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Avengers and Star Trek-Inspired Quantum AI Blockchain Tech Developer | Project Champion
Defence Department Top Secret Classification Nuclear Systems Canadian Space Agency National Security (Counter-Terrorism) Municipal Volunteer of the Year Cybersecurity specialist and pioneer in quantum (nature) + AI (intelligence) + blockchain (truth) as an emerging technology framework to unite society. Here is an example of quantum + AI + blockchain. WEALTH MANAGEMENT Start-up CTO of PriceMetrix acquired by McKinsey. McKinsey claims the econophysics software tracks $6 trillion in investment assets. This project was Phase II of my University of Waterloo math faculty master project: The Ethical AI. ADVANCING YOUTH Imagine an 80s Saturday morning inspired Superhero Technology Factory. Quantum Qid Foundation is a superhero-inspired tech school teaching children about quantum computing, AI, and blockchain through Industry 4.0 advanced manufacturing projects. With red-carpet flair and a Star Trek sense of optimism, government, industry, and youth collaborate in public-private partnership (P3) projects to address UN 17 Sustainable Development Goals. A project example is the York Region Smart Traffic Light (Vision Zero) pilot at STL Richmond Hill high school. This initiative extends the award-winning Richmond Hill Road Watch program, for which I am proud to be a founding member as the media prime and sponsor. COMMUNITY CAMPAIGN MANAGER Co-founding organizer of the RBC Rogers Centre Legends of Cricket Live India vs. Pakistan 2007 Heart and Stroke Peace Match. This event, attended by 10,000 fans (7,500 paid tickets + 2,500 volunteer students), raised $75K for the Heart and Stroke Foundation, focusing on South-Asian health and fostering a stronger relationship between RBC and the South Asian community.
Project Management Institute
PMP 2005, expired 2008
January 1, 2005 – January 1, 2005
Toastmasters International
Competent Communicator Certification
January 1, 2001 – January 1, 2001
University of Waterloo
Bachelor of Mathematics, Mathematics
January 1, 1985 – January 1, 1989
Trab Training Inc.
CTT+ Train the Trainer
N/A – Present
Senator O'Connor College School
High School, Mathematics and Computer Science
N/A – Present
manucan
Chief Technology Officer
November 1, 2023 – Present
Ontario, Canada
Dark Star Quantum Lab
Co-founder, Chair, COO
December 1, 2020 – Present
Greater Toronto Area, Canada
The Staffing Exchange Inc.
Business Developer / Project Manager
October 1, 2019 – April 1, 2023
Toronto, Canada Area
Ahura A.I.
Board Advisor
January 1, 2019 – January 1, 2020
Toronto, Canada Area
TELUS
Sr. Project Manager
May 1, 2017 – October 1, 2017
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Rogers Communications
Project Manager
July 1, 2014 – May 1, 2015
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Maple Leaf Foods Inc
Sr. Project Manager
March 1, 2012 – July 1, 2013
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Bay3000 Consulting Inc.
Project Management Advisor
January 1, 2008 – Present
Toronto Club Photography
Founder and Director of Photography
January 1, 2008 – Present
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Everus Communications Inc.
Director of PMO
June 1, 2006 – June 1, 2008
Waterloo, Canada
PriceMetrix - Part of McKinsey & Company
Startup CTO / R&D Advisor / Project Manager
January 1, 2000 – January 1, 2008
Toronto, Canada Area
Computer Trainers Network
President / Board of Directors (1997-2003)
January 1, 1999 – January 1, 2003
Toronto, Canada Area
Packaging Corporation of America
Software Developer
January 1, 1994 – January 1, 2000
Greater Toronto Area, Canada
Intelligent Market Solutions Group
Founder
January 1, 1989 – Present
Toronto, Canada Area
Environment and Climate Change Canada
Project Manager
January 1, 1989 – January 1, 1993
IBM
Marketing Specialist
January 1, 1986 – January 1, 1987
Toronto, Canada Area
Rogers Ignite Sr. Project Manager
January 1, 2014 – July 1, 2015
Provide * HR department Organizational Change Management PMO for 10 B2B and B2C services including Rogers Ignite Internet, Office 365 Skype for Business, and Internet of Things (IOT) Smart Business Monitoring security deployed nation wide across 28K+ learners and partners for customer consumption. * Brought multi-disciplinary cross-functional teams together: Marketing, Product Development, Customer Care, Sales, IT, E-Commerce, Engineering, Network, Finance, Legal, Regulatory, and 3rd party vendors. * Process improvement through project capacity development and automation (Lean Six Sigma). * Coached and mentored team of Project Managers, raising standards in project execution. * Managed a portfolio of 10 project managers for corporate (e.g. Microsoft cloud telco integration) and retail (e.g. Rogers Ignite internet) for Canada-wide launch * Promote a learning environment where PMs develop skills, knowledge, and expertise * Develop a high performing, highly motivated, and engaged team of PMs * Create a skills development road-map and competency model to support evolving business needs, for soft and technical skills * Provides advice and direction on application of PM practices * Work closely with Account Managers/Delivery Managers to develop PMs across projects * Implemented a mini-EPM system to forecast supply against demand and map demand to resource fulfillment, putting in place remediation plans to manage skill gap * Fostered an 'internal consulting culture' resulting in cost and time savings removing roadblocks * PMI liaison providing PMP training
