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Successfully led and managed integration activities across multiple components and streams within a globally distributed team.Managed builds and deployments, as well as optimized the build release process. Supported build environment infrastructure and established best practices for continuous data integration.

Developed, executed, and managed the overall test strategy for the initial phase of a large Disaster Recovery infrastructure solution implementation.Successfully led and coordinated testing activities across various distributed teams, business units, and external vendors.Worked closely with senior management and executive teams on transition planning to ensure successful transition to steady-state operations.

As a hands-on Agile Software Development Team Lead, successfully led the end-to-end development of a complex, financial application. Activities included estimating, task scheduling, team building, code reviews, promoting continuous integration and test driven development.As an Application Architect, translated business requirements into detailed technical specifications, facilitated JAD sessions, as well as designed a custom mapping framework to process data files from Revenue Canada.

Led a team of architects / specialists in developing and executing the load testing strategy for three complex, distributed, financial applications.Hands-on with application and database performance tuning activities that included resolving concurrency related issues, analyzing explain plans, and optimizing inefficient SQL queries. In total, resolved over 50 load and performance related defects that led to a 71% improvement in the application processing rates.

Successfully led the full software development lifecycle (planning, estimating, team selection, design, implementation, test support, and transitioning) of a complex, financial application that included integration with Financial Institutions.Managed the merging of code changes from concurrent development in three separate code streams, performed code reviews, and facilitated developer orientation workshops.

Designed and implemented over 10 complex business functions for a financial application using Java, Spring, Hibernate, JSF, and various open-source technologies.Developed integration tests using Selenium, promoted continuous integration, and led test-driven development.

Developed UI and batch functionality for a complex, financial application using Java, Struts, Hibernate, Spring, and JSP technologies.Led major code refactorings to reduce complexity and improve application maintainability.Collaborated with the Business team to address issues and gaps identified during application development.Developed and implemented an Automated testing strategy that reduced each regression test cycle from 80 hours to 4 hours, resulting in significant improvements in the quality of the application.

Spearheaded the design and development of several high-performance, messaging-based, multi-threaded client/server applications to analyze and distribute real-time transit information. Developed REST based Web services and integrated real-time transit information with Google Maps using JavaScript and AJAX.