Choice Properties REIT / AI Strategy & Automation

Julian Tiqui

Analyst, AI & Automation

Founder, Palate

Computer Engineering graduate

Practical intelligencefor systems thathave to work.

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Toronto / CanadaSystems / Software / AIFocused on useful work

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01 / About

Software meets the real world.

I’m an engineer and analyst interested in the point where software leaves the screen and starts improving how something actually works.

My experience spans enterprise AI strategy, responsible-use governance, automation, autonomous robotics, and technical leadership. I turn ambiguous problems into reliable systems that help people adopt AI safely, make teams faster, and make machines more capable.

AI strategyGovernance & adoptionSoftware & autonomyTechnical leadership

02 / Selected work

Four systems. One standard: make the result useful.

Work with a measurable finish line.

01 / Current role

May 2026 — Present

Choice
Properties REIT

Analyst, AI & Automation

Strategy

I lead the company’s AI strategy and automation roadmap, partnering with business leaders on use cases that have saved more than 4,000 employee hours.

Governance

I develop and operationalize responsible-use principles, controls, and standards for secure, consistent AI adoption.

Adoption

I lead company-wide learning, evaluate platforms, coordinate pilots, and manage consultants and third-party vendors.

4K+Employee
hours saved

AIStrategy &
automation roadmap

Org.Company-wide
learning

SafeGovernance
and controls

Amica Senior Lifestyles · Jun 2024 — Mar 2026

Enterprise platforms & automation

Built SharePoint infrastructure and automated workflows for 1,600+ users, automated Azure and Entra provisioning, audited 1,100+ Teams groups, and contributed to a 30% reduction in IT support tickets.

Capstone · Sep 2025 — Apr 2026

Wireless network emulator for federated learning

A Linux-based Mininet-WiFi and traffic-control platform modelling latency, jitter, packet loss, and bandwidth constraints. Integrated Flower and TensorFlow Federated to study effects on training stability and accuracy.

Perception & Autonomy Lead · 2025

Autonomous car

Built a real-time OpenCV and TensorFlow sensor-fusion pipeline that achieved 95% detection accuracy.

03 / Education & Leadership

Engineering depth, tested through real responsibility.

Built at Queen’s.
Proven on the water.

Queen’s University · 2022 — 2026

Bachelor of Applied Science

Computer Engineering · Kingston, Ontario

Leadership case / Queen’s aQuatonomous

Jan 2024 — Apr 2026

Queen’s
aQuatonomous

Autonomous Surface Vehicle Team

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Control Engineer · 2024

Implemented and benchmarked path-planning algorithms on an NVIDIA Jetson, improving autonomous path efficiency by 22%.

Autonomy Lead · 2024 — 2025

Architected the ROS 2 stack across perception, simulation, and navigation, then directed a 15-member autonomy subteam.

Co-Captain · 2025 — 2026

Led 110+ members across six subteams and a 14-person executive board, directing technical strategy, funding, and competition delivery.

3rdOverall
RoboBoat 2026

1stIn North
America

22%Better autonomous
path efficiency

$40K+External
support secured

Palate

Dining, made personal.

04 / Founder · Product & Engineering

Good taste is better
when it’s shared.

I founded Palate, a premium native iOS app built around your taste, your people, and the places worth remembering. Save tables, log visits, share lists, and use Blend to find the restaurant everyone can feel good about.

Follow @palateblend Visit palateblend.com

05 / Capabilities

A focused toolkit, organized by the work it enables.

Depth across the whole system.

AI strategy & automation

AI strategy · Agent development · Governance · Responsible use · Process mapping · Evaluation · Adoption

Software & data

Python · C / C++ · Java · SQL · MATLAB · Linux · Snowflake · NumPy · Matplotlib

Robotics & autonomy

ROS / ROS 2 · Gazebo · OpenCV · TensorFlow · LiDAR · Navigation · Sensor fusion

Hardware & engineering

KiCAD · LTSpice · Quartus · SolidWorks · Onshape · VHDL · Nios II

Enterprise platforms

Microsoft Azure · Entra ID · SharePoint · ServiceNow · Microsoft 365 · Google Workspace

06 / Résumé

Education, experience,
and technical work.

Queen’s University
BASc, Computer Engineering
2022 — 2026

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07 / Contact

If you’re solving a hard systems problem, I’d like to hear about it.

The best conversations start with the problem—not the pitch deck.

Emailjulian.tiqui@gmail.com Phone+1 647 526 4610 LinkedIn/in/julian-tiqui GitHub/J-Tiqui RésuméDownload PDF