Experience

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  Canada revenue agency - agence du revenu du canada

  Jan 1990 - Jan 1996

  It business analyst
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  Union gas

  Jan 1996 - Jan 1999

  It business consultant
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  Bmo financial group

  Mar 2001 - now

  • Co-jointly oversee annual operational budget of $60MM with a complement of 730 FTE comprised of contractors and staff servicing ~ 4MM sqf portfolio comprised of Uptime Certified Tier III and IV data centers, trade floors, call centers, and key executive environments.• Lead financial analysis and business case modeling and development for critical facility infrastructures investments, co-lo evaluations, and critical facility operations outsourcing in preparation for senior executive and/or Board of Directors’ review – scale up to $200MM.• Re-engineer key operational processes ensuring integration of operational and governance requirements across the portfolio and alignment with or exceeding industry best practices.• Focal point for providing direction for managing corporate compliance, internal audit, supplier sourcing (RFI, RFP) and contract review, financial controls, capital funding approval, facility threat risk assessments, and asset management.• Oversee CRE’s Business Continuity Planning program and create catastrophic disaster scenario evaluations for critical facilities to satisfy regulatory requirements.• Oversee facility capacity/availability measurement capabilities to meet division’s mandate, inform investment decisions, demonstrate value for money for business units, and satisfy regulatory risk reporting.• Lead review and development of administrative technology solutions.• Co-developed facility consolidation strategy to significantly reduce operating costs while reducing organizational risk - approx. $20MM run-rate savings. Show less • Provided financial oversight and governance to single largest program (Operational Resiliency Program - ORP) undertaken in Bank’s history – Certified Tier IV Data Center and resilient computing operations – which has been repeatedly recognized as an outstanding success internationally by both private enterprise, financial and IT industry observers, and government regulators.• Re-engineered financial processes and tools to enable fully integrated multi-stream project financial control from procurement, approval, forecast, accrual, G/L verification, cost recovery, through to financial reporting. Applied to ORP, it enabled achievement of monthly 1% forecasting accuracy targets, achieved audit requirements, and contributed to program completing on time and under budget. Show less • Developed financial models to evaluate multi-billion $ outsourcing opportunities for Bank’s mainframe, midrange, and server environments enabling senior executives to conclude strategy and achieve savings.• Provided consultation and guidance to program and financial managers and program executives regarding matters of bank policy, financial forecasting, and internal cost recovery, and financial impact potential of executive decisions regarding IT infrastructure deployment sequences.• Led development of three-year strategic plan to evolve IT finance department and enhance its capabilities resulting in increased value delivered by finance organization to business units that it served.• Conducted research into various industry best practices in Finance and IT and led “forensic” cost analysis to identify and make recommendations to senior executive teams to enhance bottom line.• Provided consultation on various issues pertaining to implementation of ITIL Financial model across Enterprise Infrastructure division. Show less

  • Senior Manager, Optimization and Process | Critical Facilities, Corporate Real Estate

    May 2007 - now

  • Program Financial Controller | Finance & Administration, Enterprise Infrastructure

    Apr 2004 - May 2007

  • Senior Financial Manager | Finance & Administration, Enterprise Infrastructure

    Jan 2003 - Mar 2004

  • Senior Manager and Consultant | Business Performance Measurement, Networks & Systems

    Mar 2001 - Jan 2003