Paul is working with several major organizations as an Advisor to help them build their business capabilities and strengthened their technology leadership and operations. In addition, he is providing advice on critical large projects, procurements and other opportunities for improvement. Paul is also, serves as an independent director for several corporate boards.
As the first Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the Government of Canada, Paul established a new strategic direction for information technology in Government in Canada, managed a budget of $4 billion per year and a professional staff of 16,000. During his term as Federal CIO, Paul developed a strategic technology implementation plan for Canada, recruited 1,000 information system professionals, managed IT investments and operations, and created information policies, while achieving economies in the IT and IM infrastructure and operations across the Government.
Paul has substantial experience with ERP/CRM, including 16 SAP installations and 28 PeopleSoft installations. In addition, he has experience with many other technologies/systems and has extensive knowledge of and experience in e-business, internet/intranet, networking, telecommunications and underlying technologies.
Paul was the Director of Information Systems for Vancouver General Hospital, a leading North American health care center and the second largest hospital in Canada.
Paul was President of the Technology Subsidiary and CIO of one of the top Global Performance Management firms. He revitalized the business, putting together a new management team, sales force and administrative staff, prepared business plans and secured financing.
As a Senior Partner of KPMG Consulting Canada, Paul was responsible for establishing the Financial Services Enabling Technologies Practice for KPMG Canada. He recruited a focused financial services team, secured and delivered consulting assignments to major clients, and completed projects using electronic payments and other leading edge technologies.
Paul was a Partner/Practice Director – Pacific Region for Ernst & Young. He restructured and focused the IT consulting practice on major corporate, institutional and entrepreneurial clients including financial institutions, utilities, government and health care. He managed the deployment of systems and business process improvement methodology and achieved record profit levels for the practice.
As a Partner for KPMG Peat Marwick, Paul was responsible for the Vancouver Technical Services Practices. He secured and managed a major series of consulting engagements and led the practice in marketing, profitability, services and product planning.