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Kitchener, On, Ca

Kitchener, On, Ca

Calgary, Alberta, Ca

• Leading our engineering team that is building the most advanced and accessible online proctoring SAAS product.

Kitchener, Ontario, Ca

• Led 4 development teams through 3 Team Leads. Managed 16 reports (8 direct, 8 indirect) responsible for all development.• Improved agile adoption, reducing release cycles from more than 6 months to every 4-8 weeks.• Organized and led the first 2 Shinydocs Engineering Summits, aligning the team and launching a new product on time post-layoffs.• Developed C# ASP.NET code for products enabling businesses to scan, enrich, and action content in Enterprise Content Management systems.• Reorganized the engineering department amid a 75% downsizing, maintaining team motivation and meeting customer commitments.• Coached 4 developers to promotion through one-on-one mentorship.

Ottawa, Ontario, Ca

• Commanded a section of 15 soldiers, teaching training courses and leading excursions.• Managed equipment and supply coordination for 200 people.• Served on operations such as Ottawa flood relief in May 2019, and the G8/G20 summit in Jun 2010

Waterloo, On, Ca

• Led a team of 10 developers responsible for the development and operations of all OpenText SMB/C websites and eCommerce systems.• Established an on-call program and server monitoring, reducing incident resolution time from days to minutes.• Rebuilt a team post-acquisition, hiring 8 PHP and C# developers and achieving 0 turnover since the start.

Kitchener, On, Ca

• Led our Search team of 11 developers and testers working on a SAAS intranet product.• Achieved perfect retention and 3 promotions through relationship-building and coaching.• Proposed and delivered a high-risk project to replace our search engine on time and under budget, saving $300,000/yr and improving functionality significantly for customers.• Developed enterprise C# ASP.NET code used by 1 million users, and several customers with 100,000 employees each.

Kitchener, On, Ca

• Developed code in C# ASP.Net for SAAS intranet product.• Led a team of 6 to implement push notifications in a hackathon winning first place.• Delivered OpenAPI documentation for 500 endpoints to empower partner developers.

Winnipeg, Mb, Ca

• In charge of all development for a C# ASP.Net investment management website, including hosting, and data migration.• Created a C# desktop application that synchronized multiple distributed SQL Server databases with intermittent network access.• Developed and supported a Python IOT application for farmers to monitor their grain bins via iOS and Android tablets over the internet.

New York, Ny, Us

• 2 Co-op terms, part-time during school, and full-time starting Jan 2013• Designed and developed a comprehensive financial trading risk system in C#.• In charge of Operations, managing servers collocated with financial exchanges, including creating scripts to reduce deployment times from 45 minutes of manual effort per server to 30 seconds fully automated.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

• Developed Java code for the TD banking app for iOS, and Android.

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Leadership Wtf (Where To Focus)

Computer Programmer Analyst, Information Technology