Enterprise Parking Management System for Cities & Corporations
- Product Type: Multi-Product Enterprise Platform (B2B, B2G)
- Domain: Civic Tech / Smart Parking / SaaS Platform
- My Role: Product Lead – Platform Strategy & Modernization, City of Calgary (Calgary Parking Authority)
- Live Link: parkplus.ca
🧩 Product Overview
ParkPlus is the central parking management platform used by the City of Calgary’s Parking Authority, powering all core services across the municipality’s parking ecosystem.
This includes:
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✅ MyParking Mobile App
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✅ Monthly Contract Management System
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✅ FlexPass (Flexible Pass System)
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✅ Online Payment Portals
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✅ Parking Machine Integrations
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✅ BITS Enforcement System
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✅ Ticketing, Citing, and Legal Escalation Modules
ParkPlus serves as the source of truth across systems, syncing data across enforcement, payments, reservations, and customer records, while integrating with third-party parking tools and corporate portals.
🛠️ My Role & Impact
As the platform product lead, I managed both core operations and the future roadmap of ParkPlus, with a strong focus on modernizing infrastructure, improving interoperability, and enabling commercial scalability.
Key contributions:
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🧩 Led platform modernization strategy to support scalable, flexible integrations with external vendors & municipal clients.
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🔁 Positioned ParkPlus as an integration-friendly system—allowing third-party payment apps, enforcement platforms, and customer tools to plug in seamlessly.
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🌐 Delivered third-party integrations for enterprise/corporate clients using ParkPlus-linked SaaS solutions.
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🏙️ Successfully implemented ParkPlus for two new municipalities in Alberta and British Columbia, expanding its adoption outside Calgary.
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📈 Established ParkPlus as a master orchestration layer in the larger parking ecosystem, handling cross-channel data flow, policy enforcement, and audit tracking.
🚀 Outcomes & Strategic Wins
- Enabled faster onboarding of new municipal and enterprise clients
- Increased flexibility of the payment ecosystem, improving user satisfaction
- Strengthened ParkPlus as a single source of truth—minimizing discrepancies across dependent systems
- Enhanced enforcement accuracy by ensuring real-time data flow between platforms
🧠 Why It Mattered
In the parking industry, giving users flexible payment options while maintaining robust enforcement, auditing, and regulatory compliance is critical.
By modernizing ParkPlus, we enabled frictionless user experiences without compromising the complexity of backend compliance systems.
🧰 Tech Stack Highlights
- API-first integrations
- Real-time payment sync
- Multi-tenant architecture for B2B/B2G onboarding
- Enforcement & citation data pipelines
- Role-based access controls & security workflows