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Who Is ParaTeck |
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ParaTeck Market Development Inc. is owned and operated by Shawn Nisenboim.
Shawn’s Biography
Shawn helps organizations clarify and implement their strategies through better planning, return on investment analysis and project management. He is part owner of a software company whose product he helped design as well as an expert project manager and business analyst with a proven history of translating business needs into winning technology.
A former director of Canada's largest chapter of the Project Management Institute (PMI), contributor to PMI's Earned Value practice standard and certified project management professional (PMP), Shawn has been actively promoting project management since 2003. He has published a number of articles on Earned Value and its use as a powerful early warning system for projects.
Shawn’s Career History
Shawn was first hired as a market analyst after graduating from the University of Toronto Bachelor of Commerce program in 1985. He was immediately confronted with the problem of extracting decision support data from inflexible mainframe computers. The desire to simplify and shorten the process drove him to learn systems and build more flexible and efficient data extraction tools. He quickly established a reputation as the person who could painlessly solve business problems using technology. His first information technology (IT) undertaking was at Kinney Canada where he saw an opportunity to simplify the production of a 300 page market analysis report that took two people six weeks to compile. Shawn automated a large portion of the work and shortened the effort to one person in three days.
Shawn's reputation spread from the market research and analysis area. In 1992, he was asked to join a transition team at the Ontario Lottery Corporation (OLC). A $300 million business, that was converting 43 independent distributorships into 6 centrally managed regional offices, had overlooked a critical component of its cash and inventory management system. Shawn designed and directed the implementation of the first ever client-server application at OLC. The system remained in production for two years as the sole source of information about cash on hand, inventory levels and revenue related to off-line lottery tickets.
Shawn learned how to use process mapping tools to improve business processes when he was called upon as a subject matter expert for a very large systems overhaul at OLC that took 2 years to implement. Shawn designed many of the user interfaces for the marketing and sales components of that system.
Soon Shawn was developing business plans with detailed return on investment justifications for new business processes and multi-million dollar product launches. He initiated and managed the development of new technologies to support these plans. One of these new technologies was a site selection system for lottery retailers which he presented at the 1995 North American Association of State & Provincial Lotteries (NASPL) conference. Another was a system, new to the industry, which introduced selling of lottery tickets at grocery store checkout lanes.
Shawn recognized the importance of the internet early but concern over security prevented internet initiatives from being considered at the Lottery. He left OLC in 1998, obtained a Masters Certificate in Project Management, founded ParaTeck Market Development and took on his first web development project at Compaq Corporation. He went on to work for a small systems integrator that was building online marketplaces and other new web technologies. There, he implemented project management processes that enabled the company to take on large scale IT projects. He also managed some large e-commerce implementations and turned around some very troubled projects.
Shawn has been working as a ParaTeck consultant, managing IT projects and developing business strategies and markets for technology companies since 1999. Click here to view some of the contributions Shawn has made to companies he has worked with.
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(416) 485-0403 |
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Sponsored by TimeTiger software |
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