Experience

SOMMS.AI

• Research Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer

  • Jan 2023 - 1 year

  Artificial Music Intelligence for Artists and Enterprises



Spliqs

• Canada
• Software Development

• CEO - Founder

  • Nov 2021 - Dec 2022

  Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada At Spliqs we build B2B and consumer tech with generative music/audio Ai that makes life better. Wellness and creative focus. As CTO of a small company I wear multiple hats, from coding to design, management, product, strategy, analytics, fundraising, SRED, IRAP, etc. • Over 15k users and 1 million minutes of generative audio consumed.

• CTO - Founder

  • Jan 2019 - Oct 2021

  Vancouver, Canada Area



Various

• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Tech Development and Strategy Consultant

  • Jun 2013 - Dec 2022

  North, Central and South America Tech Strategy Advisor and Product Manager with extensive experience in guiding board-level decisions on technology strategies and product roadmaps. Led the development of new products and managed their lifecycle. Successfully managed tech partnerships and maintained a record as a consultant for a business generating over $10 million in revenue. Proven leadership skills in managing remote engineering teams for the design and development of web and mobile applications across various platforms.



Techstars

• Ireland
• Think Tanks

• Alumni - Techstars AI

  • Sep 2019 - Dec 2019

  Montreal, Quebec, Canada My startup Spliqs Intelligent Media was selected as one fo the 10 AI companies to receive funding and mentorship from the leading accelerator.



AS - codename

• CEO - Founder

  • Jan 2017 - Dec 2018

  Canada Business was acquired in 2022. Co-founder. Product Owner of a platform for a smoother online vehicle marketplace experience powered by NLP based AI, giving users full analytics control for better choice making. Ruby on Rails + Postgres, AngularJS, D3js, React Native for iOS and Android.



Spliqs Intelligent Media

• CEO - Founder

  • Sep 2015 - Dec 2018

  Vancouver, Canada Area



BookedWithCasa

• CTO - Founder

  • Jul 2015 - Dec 2016

  Co-founder. Developed a services on demand platform for home services. The project raised $15.5m to purchase a leading competitive platform for integration, the offer was outbid by private equity closing the deal for ~$20m. Javascript / Node.js / MongoDB backend + iOS App.



Simon Fraser University

• Canada
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Assistant

  • May 2012 - Dec 2016

  Vancouver Research Assistant at MAMAS LAB Research focussed on interactive music generation models and the automatic computational analysis and evaluation of Metacreative systems. Developed systems applying machine learning for music generation and analysis.



Telus

• Canada
• Telecommunications
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Data Migration Specialist

  • Jan 2010 - Sep 2011

  Provided services to TELUS for systems conversion projects spanning Business and Residential customers from AB and BC provinces. • Responsible for data reconciliation of legacy and new stack systems in conversions executed in 2010-2011. • Activities encompass all described below for Project Imagine, with a more complete involvement and responsibility. • Also including: Production of complex, automated reports for identifying migration discrepancies impacting final customer… Show more Provided services to TELUS for systems conversion projects spanning Business and Residential customers from AB and BC provinces. • Responsible for data reconciliation of legacy and new stack systems in conversions executed in 2010-2011. • Activities encompass all described below for Project Imagine, with a more complete involvement and responsibility. • Also including: Production of complex, automated reports for identifying migration discrepancies impacting final customer services. • XML Parsing for in-depth reconciliation analysis. • Presentation of variance reports with stakeholders for final Go/No Go decisions. • Working in close collaboration with in-house developers to further optimize and increase quality of the conversion process. Show less

• Data Migrations - Reconciliation Specialist

  • Dec 2007 - Oct 2008

  PROJECT IMAGINE - Development, optimization, automation and execution of reconciliation processes used to calculate variances between legacy and new stack systems in large data migrations. ORACLE Technologies (PL/SQL, SQL, Java). • Development of reconciliation scripts for discovery and analysis of data migration variances. • Providing final analysis to senior stakeholders for Go/No Go migration decisions. • Interpretation and investigation of reconciliation variance for optimization… Show more PROJECT IMAGINE - Development, optimization, automation and execution of reconciliation processes used to calculate variances between legacy and new stack systems in large data migrations. ORACLE Technologies (PL/SQL, SQL, Java). • Development of reconciliation scripts for discovery and analysis of data migration variances. • Providing final analysis to senior stakeholders for Go/No Go migration decisions. • Interpretation and investigation of reconciliation variance for optimization and error correction of conversion processes.  Telus:PROJECT IMAGINE. Lead Reconciliation Analyst for Project Imagine: “1.3 million accounts converted with a variance under $800 on $60 million of AR, being one of the most successful AMDOCS conversions to date.” Show less



Raymond James Ltd.

• Canada
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Associate

  • Dec 2006 - Nov 2007

  Associate, technical specialist carrying out duties such as: • Generation of Access databases, queries and macros for year-end data analysis. • Validation and Reconciliation of Tax Data for submission to CRA/IRS. • Generation of XML files for electronic submittal of slips to CRA. Analysis and correction of Dataphile (Broadridge) generated XML and flat MM files. • Processing and correction of Execlear ACR Tax calculations. • Assisted in the automation of client income tax slip… Show more Associate, technical specialist carrying out duties such as: • Generation of Access databases, queries and macros for year-end data analysis. • Validation and Reconciliation of Tax Data for submission to CRA/IRS. • Generation of XML files for electronic submittal of slips to CRA. Analysis and correction of Dataphile (Broadridge) generated XML and flat MM files. • Processing and correction of Execlear ACR Tax calculations. • Assisted in the automation of client income tax slip generation during tax season. Show less



DMR Consulting

• United Kingdom
• Business Consulting and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Consultant

  • Jun 2004 - Oct 2005

  Buenos Aires Participated in diverse projects involving the analysis, development and maintenance of diverse legacy systems used by Telefonica S.A. for the administration (authentication, authorization and accounting) of internet services offered to over 200,000 clients in Argentina. Responsibilities: Billing team: • Design, development and testing of customized Portal Systems C# and Java modules. • Development, testing and maintenance of ORACLE DB applications (PL/SQL) and UNIX scripts used for… Show more Participated in diverse projects involving the analysis, development and maintenance of diverse legacy systems used by Telefonica S.A. for the administration (authentication, authorization and accounting) of internet services offered to over 200,000 clients in Argentina. Responsibilities: Billing team: • Design, development and testing of customized Portal Systems C# and Java modules. • Development, testing and maintenance of ORACLE DB applications (PL/SQL) and UNIX scripts used for the monthly billing of over 250.000 accounts. Other technical roles: • Optimization of memory management and cueing mechanisms used by Portal Systems modules on UNIX servers for satellite and cable services. • Planning and supervision of Windows2000 – AIX server migrations carried out in multi-stakeholder projects. • Oracle Database maintenance and migrations. • Creation and maintenance of PeopleSoft reporting scripts (SQR). Customer service and business analysis: • Provided Maintenance and support for PeopleSoft's legacy CRM module. • Internal management level customer service provided at the customer’s site. • Active identification of new business solutions for up-selling. • Feasibility analysis of requirements solicited by the customer. Show less



Axialent

• Spain
• Business Consulting and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• System Analyst

  • Jan 2004 - May 2004

  Buenos Aires, Argentina Participated in the start-up of the multinational HR consulting firm supporting internal systems and client-facing tools.