Responsible for the design, implementation and evolution of an enterprise delivery system forcomposable cloud infrastructure. Founded on robust architectural patterns, operational best practices and enterprise governance, the platform enables application teams to deliver business critical systems with speed, safety, security and agility. Strategically positioned to support disparate business units and their product development teams, language choices and system architectures, this DevOps as a library approach dramatically reduces implementation cycles, increases reliability and removes cognitive overhead and complexity, all while standardizing operational support and tooling. The platform currently manages the lifecycles of 120+ customer facing and internal business critical services.

Responsible for the architecture and implementation of a patient to clinical trial matching and enrollment platform. Incorporates a state-of-the-art, clinically tuned NLP engine and RDF graph database to match patients with novel treatments and therapies for free through mobile apps and progressive web apps. Employs Kubernetes on Google Cloud Platform to efficiently provide secure and compliant single-tenant federated infrastructures for biotechs, clinics, physicians and patients.

Responsible for the technical leadership, strategy, resourcing and recruiting for a web development SaaS platform running Python, Go and Node containers on GCP with Kubernetes. I managed technical staff and projects in a setting of 23 Senior Engineers and SREs in cross-functional agile teams across the US and Europe. I have a particular focus on maintaining a strong engineering culture with pragmatic (small-a) agile organizational structures.

Responsible for all aspects of product development, design, engineering, operations and data management for this hedge fund tracking service. As the sole technical contributor, I took the product from concept to initial launch in 3 months employing Meteor on top of Node.js to build a full-stack Javascript responsive web application and paid subscription service. Designed to run lean, the service has very low operational burn ensuring behavioral analytics can continue to capture input for further feature development. ROI is realized with a very low subscriber base.

Product RoleServing as a key member of the management team, I lead planning and execution for the company's strategic product direction. Responsible for new product development initiatives, I launched two new products from concept to revenue generation and evaluated the viability of several other growth opportunities. I successfully introduced lean startup practices and took ownership of the product development process from feature definition, interaction design, work breakdown, development planning and execution and on through quality assurance, launch, support and success analytics. I ensure that we address our markets with products designed for specific customer needs while keeping broader applications in mind.Engineering RoleAs a student of developing trends and effective technologies, I ensure the company maintains and further expands its technology leadership position with additional focus on the efficiency of resources and the development of engineering capabilities. I have successfully employed a number of agile practices such as remote pair-programming, peer-based code reviews, continuous integration and team retrospectives to improve quality, distribute expertise and ensure team cohesion. I maintain my hands-on grounding through continuous feature development of production code.

Responsible for the durability and evolution of a multi-tenant SaaS used worldwide by top pharmaceutical drug developers and researchers. Built a regulatory compliant multi-module process tracking platform from the ground up using Ruby, Rails and AngularJS while managing 13 FTEs. Developed discrete DSLs for system behavior and configuration marking a vast improvement in customer on-boarding and deployment scaling utilizing the customer's process analysts and our non-technical staff. Resulted in a successful acquisition by Oracle Life Sciences division.

Responsible for the definition and efficient breakout of engineering tasks based on product requirements and meeting aggressive release schedules. Lead and managed in-house teams of engineering (8) and production operations (2) as well as a team of remote contract developers (3).

Served as an individual contributor in the bootstrapping of the company's minimum viable product using Ruby and Rails. Employed agile methodologies such as test-driven development, pair-programming and continuous integration.

Developed back-end web services and front-end user interfaces for high-throughput DNA sequencing platforms using Java and JEE. Conducted seminars and organized practical projects to transition staff from Perl to proficient Java engineers.

Built a social engagement website to accompany a multi-user nightlife themed 3d virtual environment. Developed back-end components and user interfaces for personal profile management, social networking and in-world event planing and hosting. The site was developed from high-fidelity paper designs using Java and Wicket.

Developed SOAP and RESTful APIs to manage, monitor and dynamically scale infrastructure and operations for a multi-user 3d social entertainment environment using Java, Spring and advanced distributed shell scripting. Built an iTunes inspired web-based drag-and-drop interface to manage over 90 concurrent audio streams and a terabyte mp3 library using ruby-on-rails. Responsible for all components of the development toolchain, tracking and source control.

Senior developer and IT manager responsible for worldwide development and deployment of internaland externally facing applications, services and infrastructure, enabling a wide range of businessfunctions serving 450 employees. Areas covered include Process Management, Content Management, Identity Management, Software Delivery, Compliance, Search, Sales, Support and Partner Portals.

Built web sites and online services for some of Canada’s leading companies and government organizations including the Globe & Mail national newspaper, Dynamic Mutual financial services, Liberty Media television and the federal government’s Health Canada public information resource.