About

Director of Platform Engineering at Slalom, specializing in AI and cloud-native systems. Former AWS Senior Manager and Oracle strategist.

I help CTOs and engineering leaders modernize mission-critical platforms in financial services, healthcare, public sector, and aerospace. 35+ certifications across AWS, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, and Oracle. Fluent in English and French.

Professional Experience

Guest Lecturer | HEC Montreal, Executive Education
Develop leadership and management capabilities for senior executives at HEC Montreal Executive Education and First Nations Executive Education.

Director, Platform Engineering | Slalom
Lead platform engineering practice driving cloud-native architecture and AI/ML transformation across financial services, healthcare, public sector, and aerospace. Secured multi-year contracts following AI-led PoCs.

Director, Technology Enablement | Slalom
Led cloud practice pioneering AI-driven delivery across enterprise clients. Achieved 10 advanced certifications.

Master Principal Solution Strategist | Oracle Financial Services
Orchestrated $50M core banking transformation. Designed hybrid cloud architecture for Tier 1 financial institution with regulatory compliance focus.

Senior Manager, Partner Solutions Architecture | AWS
Directed Canadian partner ecosystem to 103% revenue growth ($396M). Bar Raiser Core Member (elite hiring program) mentoring 40+ leaders. Led AI/ML and Containers initiatives for enterprise clients.

Senior Partner Solutions Architect | AWS
Drove 82% partner revenue growth. Recognized as Global Containers MVP. Architected 60+ cloud solutions across enterprise clients.

IT Director | Imagia (AI Healthcare Platform, cofounded by Yoshua Bengio)
Implemented HIPAA-compliant hybrid cloud achieving 99.95% uptime for AI-powered medical imaging platform.

Skills & Certifications

AI Strategy & Governance: Agentic Engineering, AI & Data Governance, AI Operating Model, AI Security, EU AI Act, Model Risk Management, NIST AI RMF, RAG, Responsible AI

Cloud & Platform Engineering: CI/CD, DevSecOps, FinOps, Infrastructure as Code, Kubernetes, Multi-Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI), Platform Engineering, Python, Rust, SRE

Executive Leadership: AI Adoption, Board Reporting, Change Management, Digital Transformation, P&L Management, Strategic Planning, Talent Development, Technology Roadmap

Leadership Programs: Amazon Bar Raiser, Certified Senior Speaker (Amazon), Inclusive Speaker (Linux Foundation)

Professional Certifications: AWS (9), Azure (2), Google Cloud (7), Kubernetes (4), NVIDIA (1), Oracle (8), Salesforce (2)

Research & Open Source

Publishing on applied AI via ORCID: agentic systems, LLM evaluation, RAG for legacy codebases, AI security. Contributor to the Agentic AI Foundation — MCP specification and the Goose agentic framework.

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