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Calgary, Alberta

Providing access to private investment opportunities to business owners and individual investors, who may wish to consider including alternative strategies in their portfolios.

Manage and update the class schedules, appointments, resources, and configurations for equilibrium (www.equilibriumpilates.ca) in MindBody Online - a scheduling and marketing web-based application used by many companies in the health and wellness industry. http://www.mindbodyonline.com/

The Luxury Real Estate Investment Group is an organization that relocates executives from all over the world. We buy luxury homes all across Canada and United States. Our target is homes in the $2MM - $25MM range. We work with both homeowners and agents in the acquisition of and resale of these properties. Our goal is to help the owner by purchasing their property. We buy at a fair price and sell at a fair price for all parties concerned.

As QA lead provide the following services:QA Lead role on projects including Test Management and Test Planning, Test Coordination- Projects include: OPSCO Financials, US Financials, Field Service Automation, Statistical ReportingQA Testing for Support Releases- Includes review and approval of release candidates, scheduling deployment, reviewing test results, coordinating regression testingEstablished QA Methodology and Procedures for IT projects and support processesTransition of QA roles and responsibilities to permanent QA employee

Test Lead responsible for - NAD83 Migration Project- Defining test strategy and test plans for data migration phases

As QA lead responsible for:.- Setup and Define QA Processes- Create and Implement Testing Process and provide Test Templates- Apply Testing Methodology- Provide direction of testing activities for project and Application Support Teams- Manage Defect Logging, Tracking and Resolution for Development/Testing- Support Log Management- Log, assess, track, prioritize, schedule, resource, release management- Transitioning role to permanent QA Lead

Provided Test Management and Solutions for following Projects- Dataphile Application using Rational Robot- Test Management for TECP - Truncation of Electronic Cheque Presentment- Cash Management Services – Online Banking Development- Spinnaker – Retail Loans ReplacementProvided input and recommendations for newly created Quality Assurance Group- Team Roles and Responsibilities- Test Planning and Development Processes- Rational Tool Usage Guide

Provided Testing Services - part-time- Designed, developed and executed test scripts for a Health and Safety product - VIMS

Provided Testing Services for Voice Recognition Systems- Design, develop and execute Test Coverage Matrices- Project - Royal Bank’s Speech Integrated Call Flow for Customer Banking

Provided Quality Assurance planning and direction for a fast paced software development company in an agile programming environment.Supervised a team of two testers supporting 10 developers.Responsible for testing, code promotion, software bundling, release planning/scheduling and deployment Supported deployment of software to three production environmentsImplemented a multi-environment testing process Defined and implemented regression and load testing proceduresImplemented use of automated test toolsImplemented a weekly server release schedule to sspport development delivery timeframesResponsible for Problem Reporting and TrackingResponsible for Data Management, and Data Cleansing of Customer DataParticipated in product planning and review sessions during development lifecycle

Managed application support services for outsourcing contract at Talisman EnergyResponsible for defining, recruiting and coordinating service delivery teamsCareer development, assessment and review of staff members

2000 Sr. IT Project Manager - Solutions Group1997 – 2000 Operations Manager - Applications Group1997 Development Team Coordinator - FINSTRAT1983 - 1997 Application Developer and Architect

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Bsc (Cs), Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Lab Tutorial Assistant Volleyball Basketball

Bsc (Hk), Human Kinetics

Activities and Societies: Varsity Volleyball