology used to develop include ASP.Net, C#, Web Services, XML, SQL, and JavaScript. Third party applications used are; Tsunami (used for synchronizing data), Microsoft SharePoint Portal 2007 Search Engine was used for the web site search tool Hummingbird DM for Document Management system, Hummingbird KM for search engine and Hummingbird Portal for the presentation layer.