About Me
I'm a huge music lover, and after university I created a business plan and secured a government Youth Venture Loan to open an independent record store with two partners. We achieved an 80% inventory turnover rate, and decided to end the business after a year due to falling profit margins.
A year later, I moved to the Cayman Islands where I managed Profit & Loss for three private retail liquor stores and a distribution warehouse, consistently exceeded the stores' gross profit margin targets while increasing inventory by 15%, and learned how to successfully manage business operations.
This was during the 'dot com' days and I became fascinated with the opportunities of using technology to engage with customers on a one-to-one basis. I returned to Canada and landed a Business Development role at a digital agency (Grey Interactive), where I learned how digital applications are built, and how to communicate proposed technical solutions for clients.
I moved into E-commerce product management and business analysis, and gained valuable hands-on experience collaborating with stakeholders and technical teams to define and implement digital solutions and operational processes.
My recent experiences have been focused on digital transformation and data management initiatives for both corporate and non-profit organizations, helping them uniquely understand and communicate with their customers, prospects and constituents.
Strengths include:
Understanding Project Goals: | I'm logical and curious by nature, and ask a lot of questions to fully understand stakeholders' requirements, needs and goals. |
Leadership & Collaboration: | Have a diverse background in leading successful cross-functional teams without direct authority, and can handle stressful situations and urgent deadlines extremely well. |
Research & Analysis: | Experience researching and evaluating technologies, making recommendations, creating business cases and cost/benefit analysees, getting buy-in, and leading the adoption of solutions. |
Data Management: | Collaborated with business and IT teams to organize and maintain data structures and processes to drive efficiencies and continuous service improvements. |
Operations Management: | Process oriented with experience creating standard procedures for administering Content Management Systems and CRM platforms, and managing E-commerce and online Non-profit fundraising operations. |
Skills
Resume
Summary | Education |
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Solutions-driven IT professional, passionate about understanding business needs to deliver project goals with a track record for achieving measurably successful results.
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Honours B.Sc., Mathematics and Physics (double major) Introduction to Microeconomics and Macroeconomics |
Professional Experience | Highlights |
Digital / E-commerce Consultant | RBM Consulting
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2018 - present EuroHome Decor: EuroHome's Alexa site popularity rank has almost tripled (from being ranked 6,678,188 to 2,451,133) since the changes in August, 2019, and as of December 2022 have reached Google's top 10 results for 'wallpaper toronto' searches, which accounts for 77% of all keyword searches that send traffic to their site.
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Junior Associate (Consultant) | S. Sutton & Associates Inc. (a network of nonprofit consultants)
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2019 - 2020 Provided data analytics for the US Green Party. Captured 2018 and 2019 donation metrics to update their rolling 5 year fundraising Key Performance Indicators. Queried the donor database to capture donation metrics and trends, segment donor groups for campaigns, and created interactive visuals for GPUS to explore metrics across donor segments. |
CRM Project Manager / Business Analyst | Doctors Without Borders Canada
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2017 - 2018 (contract) Collaborated with the Program leads and vendors to audit the processes, document change requests and requirements for future enhancements, and created a standardized file format to eliminate vendor specific data processing rules, and produce consistent reports per program.. |
IT Project Manager | Deloitte Canada (formerly Cornerstone Group of Companies)
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2016 - 2017 (contract)
Managed a $1.5M data migration / integration project of Hyundai Canada's vehicles, sales, marketing, and service data into an integrated communications, analytics, and marketing automation CRM application with custom SAS reports, that provided a 360-degree view of their customers and prospects and enabled enterprise wide marketing communications.
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Web Application Architect / Support Analyst | Heart and Stroke Foundation
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2013 - 2016 (contract)
Managed the implementation of 50+ Peer-to-Peer and Special Event fundraising websites per year. Implemented a Duplicate Management module that automatically flagged and/or merged possible duplicate constituent records. 7% of the contact records were duplicates and merged at launch, and an average of 4% of new records per week were merged. Set up and administered the Blackbaud platform's Payment Gateway service and individual Merchant accounts for all national and provincial fundraising programs that reduced the Finance team's reconciliation workload by approximately 65% (5 days to 2 days). |
Digital / E-commerce Business Consultant | RBM Consulting
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2010 - 2013
The overall theme of Showcase Canada - particularly the in-store experience - was of interactivity and entertainment where consumers in a retail environment could "try it before they buy it." The online strategy included: revamping the Showcase website to allow customers to interact with the company and view product demonstrations, facilitate customer generated product demonstration videos, and embed purchase links on social sites to compliment and reinforce the interactivity theme. |
E-commerce Product Catalogue Consultant | Rogers Communications Inc.
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2008 - 2010 (contract)
Created a product catalogue manual and a technical specifications document for the E-Commerce Content and offshore IT Operations teams, and trained both groups to transition the product onboarding operations and application maintenance to the group.
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Hardware Product Marketing Manager | XM Satellite Radio Canada Inc.
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2006 - 2007 (contract)
Managed a $1M annual hardware distribution budget and successfully launched 7 satellite radios over 18 months on budget and schedule. Led the redesign/standardization of product packaging artwork, reducing final production timelines and costs by roughly 30%. Gave product demonstrations at the 2007 Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show and helped secure Belkin as an accessory vendor. |
E-commerce Product Manager / Business Analyst | Rogers Communications Inc.
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1999 - 2006 (contract)
Credited as a driving force behind:
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Portfolio
Here's a few examples of my work, and I welcome the opportunity to discuss my track record and expand upon my skills and experiences with you.
Contact
If you would like more information on how I can help your organization, please feel free to contact me.
I'm available for full-time opportunities, contracts, and freelance projects.