Andrew
Halford

Andrew delivers strategic vision and practical leadership on technology solutions for B2C and B2B organizations. With industry credentials in retailing and telecommunications, he deeply understands consumers and creates a digital experience designed to acquire, retain, and grow their loyalty. Andrew focuses on the intelligent deployment of technology to drive transformation across the organization. He brings together innovation and change agility as he solves technical and business challenges. His robust knowledge of architecture, application delivery, network, security, and systems operations provide a solid foundation to recruit, manage, and mentor IT professionals. Andrew is highly regarded as both a warrior of turnaround situations and a champion of profitable growth. His professional coaching experiences provide enhanced value to his clients.

As a technology executive, Andrew was involved in all aspects of the business as he led IT roadmap development to ensure a best-in-class platform. His practical approach balanced costs, risk, and resources while his spirit of transformation introduced new systems and functionality. Working closely with vendors, Andrew led both offshoring and re-shoring initiatives aimed at ensuring quality. He has created and managed software and hardware introduction and re-platforming programs for mission-critical systems with notable success. His devotion to improving processes, productivity, and profitability sparks innovation across an organization.  Andrew has deep experience on ERP, CRM, and BI implementations and has re-platformed an ecommerce solution and moved the work team to an Agile/DevOps methodology for faster delivery. He also championed a multi-year security program to assess and address application, network, firewall, and internal actor vulnerabilities and weaknesses.

Andrew graduated with honors from the University of Waterloo where he earned a Bachelor of Environmental Studies. He has been involved in the CIO Toronto Association and Evanta CIO Forum, a program of Forrester. An active volunteer in the community, his commitments include serving on the board of the Ontario Sustainable Energy Association, at the local food bank weekly, on the emergency response team of the Canadian Red Cross, and previously on committees for Sea Scouts.