Renaud Yasin

The path so far

1. Mar 2025 – Present

   Now
   01

   Manager, Managed Services (MSP)

   Everforth Quinnox · Waste Management — Digital Sustainability · Houston, TX

   • Own product and delivery direction for Waste Management's Digital Sustainability portfolio — setting the roadmap, prioritizing the backlog by business value and operational risk, and balancing feature delivery against 24×7 production support.
   • Serve as primary product and engagement owner with the client: translate business goals into a prioritized roadmap and manage scope, change, staffing, and release decisions end to end.
   • Direct cross-functional, distributed delivery and operations teams through the SDLC and ITIL-based service management.
   • Drive continuous improvement across the portfolio — reduced P1/P2 incidents by ~25% and improved deployment frequency by 30% — and apply AI-assisted tools, including Claude, to accelerate code review, documentation, and operational workflows.

2. May 2023 – Mar 2025

   02

   Sr. Manager, Application Development — Financial Crimes Technology

   Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) · Toronto, ON

   • Owned a portfolio of three internal enterprise applications end to end — Internal Threat Analytics, Secure File Storage, and an Employee Coaching Portal — from concept and stakeholder needs through release and ongoing support.
   • Owned the product roadmap and backlog, prioritizing features against business impact and regulatory risk; gathered requirements directly from compliance and investigation stakeholders and validated them through UAT before release.
   • Made build-vs-buy and architecture decisions (security, scalability, availability), building in-house where regulatory control and data sensitivity required it.
   • Sequenced delivery toward business outcomes — cut investigation cycle time by 35% — and coordinated production releases and post-release support.

3. Feb 2021 – May 2023

   03

   Manager, Application Development — Financial Crimes Technology

   Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) · Toronto, ON

   • Took the Internal Threat Analytics product from concept to production, leading a full-stack team through discovery, definition, and the SDLC to deliver REST APIs and web microservices.
   • Translated stakeholder needs into requirements and a prioritized backlog across Go, Python, Angular, and Next.js, mentoring the team on modern practices.
   • Implemented CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins) that improved delivery cadence from monthly to bi-weekly releases.
   • Oversaw product stability and compliance through disciplined change and incident management.

4. Mar 2020 – Feb 2021

   04

   IT Team Lead, Application Development

   Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) · Toronto, ON

   • Shaped product roadmaps that aligned technical capability with business vision, making cybersecurity a differentiating capability.
   • Directed feature prioritization across security audits and customer requirements, balancing new functionality against risk.
   • Led cross-functional teams in adopting Agile and DevSecOps to accelerate time-to-market with iterative end-user feedback.

5. Jun 2017 – Feb 2020

   05

   IT Project Coordinator

   Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) · Toronto, ON

   • Translated business objectives into clear requirements, user stories, and on-time, high-quality deliverables.
   • Drove the transition to an automated CI/CD pipeline, reducing manual testing and embedding automated security checks early in the lifecycle.
   • Embedded security protocols across the product lifecycle, aligning delivery with regulatory and organizational objectives.

6. Jul 2016 – Jun 2017

   06

   Business Systems Analyst

   Rogers Communications · Toronto, ON

   • Led gap and root-cause analysis to identify process inefficiencies and drive lasting improvements to system performance and user satisfaction.
   • Partnered with cross-functional teams to streamline processes and improve the end-to-end customer experience.

7. May 2014 – Jul 2015

   07

   Business Systems Analyst

   Assurant, Inc. · Miami, FL

   • Built automation scripts that eliminated manual data entry and materially improved processing speed and accuracy.
   • Served as key liaison between stakeholders and development teams, aligning objectives, timelines, and deliverables.

What I bring