Experience

Apex

• Canada
• Market Research
• 1 - 100 Employee

• CEO

  • Oct 2022 - Present

• Managing Partner, CTO

  • Feb 2020 - Oct 2022

  Apex Scoring System is a scalable, automated, plug-and-play suite of metrics that quantify the feelings and beliefs people have about a company that ultimately lead to advocacy and intent to engage. Knowing this at a brand level or within specific points in a CX journey, business leaders can tailor their efforts to bolster the underserved attitudes that will increase business success.



Techstars

• Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Mentor

  • Feb 2019 - Present



Spiria

• Canada
• Software Development
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Partner

  • Jun 2020 - Apr 2022

  I contribute on a part-time basis as a shareholder/partner at Spiria. A succession from my previous position of Vice President of Spiria's Toronto office that broadened my responsibilities to include Spiria's entire North American business landscape. I contribute in both an advisory and a hands-on capacity to board-level activities, organizational and operational strategy + governance, emerging service practices and the development of new business initiatives, M&A activities, and provide executive oversight on large projects and sales efforts.

• Vice President - Toronto

  • Jan 2018 - Jun 2020

  I run the Toronto division of Spiria by way of acquisition of DevBBQ Inc. My responsibilities include oversight of all facets of the office's business, financials, and operations. I work with amazing people at Spiria and its leadership team to continually offer a wide breadth of value to our clients' digital portfolios above and beyond a traditional client/vendor relationship.Spiria is a North American digital services firm specializing in digital strategy, digital transformation, web + mobile application development, IoT/M2M, and creative UI/UX design.Spiria has been listed on the Profit 500 list six straight years in a row 2012-2017 benefitting from impressive geographical growth fueled by its beliefs in providing high value services to its clients over the long term.



Paymi

• Canada
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-Founder (Acquired by EQ Works)

  • Feb 2015 - Dec 2019

  I worked with Paymi to help derive its overall technology strategy and roadmap, providing foundations for organizational governance, and team building. I have worked to successfully navigate Paymi through big-bank security and InfoSec audits as well as in the boardrooms to secure several value-building relationships. Paymi uses card-linking technology to offer cash back on purchases its users make with its merchant partners, both on-line and in-store, with any linked debit and credit card. Its merchant partners require no change to POS systems or processes to take full advantage of Paymi. Paymi provides its merchant partners with unique marketing advantages through insight into individual customer share of wallet and cross-category spending habits. Paymi merchants leverage this data to design and optimize their customer offers based on the true potential ROI of each customer segment.



DevBBQ Inc. is now Spiria Toronto

• Canada
• Software Development

• Founder, President (Acquired by Spiria)

  • Aug 2011 - Dec 2017

  DevBBQ provided custom software solutions to startups and enterprise customers bringing their mobile and web products to life. It specialized in ideation, strategy, design, development, and iteration towards product/market fit of new ideas, R&D projects, and both B2B and B2C applications. I fully owned DevBBQ after amicably purchasing the shares of its two other founding partners after year 3 of DevBBQ's 6 year lifespan. DevBBQ was a profitable, high value / high quality digital services firm with a strong corporate culture that boasted only a single voluntary employee departure over its lifespan. DevBBQ worked across several industries including Healthcare, Fintech, Retail, Consulting and Auditing, Logistics, and others. It used this experience to build business value with its clients over long term periods and several engagements. DevBBQ would often work with, foster, and mentor local startup companies and made meaningful strategic investments (both cash and opportunity cost) in some of these partners over the course of its final 3 years.



Fusenet Inc.

• Senior Technology Lead

  • May 2010 - Dec 2011



NCR Corporation

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Programmer/Analyst

  • 2005 - 2006