Dennis Taylor
Mississauga,ON
Overview
23
23
years of professional experience
Work History
Project Manager/Scrum Master
TMS
06.2023 - Current
- Provide Project Management oversight and implement Scrum and Agile principles
- Implementing various commercial-off-the-shelf products in Azure environment and establish operational procedures to enhance business results for AerMec Canada
- Project Manager for the construction of house
Sr Project Manager/Scrum Master
Prairie Payments Joint Venture
08.2021 - 05.2023
- Company Overview: Collaboration between the Credit Union Centrals of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba (75 Credit Unions) to develop and implement a new Payment Processing Platforms with IBM and outsource operations to a third-party vendor
- Scope included developing new Billing, Settlement and Posting platform to migrate off of existing mainframe environment
- PPJV was a new entity created in 2019 and signed a deal with IBM modernise finance with cloud technology for the prairie Credit Unions
- Focus was to have new platforms to meet ISO 20022 standards in preparation for Real-time Rail payments
- Collaboration between the Credit Union Centrals of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba (75 Credit Unions) to develop and implement a new Payment Processing Platforms with IBM and outsource operations to a third-party vendor
Program Manager
Symcor Inc
08.2008 - 11.2019
- Responsibilities involved developing Idea Initiation, Business Case Assessment, Program Charter, Financials, Resourcing plans, Risk Assessments, Integrated Plans with clients and vendors, Executive presentations and Chair Steering Committee meetings for the program
- Work with Product and Operations to prepare Product Overview/Product Requirements and engage vendors for RFPs or internal departments for inhouse solutions
- Engage PMO, Departments and Lines of Business to plan resourcing
- Conducting a Risk Assessment with Operations, IT and Product to present to executive with plans to mitigate, reduce or accept
- Manage Project Managers and teams to complete full life-cycle of projects
- FI and client engagement to implement new products or changes to existing services
- Vendor management for products, change requests and maintenance
- Complete client satisfaction surveys and Program/Project assessment upon completion if originals goals and financials where achieved
Project Manager Deposits Products
Royal Bank
05.2006 - 07.2008
- Delivered the Canadian Payments Associations TECP (Truncation and Electronic Cheque Presentment) project for the Deposits group under the Products division
- This project was a 2.5MM project made of a team of 15-25 resources and utilizing offshore resourcing
- This is a multi-phased project with numerous implementations to enable RBC legacy systems to process the new image technology and related product changes
- The other important aspect to this project is to coordinate with various other RBC project teams to coordinate implementations and vendor management to ensure 3rd party services and applications meet new requirements
Project Lead/Team Lead Global Deposits and Payments
CIBC
08.2004 - 03.2006
- Manage 11 full time staff, 5 contractors, 3 students and offshore resources
- Responsible for Base Essential and Base Project work for the 12 applications for Global Deposits and Payments
- Work with business areas to prioritize requests and schedule releases
- Ensuring the stability and upgrades of these critical systems and ensuring CPA requirements are met as well as all SLAs
- Products managed where EFT, EDI, Account Reconciliation, Positive Pay, Cashflow Management, Rapidtrans, CIBC Online, Portfolio Manager, Deposit Acceleration, GMAC, Automated Interest System, Statement of Account Activity
Manager of Application Development
John Deere Credit
03.2002 - 08.2004
- Resource manager for 8 development staff
- Monitor commitments and workloads to ensure proper allocation of resources as well as individual and team development
- Actively participate in recruiting and staff retention activities
- Define department and staff objectives, learning plans as well as perform appraisals, staff evaluations, decide yearly increases and bonuses
- Participate in working sessions with other international JDC IT teams as needed to define, standards, processes, guidelines and metrics pertaining to common ground among teams and ensure compliance with established standards, processes and guidelines
- Responsible for Vendor Management as well as train and implement new technologies like J2EE using Webshere and develop Web Applications for Canadian dealerships
- Provide project leadership regarding change management as it impacts the technical work package
- Manage small projects
Timeline
Project Manager/Scrum Master
TMS
06.2023 - Current
Sr Project Manager/Scrum Master
Prairie Payments Joint Venture
08.2021 - 05.2023
Program Manager
Symcor Inc
08.2008 - 11.2019
Project Manager Deposits Products
Royal Bank
05.2006 - 07.2008
Project Lead/Team Lead Global Deposits and Payments
CIBC
08.2004 - 03.2006
Manager of Application Development
John Deere Credit
03.2002 - 08.2004
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