Olimpiu Metiu
Director, Enterprise Systems Engineering @Metrolinx
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WORK HISTORY
Director, Enterprise Systems Engineering @Metrolinx
Toronto, ON, CA
Key accountabilities include- Leading the Enterprise Systems Engineering team, accountable with architecture, solution design, product selection and platform roadmaps. This covers all Metrolinx initiatives with an I & IT component (Innovation and Information Technology), from small initiatives to large 10B+ infrastructure projects- Providing enterprise-level oversight of all ongoing delivery projects to ensure alignment with technical decisions technology choices across the entire portfolio, and throughout the lifecycle of the projects- Providing strategic leadership and direction in developing and implementing strategies and plans to ensure that the architecture developed by the delivery units is aligned to meet critical project, program and organizational goals and objectives. This includes the prioritization of key technology frameworks and integration tools- Data Strategy & Architecture, developing Data, Automation & AI reference architecture, Data Lake integration and data-centric projects support- Developer Experience including ownership and evolution of shared platforms for MS development teams (Github, Atlassian JIRA & Confluence, IDEs, dev AI models, Grafana & observability practice etc).
EDUCATION
Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu
M.Sc., Computer Engineering
Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu
B.A., Computer Science and Mathematics
SKILLS
ABOUT OLIMPIU METIU
Leads the Enterprise Systems Engineering group of Metrolinx, accountable with architecture, solution design, product selection and platform roadmaps. This covers all Metrolinx initiatives with an I & IT component, from minor to multi-billion $$ projects.Prior:AVP of Application Development & DevOps at Canadian Tire (CTC), one of the largest Canadian retailers.Led key teams in Digital, helping grow e-Commerce sales from 300M to 1B+ YoY. Rolled out improvements and new services at record speed and scale to help customers through pandemic.Led the Mobile portfolio, increasing app store ratings from 1-2 to 4.8. App design and delivery, from flagship retail & loyalty apps (Canadian Tire, Triangle) to apps for store staff, board, corporate and consumers.Recipient of President\'s Award (highest honour in CTC) for design and delivery of WOW Guide (innovative digital catalogue).Technology owner for BlackBerry\'s Portals, KM & Collaboration domains, managing 200+ technologies (accountable with strategy, technology selection, architecture and solution delivery).Led the architecture team accountable with BlackBerry\'s portals, collaboration, social computing, search and WCM platforms.Built and led the high-performance Emergent Technologies team at Bell Canada. Associate director and lead architect for Bell\'s Internet Delivery Services group. ECM strategy and planning; define and execute Bell\'s enterprise KM, content and search roadmap.Projects: Sympatico/MSN.ca, Mobile, Vancouver 2010 Olympics portal; Bell\'s employee portal, doc mgmt platform, ent. search etc. Earlier on contributed as lead developer, project manager and service level manager on projects of all sizes.Recognition at all levels for leadership and contributions to culture change, innovation, productivity and technology.Planning and roll-out of some of Canada\'s largest sites (The Globe and Mail, CTV, TSN, Workopolis etc). Worked for large corporations, government agencies and start-ups.Founder and Editor-in-Chief at Rails Magazine, the largest Ruby on Rails magazine.Independent development and consulting (mobile and web development, security audits, code reviews).Specialties:Build and lead high-performance teams.Versatile: people leadership, technology, strategy, product and project management.Encyclopedic knowledge of IT; eclectic interests; proficient with many technologies and processes; on top of latest trends and emerging technologies.Deep and broad understanding of mobile, web and enterprise applications; business strategy and development.
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