Director Consulting Expert at CGI | AI-Driven Software Modernization | Engineering Leadership

Promoted to Director in January 2026. I lead an 18-engineer organization across Calgary and India delivering four enterprise products, owning roadmaps, architecture, hiring, and delivery outcomes.
- Personally design and build reusable AI skills, coding-agent workflows, prototypes, and reference implementations that accelerate modernization, development, testing, documentation, and technical analysis.
- Leading the rebuild of the knowledge base across our energy products as a multimodal RAG system on the Agno agentic platform with Azure AI models. The agent returns fixed-schema responses, rendered in a custom ReactJS app as styled documents with tables and embedded images.
- Leading a client-data privacy initiative: a local masking and unmasking harness that scrubs real client data (production databases, Jira attachments) before LLM calls and restores it on return. A guardrail for running AI agents against production systems.
- Coded AI skills that auto-convert Crystal Reports to Jasper Reports with visual QA. All 20 reports converted in under two weeks, keeping a royalty management application modernization from slipping into red status.
- Adopted the BMAD workflow framework org-wide after a successful proof of concept. It is now our primary method for modernization and new-feature delivery.
- Took over a production volume reporting platform modernization in RED status (quality concerns, drained budget, at risk of being shelved). Found the real gaps (underused AI tooling, broken trust between dev and QA), introduced a delivery workflow built around the 3 Amigos method, and returned the program to on-track delivery.
- Govern AI tooling cost at scale: negotiated higher Codex quotas for the team, optimized skills for token efficiency, and kept modernization programs on budget.
- Member of the CGI AI Committee and the Agentic Software Development Centre of Excellence, helping shape enterprise AI tooling policy and modernization best practices across business un

Technical leader focused on enterprise application architecture, legacy modernization, software engineering practices, and development-team enablement.
- Led modernization of a major legacy Java application to a modern ReactJS and API-based architecture, establishing technical standards, coaching the team, and delivering within budget and timeline.
- Established development practices that improved collaboration, knowledge sharing, code quality, and engineering consistency across distributed teams.
- Modernized build and deployment processes using Gradle and Jenkins, reducing dependency on specialized knowledge.
- Led adoption of Docker-based containerization, simplifying software delivery and enabling greater automation.
- Modernized automated testing with Cypress, increasing validation and catching defects earlier.
- Evaluated technology alternatives on maintainability, cost, delivery speed, and business value, including replacing a repriced licensed reporting tool with Oracle APEX.
- In 2025, became the group's go-to practitioner for Generative AI: AI-assisted BA documentation, Java code and test generation, a domain-specific AI agent for application queries and reports, and AI learning sessions that measurably increased adoption.

Technical Lead on modernizing a Visual Basic application to Java (Eclipse RCP). Designed web services on the Oracle ADF framework and architected Oracle Service Bus integration following the Oracle SOA blueprint. Also served as Service Designer and Application Developer across transformative enterprise projects.

Supported and enhanced a flagship mail-order system, shipping new features and providing customer-facing technical support.