Portfolio of Work
IBM Quantum
Associate Partner
Consulting for enterprise organizations on how to start innovating with quantum computing and building an internal capability
2020 - 2023I was an Associate Partner in strategy consulting at IBM, within the Quantum division, which leads the world in creating the world’s largest quantum computers. I led go-to-market, sales, and delivery for the emerging quantum business across financial services globally, and later specialized in insurance. I advised C-suite executives of the largest firms on exploring the potential of and achieving enterprise readiness for quantum computing.
Key accomplishments:
Co-designed the Quantum Accelerator that became IBM Quantum’s sole service offering for enterprises. Led technical sales for financial services.
Led the successful delivery of the first engagement with the largest P&C insurer in the U.S. for multiple years.
Managed a global team of experts, including PhD-level consultants, quantum scientists, and engineers.
Designed business workflows, to greatly speed up computation and lower risk within the insurance industry.
Published thought leadership and raised awareness of quantum applications in global presentations and publications.
Speaker: National Insurance Conference of Canada 2023
Contributor, Industry Expert: The Quantum Decade, IBM issued December 2023
Sun Life Financial
Technical Lead &
Internal Consultant
Transforming legacy financial services platforms, internal and third-party, into modern and more sustainable architectures
2019 - 2020I was a technical lead and an internal consultant reporting to IT leadership. At the outset, I observed deficiencies of the legacy systems that made them ripe for replacement. My findings sparked a transformation project. I led the consulting work on it as a sole practitioner while advising joint SVP-level IT and business leadership.
Key accomplishments:
Led complex strategic analysis and planning on the modernization of the core mutual fund dealer platform.
Similarly, led strategic analysis of the advisor compensation platforms that still relied on mainframe technology.
Created consulting deliverables including technology assessment, gap analysis, target architecture design, roadmap, and vendor model.
Created a strategy and cost analysis of a migration of test and production environments to the cloud.
Advised on the creation of an efficient DevOps development framework.
Evaluated strategic options for a troubled acquisition.
IQC
Senior Researcher &
Post-doctoral Fellow
Designing the first general-purpose enterprise network architecture that is resistant to quantum computer attack
2016 -2018I was a senior researcher and post-doctoral fellow working for the deputy director of one of the world’s top institutes for quantum computing research. Canada’s cryptologic agency entrusted our team with a consulting project to envision and design an enterprise network that will be safe from attack once a full-scale quantum computer becomes operational within the next decade. I was the sole engineer on a team of physicists.
Key accomplishments:
Led research on the architecture and design of a highly-scalable and practical enterprise network that integrates the latest cryptographic innovations: QKD (Quantum Key Distribution) and post-quantum cryptography, to resist attack. In particular, focused on the key management service for encryption.
Published research findings as the first author in a recognized quantum journal.
Provided expert advice to a European telecommunication standards body that was evaluating such techniques for eventual mass enterprise adoption.
Published the work to the quantum community as an open-source project, paving the way towards further work.
Strategy&
Management Consultant
Transforming legacy financial services platforms, internal and third-party, to modern architectures performing better with less risk
2014 -2015I was a management consulting associate working at the Chicago office within the Digital Business Technology practice of Booz & Company. The hundred-year old firm was just beginning to undergo its integration with PwC and being rebranded as Strategy&. I gave strategic direction to IT executives of various leading financial services and managed health care firms in the U.S. in the areas of strategic transformation, cloud migration, operations automation, and infrastructure modernization.
Key accomplishments:
Developed a cloud-based application testing strategy, cost analysis, and pilot program for the IT organization of a custodian bank, to improve financial product quality and accelerate time-to-market.
• Performed a strategic assessment of the IT infrastructure of a managed healthcare organization, to identify business opportunities, address capability gaps, and align programs with corporate strategy.
• Identified technology-related opportunities and process improvements for a digital transformation, and formulated architectures of target-state core IT systems, for a credit rating agency.
University of Waterloo
Doctoral Student
Undertaking some of the first-ever research into secure data access in public clouds from large populations of mobile device users
2009 - 2013I completed a doctorate in Computer Engineering within the Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Canada’s most prestigious engineering school. The key theme behind my thesis, which I developed on my own, was that data stored in public yet untrusted clouds is increasingly being accessed by resource-constrained phones and IoT devices, requiring highly-scalable encryption. My experience at BlackBerry motivated me to invent commercially useful techniques. Previously, I had completed a Master in a completely different area than security: the research of software verification using advanced modelling techniques.
Key accomplishments:
Proposed novel cryptographic techniques enabling scalable and secure data outsourcing on clouds.
Implemented and demonstrated new key management techniques as prototypes on cloud platforms.
Published findings in IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing journal.
Awarded NSERC CGS scholarship.
Instructor for large core undergraduate course on software engineering.
List of Publications
List of Publications
BlackBerry
Project Manager &
Software Developer
Writing software for the world’s first smartphone, the iconic BlackBerry, and marketing early location-based services
2001 - 2009Key accomplishments:
As a Product Manager, led product strategy for emerging location-based (GPS) device/server software portfolio. Provided leadership on go-to-market.
Led first-in-market implementation of a groundbreaking location technology.
As a Senior Software Engineer, developed core productivity apps and protocols on two distinct generations of BlackBerry. Led engineering work on a key wireless data sync component.
Mentored a team of junior device software developers in a fast-paced agile development environment.
Served on the patent committee that evaluated and approved new inventions.
Inventor of over 40 distinct patents granted by the U.S. patent office.
I was only the second co-op (intern) ever hired by Research In Motion (RIM), later renamed to BlackBerry. By the time I graduated, BlackBerry had begun to emerge as the world's first smartphone. I became a Senior Engineer on the Device Software team, and wrote applications software that shipped on all devices. After completing my MBA, I transitioned to a product management role where I decided what functionality our customers desired versus just implementing it. The features that we take for granted today were all being pioneered at the time
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