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Guillaume Jandelle

Montreal

Summary

Senior Engineering Director with a proven track record in senior leadership roles, driving strategic initiatives, and fostering organizational growth. Successfully led cross-functional teams to achieve key business objectives, enhancing operational efficiency and stakeholder satisfaction. Demonstrated expertise in project management and strategic planning, experienced in team leadership and operational excellence. Utilizes proven methodologies to drive business growth and enhance organizational performance, with a track record of successfully leading diverse teams and managing complex projects.

Overview

26
26
years of professional experience

Work History

Engineering Senior Director

Planet DDS
01.2022 - Current
  • Company Overview: Planet DDS is a U.S.-based provider of SaaS solutions for the dental industry. Following its acquisition of Dovetail in 2022, the company expanded its digital product portfolio to serve clinics across North America.
  • Lead a global engineering team of 20 across multiple time zones, overseeing the delivery and evolution of two core SaaS products within the Planet DDS portfolio.
  • Define and execute engineering strategy to ensure product scalability, performance, and quality, aligned with enterprise architecture and cloud best practices.
  • Drive the continuous improvement of a tele-dentistry mobile application IOS/Android, enhancing accessibility and user experience for clinical staff and patients.
  • Champion Agile transformation and introduce shift-left practices, improving development efficiency and code quality across all teams.
  • Collaborate with DevOps, Security, IT, Product Management, Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success to deliver roadmap commitments and customer-driven innovation.
  • Manage and optimize cloud infrastructure costs across AWS and GCP environments, balancing performance and financial efficiency.
  • Spearhead the integration of AI-driven development tools e.g., CoPilot, Claude, Cursor to boost developer productivity and modernize engineering workflows.

General Manager Dovetail Technologies

Planet DDS
01.2022 - 12.2023
  • Led the post-acquisition transformation of Dovetail, a SaaS product for solo dental clinic management, following its acquisition by Planet DDS. Mandated to align the product and team with new corporate strategy prior to product sunset.
  • Spearheaded platform reengineering to adopt a modern web application tech stack, improving maintainability and performance
  • Directed product strategy and acted as interim Product Manager, managing roadmap development and mentoring a junior product owner
  • Designed and executed cloud migration strategy from AWS to GCP, enhancing system performance and alignment with enterprise infrastructure standards
  • Managed offshore teams for complex data migration projects and oversaw cross-functional delivery execution
  • Defined product sunset strategy

Chief Technology Officer

Dovetail
11.2020 - 02.2022
  • Led technology and product modernization for a SaaS dental clinic management solution, overseeing full engineering and technical operations prior to the company’s acquisition.
  • Restructured engineering operations by implementing Agile (SCRUM) methodologies and enforcing modern development best practices.
  • Recruited, onboarded, and mentored new technical talent to build a high-performing engineering team.
  • Collaborate closely with the executive leadership team, including CEO / CFO, to ensure technology strategies support broader business objectives.
  • Define and execute the technology vision and roadmap aligned with the company’s overall business goals
  • Supported and enabled product management activities through training, coaching, and strategic collaboration
  • Designed cloud infrastructure to ensure redundancy, scalability, and performance in a production environment.
  • Collaborated closely with customer success teams during onboarding and support, maintaining strong customer relationships.
  • Directed offshore resources for data migration efforts, aligning global delivery with business priorities.

Director of Engineering

IBS PLC
09.2010 - 11.2020
  • Company Overview: IBS Software's mission is to transform how travel companies operate in a digital world by delivering next-generation products to accelerate growth, drive efficiency, and create differentiated customer experiences.
  • Owned the full product-development lifecycle for a market-leading airline crew-scheduling suite built on advanced Operations Research algorithms—driving roadmap definition, requirements capture, and CI/CD across hosted, on-prem, AWS, and GCP environments.
  • Architected and executed a multi-year cloud transformation, re-platforming desktop applications to a SaaS, micro-services-based web solution (React, Restful), unlocking new subscription revenue streams and enterprise-grade scalability.
  • Led cross-functional delivery—engineering, product, DevOps, and QA—guiding ~60 global team members and offshore partners to ship high-quality releases for major carriers worldwide.
  • Set division-wide technology strategy and application architecture, ensuring alignment of technical investments with airline market needs, security, and compliance requirements.
  • Partnered with Professional Services, Sales, and Finance leadership to shape business strategy; presented quarterly KPIs and strategic updates to corporate executives.
  • Managed multimillion-dollar budgets and schedules, creating resource-leveling plans, securing R&D tax credits (in collaboration with KPMG), and meeting aggressive revenue targets.
  • Implemented Lean, Scrum, and Kanban practices, boosting delivery velocity and predictability while raising customer-satisfaction scores year over year.
  • Instituted division-wide quality-assurance standards (tools, metrics, processes) that significantly reduced post-release defects and enhanced customer trust.
  • Championed a culture of innovation, transparency, and collaboration; hired and mentored technical talent, provided ongoing training, and fostered an engaging workplace.
  • Negotiated and governed technical partnerships (e.g., Sabre, AIMS) to ensure seamless integrations and joint go-to-market success for airline customers.

