With two partners, started the Canadian operation of a U.S. professional services company that focuses on corporate strategic software initiatives. Played a leading role in several client projects, as Senior Project Manager and Client Manager.

For an international “virtual bank”, led a project within the Credit Risk Management group to implement a software product to auto-adjudicates consumer credit and mortgage applications. Acted as primary contact to the vendor, and to the internal IT group, ensuring that business requirements were clearly defined, communicated and understood by all parties.

For a department of the Canadian Federal government that provides executive and management training throughout the public sector, managed a project to provide web-based registration.

For a national provider of outsourced computer operations, developed a detailed process definition, and an XML data model, for the safe and efficient migration of new and updated application software into the Production environment.

For a Canadian investment firm, developed an application to manage high value investment accounts, greatly streamlining the process by which a large customer recorded and managed trading accounts.

For an industry leader in the provision of Six Sigma services and tools, acted as Project Manager in the development and delivery of a major new software product, heading a team of approximately 15 professionals distributed across 5 international locations.

Probably the worst experience of my professional life. I had been pulled in as a "fix the problems" PM, but I realized the full extent and cause of the problems way too late. I still have the scars.

For this Canadian-based international professional services company, assumed the newly created position of Vice President, Consulting, when NAME grew to the point that it needed a more formal management structure. Heading a team of 250 professionals across 4 Canadian and U.S. locations, he defined and implemented a company-wide Consulting Management organization, a performance planning and management program, a compensation plan combining fixed and variable performance-based components, and instituted several other initiatives for attracting, motivating and retaining top professionals.

For Memestreams Inc., an ePerformance company based in San Francisco, acted as Project Manager with a team of 8 to 10 developers. The team designed and implemented a suite of performance enhancement tools, using Vignette’s StoryServer, and making innovative use of XML. The project succeeded under heavy time pressures, and the challenges of a geographically distributed team.

For Prentice Hall Inc.,Managed a project to develop its “Virtual Book Fair”. This application allows sales and marketing people to easily define web sites sharply tailored to individual college professors and department heads. Example. Each site lists the actual courses being taught in the department, and recommends specific Pearson titles for use in each course. StoryServer was the main technology, with the application closely integrated to 2 major Oracle databases.

For Pearson Higher Education, Project Manager for the development of several StoryServer-based web sites for Pearson Higher Education.

For Vignette Corporation, on short notice, learned Vignette’s StoryServer product, and its StoryServer 101 public training course. Then delivered that course to several Vignette customers, receiving very positive reviews

Also for Vignette, as Software Architect, designed the Application Program Interface (API) between StoryServer and Microsoft’s Site Server, Commerce Edition.

For CompTrac Compensation Tracking Systems Inc, acted as Chief technologist and lead software developer from October, 1997 to January, 2000. Designed and implemented 2 key desktop software packages. Led development of the corporate web site and an Internet-based data gathering application used by CompTrac subscribers

For J.T. Stewart & Associates Inc., was responsible for development and support of Career.Max, a web-based self-assessment tool that provides guidance on course selection, career development and job related choices. It is aimed at secondary school students, community college students, university students, employees, corporations and businesses, and was deployed by a large Ontario school board

For Canadian Tire Corporation, led the design and implementation of an Intranet-based skills inventory application, through which employees assess their own skills against job requirements, and managers obtain up-to-date information for resource planning, development and deployment

For the Vice-President, I.S. People and Processes at Manulife Financial, took two software development projects from Requirements through Deployment. Deliverables included desktop software, database design, user and system documentation, and extensive process support software

For an Internet Banking Technology Company, reporting to the Vice President, Architecture, developed a “Messaging Framework” for an online financial services system. The messaging framework defines how user behaviour is monitored and analyzed to support the delivery of highly individualized information, advertising and other elements of the online experience

For Practical Systems Inc., a systems integration and development company, acted as technology researcher, developing prototypes based on new technologies, and making recommendations for future directions

Complex Project Management

Application & Product Software Development

Product QA, Release & Configuration Management

Functional Architecture

Requirements Analysis

Content Management

Business & Process Analysis

Training Development & Delivery

Object Oriented Analysis & Design

Application Environments

Microsoft ASP, COM

J2EE

Vignette V/5

Database

Microsoft SQL Server

IBM DB2 UDB

Operating Systems

Windows NT/2000/XP

Programming Languages

Java, Visual Basic

Smalltalk, C++

Scripting Languages

HTML, DHTML

Javascript, VBScript

Tcl, ASP, JSP, SQL, CSS, DHTML,

XML, XSLT

Enterprise Architect at a large Canadian financial institution, designing and deploying innovative electronic banking technology for a “virtual bank”.

IBM was quite happy to collect the money for all the wasted useless hours I billed, but I was frustrated and disgusted. I quit.
Eventually, this became President's Choice Financial. Success, I guess.

Software Architect for a large Canadian bank; developed and implemented a strategy for Object Oriented (OO) development tools. Designed, built and deployed integrated CASE tools, and a complementary repository, to meet both management and developer needs. The tools provide no-overhead support of the bank's unique OO methodology, maintain relationships and consistency among design and code deliverables, and generate key metrics.

Leader of large multidisciplinary international team developing tools for distributed DB/2 administration. Worked with software, human factors, graphics design, marketing, publications, service and technology professionals to define requirements, explore alternatives, and validate the final design. Then led team in the development of a Java intranet implementation.

Project Manager for a team of 10 professionals developing a set of advanced OO tools for C++ programming.

Originated the concept of Business Object, extending the benefits of object orientation to end users, opening new ways of applying technology to real world activities.

Provided in depth sales and implementation support, ensuring success of critical reference accounts.

Led important client projects for a commercial bank and a large American general insurance company.

Email

roger@jrtsoftware.ca

Cell Phone

(416) 917-1309

Home Phone

(416) 247-1309

Address

57 Yorkleigh Ave

Toronto ON

Canada

M9P 1Y3