01 · Career
Roles that bridge advisory and ownership.
2025 — present
Granum · SaaS CRMs for Green Industry
AI Data Cloud Architect · Snowflake · dbt · Cortex
In-house platform architecture for the green-industry SaaS company behind LMN, SingleOps and Greenius: governed ingestion, bronze–silver–gold warehousing, stored-procedure ETL/ELT moved onto dbt with CI/CD and data-quality gates, and dbt data pipeline transformation. Also building AI Data Insight, a GenAI chat agent that lets operators ask about their numbers in plain language — jobs, crews, revenue and job costing — with answers grounded in trusted warehouse metrics rather than ad-hoc reports.
2024 — 2025
Rearc · Fortune 100 FinServ Consultancy
Cloud Data Architect · Lead Data Engineer · Tech Presales
Financial-services consultancy serving organizations including Goldman Sachs, Mastercard, Bloomberg and State Street. Built a real-estate GenAI chat agent on AWS Bedrock and the ChatGPT platform, and a SIEM security platform on Databricks.
2021 — 2024
NorthBay Solutions International
Snowflake Practice Director · Principal Solution Architect
Built and led an AWS–Snowflake practice, shaped pursuits, advised executives and remained hands-on through platform delivery.
2021
Cognizant IT Strategy
Associate Director · Enterprise Architecture Advisory
Enterprise cloud, data-platform and architecture advisory across complex client environments.
2020 — 2021
Saks Fifth Avenue · Saks OFF 5TH · Hudson's Bay Company
Director · Enterprise Architect, Cloud Data Platforms
Owned platform direction and data innovation while helping lead a three-data-centre exit to AWS and Snowflake.
2017 — 2020
Deloitte · Omnia AI founding member
Senior Manager · Enterprise Solution Architect
Cloud, data, AI and integration programs; alliance building, technical enablement and executive advisory.
2000 — 2017
Capgemini · formerly Ernst & Young Consulting
Consulting Manager · Enterprise Architect · PMP
Architecture and delivery leadership across financial services, insurance, automotive, manufacturing, retail and utilities.
1998 — 1999
IBM Toronto Lab
Software Research & Development
Early-career product engineering and software R&D on VisualAge for Java IDE: product development testing and NLS internationalization.
02 · Portfolio
Selected programs and initiatives.
Retail · cloud modernization
Three data centres to AWS and Snowflake
Led data conversion delivery for a North American multi-banner retailer: 260 TB, 30+ databases, ~3,000 pipelines, ~4,000 reports and 20+ applications moved in an eight-month window.
- 50+ contributors
- 4 delivery vendors
- $9B retail environment
Manufacturing · SAP
Petabyte-scale conversion across 30+ plants
Led data migration design and delivery across a five-year, three-country SAP program, reconciling hundreds of source feeds per plant and approximately two petabytes of data.
- Schneider Electric
- SAP
- US · Canada · India
HealthTech · SaaS
Multi-tenant data products across AWS, Snowflake and Azure
Architecture, customer-success delivery and hands-on engineering for HIPAA-aware SaaS products, serverless analytics and cross-cloud data integration over multiple releases.
- Inovalon
- AWS · Snowflake
- Product delivery
Applied AI · product
Generative AI from proposal through productization
Designed and delivered customer-journey and persona-driven solutions using AWS Bedrock, RAG, LangChain and OpenAI models, with executive stakeholders involved from pilot framing through testing.
- Real estate tech
- RAG
- Executive advisory
Financial services · advisory
Data-platform strategy, governance and resilience
Current-state assessments, target architectures, platform maturity reviews, cyber-resiliency analysis, cost posture and prioritized roadmaps for banks, insurers and institutional investors.
- BMO
- La Caisse - private equity
- Banking · insurance · PE
Insurance · transformation
Large-scale Guidewire data conversion
Release leadership across requirements, ETL, testing, privacy and rollout for a deeply customized Guidewire implementation, coordinating client teams, contractors, offshore delivery and competing vendors.
