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IT - Information Technology, Accomplishments: • Founded and built Horizon Technologies Limited, a successful 5 person consulting firm in Toronto. Result: Ongoing employment and income support for 5 people including myself • Founded and built a successful Internet based business in Ottawa, Look.com (was primary focus site of numerous), Result: Industry acclaim for, and interest in the work, the results, marketing, partnerships and technology elements. • Learned the Capital Markets banking business, in very short order, by analysing and then creating the software and business processes that developed into the first 2 generations of Capital Market – derivative software systems for CIBC. Result: Our small team of 5 (2 traders, 1 admin, 2 analyst/developers) responsible for 10% of bank’s net profit for the 1st full year of running my software systems. • Pioneered Canada (coast to coast) as a brand new sales territory for 3 different USA based software sales companies. Result: Set records, and in one instance had my single 2-person team replaced with 3x2person teams a year later, reflecting the level of growth achieved • While in University, full time, saw an opportunity not to be missed, and founded a company. A hardware manufacturer, importor, sales and service business. Result: Grossed $120,000 in my last year at UofT. • Created and over saw, a complete automation project of a manufacturing facility for children’s orthotics. Self-Learned the business, analysed, then programmed and sub-contracted over 5 years. It was a multi-generational project to place computers at every level of manufacturing, accounting and client service. Result: Office of 3 professionals 5 support staff, all Computer Novices were placed into a fully computerized environment and were not required to know much about computers, staying focused on their expertise. • As 1 of 2 private contractors to complete all elements of a mainframe elimination project. Identified and meet all the requirements, and despite the magnitude of: the schedule, future functionality of the replacement system, and budget, we were on time and on budget. A true rabbit from the hat. Result: Meet and exceeded customer's needs, enhanced reputation leading to increaased consulting demand for HTL.. • Project Head for an International multi-lingual development team. Completed 3 platform integrations for an AI system where one integration was planned. Result: Outstanding product released which saw European success and acceptence. • Negotiated separate but concurrent contracts with Overture and Google, so that our site www.look.com was for some time, and likely was "the only" web site on the planet, to have both services on a single site concurrently. Result: Substantially increased daily revenue. • Negotiated a contract with Outblaze, of Hong Kong, a large independent email service provider, so that our company was the first to partner with them, without having to pay any startup cost, an all profit sharing deal. Result: Look.com got another marketing tool and revenue source for free upfront and ongoing! |
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