Maple Leaf Foods, Sr. PM
March 1, 2012 – July 1, 2013
Maple Leaf Foods Inc Mar 2012 – Jul 2013 Employment (1 yr 5 m) Mississauga Mitigated $4B annual revenue "transformation" risk while eliminating 15% re-work per work stream, implementing $500M Lean Six Sigma Enterprise Transformation Program Management Office "mini-EPM" Microsoft tool and process improvement method, reporting to Corp Engineering VP. Process improvement innovations: * Visual end-to-end inter-work stream process mapping * KPI auditing system creating visual awareness for executives * Real-time cross-functional project collision visibility by deploying MS Project Server 2010 * Integrated board playbook expectations into 100 projects across functional work streams * Increased project management maturity of cross functional work streams: Commissioning, Engineering, IT (SAP install), HR (High Performance Teams), Supply Chain, etc. * Developed and fostered a PMI integrated Lean Six Sigma community, running PMP sessions resulting in certified PMs while achieving LSS belts * Negotiated Microsoft Canada and British Government (PRINCE2) support for the Lean Six Sigma Centre of Excellence Mitigated corporate risk by interfacing ERP (SAP) with EPM (Project Server) through: 1.) Creating the EPMO, 2.) Creating the MS Project schedules (>50 up to 10,000 lines long), 3.) Inter-link all schedules, 4.) Manage SAP resources, and 5.) Re-coded legacy data interfaces.
2011-2013 York Regional Police Business Plan
January 1, 2010 – January 1, 2013
At the request of York Regional Police provided support for the 2011-2013 York Regional Police Business Plan. Pre-publish support included interfacing with town committee, citizenship and media to provide input. Post-publish support includes initiating programs through Police Service Board Meetings working with command, media, local council, and citizenship groups. Programs come under the umbrella of Social Enterprise Project Management as a corporate citizenship approach to health, and safety to create prosperity. http://yrpsb.ca/Business-Plan.htm
Everus High Speed Internet
May 1, 2008 – November 1, 2009
As PMO Director led the winning bids for $1M contracts with County of Grey and Dufferin. Led Microsoft OSS/BSS wireless telco tower grid development into an experimental far-field wireless power transmission grid (smart micro grid).
Town of Calendon Mayfield West
January 1, 2008 – January 1, 2008
Reduced risk and accelerated development of Town of Calendon Mayfield West by creating their Microsoft Project Project Management Office (PMO) which linked to council.
Symcor EPMO
January 1, 2007 – January 1, 2008
Resolved Symcor's EPMO scheduling bottleneck resulting in a consolidated view executed to plan for the integration of end-to-end multi-bank data-flow supporting 48M customers. Enhanced EPMO: • Created MSP templates to evolve the PMLC integrating SDLC with Agile and Lean. • Trained all (100) Portfolio, Program and Project Managers. • Provided PgMP designation training to leverage program benefit realization. • Provided Project Portfolio Management tool preparation for ChangePoint and Oracle Enterprise tools. • Designed multi-project master roll-up mechanism for single $100M+ consolidated view of all project assigned to create a single functional master plan as a mini-EPM with MS Project Standard, scripts and SharePoint.
RBC Rogers Centre Legends of Cricket Live 2007
January 1, 2007 – January 1, 2007
Co-created RBC Legends of Cricket Live 2007 event at the Rogers Centre in support of Heart and Stroke Ontario. http://www.nationalpost.com/news/toronto/story.html?id=6e525c8d-ed6e-4525-bf9c-f5ba6d88b6f1
Bank of Jamaica Wealth Management IT PMO
August 1, 2005 – August 1, 2006
Establish the Bank of Jamaica's IT PMO by linking core projects to wealth management bank goals, for example managing the interest rate.
PMP & PgMP Certification
January 1, 2005 – Present
Provide PMP Certification training, pre-exam support, and post-exam support. The post-exam support is interfaced into live projects in preparation of the PgMP, by creating a live mini-EPMO through Microsoft Project Standard. First round of authorized PgMP Certification prep Instructors world-wide in 2008 as per www.pmi.org.
