Champions of Change

Champions of Change creates profitable and impactful communities around individuals unique skills.
The World needs your gifts.
Discover, Create & Grow your Movement.

Founder & Community Builder

Scotiabank

I am blessed to work on providing Secure Integrated Authentication to Scotiabank's infrastructure.

● Creates and facilitates Scrum events to improve productivity, team wellness and mature the organization and team's agility

● Manages the JIRA instance and applies techniques for effective workflow visualization and management

● Servant-Leader: Identifies, manages, and helps mitigate issues and risks, with the timely removal of impediments for the team and/or directing obstacles to appropriate owners for quick resolutions

● Coaches the development team and guides towards adopting an Agile mindset

Scrum Master | Authentication Technology

The Nature Mindset

The Nature Mindset uses Ecotherapy and coaching practices to benefit all facets of the human being and the natural world. 
Explore how this powerful knowledge can bring alignment and empowerment to live authentic purposeful lives in harmony with nature.

Founder & Coach

The Fast Forward Group

● Delivered end-to-end virtual programming to over 30 corporate clients such as Google, Meta, Amazon, Spotify, TikTok, Twitch, Visa and Ford, with client success leading to an increase in scope and account size.

● Analyzed and presented program feedback with focus towards measuring the client’s ROI and growing the client portfolio.

● Quantified measurable client improvements in core focus areas: Confidence, Relationships, Time management, Resilience, Well-being and Happiness.

● Programs managed were delivered with exceptional quality, with NPS scores of 70+, driving repeat business.

● Championed and implemented DEI programs for people of colour across North America and U.K.

● Researched, proposed and implemented new technologies for an upcoming Membership platform. Tracked project timelines, onboarded new members, developed and tested the platform.

● Created a membership community of conscious growth through the merging of technology and heart-centered coaching.

● Developed a Community Engagement strategy, aimed at driving meaningful engagement to grow the community to critical mass. 

● Collaborated with the facilitation team to create engagement deliverables to accommodate client specific needs.

Client Engagement

●  Produced over 100 hours of content with mid to C-level executives from 30+ Fortune 500 companies such as: Google, Meta, Amazon, TikTok, Spotify, Twitch, Visa, Volta Charging and Ford.

●  Expert on producing and facilitating on video-conferencing software including: Zoom, Google Meets, WebEx and MS Teams. 

● Supported the production and management of program assets (slide decks, worksheets, storyboards) along tight deadlines.

● Supported client stakeholders, facilitators and participants during live programming. Worked in a fast-paced environment effectively managing scripts, production material and timelines with ambiguity, change, and shifting priorities.

●  The Fast Forward Group provides leadership development programs and services that change mindsets, and behaviors which drives growth. Programs focus on leadership, EQ, change management and ambitious, action-oriented strategic planning.

Producer

StackPros Inc.

Scrum Master

Hudson's Bay Company

Portfolio Project Coordinator

Babylon VR

Babylon VR is a Virtual Reality company created to accelerate the adoption of Virtual Reality. 
Services included providing immersive virtual-reality experiences to allow designs and immersive learning to become a reality. 

Custom projects were developed for clients in the Real-Estate, Design, Automotive, Public Institutions and Retail industries. Projects included developing interactive experiences in the Real-estate and Design industries, allowing users to visualize and design spaces that haven't been built yet.

Company highlights:

● Developed experiences implemented in showrooms for Real-Estate developers in Toronto, changing how buyers bought and customized their new homes.

● Created the first Virtual Reality experience for the University of Waterloo’s Hyperloop team (Waterloop), which was the only Canadian team to compete at the SpaceX HQ in 2017.

● 1 of 5 companies in the 2016 Google for Entrepreneurs Incubation cohort.

● Part of Velocity, a tech incubator founded at The University of Waterloo, and housed in the Communitech Incubator Hub.

