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He was VP of Corporate Relations at the Ontario Realty Corporation (now Infrastructure Ontario), director of the eHealth Program at the Ministry of Health and then finance director at the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing.&nbsp;He became Assistant Deputy Minister (ADM) and Chief Administrative Officer at Municipal Affairs and Housing before moving to the Ministry of Government and Consumer Services (now Public and Business Service Delivery) as ADM of Consumer Services Operations, then interim Associate Deputy Minister of ServiceOntario, and finally as ADM of the Enterprise Business Services Division at Ontario Shared Services where he also led the establishment of a province-wide PPE logistics and distribution facility in a week at the start of the pandemic. 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