CapGemini EPMO Project Management and Training for OPG
November 1, 2003 – April 1, 2004
CapGemini EPMO Project Management and Training for OPG CapGemini purchased Ontario Power Generation's IT department (New Horizons) and required capacity development to take on projects without risking daily $M late delivery penalty. Solution was to augment SAP Primavera EPMO with MS Project Server for 1,400 user base. Excepts from letter of recommendation: Dave D'Silva consistently exceeded expectations. Dave came in prior to our installation of MS Project Server and is assisting us with the migration of hundreds of project managers. Dave excelled at a number of roles, which are usually split amongst several experts. This rare combination in addition to his unique personality gave us what we needed to succeed: 1. Change Management / PMO Consultant 2. Technical Consultant 3. Technical Writer 4. Instructor 5. Project Lead As a Change Management consultant, Dave added great value. This included how we could potentially share information with our client through OLAP cubes and integrate our SAP financials. As a Technical Consultant, Dave advised and assisted us in the design and customization of both the Production and Training Server environments based on our business requirements and future needs. As a Technical Writer, Dave created a 100+ page manual for the three-day course. The course was solidified during a 3 day Pilot Training exercise which Dave successfully facilitated, basically on-the-fly. As an Instructor, Dave managed to flip a negative mood (fear, resistance) into a positive environment. Dave delivered on time and budget and far exceeded our expectations of skills transferred. Dave performed marketing on our behalf that we couldn't do for ourselves and raised our profile within the community. As a result of Dave's efforts, we got the project right the first time. Douglas Fry Project Delivery Group Toronto Service Delivery Centre An affiliate of Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Inc. Inergi email: douglas.fry@inergi.ca NHSS email: doug.fry@torsdc.ca
Microsoft Canada Official Enterprise Project Visio Boot Camp
January 1, 2002 – Present
Authored Microsoft Canada Official Enterprise Project Visio Boot Camp Upgrading the course from stand-alone to Enterprise required integrating SharePoint. The Microsoft Project course was mapped to the PMI mirrored at Project World. The Microsoft Visio course was mapped to Business Anlaysis and mirrored at the Business Analyst segment of Project World. Developed the mini-EPM as an integration tool for the two courses as a means of helping the PMI develop Enterprise Project Management Office (EPMO) related to PMI certifications: • Project Management Professional (PMP)® • Program Management Professional (PgMP)® • PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)® • PMI Risk Management Professional (PMI-RMP)® • PMI Scheduling Professional (PMI-SP)® Microsoft Canada used the course for several years to gain customer feedback with Microsoft Enterprise Project Management (EPM). This course evolved into http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/Course.aspx?ID=50558A&Locale=en-us.
Revenue Project Management (RPM)
March 1, 2000 – Present
RPM is an award winning social enterprise program management method to achieve business objectives by engaging cultural values. RPM creates Centre of Excellence deploying Lean Six Sigma. RPM integrates Revenue Management with Project Management. RPM supports business mission measures of success to improve business performance. RPM integrates strategic objectives, business goals, financial accounting, policies, standards, processes, guidance, tools, techniques and domain expertise to drive continuous improvement (www.soc.pmi.on.ca/cde.cfm?event=229127). RPM is built on PMI best practices, naturally integrating value of: • PMI Project Management Professional (PMP)® • PMI Program Management Professional (PgMP)® • PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)® • PMI Risk Management Professional (PMI-RMP)® • PMI Scheduling Professional (PMI-SP)® • Portfolio Project Management Professional (unreleased designation) • Enterprise Project Management Professional (unreleased designation) RPM builds cross-discipline leadership to manage project and operational work. RPM incorporates business intelligence into process management. RPM causes ability to think outside-the-box and deal with novel problems involving multiple facets and variables in non-standardized situations (borrowing from Toyota's "Lean" best practices). RPM incorporates cross-industry best practices. RPM manifests intended design. RPM integrates leading software tools across multi-vendors, for example Microsoft integration includes MS Project, SharePoint, Dynamics GP, and CRM. (See http://web.archive.org/web/20110202094847/http://gridpointpm.com).
PriceMetrix ValueOne software
March 1, 2000 – January 1, 2008
Wrote software launching PriceMetrix' flagship ValueOne Program.
Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada
January 1, 2000 – Present
Provided project management support on the Continuing Education Tracking system to assist industry self-regulation though the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC) formally Investment Dealers Association (IDA).
PriceMetrix SR&ED Tax Credit
January 1, 2000 – Present
Result $1M+ funding Initiated and managed PriceMetrix Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SR&ED) tax credit. Articulated 8 core technologies like an advanced form of xRM resulting in Client Revenue Management.
Cultural Fit Analysis
The candidate's project diversity spans telecommunications, food manufacturing, financial services, government, and technology startups, indicating adaptability. Their involvement in social enterprise and quantum computing for social impact suggests a value-driven approach. The target role of Chief Technology Officer aligns with their past CTO/R&D Advisor roles and their current involvement in advanced technology firms. However, the projects are heavily focused on project/program management and less on deep technical architecture or software engineering leadership, which might be a gap for a CTO role in a highly technical product-driven company.
Soft Skills & Operational Fit
The candidate demonstrates strong leadership, mentorship, and change management capabilities through various project descriptions. Their experience in training, coaching, and fostering learning environments suggests a collaborative and development-oriented operational fit. The ability to bring together multi-disciplinary teams and negotiate support indicates strong interpersonal and communication skills. However, the provided data does not include specific psychometric test results to fully assess work attitude, stress handling, or team collaboration beyond what can be inferred from project descriptions.