AI-Driven Technology Leader with 20+ years transforming financial services through DevOps innovation, agentic AI automation, and enterprise-scale platform engineering.
Milton, Ontario
Two decades building and leading technology teams in one of Canada's largest financial institutions — delivering measurable outcomes at every level.
The most AI-forward role of my career. Led enterprise-wide SCM and Change Planning for CIBC's Client Servicing Technology portfolio — 45 applications, 9 direct reports across 2 teams, and a $1.3M software budget. Embedded AI automation directly into how software was governed and delivered.
Six years managing two high-performing teams — 8 DevOps engineers and a dedicated Change Planning function — responsible for CI/CD pipeline operations and production change governance across 45 applications. This is where I introduced AI-driven automation into CIBC's delivery fabric.
Owned Performance Testing Services demand management and roadmap — introducing cloud-based testing strategies and continuous improvement that dramatically accelerated throughput.
Supported the Compass/AIM program across 5 business portfolios, managing environment lifecycles across 3 concurrent releases with improved delivery accuracy.
Managed a team of 9 supporting development and QA for Retail Branch applications — $800K budget, 4 major releases annually. Received the CIBC Achiever Award for leadership and innovation.
Led Retail Branch Technology with $1M capital budgets. Honoured as Mentor of the Year in 2006 — two direct reports subsequently received the CIBC President's Annual Achiever Award.
Built my technical foundation at one of Canada's most storied technology companies. Recipient of the Nortel President's Award of Excellence — the company's highest recognition for technical achievement.
The platforms, tools, and disciplines I use to deliver — from enterprise DevOps governance to full-stack products designed, built, and self-hosted end-to-end.
A working portfolio of products, platforms, and client sites I design, build, and self-host end-to-end through ThinkTrail Solutions — from patent-pending live-event tech to AI tools, e-commerce, games, and audio software, all running on infrastructure I built and administer.
A real-time crowd display platform I invented and am building from scratch. Live Canvas transforms every smartphone in a live venue into a single coordinated pixel — driven by MIDI signals and synchronized to music in real time. Imagine stadium-scale light shows owned by the crowd, not the venue. The engineering challenge: sub-20ms synchronization across 100,000+ simultaneous WebSocket connections. Patent pending.
Visit project →A portfolio-level project status & risk tracker — "RiskLens" — that gives visibility across an entire program and its partner network. Role-based dashboards serve administrators, executives, and external partner firms, each seeing exactly the projects and risk signals relevant to them across a multi-organization consulting ecosystem.
A personal AI job-search assistant. An account-based, mobile-first web app that helps job-seekers organize, track, and accelerate their search — bringing agentic AI to one of the most stressful workflows there is.
A daily learning & growth platform — "Where your path begins each day." A personal-development hub with secure accounts and a habit-forming daily structure, doubling as the home for my own development diary written straight from Claude Desktop via a custom MCP integration.
An AI wildlife-camera archive that auto-catalogues footage from a smart bird feeder — 3,500+ clips with species detection (cardinals, sparrows, squirrels), date-based navigation, and search. Wired into my Home Assistant setup, it turns everyday backyard nature into a searchable, sustainably-run digital record.
A browser-based, first-person 3D multiplayer shooter that reimagines Williams' 1981 arcade classic Defender for the modern web. Arcade, co-op, and competitive modes, keyboard or gamepad control, shareable host codes, and a Hall of Fame leaderboard — all rendered in real time in the browser.
A real-time multiplayer word game where 2–4 friends share a room and go head-to-head, drafting letters onto their own 5×5 grids in a race to build the highest-scoring words before the clock runs out — all in the browser, no download, seamless across phone and desktop. Live opponent boards, a colour-coded countdown, emoji avatars, and a slick dark/light interface turn the humble word game into a fast, social, edge-of-your-seat showdown. Deliberately kept simple: a zero-build vanilla-JS frontend on an in-memory server with no database.
An AI-powered music trivia game built on the OpenClaw platform. Players face dynamically generated questions spanning genres, eras, and artists — all orchestrated through Claude-based agentic workflows. A live demonstration of how AI can power engaging, replayable consumer experiences with zero static content.
