Experience

RE/MAX Realtron Realty Inc., Brokerage

• Canada
• Real Estate
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Sales Representative

  • Jun 2015 - Present



Northumberland Community Futures Development Corporation

• Business Devlopment Officer

  • Mar 2012 - Aug 2012

  Administering the Canadian Federal Government's SEB initiative in the Northumberland region of southeastern Ontario.Mandate to support 22 entrepreneurs with Science, Technology, Engineering and Math backgrounds to start entreprises by providing access to federal funds, mentoring, and business plan development. Administering the Canadian Federal Government's SEB initiative in the Northumberland region of southeastern Ontario.Mandate to support 22 entrepreneurs with Science, Technology, Engineering and Math backgrounds to start entreprises by providing access to federal funds, mentoring, and business plan development.



TELUS COMMUNICATIONS

• Senior Program Manager

  • Jun 2010 - Mar 2011

  Reporting to Director of New Service ExecutionDelivered first instance of a new network supporting fixed-mobile service integrationFulfilled a mandate to divide full scope of network and service development into seven projects considering product development and service forecasts, existing network capacity, systems development timelines, and human resource availabilityManaged team of business analysts and subject matter experts and provided detailed status reports to steering teams

• Consulting Analyst

  • Jun 2009 - Jun 2010

  Reporting to Manager of New Business Service ExecutionContributed to on-time, on-budget project delivery by leading business requirements workshops for systems and processes with operational and systems subject matter expertsPartnered with IT development and systems architects to develop technical requirements and subsequently project manage all aspects of new service introductions. Delivered budget and human resource impacts for launch of wireless E911 and co-developed processes for new integrated planning and maintenance processes involving internal and external resources



Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto

• MBA Graduate

  • Jul 2007 - Jun 2009

  Two-year educational leave for an MBA specializing in Finance and Strategy.Included electives in Corporate Finance, Corporate Strategy, Financial Management, Mergers and Acquisitions, Organization Design, Narrative and Management, Strategic Change and Implementation, Options and Futures Markets, and Environmental Finance. Two-year educational leave for an MBA specializing in Finance and Strategy.Included electives in Corporate Finance, Corporate Strategy, Financial Management, Mergers and Acquisitions, Organization Design, Narrative and Management, Strategic Change and Implementation, Options and Futures Markets, and Environmental Finance.



TELUS Communications

• Consulting Analyst

  • Oct 2006 - Jul 2007

  Reporting to Director of Consumer Market Operational ReadinessLed operational teams in the introduction of new technologies; Ethernet-to-the-Suite, and GPON (fibre-to-the-home) for subdivisions. Initiatives had combined budgets over $12M.Delivered Ethernet solution on time and on budge four months before the previously mandated first implementation, as an accelerated requested by the executive team in response to real estate boom. TELUS now has over 800 buildings served by this solution.Developed operating processes and business requirements with IT architecture to provide automation support to operations for GPON trial with network operations and service delivery and consumer marketing to support roughly 4000 homes.Partnered with Consumer Marketing forecasting prime to develop network and service evolution strategies for various technology and service evolution paths.Developed procedure and tool to evaluate the potential of existing copper network to support further generations of technology. TELUS made $300 million investment in VDSL2 in lieu of a more aggressive GPON rollout.

• Network Planning Manager

  • Jan 2003 - Sep 2006

  Reporting to Manager of Access Network Planning, AB NorthPlanned upgrade of SW Edmonton network with new technology to provide full coverage for TELUS IPTV and services requiring investment of approximately $25 millionPlanned telecommunications infrastructure in new residential subdivisions in SW Edmonton to support new services totaling approximately $20 million; worked with developers to negotiate easements and rights-of-way in new residential constructionPartnered with Technology Strategy and on new technology purchase agreements and forecast volumes and schedules for delivery of network elements and cabling that involved negotiations with vendors on multi-year agreements totaling in excess of $200 MCreated bottom-up budgeting for investment to be rationalized with corporate views and administered database that captured funding requestsNegotiated cost sharing with municipal and provincial governments and large corporate clients for work by TELUS at their requestEngineer- in-Training