CanWel Building Materials Ltd.                                                                         2008-Present

Director, Information Technology

A member of the Senior Management Team resonsible for creating strategic and tactical IT plans, administering IT budget and overseeing 28 staff in the delivery of business applications and infrastructure management.

• Coordinated the selection, purchase and replacement of 3 AS/400 machines running JD Edwards (Oracle) ERP and Warehouse Management Systems (WMS) without service interruption to staff and keeping operating costs neutral.

• Increased EDI transactional relationships with customers and business partners by 30% over the last year, improving ordering and invoice accuracy and reducing administrative costs

• Successfully migrated previously independent 3^rd line of business onto corporate JD Edwards platform

• Reengineered shipping process reducing time to produce BOLs and release full trucks from 1-2 hours down to less than 15 minutes. This reduced overtime requirements and improved truck throughput

• Renegoitated WAN contract with Telecommunicatoins provider saving $180K over 30 months.

• Successfully migrated in-house data centre to outsourced hosted co-location facility, consolidating prior hybrid server infrastructure, improving system availability and mitigating disaster  and downtime risks

• Completed the consolidation of several Novell Groupwise email installations on to company common Lotus Notes email infrastructure, reducing support burden, freeing up server resources and improving communications capabilities.

• Consolidated several Novell Netware and several NT Domain networks onto a single Active Directory structure thereby simplifying security maintenance while strengthing security measures and meeting compliance requirements.

BW Consulting Services                                                                                    2007-2008

Principal (Consultant)

Provide consultative advice, managerial assistance and project management to customers in the planning and management of their IT functions and/or large IT projects.

• Engaged by large Distribution company to oversee and manage their IT function, and help define their long term IT strategy. Responsible for all network, server and phone system infrastructure as well as  the provisioning of all business applications.

• Enagaged by an international Pulp and Paper company to assist with the assessment of their current IT application portfolio and to recommend business process improvements, business application enhancements and new technology acquisitions.

Peer 1 Network, Vancouver, BC                                                                      2006-2007

Chief Information Officer (CIO)

As a member of Executive team, created strategic and tactical IT plans, administered IT budget and oversaw 27 staff in the delivery of business applications and infrastructure management.

• Led team in the development of an integrated inventory, billing, invoicing and customer support application, using .Net based web services, Microsoft BizTalk and Java based user interface.

• Implemented new Corporate VOIP phone system resulting in savings of more than $200K over previously planned PBX upgrade by researching alternative options. Provided many enhanced features, including automatic site failover, distributed call centre support, 4 digit locals across company, and automatic dialing from Outlook.

• Established IT Governance processes and security standards, leading to successful Bill 198 Audit

• Negotiated settlement with software supplier in license dispute, resulting in savings of $100K+.

• Implemented new SAN/Backup software and hardware solution from IBM (Tivoli), which reduced backup times for customers, and allowed Peer 1 to offer new revenue generating backup related services and increase net revenue

• Conducted detailed research into SAS 70 and ISO 27001 industry certification processes, with the goal of retaining existing, and attracting new customers for whom certification is a requirement for their business. Implementation budgeted and planned for next fiscal year.

• Reacquired lapsed Microsoft Gold Partner Status, which opened up new market segments and resulted in a significant increase in revenue and revenue potential.

Envision Financial Credit Union, Vancouver, BC                                        2005-2006

Director, Development and Delivery

Responsible for leading software development team of 34 staff from two partnered Credit Unions, in the delivery of all business related applications, including the core banking system, for both credit unions. Budget $4 Million.

• Conducted Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software evaluation and selection project to replacing aging and obsolete financial systems. Implementation planned for next fiscal yea

• Created PMO structure and Project prioritization process to more effectively align IT projects to business strategy and initiatives, and allocate IT staff

• Developed customer web portal that promoted a new financial services product, and allowed customers to manage their accounts. Application was developed in C# and ASP.NET

• Optimized value in previously implemented Microsoft CRM system by adding customized functionality and increasing staff usage through enhanced training. This resulted in increased product sales by 5% in first year, and increased cross selling opportunities by 15%.

• Streamlined acquisition integration process and reduced support costs for growing insurance business sector, by standardizing insurance software and project templates (Reduction of 1 FTE in support)

Weldwood of Canada Limited / West Fraser Mills Ltd, Vancouver, BC     1983-2005

Director, Information Services (2003-2005)

Reporting to CEO, was responsible for the direction and leadership of 45+ IT professionals in the provision of IT infrastructure and business applications, as well as overseeing IT Governance and $8.5 Million IT annual budget.

• Oversaw the introduction of Enterprise Architecture methodologies and the development of a .Net based Enterprise Integration platform to improve application integration

• Planned and managed the transfer of Data Centre (80+ servers and IBM Mainframe) from Vancouver to Memphis as part of parent company integration plans. Six months later, managed transfer of Data Centre back to Vancouver as part of purchase agreement by West Fraser Mills. In both cases, migration resulted in 100% availability of Servers in less than 36 hours.

• As part of Business Process Redesign project team, oversaw the transition process from commodity based sales business to value added services company. Result was a 5% increase in average margin compared to same sales volume at commodity prices.

Manager, Application Delivery (1997-2003)

Led team of 28 IT professionals in developing/acquiring and delivering technical business solutions in mainframe, client/server and Web environments, to base of 2300+ users.

• Managed project to evaluate and implement Woodlands management system to replace aging systems and standardize across company. Reduced support costs, improved reporting and analytical capabilities and reduced payment discrepancies with logging contractors.

• Managed project to evaluate and implement Mill Maintenance Management system. Aside from improved efficiencies and fewer equipment breakdowns, improved inventory management resulting in $12 million dollars in reduced inventory carrying costs.

Manager, Network Services (1995-1997)

Manager, PC Services (1991-1995)

Systems Consultant à Senior Systems Analyst (1989-1991)

Programmer Analyst à Systems Analyst (1983-1989)

Various companies, Montreal Quebec                                                                  1975-1983