Canada
Planned, executed, and implemented cybersecurity and insurance programs and projects for clients. Taught project management courses for post-graduate students at Conestoga College. Coached clients to use whole food plant based WFPB habits to improve their health Degrees and Certificates: MBA (IS, FInance), MSc (Business Process Mgmt and IT), BEng (Software Engineering), PMP, PMI-ACP (Agile), CSM (Scrum), MSP (Managing Successful Programs), Prosci (Change Management), Post-Secondary Teaching Certificate, Vegan and Raw Food Nutritionist Diploma
Program manager specializing in using project, program and change management to help clients make transformational change. Plan and deliver business value through IT projects. Coach helping clients change to a plant-based lifestyle. Using Whole Food Plant Based (WFPB) practices, coaching clients to plan, buy, cook, and enjoy a variety of foods to improve their health, energy, and sports performance.
Managing IT security projects for a municipal agency. Developed and Implemented: Cybersecurity Governance, Management and Reporting; Corporate Cyber Maturity Assessment and Threat Risk Assessment; Business Continuity Planning; IT Disaster Recovery; AI and Information Security and Privacy; Information Security Audits remediation; and Information Security Frameworks, Policies and Standards. Working with different vendor teams to deliver the projects - responsible for daily vendor management. Led the procurement of advisory services from large consulting firm.
Taught project management in the post-graduate Project Management Program. Taught 25+ project management courses to 800+ students. Taught courses in: Intro to Project Management, Project Risks and Issues, Advanced Project Planning, Project Schedule and Cost management – MS Project, and Business Operations. Using D2L LMS (Desire2Learn Learning Management System), MS Project, MS 365 Business, Zoom, Teams, H5P, Gen AI - Co-pilot
Managed the cybersecurity program
Responsible for program management and 11+ projects. Managed the development and evaluation of 4 Cybersecurity RFPS to obtain cybersecurity managed services valued at $100M. Managed a program of cyber security related projects, $100+M budget, with the objective to mitigate cybersecurity risks by implementing cybersecurity controls, solutions, processes, training, and managed services. Worked with multiple vendors to implement technologies including PCI compliance, Server Hardening/ TLS 1.2, OT Operational Technology risk remediation, Identity and Privileged Access Management (Cyberark), IP Access Management (Infoblox), IT Disaster Recovery, Cyber and Privacy training, eSignature (Adobe), firewall replacements, and new secure access and Zero Trust solution (ZScaler)