A website quality-audit portal, operated under ThinkTrail Solutions, that grades sites on performance, accessibility, SEO, and best-practice compliance — the same standards I hold every one of my own builds to before it goes live.
A self-hosted OpenClaw agentic AI server I run and administer on Debian Linux, extended to a community of AI-enthusiast friends and family. A hands-on environment for agentic orchestration, token optimization, and model-selection strategy — actively integrated with Home Assistant to give real intelligence to the physical environment.
Custom athletic apparel featuring an athlete's photo on the front — for the supporters who show up to every game. AI background removal, a live customizer, emailed proofs within a business day, flexible sizing, and bulk discounts. Co-developed with Daniel Medina Lopez.
The sister storefront to GOAT'eez, with a deliberately different look and feel — AI-powered custom team tees for schools, leagues, and fundraisers across Canada and the USA. Six sports supported, tiered pricing down to $18/shirt, and a built-in fundraiser storefront.
A professional site for a Cambridge, ON auto-detailing business — interior/exterior detailing, ceramic coating, and mobile service, with a before-and-after gallery, testimonials, and online booking.
Visit site →A landscaping & home-beautification site for a Cambridge-area business operating since 2013 — service breakdowns, a before-and-after project portfolio, and a prominent free-estimate call-to-action.
Visit site →A polished brochure site for a Toronto executive-coaching practice led by an ICF-credentialed coach — communicating the firm's philosophy, services, and engagement approach with a calm, confident voice.
Visit site →A warm, mouth-watering one-page site capturing the soul of a Milton family kitchen — an immersive hero, a "made-from-scratch since 2011" story, a gallery of homemade favourites, glowing 4.7★ Google reviews, and an embedded map, all wrapped in a rich terracotta-and-gold Italian palette. Thoughtfully accessible, it turns every scroll into a friendly "come sit at our table" invitation, with call-to-order and get-directions buttons never more than a tap away.
Visit site →A faithful software resurrection of the Roland Juno-106 — a six-voice VST3/AU plugin that recreates the legendary 1984 analogue polysynth's full signal path (PolyBLEP oscillators, sub, noise, a 24 dB ladder filter, delayed LFO, ADSR, and stereo chorus), right down to the complete original 128 factory patches decoded from Roland's own SysEx data. It even goes one better than the hardware, adding a Juno-6/60-style tempo-syncable arpeggiator and buttery hover-to-scroll mouse-wheel control on every fader and switch — so the classic '80s sound is finally at your fingertips inside Studio One.
Ask about it →A faithful software recreation of the legendary Roland Jupiter-8 — a JUCE-powered virtual instrument that brings the warmth and grit of that iconic 1980s analog synth to your DAW, complete with the full front panel, arpeggiator, 16 factory presets, and an 88-key playable interface. Engineered to run natively as a Standalone app, VST3, and AU plugin — and lovingly cross-built to keep a vintage Intel Mac and Studio One 4 rig singing — it delivers classic Jupiter tone without the six-figure vintage price tag.
Ask about it →A sight-reading trainer that challenges players to identify 20 notes as fast as possible — treble, bass, or both, with easy and hard modes and per-session accuracy tracking. A lean, focused tool for sharpening sheet-reading reflexes.
Start training →Scrabble Buddy borrows the relentless discipline of the chess clock and brings it to the tile table for the very first time — a sleek, up-to-four-player timer that tracks every player's thinking time independently and keeps even the most leisurely word-hunters honest. It adds a thrilling new dimension of pace and pressure to an 80-year-old classic, turning slow, sprawling Scrabble sessions into tight, competitive contests where managing your clock becomes as strategic as managing your tiles.
Ask about it →IMPACT is a sleek, offline-first Windows desktop app that turns messy strategic guesswork into clear, defensible decisions — score every initiative across six dimensions (Impact, Measure, People, Align, Complexity, Time), tune what matters most with interactive weight dials, and instantly see your priorities ranked. Built for leaders who want boardroom-ready results in one click, it exports polished PDF and Word reports, keeps all your data private on your own machine, and even lets you pick your vibe with theme options from Corporate Dark to LCARS and Cyberpunk.
Ask about it →Continuous learning — especially as AI reshapes the discipline.
Actively seeking my next senior leadership role in AI, DevOps, or platform engineering. If you're building something ambitious — let's talk.