Kirk McKibbon

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About Kirk McKibbon

Kirk McKibbon is a dynamic, results-driven and seasoned senior IT professional with over 25 years experience in software development. Mr. McKibbon has a proven and extensive track record delivering complex IT business and infrastructure solutions by leading small or large teams through all phases of the project life cycle, including business process modelling. Mr. McKibbon has domain expertise in applications built on commercial, off-the-shelf (COTS) software and hardware and experience with waterfall and agile development techniques. Mr. McKibbon has successfully led project teams by leveraging his hands-on skills, industry trends and best practices. He has facilitated sessions to clarify business requirements, identify alternative technical solutions and set expectations for delivery and is able to prepare the project scope, action plans, schedules, budgets, and manage the approval process. Mr. McKibbon can assess project complexity and critical success factors and identify project interdependencies, risks, issues to make effective trade-offs. Mr. McKibbon takes ownership and provides a single point of contact, communication and accountability. He engages at all levels with well-developed communications, listening, probing and presentation skills and understands the value of encouraging and integrating feedback from clients, functional experts and senior management. Mr. McKibbon is highly disciplined, organized and effective in challenging, high-pressure environments. He brings a creative, consensus-building approach and is effective in spotting talent, building, organizing and motivating teams. Mr. McKibbon is experienced in planning and executing integrated business and IT strategic and operational plans. Mr. McKibbon holds a Bachelor of Computer Science from Carleton University and is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and Agile ScrumMaster. Mr. McKibbon holds a security clearance at the Secret Level.