● Delivered projects using Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban etc.) and intensive customer discovery data; gathering business requirements through prototyping, interviews and UX workshops.

● Pitched at the CNE Innovation Garage, winning first place ($5K) under the VR/AR Category.

Babylon VR - Create Without Constraint

Co-Founder / Business Operations

City of Oshawa

Swim Instructor | Lifeguard

Dagmar Ski Resort

Snowboard Instructor

My mission is to elevate 1M+ people to financial and time freedom by living their purpose and using their power as a force of good in the world.

🔶Ex-VR tech startup founder 
🔶Passionate and lifelong student of Human / Animal / Community Psychology
🔶My perspective of Business as a vehicle for Positive Change and Work/Life Balance
🔶Worked in Executive Coaching with Fortune 500 Executives to understand how to upgrade life
🔶On a lifelong quest for self-improvement and the uplifting of the collective human consciousness

I look forward to creating meaningful connections with you. 

Usman Aaron

Equinix

Senior Technical Product Manager, Data Centers

INNAVATE

Build and share product strategy and vision, including product roadmap (now, near and future deliverables and timelines), identify user persona / target audience with user journey maps / pain points
Establish KPIs, define key metrics and track measurable objectives, including success criteria, prioritization matrix
Build and manage product backlog with features /  epics / stories, prioritize sprints in advance for the squad based on the established velocity with a proper set of sprint goals
Initiate customer discovery sessions in partnership with UX based on the roadmap scope, and share customer success stories / product wins
Own, resolve and communicate product dependencies, product risks, and build mitigation strategies to prevent any potential downfalls
Provide products status updates to the senior leadership and lead product alignment sessions with the stakeholders
Identifying / draft product requirements and suggest product enhancements based on the overall objectives of the organization, customer-focused experience and data
Developing product design criteria, planning activities, business objectives, communication and reporting protocols, implementing planning, product prioritization and phasing strategies, issues management, quality assessment and transition requirements
Own criterias on when and how to ship applications

Product Management Consultant

Trimble Inc.

Responsible for defining a strategic vision, product roadmaps (MVP, nice to haves), user persona and product requirements for the sustainability / carbon reduction digital application (for all divisions)
Work closely with the end user to align on the product deliverables / workflows / customer journeys; with the architects and IT teams to define the technical design of the sustainability product; and UX, to define wireframes and UI components
Own the end-to-end sustainability product delivery on the Microsoft Azure / AWS cloud, by managing the backlog, prioritizing sprints and grooming stories accordingly, while leading technical resolution sessions
Build and manage product documentation, such as Aha product roadmap, Product Requirement Document using Confluence (both technical and business) and Marketing Requirements Documents (such as product guides)
Facilitate conversations across all levels of IT, business, product, security, legal and compliance, to ensure solid delivery of the brand new product application
Oversee multiple agile teams, while building multiple sustainability and enterprise products 
Work closely with the operations and customer engagement teams to prioritize bugs / feature requirements related to the enterprise solution, based on the severity levels and customer’s feedback
Align enterprise product requirements with the mobile app to promote product consistency (Android, ios)
Communicate sprint deliverables / scope to the stakeholders, lead trade-off conversations, own PM verification and participate in the testing process, to deliver best in-class customer experience to the end user
Lead alignment sessions on the sustainability and enterprise deliverables

Product Manager, Sustainability & Enterprise

Equifax

Responsible for defining a strategic vision, creating product roadmaps, program plans and developing solutions
Own the “bigger picture” and entire cycle of a legacy Mainframe migration to the Google / GCP cloud transformation program
Facilitate conversations across all levels of IT, business, product, security, legal and compliance
Oversee multiple agile teams, while rebuilding different scoring, fraud, and international products
Organize and lead product demos, retro, backlog refinement and incremental planning, in partnership with the engineering team, developers, scrum master and tech leads
Own multiple product backlogs, prioritization and clean up, making sure that stories are in place and accepted by squads
Define and measure business outcomes using data-driven decisioning
Partner with internal and external teams to create products, capabilities and infrastructure for systems to go live quickly and efficiently with disciplined execution and quality
Lead by influence and collaborate effectively with internal and external stakeholders
Lead product/data validation activities, while solutioning and debugging issues
Build and manage product documentation, both technical and business
Lead the trade-offs conversations, alignment and quarterly planning sessions at all levels

