Rapid Success Coach
Toronto, Canada Area
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- Founder & Rapid Success Coach at Rapid Success Coaching Inc.
- Past
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- Project Manager (Contract) at Aviva Canada Inc.
- Senior IT Manager - Project Delivery at CIBC
- Senior IT Manager - Mortgage Base and Business Continuity at CIBC
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Ronald Vereggen’s Summary
Are you looking to create a performance culture within your organization?
Then you are looking for someone that has the entrepreneurial drive, management skills, technology background, and coaching experience that can mentor your team to the next level.
With my business, technology, management and coaching experience I help organizations increase the success rate of their initiatives by improving commitment, confidence and competence within their teams.
I am always looking for Clients that can leverage my extensive leadership, project management, coaching and team building experience. Ideal opportunities would include:
• Coaching high achievers, teams and managers to achieve new levels of performance.
• Delivery of multiple projects in a dynamic team environment.
• Leading a team to achieve outstanding results.
Key Strengths
By combining my extensive corporate management and project experience with the hands-on application of coaching I am able to enhance the success rate of key initiatives by focusing on both the people and the process. My key strengths include:
• Process – Improve business processes by looking to reduce waste and improve efficiency.
• Management – Experienced leader of teams with over 40 IT professionals including on-site, near-shore and off-shore.
• People – Passionate about motivating and empowering people through coaching to achieve new levels of performance.
• Creativity – Extremely creative in my approach to solving problems and designing solutions.
• Focus – Drive objectives and projects to completion with both a passion and enthusiasm toward the work.
Experience Summary
Highlights of my diverse experience include:
• 6 plus years coaching experience
• 11 plus years entrepreneurial experience
• 13 plus years leadership and management experience
• 17 years experience within information technology
• 18 years experience within corporate environments (banking and insurance industries)
Ronald Vereggen’s Specialties:
Leadership & Management Development, Project Management, Mentoring Teams, Career Coaching, Personal and Professional Growth
Ronald Vereggen’s Experience
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Founder & Rapid Success Coach
Rapid Success Coaching Inc.
(Professional Training & Coaching industry)
November 2002 — Present (6 years 9 months)
Empowering indviduals and organizations to reach The Next Level!
• Coaching and mentoring, executives, leaders, middle managers and career professionals to rise to The Next Level!
• Helping teams to achieve new levels of performance by improving commitment, confidence and competence.
• Delivering customized and motivating seminars, workshops, speeches and presentations.
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Project Manager (Contract)
Aviva Canada Inc.
(Public Company; AV; Insurance industry)
May 2008 — June 2009 (1 year 2 months)
Led and managed a number of medium sized Business projects across multiple products, departments and regions across Canada.
• Assigned as lead Project Manager for an extremely aggressive Organizational Design Project that involved managing over 90 people with 30 separate deliverables including the implementation of a new G/L hierarchy and restating 3 months of history within a 2 month time frame. As stated by the Project Sponsor “We made the impossible possible!”
• Completed a number of Business projects on time, on budget and on scope including: payment of yearend commissions to brokers, integration of the finance function for a purchased company and a government tax refund initiative.
• Gained appreciation (and experience) for working on the Business side for an Insurance company while leveraging my coaching and IT experience to navigate this large corporation.
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Senior IT Manager - Project Delivery
CIBC
(Public Company; CM; Banking industry)
November 2004 — May 2006 (1 year 7 months)
Led and managed a team of over 40 information technology professionals including systems analysts, technical leads, system developers, contractors, vendors and off-shore developers.
Responsible for all project delivery activities for CIBC mortgage brand across a number of technology platforms including mainframe, AS/400, UNIX and windows.
Includes applications developed in COBOL, Image/Workflow, Java, C++, Visual Basic, .NET, Websphere and SQL.
• Implemented a high profile governance project utilizing in-house and off-shore development resources, within a very tight time frame, over a 6 month period.
• Involved with the Integrated Lending Platform project to improve the businesses ability to deliver mortgages to their clients.
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Senior IT Manager - Mortgage Base and Business Continuity
CIBC
(Public Company; CM; Banking industry)
November 2001 — October 2004 (3 years)
Led and managed configuration managers, technical leads, system analysts, business analysts and developers to deliver steady state support activities for 28 applications across AS/400, Unix and Windows.
Key activities included preventative maintenance, critical defects, production support, business services, IT services, business continuity, QC support, configuration management and transitions of projects to steady state.
• Recognized for production support capability – received quarterly team achievers award for recovering AS/400 application from hardware failure over a 72 hour period.
• Developer Access to Production Project – audit of production access required by development to provide application support.
• Operational Efficiency Review – quality review of structural weaknesses, recoverability and process accountability for 2 key applications.
• Founder and Chairman of Leadership Users Group – where we regularly discussed leadership ideas and issues.
• Established off-shoring model for base enhancements to reduce costs. -
Partner - Chief Operating Officer
Vertercom
(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Computer Hardware industry)
July 2001 — April 2003 (1 year 10 months)
Entrepreneurial venture to provide quality personal computers and support services. Responsible to lead the partnership as well as marketing, finance and human resources.
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IT Manager - AS/400 Development
CIBC
(Public Company; CM; Banking industry)
October 1998 — October 2001 (3 years 1 month)
Assembled and led a development team of systems analysts, business analysts and developers to support the mortgage servicing application Excalibur (formerly known as Plexus, now Optimus – owned by Marlborough Stirling).
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Advisory Systems Developer - Team Lead AS/400 Development
CIBC
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; CM; Banking industry)
July 1996 — September 1998 (2 years 3 months)
While traveling between Toronto and Vancouver, developed foundational leadership skills by leading the systems customization and implementation of the new mortgage servicing application (Excalibur).
Responsible for applying the business enhancements and to integrate this AS/400 COBOL application into the existing banking infrastructure. -
Intermediate Systems Developer
CIBC
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; CM; Banking industry)
September 1989 — June 1996 (6 years 10 months)
Developed foundational technology skills within a number of disciplines within the mainframe, midrange, AS/400, UNIX, Windows and PC DOS environments including COBOL, CICS, DB2, OS/400, SQL, Java, C++, AIX, PHP, Visual Basic, Clipper, C, Pascal, PowerBuilder, XML, MQ and HTML.
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Ronald Vereggen’s Interests:
Leadership, Personal Growth, Coaching, NLP, Reading, Writing
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