Product & technology leadership
Led an AI-powered portfolio strategy anchored by the Experience Management Platform for a $1B+ services organization. The transformation contributed to more than $300M in revenue growth.
Executive experience
Dean Fernandes
Technology and product executive connecting strategy, people and platforms with growth, stronger economics and accountable delivery.
Manalapan, New Jersey
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Both sides of enterprise IT. One business perspective.
For more than 25 years, I have led internal technology organizations and built the platforms and managed-service portfolios that enterprise CIOs evaluate and buy.
That dual perspective helps me connect investment decisions with operating needs, product differentiation and commercial execution. My experience spans product management, software and platform engineering, infrastructure, IT operations and P&L accountability.
At NWN and DXC, I built and managed Digital Employee Experience (DEX) offers within the Digital Workplace portfolio. This adds an employee-experience perspective to my platform and offer-management background.
Mandates where I can contribute
- CTO and chief product and technology leadership
- Enterprise IT strategy, Digital Workplace modernization and operating performance
- AI-enabled products, Platform strategy and workflow transformation
- Portfolio strategy, pricing, partnerships and commercialization
- Global team development, M&A integration and executive change
Selected career experience
Leadership at enterprise scale.
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Global portfolio leadership
Led a 250-person global product and engineering organization supporting a $2B workplace portfolio, with a focus on platform automation, delivery economics and product execution.
Global workplace transformation
Built Global Workplace Services from the ground up, leading a team of up to 120 and a workplace program serving more than 52,000 employees.
Business building & technology leadership
At Nortel, progressed through engineering and executive leadership to CTO and General Manager, building and scaling a $50M+ Network Application Services business. Career experience also includes executive IT leadership at CSC.
Leadership beyond the mandate.
My approach combines a clear business agenda with decisions, operating cadence, coaching and ownership. The goal is to deliver progress while building the team’s ability to sustain it.
Community leadership includes co-founding the Hockey Knight charitable foundation, serving on the NJ Jr. Titans Youth Hockey board, and coaching university and youth hockey.
Recognition & development
- CSC Five Ingenious Minds recognition
- Nortel Top Talent: top 8% of global employees
- Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 nominee
- Executive education at London Business School
- SAFe and Six Sigma certifications
Let’s discuss your executive mandate.
Start with the opportunity, the business challenge and the outcome you need.
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