Senior Product Owner, Cloud Migration & Product Transformation

TELUS

Set a vision and drive development efforts for the digital and IT products
Lead a development of a product strategy for the API ecosystem 
Craft highly effective roadmaps based on the strategy, data analysis, and user insights
Develop detailed business requirements and user stories that can be used to build product specs and architecture for each product/application
Lead all product management functions, including user research, testing, and features rollout
Drive product launches through cross-functional work with the executive, engineering, and sales teams
Deﬁne/analyze metrics that drive engagement, retention, and monetization within products 
Identify/resolve issues that may impair a team's ability to hit strategic, ﬁnancial and technical goals
Handle trade-offs and priorities for customer experience, performance, and operational support
Lead a diverse team with mandates to decrease the end-to-end customer interaction time
Improved multiple internal digital and enterprise processes through automation, and process re-engineering to reduce a business risk
Acted as a subject matter expert on the enterprise-level initiatives and a liaison between internal and external stakeholder groups

Senior Technical Product Owner, Digital Platforms & Architecture

Senior Technical Product Owner, API & Reference Architecture Transformation

Rogers Communications

Product management executive responsible for defining the entire product portfolio vision, strategy, roadmap, and managing budget, often times acting as an executive for the product
Managed products in the following areas: e-Commerce, Digital, Omni-Channel, Self-Serve, Sales & Marketing buyflows, and vertical products
Defined business and technical product requirements, and program rollout strategy
Strong leader within the business community, who collaborated closely with stakeholders to obtain buy-ins, alignment and set expectations
Executed on product roadmap deliverables, while launching multiple business transformation products successfully
Worked with internal and external stakeholders to communicate on product plans and gather the end user feedback
Go-to market strategist that helped to define the overall end user and product experience
Managed multiple product scrum teams and planning for strategic / development releases
Lead cross-functional teams, including Fraud, Credit & Payment, Privacy, OMS, Digital Operations, Channel primes, Innovations, Customer journeys, UX / D, IT, Developers and other, to deliver results
Leader for product management, driving the overall direction and helping to manage other product managers, and mentor/coach to product managers to be
Responsible for market and quantitative research, related to product, which is used to analyse and act on business metrics, to grow the business
Leveraged consumer insights and competitive intelligence reports to explain online behavioural trends and inform product decision
Constantly research technology trends, while helping architects to design the CRM platform

Senior Manager (PM), Omni-Channel & Digital Transformation

Manager, Omni-Channel & Digital Transformation

Walmart Canada

Category Product Analyst, Digital

Product Specialist, Digital

Sears Canada

Associate Product Category Manager, Digital

Product Marketing Coordinator, Digital

Best for Bride, Toronto, ON

Sales Representative

George Brown College

Senior Peer Tutor

Experienced senior product management professional with 12 years of experience in B2C and B2B SaaS, PaaS product development at the enterprise level, delivering new 0-1 solutions and supporting existing products, using different methodologies, such as agile, waterfall and hybrid. 

My core competencies include product strategy and delivery of the digital front-end, middleware and backend products (web and mobile: Java, JS, Python, Android, ios, etc), business and IT transformation, Microsoft Azure / AWS and Google / GCP cloud migration; product vision, and roadmap development (advanced knowledge level of JIRA, Confluence, Aha), user persona and journey mapping, backlog and sprint management, customer discovery and success, vendor relations, and cross-functional team collaboration. 

I am passionate about creating digital products that solve real-world problems, enhance user experience, and drive business value.

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