- WSIB
- 50+ resources
- Claims transformation
03 · Clients
Where the work has been done.
Selected organizations and sectors represented across consulting, client-side and in-house roles.
Financial services, insurance & private equity
Retail, consumer & e-commerce
Automotive & manufacturing
Technology, healthcare, gaming & nonprofit
Startups & high growth
- National real estate tech
- Green-industry SaaS CRMs
- Travel & loyalty applications
- Private-equity secondary markets
- e-Commerce shops
- AI NLU Facial-recognition products
04 · Capabilities
Strategy through production operations.
Executive advisory
Current-state assessment, target architecture, platform selection, business cases and roadmaps.
Enterprise architecture
Business, application, data, integration, security and technology architecture across complex estates.
Cloud data platforms
AWS, Azure, GCP, Snowflake, Databricks, lakehouse, warehouse and data-product operating models.
Migration & conversion
Data-centre exit, SAP, Guidewire, warehouse, ETL/ELT and large-scale reconciliation programs.
Applied AI
GenAI, RAG, NLP, customer journeys, evaluation and moving prototypes toward supported products.
Practice leadership
Alliances, pre-sales, RFPs, technical enablement, delivery economics, coaching and team building.
05 · Credentials
50+ Certifications across the working stack.
The complete cross-platform inventory is grouped for readability.
AWS 8
- Solutions Architect – Professional
- DevOps Engineer – Professional
- Security – Specialty
- Solutions Architect – Associate
- Machine Learning Engineer – Associate
- AI Practitioner
- Cloud Practitioner
- AWS Community Builder · five years
Microsoft Azure 17
- Azure Solutions Architect Expert
- DevOps Engineer Expert
- Azure Security Engineer Associate
- Azure Data Engineer Associate
- Azure AI Engineer Associate
- Azure Developer Associate
- Azure Data Scientist Associate
- Azure Database Administrator Associate
- Power BI Data Analyst Associate
- Azure Network Engineer Associate
- Azure IoT Developer Specialty
- Cosmos DB Developer Specialty
- Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate
- Azure Fundamentals
- Azure Data Fundamentals
- Azure AI Fundamentals
- Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals
Data platforms 11
- SnowPro Advanced: Architect
- SnowPro Advanced: Data Engineer
- SnowPro Associate: Platform
- SnowPro Core
- Snowflake Sales & Technical Sales
- Snowflake Data Cloud Deployment Framework
- Databricks Data Engineer Professional
- Databricks Data Engineer Associate
- Databricks Generative AI Fundamentals
- Databricks — Data & AI Governance with Unity Catalog
- Databricks — Gen AI & LLM on Databricks
Google · Oracle · IBM · Salesforce 12
- Google Professional Cloud Architect
- Google Professional Data Engineer
- Google Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Architect Professional
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Architect Associate
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Generative AI Professional
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Developer Associate
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Cloud Operations Associate
- Oracle Autonomous Database Cloud Certified Specialist
- IBM Cloud Application Developer
- IBM DB2 certifications
- Salesforce Force.com Platform
Architecture & delivery 4
- Project Management Professional (PMP) · since 2006
- Capgemini Certified Architect · IAF
- TOGAF and enterprise / solution architecture practice
- Alibaba Cloud Associate
06 · Background
Education, community and trust.
Queen's University
B.Sc. (Honours), Computing & Information Science
B.Sc., Life Sciences
Both degrees completed in four years.
Industry leadership
AWS re:Invent PeerTalk Expert · AWS Toronto Summit Speaker - GenAI (opens in a new tab) · AWS Community Builder · Snowflake Squad Member · SnowPro SME · speaker and panelist at cloud, data, AI, retail and architecture events.
Canadian Secret (Level II) security clearanceTransferable, subject to the receiving organization's sponsorship and applicable government requirements.
