Chris Caruk
Senior Director of Solutions at Northern Commerce- Claim this Profile
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Experience
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Northern Commerce
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Canada
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Advertising Services
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100 - 200 Employee
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Senior Director of Solutions
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Feb 2023 - Present
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Senior Solutions Consultant
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Oct 2022 - Feb 2023
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Andrew Peller Limited
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Canada
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Beverage Manufacturing
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400 - 500 Employee
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Information Technology Project Manager
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Nov 2017 - Sep 2022
- Responsible for mid to large sized projects focusing on Digital Experience, OMNI Channel, E-Commerce, Retail POS, Restaurant / Fine Dining POS. - Manage software development lifecycles and release schedules ensuring business requirements are met and delivered on time and on budget - Define strategy and architecture for the e-commerce platform, ensuring successful integration with various technologies while allowing for scalability - Implemented digital solutions on Magento, Salesforce Service Cloud and Marketing Cloud.
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Pivotal Payments
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Canada
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Financial Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Director of Operations
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Jan 2014 - Nov 2017
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Manager, Client Activation Services
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Mar 2005 - Jan 2014
-Accountable for sourcing and negotiating hardware purchases, service contracts, managing inventory and ensuring all service level agreements are met. -Responsible for analyzing current processes, identifying inefficiencies and implementing improvements. -Responsible for expanding current revenue streams and generating new avenues for growth.-Responsible for managing staffing needs and reducing turnover-Responsible for all reporting as it pertains to sales, executives and auditors.-Responsible for managing all logistical needsAchievements-Successfully won business that was outsourced to a third party bringing monthly savings of $30,000. -Renegotiated our hardware contract realizing savings of greater than $20,000 monthly. -Managed and recently completed a lengthy campaign which allowed Pivotal to be the second in Canada to inject secure debit keys for Planet Payments.-Successfully migrated business from a competitor solidifying our location as the primary deployment center. -Acquired and restructured the activation department resulting in a 40% improvement in productivity-Developed the inventory management system currently in use today
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POS Programmer, Tangarine Concepts Corp
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Mar 2003 - Mar 2005
-Responsible for programming point-of-sale equipment prior to deployment -Responsible for new product development and testing -Assisted in creating and managing the systems responsible for managing customer data -Responsible for handling customer service escalations Achievements -Responsible for growing the department from one employee to 5 in the first two years after taking on several new initiatives -Created systems and processes that allowed us to bring all deployments in house generating substantial cost savings -Built strong business relationships with vendors that are still intact today
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Education
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Brock University
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science