Contract Consulting

 

04/2004 - 06/2005

Ontario Government

(iSERV/IPD)

·          Established requirements for and developed an RFP for Vendor of Record for servers

·          Coordinated the evaluation of responses and announcement of the successful Vendor

·          Completed the development of an RFP for Anti-spam software and appliance products and announced the RFP on Merx

·          Completed initial planning and requirements assessment for an RFP for management systems;

·          Developed an RFP for monitoring, discovery and collection of IT inventory

·          Participated in a Utility Data Centre planning committee

03/2003 - 03/2004

Ontario Government (iSERV/eGOV)

·          Project manager and customer liaison for implementation of a server and network infrastructure for enterprise-wide content management, shared portal and Web search systems

·          Supported and advised on the development of business, logical and technical architectures

·          Facilitated the systems planning, design and development processes

11/2002 – 03/2003

Ontario Government (Corporate Security)

·          Researched user and technical requirements for role-based access control and Privilege Management Infrastructure systems

·          Drafted an RFP for the acquisition of corporate-level Privilege Management Infrastructure software

09/2002-10/2002

Groveware Technologies

·          Developed responses to RFPs for a forms management software product

·          Developed marketing and sales collateral

·          Supported the definition of user specifications for forms management software

03/2001-04/2002

Ontario Government (iSERV)

·          Initiated and managed the development of a Service Lifecycle Management Framework and processes

·          Developed Service Descriptions for internal I&IT services

·          Assisted with business process and organizational planning and development

·          Managed a business architecture development project

·          Participated in defining the business case for voice services over the Government Intranet

10/2000-03/2001

Ontario Government (iSERV)

·          Project management and leadership for the development and pilot testing of a Virtual Private Access Network

·          Took the project to implementation stage before the facility was outsourced

10/2000-02/2001

Northland Systems Training

·          Subject matter expert for the development of online courseware in the area of data communications for Bell Nexxia

05/2000-10/2000

Ontario Government (iSERV)

·          Led a team developing an RFP for DNS/DHCP software

02/2000-05/2000

Ontario Government

·          Developed a service catalogue structure and wrote a service description for a large scale directory service based on the ITIL format

03/2000-05/2000

Cisco Press

·          Review and edit of a book on ATM communications standards

1997-1998

Ontario Government (CTS)

·          Led a team of consultants in a review of internal voice and data service costs and pricing models

·          Recommended outsourcing of voice communications services to reduce costs 

1998-1999

Ontario Government (CTS)

·          Wrote an RFP for a large, multi-application IVR service

·          Co-project manager for its successful implementation for multiple applications

1995

Ontario Government (CTS)

·          Review of the GONet architecture and directions

·          Produced a conceptual architecture for the next generation of internal data network

1991-1992

Bell Canada

·          Prepared marketing presentations and responses to RFP's for Cisco router equipment

·          Provided advice and guidance in all aspects of multi-protocol routing networks for the Product Marketing Division

·          Provided support for the roll-out of a re-seller program to re-sell Cisco routers.

Previous Assignment

Highlights

·          Proposed a strategy for a global bank messaging network for the Bank of Nova Scotia

·          Developed an architecture for SNA/OSI interworking for National Library of Canada

·          Performed a study recommending adoption of X/Open XPG/3 and developed strategies for network/system integration of office system for Bell Canada IOS Engineering

·          Provided support and advice in development of IOS products, evaluated product hardware and software and supported the introduction of the product for the IOS Engineering Division of Bell Canada

·          Developed strategies for network/system integration for an office system for Bell Canada IOS Engineering

·          Provided support and guidance to the CAATS (Canadian Air Traffic System) project Office on communications aspects for Transport Canada