2011 · First runner-up
Microsoft Canada Blue Sky award
Optime / Omega Optimisation received first runner-up recognition in Microsoft Canada’s Blue Sky competition.
Entrepreneurship / 2007–2012
Better decisions for complex workforce problems.
At Planora, we combined operations research, AI and applied mathematics to improve workforce planning and scheduling.
The work
The problem was concrete: how to make better decisions when demand, staffing needs, constraints and costs interact. I worked across product and company leadership as we developed optimization software for those challenges.
Planora was acquired by RedPrairie in July 2012. The team’s work continued through a Montréal center of excellence and later through JDA.
My contribution
- Led product development and company direction.
- Applied optimization to workforce-management decisions.
- Helped build the company through its acquisition by RedPrairie.
Recognition of the company
Milestones along the way.
Connected thinking
From the writing.
4 Steps to Good Narrow AI
Four practical steps for making intent explicit and evaluating whether an AI system achieves it.
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