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Digital strategy & operations leader

Digital strategy that delivers.

What makes change stick?

I help organizations modernize the services people rely on by setting a clear direction, coaching teams through change, and measuring what improves.

ProfileToronto, Canada
Daniel Puiatti in a black suit and tie
Daniel Puiatti
In digital strategy, delivery, and operations
10+ years
Annual users across enterprise web platforms
2M+
Ontarians reached through World Teachers’ Day campaigns
1M+

01 Leadership

Leadership that inspires.

What helps people do their best work? I set a clear direction, give people decisions they can own, and coach them through the harder calls.

  1. Set direction
  2. Give ownership
  3. Check the results
Turn priorities into a plan

I work with leaders and specialists to agree on what needs to change, what we can deliver, and what can wait. Everyone should know who owns each decision and how we’ll tell if it worked.

Coach people to lead

I give specialists projects they can own and coach them through the decisions that come with that responsibility. I cross-train the team so people can take on new work and step in for each other.

Make services easier to run

I bring the people who build, publish, and support a service into planning early. We agree on who owns what and set up a review and publishing process they can keep using after launch.

Build accessibility into the work

I make accessibility part of the brief and the review process. Editors, designers, and developers know what to check while they can still make changes.

Measure what matters

Before launch, I ask which decision the results need to inform. I look at how people use a service and bring the findings back to the team so we can decide what to improve.

02 Selected work

What can I help you deliver?

I lead work across marketing, website and email modernization, analytics, and the publishing practices that keep services running.

Marketing & campaigns

Reach beyond the usual audience

I plan campaigns around who needs to hear the message and where they’re likely to see it. For World Teachers’ Day, I planned and ran a social campaign that reached more than a million Ontarians.

How do you reach different audiences?

I’ve promoted education events at SickKids Foundation, managed an editorial calendar and social promotion at Outpost, and planned public campaigns for the College.

For World Teachers’ Day, I used paid social to put a thank-you in front of people beyond our followers. We looked at what people responded to, and strong visuals and human stories helped shape later campaigns.

Annual fee reminders had a specific job. I helped line up the website, email, and social messages so people could find the payment step wherever they started.

Website modernization

Make public websites easier to use

I co-led a public website rebuild with IT. I brought editors and developers together to decide what to keep, what to improve, and what had to work on launch day.

How do you rebuild a site people rely on?

At Outpost, I maintained the magazine’s website and helped readers find its stories. The College’s public website rebuild brought those publishing decisions to a much larger site with more people relying on it.

I led the content assessment so editors and developers could decide what to keep, simplify, or reorganize. I worked with IT to flag launch risks early and made accessibility part of the page reviews.

The rebuild gave readers clearer pages and editors a site they could maintain more easily. I bring that focus to the help centre too, where people want an answer they can act on.

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Email modernization

Keep email working through change

I lead the Communications side of an email platform change. I work with IT to keep everyday sends on track and give staff templates that are easier to use and maintain.

How do you change platforms and keep sending?

I wrote and scheduled a monthly newsletter at Outpost and supported newsletters and major member communications at the College. That work taught me what publishers need to prepare a reliable send on a deadline.

I led the Communications work on the move from Listserv to Envoke and worked with IT to keep regular sends moving. I redesigned templates with a clear reading order and built accessibility into the layout.

That built on earlier accessibility reviews and a template I developed for stakeholder invitations. Publishers have a structure they can reuse across different kinds of messages.

Analytics & measurement

Turn reporting into better decisions

I built a dashboard that brings campaign results, traffic, and content performance together. It gives teams a common starting point for deciding what to improve.

Which numbers change the next decision?

At Outpost, I reported on online content and social performance. At the College, I helped bring social results into the Registrar’s Report and built a dashboard that brings together campaign, traffic, and page performance.

For an annual fee campaign, I looked at clicks on the payment link and completed payments separately. Seeing both gave the team a place to start if interest and follow-through moved in different directions.

In a regular review, we can start with a change in traffic and look at individual pages to see where it happened. That helps the team decide where a closer look might pay off.

Operations & governance

Give publishers a process they can run

I led an intranet move with the staff who would run it. We reviewed what to keep, trained publishers to manage their own pages, and launched on schedule.

Who keeps it working after launch?

I’ve built intake, publishing checks, and shared documentation for web, email, and social work. I worked with IT, design, and translation so each team knew when it needed to weigh in and what was ready to move forward.

For the SharePoint move, I brought publishers into the content review because they knew which pages staff relied on. I trained them to update their own pages, and the intranet launched on schedule.

I carry that ownership into everyday publishing. Cross-training and clear documentation help someone else step in when priorities change or a teammate is away.

Editorial & team leadership

Lead across disciplines

At Outpost Magazine, I managed four writers and led field crews. I coordinated writing, photography, and video to meet a daily publishing schedule.

How do you lead when plans change?

I’ve led multi-year website and email modernization work and week-long Arctic expeditions with live dispatches. On the longer projects, I help departments agree on priorities. In the field, I coordinated writers, photographers, and videographers as conditions changed.

In Taiwan, we kept publishing through severe weather. During emergency evacuations in Nunavut, I helped keep the crew informed and together so people knew what to focus on next.

I take that approach to developing specialists at the College. I give people decisions they can own, coach them through the harder calls, and cross-train the team so they can support each other when the plan shifts.

03 Experience

From frontline service to digital leadership

In frontline roles, I learned to listen to what people needed. As an editor, I learned to bring people with different skills together to deliver under a deadline. Both lessons shape how I lead digital work today.

2012–2016 · Outpost Magazine

Online Editor / Web Developer

I managed a team of four writers and led web development projects for the travel magazine. I also led field production teams on assignments in Nunavut, Taiwan and Quebec.

2016–2020 · Ontario College of Teachers

Digital Media Specialist (Contract)

I joined the College’s Digital Media team and supported publishing across its web, email and social channels.

2020–2022 · Ontario College of Teachers

Digital Media Specialist

My work connected publishing, accessibility checks and performance reporting across the College’s digital channels.

2022–present · Ontario College of Teachers

Senior Digital Media Strategist & Team Lead

I lead a team responsible for bilingual web, email, social, and intranet publishing. I set priorities, develop people, and work with other departments to carry major changes from planning through launch.

Full career timeline
  1. 2022–now
    Senior Digital Media Strategist & Team LeadOntario College of Teachers
  2. 2020–22
    Digital Media Specialist (Permanent)Ontario College of Teachers
  3. 2016–20
    Digital Media Specialist (Contract)Ontario College of Teachers
  4. 2012–16
    Online Editor / Web DeveloperOutpost Magazine
  5. 2012–13
    Communications CoordinatorSickKids Foundation
  6. 2011–12
    Communications InternThe Hospital for Sick Children
  7. 2010–11
    TelemarketerBoxpilot
  8. Communications & Policy Research AssistantGeorge Smitherman Mayoral Campaign
  9. 2008–10
    BaristaSecond Cup
  10. 2007–08
    TelemarketerGemma Communications
  11. 2005–08
    BaristaTimothy’s World Coffee
  12. 2003–04
    Customer Service RepresentativeZellers

04 Contact

What’s next for your digital team?

If you’re hiring a digital leader, I’d like to hear what you want your team to accomplish. I’m also open to speaking and collaboration.