Lucas Solmes

New Verticals Strategy & Ops @ DoorDash
New York City, United States

Experience

Full Time

3 yrs 3 mos

Associate Manager, New Verticals, Strategy & Ops | Grocery GM Team

April - Present
New York City

Senior Associate, New Verticals, Strategy & Ops | Grocery GM Team

Sep 2022 - Apr 2024 · 1 yr 8 mos
New York City

Performance: Awarded company wide monthly 'hot bag' recognition, given to only 3 employees each month, as nominated / voted on by peers.

Associate, New Verticals, Strategy & Ops | Grocery GM Team

Aug 2021 - Aug 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo
Vancouver

2 yrs 9 mos

Manager, Digital Strategy

Apr 2021 - Aug 2021 · 5 mos
Toronto

Senior Associate, Corporate Strategy

Dec 2019 - Apr 2021 · 1 yr 5 mos
Toronto

Associate, Rotational Leadership Program

Jun 2018 - Nov 2019 · 1 yr 6 mos
Toronto

Post-grad, full-time leadership rotational program with four six-month rotations providing opportunities to explore various strategy, finance, and analytics roles.

While at UBC

Customer Service Representative at Scotiabank

Part time role during University - Onsite Digital Banking Expert
Vancouver

Strategy Co-Op at BMO

Toronto

Education

UBC Sauder School of Business

Bachelor of Commerce Co-op
2014-2018
Vancouver

Harvard Extension School Studies

Financial Statement Analysis (MOOC)

Awards:

  • TD Bank’s Outstanding Aboriginal in Business (2016)

  • TD Bank’s Outstanding Aboriginal in Business (2017)

  • Geoff. Clark Co-op Award (2017)

  • Student Experience Grant (2017)

  • Dean's Innovation Grant (2018)

  • Co-op Student of The Year @ BMO Co-op, BMO recognition attached below (2017 -2018)

  • Corporate Finance Institute - Finance Student Award (2018)

  • Invited by UBC President Santa J. Ono - 14th Annual President’s Student Leadership Recognition Event (2018)

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Learning & Upskilling

Bootcamps

  • Skillful: Bootcamp designed to launch professionals into a Strategy & Operations career at leading Tech firms. Analytics project, Project Juniper (linked below), using tools like SQL (View LearnSQL Certification) and Tableau to diagnose root problems of a marketplace business, and present recommendations to mentor panel

Certifications

SQL Certification

Codecademy
Issued Dec 2020

Bloomberg Market Concepts (BMC)

Bloomberg News
Issued Sep 2017

Canadian Securities Course (Canadian equivalent to US Series 7)

Canadian Securities Institute
Issued Jul 2019

Facebook Blueprint

Canadian Securities Institute
Issued Jul 2019

CFA Investment Foundations Program (Funded by UBC Student Experience Award)

Issued May 2018

Google Analytics Certified

Google
Issued Sep2015
Credential ID recognizing a +80% on Final Exam

Google Adwords Certified (+ Mobile Advertising)

Google
Issued Sep2015
Credential ID recognizing a +80% on Final Exam

Projects

Writing on Mirror.xyz

Kiliminjaro Trip [8/22]

Project Juniper - BizOps

SQL Trello Resource Board

Medium

Volunteer

Ronald McDonald House Charities

Sep 2018 - Sep 2020
Toronto

  • Finance & Ops Lead at Ronald McDonald Charities, Young Professional Committee (2019-2021) [spotlight below🍟]

BMO

Aug 2018 - Feb 2021
Toronto

  • Executive Mentorship Program: Paired with Senior Digital Leader to gain visibility on Executive line-of-sight for firm-wide digital initiatives.

  • Diversity & Inclusion Recruitment Committee, Aboriginal Employee Resource Group (A-ERG)

Entrepreneurship

Portfolio originally created (circa 2016) to showcase entrepreneurial proof-of-work to prospective clients for digital consultancy startup

During undergrad @ UBC:

  • Bananifi: Spring.is incubator resident for Bananifi ; a rental platform for students (Previous portfolio archived highlights, here)

  • Sitka Strategies: Digital Consulting ; notable clients included Colliers & Cushman and Wakefield using our Product called Obelisk (Previous portfolio archived highlights, here & here)

  • YBK: An online forum, newsletter & resource for college students to learn about business @ theyoungbizkid.com

  • PRESENCE: Creating an online marketing activation for physical products using BLE Beacons Estimote (Previous portfolio archived highlights, here)

Ask Me About

  • Footy (Best team in the Premier League, ManCity FC)

  • Vintage bikes (I rock an Apollo)

  • Long-distance running

  • My reading list so far

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