Founder & CEO · DigiSpace

I grow businesses and lead the change that makes growth stick.

I’m Jay — Founder & CEO of DigiSpace, a digital agency for Canadian businesses, and a project & change management specialist. I connect strategy, partnerships and delivery so good ideas become results people actually adopt.

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Founder & CEO DigiSpace Inc. Change lead Nordia · NQX

Business development, strategy, client partnerships, change management, project management, web and software, SEO and marketing, Jira, React, WordPress, Figma.

About

Founder, strategist and change leader.

I lead DigiSpace, a Moncton-based digital agency that gives small and growing organizations a middle ground between generic tools and oversized agency processes. My focus is the business first: the outcome, the partnership and the plan — then the technology that serves them.

Alongside it, I lead change and project work at Nordia Quantrics Experience — impact analysis, stakeholder alignment, communications and training. I also serve as Director of IT & Media for the Gujarati Samaj of New Brunswick and have taught at Fleming College. My career began in code, which is why I can bridge the boardroom and the build.

Years in tech
7+
Leading DigiSpace since Sept 2025
CEO
Forecast accuracy in my ML stock-model project
80%

Experience

Where I’ve made an impact.

From the help desk to running my own company — every step added a new lens on how people, strategy and technology work together.

  1. Founder & CEO

    DigiSpace Inc. · Moncton, NB

    • Set the strategy and lead business development for a digital agency serving Canadian businesses.
    • Own client partnerships end to end, working directly with the people planning and building each project.
    • Oversee delivery across website design, web development, custom software, e-commerce, SEO and social media.
    • Shape a clear four-step process — discover, define, design & build, launch & improve — with transparent scope and trade-offs.
    • Offer practical, people-led AI tools that automate repetitive work such as forms, documents and reporting.

    Industries: restaurants & hospitality · professional services · small and growing organizations

  2. Project & Change Management Specialist

    Nordia Quantrics Experience (NQX) · formerly Nordia Inc.

    • Lead change management activities using a structured methodology and Jira.
    • Build adoption strategies for the changes a project or initiative requires.
    • Run impact analyses and change-readiness assessments; identify key stakeholders.
    • Support communications and the design and delivery of training programs.

    Earlier at NQX: Subject Matter Expert (Mar 2022 – Jul 2023) · Technical Support Representative (May 2021 – Jan 2022)

  3. Director of IT & Media Volunteer

    Gujarati Samaj of New Brunswick

    • Develop and execute the annual communications plan with the nonprofit team.
    • Create and manage online content that engages audiences and drives action.
    • Oversee newsletters, brochures and the website; lead the team member handling site administration.
    • Track engagement metrics, organize annual meetings and manage media relations.
  4. Professor / Instructor

    Fleming College, Sutherland Campus · Tutor, Jan – Apr 2020

    • Prepared course outlines and materials; evaluated assignments, tests and overall progress.
    • Provided consultation time and administrative direction for students.
    • Maintained grade books and met grade-reporting and end-of-semester deadlines.
  5. Web Developer

    Think Forward Media, Barrie

    • Designed and developed sites from simple brochures to full e-commerce stores.
    • Worked in JavaScript, JSON, Liquid, Shopify, HTML, CSS and PHP; also OpenCart and Magento.
    • Documented the work and trained clients to use what was delivered.
  6. IT Helpdesk Associate

    Sutherland Global Services (AT&T), Windsor

    • Provided IT help to technicians and customers for one of the largest telecom companies.
    • Learned internal tools deeply to walk customers through problems and keep services running.

Selected work

Projects I’m proud of.

01

DigiSpace

2025 – Present · Founder & CEO

A digital agency in Moncton, NB building websites, web apps and marketing systems that help businesses be found, trusted and chosen — with design, development, SEO and practical AI under one roof.

  • Website Design
  • Web Development
  • Custom Software
  • E-commerce
  • SEO & Local SEO
  • Social Media
  • Branding
  • IT Consulting
Visit dispace.ca (opens in a new tab)
02

GSNB Website

2024 · Gujarati Samaj of New Brunswick

The community’s home on the web — built on WordPress with PHP, MySQL and carefully chosen plugins, and kept current as part of my IT & Media role.

  • WordPress
  • PHP
  • MySQL
Visit gsnb.ca (opens in a new tab)
03

Peterborough Rotary Club

2019 – 2020

Strategy and delivery of the club’s website, plus ‘how-to’ training so the team could manage content, insights and traffic reports themselves.

  • WordPress
  • JavaScript
  • CSS
Visit site (opens in a new tab)
04

Bellwether Investment

2017 – 2018

API-based visualization of real-time and historical stock data, with Python models (Bollinger, KNN, SVR) that simulated future prices at ~80% accuracy.

  • Python
  • REST
  • MySQL
  • ML
View code (opens in a new tab)
05

Let’s Travel

2021

A React app that detects your location, then surfaces nearby hotels, restaurants and attractions on a live map with weather.

  • React
  • Google Maps API
  • RapidAPI
View code (opens in a new tab)
06

Memories Project

2021

A family platform for sharing life events and keeping an electronic album, built on the MERN stack with Redux and Material-UI.

  • MongoDB
  • Express
  • React
  • Node
View code (opens in a new tab)
07

Let’s Connect

2021

A social platform for developers and designers to share feeds, chat and swap stories of their work — MERN stack with a Node.js back end.

  • MERN
  • REST
  • Responsive
View code (opens in a new tab)

More projects available on GitHub (opens in a new tab) and on request.

Toolkit

Skills across both worlds.

Leadership & growth

  • Business Development
  • Strategy & Vision
  • Client Partnerships
  • Team Leadership
  • Digital Marketing
  • Nonprofit Communications

Delivery & change

  • Project Management
  • Change Management
  • Agile
  • Impact Analysis
  • Stakeholder Comms
  • Training Design
  • Jira
  • Trello
  • Blueprint

Languages

  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
  • Node.js
  • Python
  • PHP
  • Java
  • C / C++

Frameworks

  • React
  • Next.js
  • Express
  • WordPress
  • Flask
  • Django
  • GraphQL

Data

  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • SQL Server
  • SQLite
  • MongoDB
  • Firestore

Design & tools

  • Figma
  • Adobe Express
  • Photoshop
  • Illustrator
  • Canva
  • Git
  • Visual Studio
  • Microsoft Office

Credentials

Always learning.

  • Post Graduate Diploma, Wireless Information Networking

    Fleming College, Peterborough · Software development and network engineering

  • Bachelor of Computer Engineering

    Gujarat Technological University, India · Software development and web design

Certifications

  • Oct 2022Learning Data Analytics 1
  • Feb 2022Excel: Data Analysis
  • Feb 2022Non-Technical Skills for Data Scientists
  • Apr 2021MERN Stack Front to Back
  • Jun 2020React.js Essential Training

Contact

Have a project, a partnership, or a change in mind?

Whether it’s a new website, a growth conversation or a change program, I’d love to hear about it. Email is the quickest way to reach me.

jay@dispace.ca for DigiSpace and business enquiries · Gmail for personal and career messages.

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