Development Manager

Kronos
09.2006 - 09.2010
  • Led Java development team for the AD OPT division of Kronos (now Ultimate Kronos Group)
  • Managed all the development life cycle of two main products
  • Operated a shift left transition for automated testing
  • Recruited, onboarded, and mentored software development teams in a high-performing engineering team.

Project Manager

Kronos
09.2005 - 09.2006

Technical Leader

Alstom
09.2003 - 09.2005
  • Company Overview: Telecite operates networks of electronic media billboards installed within a wide range of public transport systems. Alstom acquired Telecite Inc which enabled Telecite to win a project to rebuild the entire monitoring system for the Montreal subway system.
  • Lead and manage all the efforts of the development team for software used in a real time environment
  • Build hardware & software recommendation for the new control center of the Montreal Subway.
  • Own definition, strategy and implementation of the development infrastructure for the project
  • Develop product development schedules for project deliverables
  • Monitor budgets and schedules of due dates by providing project monitoring dashboards
  • Responsible of technological software & architecture choices
  • Research, negotiate of terms and contractual management with subcontractors

Product Manager - Project Leader

Positron Public Safety Systems
09.2000 - 09.2003
  • Company Overview: Geographic Information System (GIS) data has played a role in legacy 911 environments, but it moves to center stage in the NG911 environment, delivering enhanced geospatial data and advanced situational awareness that dramatically increases location accuracy and reduces response times.
  • Manage and plan implementation of several software products
  • Coordinate products deployment with other departments
  • Lead customer requirements gathering for new projects
  • Produce reports of R&D activities
  • Contribute to evolution of software architecture, selecting and promoting technologies to ensure Positron remains a leader within its business domain.
  • Responsible for technological and software architecture choices
  • Participate in RFP answers and customer presentations for large implementation projects (USA, Europe, South America)
  • Document requirements and define product roadmap
  • Implementation of key product features

Director - Research & Development

GLOBAL GEOMATICS INC
01.1999 - 09.2000
  • Company Overview: Global Geomatics had developed a technology in collaboration with the US and Canadian Defense in order to use heterogenous geographical imagery seamlessly without data conversion. The Director Research and development priority was to convert an opensource technology into a commercial grade product.
  • Manage engineering team (Development, QA)
  • Manage and organize technical resources dedicated to the product deployment and Support
  • Elaborate technological orientation for the enterprise product
  • Plan and manage research & development projects
  • Elaborate and manage annual budget for the engineering department;
  • Participate to the elaboration of the business plan;
  • Establish and maintain technical relationship with customers
  • Project management for major international projects (Europe, Asia, America North/South);

Education

Master of Business Administration - Business

HEC Montreal
Montreal, QC
12.2016

GED -

Scrum Alliance
Boston
03.2008

Montreal Research Center in Computer Science
Montreal, QC
12.1997

Institut Technologia
Montreal, QC
12.1997

Bachelor of Science -

Polytechnique Montreal
Montreal
01.1991

Skills

  • Bilingual leadership in French and English
  • Organizational strategy development
  • Cloud migration planning
  • Legacy system enhancement
  • Collaborative leadership
  • Adaptable organizational skills
  • Customer-oriented project execution
  • Effective communication
  • Proficient in project planning and coordination
  • Agile methodologies
  • Data-informed decision-making
  • KPI development and tracking
  • Team development and engagement
  • Operations management expertise
  • Strategic innovation oversight
  • Effective verbal communication
  • Analytical decision-making
  • Operational efficiency enhancement
  • Strategic planning
  • Innovative thinking
  • Effective goal development
  • Talent acquisition and retention

Languages

English (fluent)
French (fluent)
Spanish (Beginner)

Timeline

Engineering Senior Director

Planet DDS
01.2022 - Current

General Manager Dovetail Technologies

Planet DDS
01.2022 - 12.2023

Chief Technology Officer

Dovetail
11.2020 - 02.2022

Director of Engineering

IBS PLC
09.2010 - 11.2020

Development Manager

Kronos
09.2006 - 09.2010

Project Manager

Kronos
09.2005 - 09.2006

Technical Leader

Alstom
09.2003 - 09.2005

Product Manager - Project Leader

Positron Public Safety Systems
09.2000 - 09.2003

Director - Research & Development

GLOBAL GEOMATICS INC
01.1999 - 09.2000

Master of Business Administration - Business

HEC Montreal

GED -

Scrum Alliance

Montreal Research Center in Computer Science

Institut Technologia

Bachelor of Science -

Polytechnique Montreal

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