THE BEST SOLUTIONS ARE ELEGANT SOLUTIONS.
Toronto, Canada Area
THE BEST SOLUTIONS ARE ELEGANT SOLUTIONS.
Toronto, Canada Area
Goal: To provide Elegant Solutions to Small-Medium Businesses (SMBs).
A brief history:
The early part of my career was spent as a banker, mostly doing Business Process Reengineering and Data Warehousing. This led to an early retirement in 1995 to pursue Data Warehousing full-time.
The next part of my career was as a consultant working in the field of Data Warehousing / Business Intelligence, incorporated as Data Warehouse Builders Ltd.
The third part of my career started in 2005 when I was assigned as the IT rep to a Sarbanes-Oxley team. Using Data Warehousing concepts, I provided information and knowledge about regulatory compliance to legislation such as The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) and Canada's Bill 198 / MI 52-109. I didn't find this work very satisfying (no one wants to be told "bad news"), went back into "my 9-5 job" as a Data Warehousing consultant and started shaping my career in such a way as to exit the nine to five world. This took place "doing business as" ElegantSolutions.ca.
When the opportunity came up to help SMBs better manage their IT Business Platform, I quickly jumped into the current part of my career as a Business Consultant and Reviewer of tools that make life easier for SMB owners.
As a Business Consultant, the skills developed earlier provide an insight into the challenges of Small-Medium Business in the area of: Governance, Compliance, Internal Audit, Banking, Consulting, Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence, Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Expertise, Bill 198 Compliance Expertise, SOX, MI 52-109, Compliance Software Designer.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
July 1995 — Present (14 years 6 months)
Elegant Solutions provides Business Consulting Services to Small-Medium Businesses.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; BNS; Banking industry)
July 2007 — April 2008 (10 months)
Support the Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing activities of the Shared Services Group of SCOTIABANK
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
February 2006 — April 2007 (1 year 3 months)
As the Director, Compliance Services, Mr. Carter recently configured Resolver's Risk Management Software to add a framework that provides evidence of compliance to regulations such as The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and Canada's Bill 198. The Compliance framework is a combination of COSO and COBIT Control Objectives. Mr. Carter also provided consulting and training Services related to compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and Canada’s Bill 198 Compliance Initiatives.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; TU; Telecommunications industry)
April 2005 — December 2005 (9 months)
Position Overview:
Provide leadership, direction and management support for TELUS Mobility's IT compliance initiative. The Director will be instrumental in:
-Supporting and accomplishing TM IT compliance initiatives
and
-Supporting the TELUS Corporation Chief Compliance Officers initiatives.
Responsibilities:
-Provide overall leadership, direction and support for TMs IT Compliance initiative
-Develop, monitor and report on the success of TMs IT Compliance Initiative
-Represent TMs IT position on all governance and compliance initiatives in TELUS Corp.
-Maintain an up-to-date knowledgebase of Compliance issues affecting TM IT
-Understand and mitigate the impact of proposed plans that affect compliance
-Develop and manage budgets, annual plans and staffing levels to optimise the use of resources
-Develop and implement recognition programs and motivational initiatives to advance an awareness of compliance in TM IT
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; TU; Telecommunications industry)
July 2004 — April 2005 (10 months)
Director, Systems For Business Intelligence
Position Overview:
Provide leadership, direction and management support for TELUS Mobility's Systems for Business Intelligence team. The director will be instrumental in:
managing information as a corporate resource, aligned to corporate strategy
defining and accomplishing major information-provisioning projects that will have a significant impact on TELUS Mobility
Defining, implementing and Supporting the information-provisioning systems of TELUS Mobility (Data Warehousing in the context of Bill Inmons Corporate Information Factory)
Supporting the Systems for Business Intelligence team with a particular focus on the values of TELUS Mobility (passion for growth, spirited teamwork, courage to innovate, embracing change and initiating opportunity).
(Information Technology and Services industry)
2003 — 2004 (1 year )
(Information Technology and Services industry)
2000 — 2003 (3 years )
(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)
2000 — 2003 (3 years )
(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)
2000 — 2003 (3 years )
(Information Technology and Services industry)
2000 — 2003 (3 years )
(Information Technology and Services industry)
2000 — 2000 (less than a year)
(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)
1999 — 2000 (1 year )
(Information Technology and Services industry)
1996 — 2000 (4 years )
(Information Technology and Services industry)
1998 — 1999 (1 year )
(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)
1996 — 1999 (3 years )
(Information Technology and Services industry)
1996 — 1998 (2 years )
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Banking industry)
June 1973 — September 1996 (23 years 4 months)
Moved through Audit Officer, Internal Auditor, Regional Controller to Director, Business Intelligence
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Banking industry)
January 1968 — May 1973 (5 years 5 months)
Financial Statutory Reporting
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Consumer Goods industry)
October 1967 — June 1968 (9 months)
(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Defense & Space industry)
September 1965 — April 1967 (1 year 8 months)
Berlin Brigade Control Officer and European Exchange System Security Officer
(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Defense & Space industry)
September 1962 — September 1965 (3 years 1 month)
Attached to 101st Airborne in Berlin, West Germany
Math 1961 — 1962
Math 1960 — 1961
SMBs, Lotus Foundations, IBM, Microsoft, Open Source, ZOHO, Amazon, Cloud Computing
PMI, AARP, CARP, MENSA (http://www.mensa.org); INTERTEL (http://www.intertel-iq.org/)