Decades in the machinery.
I have spent more than twenty-five years inside public-sector transformation. The same pattern recurs: major initiatives fail when facts, authority, governance, delivery, procurement, and accountability are not connected early enough. Policy-Anchored AI is that lesson, turned into an architecture.
- 25+ years
- Public-sector transformation and IT-enabled change
- 38+ / 80+
- Departments and agencies (Canada.ca MWS)
- Chief Negotiator
- Internal trade, NAFTA, and WTO-related files
- First implementation
- GC Procurement Advisor prototype
Why this framework comes from this work.
Not a résumé — the threads of experience that the framework is built on.
Public-sector transformation
Enterprise transformation across federal and provincial government — operating-model change, business redesign, and the governance to make it stick.
- ESDC — waterfall to product-management operating model
- TBS — application rationalization across departments
- Public Service Commission — public-service modernization
IT modernization & digital delivery
Modernizing flagship platforms and the delivery models around them, from strategy through pre-procurement.
- Canada.ca Managed Web Service — transition planning across 38+ departments / 80+ agencies
- TBS — enterprise interoperability (MyGCHR / enterprise service bus)
- DND — AvPOL enterprise fuels transformation
Procurement & governance reform
Designing procurements — and reforming how government scopes, evaluates, and governs what it buys.
- Major enterprise professional-services procurements at ESDC
- Emergency API procurement during the pandemic (CERB interoperability)
- DND Accord — capability analysis for procurement reform
Policy authority & negotiation
Working at the level where authority is set and bound — with the mandate to commit institutions to it.
- Chief Negotiator (Cabinet-appointed, ADM level), Newfoundland & Labrador
- Agreement on Internal Trade · NAFTA · WTO-related matters
- Authority to bind departments to legislative and regulatory change
Large-scale stakeholder alignment
Aligning many departments and senior decision-makers — from working teams up to Deputy Minister.
- Reporting from DG to DM level across multiple departments
- Multi-department ERP rationalization (PeopleSoft / SAP)
- Strategic IM/IT planning for a national development program (CIDA)
Transformation under institutional constraint
Delivering change under real financial, political, and accountability pressure — not on a whiteboard.
- St. John's International Airport privatization and operating-model transformation
- Departmental amalgamation under fiscal crisis (mandated savings)
- Major Crown Project standards and assurance
Education: B.A. Economics / Computer Science and B.Ed., Memorial University of Newfoundland. Certified Scrum Master · SAFe 6. Harvard / CMG advanced negotiation and conflict resolution.
Want this experience pointed at your problem?
Senior advisory, or a structured engagement around the framework and the prototype.