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Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Contributing to customer success and operational excellence in order to accelerate xMentium's trajectory.Collaborating with the CTO and multiple teams within the organization to plan, build, and deliver business applications and solutions, including key integrations.Primary goals are customer satisfaction, successful collaboration among key stakeholders both internal and external, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement and operational excellence as the company scales.

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Leading The Mothership Technologies into the brave new frontier of digital ownership in an augmented world.Creating and supporting a culture of collaboration, creativity, and continuous improvement.Contributing to every aspect of business development from vision to strategy to execution, operations, and culture and determining the role of technology throughout. Responsible for developing technological processes, including those related to operating the company, and selecting tools and technology to support those processes.Developing the specific strategic and operational plans for product development in collaboration with the CEO, President, CPO, and other stakeholders as necessary.Completing R&D, prototypes, and MVP implementations of the end-to-end system and bringing them to market.Identifying the exact resources necessary to put the longer term development plan into action, hiring and leading the engineering team, and overseeing the entire development process from start to finish.

Calgary, Canada Area

Contributing to key corporate strategy and direction for P2's technical evolution.Collaborating with CTO, Product Managers, Agile leadership and development teams, and the delivery organization to take initiatives from strategy to execution to release.Key initiatives include transition to cloud (PaaS and Kubernetes), the completion of UI updates (HTML5/Angular), various product and technology integrations, and platform-level initiatives such as security and containerization. Additionally managing the Architecture team which consists of high performing individuals working in a high demand and highly collaborative manner with multiple dependent product and delivery teams. Providing opportunities for individual growth and successful contributions across the team and the organization.Supporting and promoting the adoption of Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) across development as well as general cultural transformation across the organization.

Calgary, Canada Area

Leading Architecture team and facilitating Lean-Agile transformation of P2's development processesLeading and facilitating cultural transformation through 7 Habits and High Performance CultureLeadership:- Facilitating communication between executives, product management, development teams, architects, and the platform team members- Encouraging positive, open, respectful communication- Providing opportunities for individual growth and successLean-Agile Leadership- Completed certification for teams, Scrum Master, and Product Owner/Product Manager- Working with Release Train Engineer, other Lean-Agile Leaders, and Business Owners to support the transformation- Plan, prepare, and facilitate Community of Practice meetings to promote continuous improvement and clarify implementation details of Scaled Agile FrameworkDevelopment:- Managing a team to build a common platform for cloud-based enterprise web application software used by the energy industry- Providing Scrum Master and some Product Owner leadership for larger team of Architects undertaking DevOps transformation to Azure PaaS deployment using Terraform- Overseeing development from training, proof-of-concept, and requirements gathering through to final build and deployment- Technologies being used include .Net Core, OAuth, RESTful web services, Angular, JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS- Third party tools and services include Azure, Process Maker and Auth0

Calgary, Canada Area

Leading Architecture team and facilitating Lean-Agile transformation of P2's development processesLeading and facilitating cultural transformation through 7 Habits and High Performance CultureLeadership:- Facilitating communication between executives, product management, development teams, and architects- Successfully managed high performing, high demand team working with multiple dependent teams- Providing opportunities for individual growth and success across team and organization- Completed University of Calgary Business Essentials Executive EducationLean-Agile:- Working with Release Train Engineers, Lean-Agile Leaders, and Business Owners to support transformation- Promote continuous improvement and clarify implementation details of Scaled Agile Framework- Plan, prepare, and facilitate Community of Practice and Inspect & Adapt meetings- Providing Scrum Master and Product Owner leadership - Completed SAFe certification for Teams, Scrum Master, and Product Owner/Product ManagerDevelopment:- Facilitating DevOps transformation to Azure PaaS deployment using Terraform- Overseeing development from training, proof-of-concept, and requirements gathering through to deployment- Technologies include .Net Core, OAuth, RESTful web services, Angular, JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS

Calgary, Canada Area

Managing teams of up to 20 people to create, enhance, and maintain SaaS applicationsDevelopment:- Project management, release management, and resource management duties- Coordinating efforts and facilitating communication between management, development, QA, BA, support, services, and client representatives- Supported team in learning BDD and TDD and various automation practices- Technologies include ExtJS, PostGreSQL, Java, Javascript, Groovy, HTML, and CSS

Calgary, Canada

. Project management, release management, and resource management duties. Coordinating efforts and facilitating communication between management, development, QA, BA, support, services, and client representatives· Working with a team of software developers to maintain and enhance software used by the energy industry to track and help implement regulatory compliance· Technologies being used include PostGreSQL, Java, Javascript, Groovy, HTML, and CSS

· Most recently developed iPad and iPhone versions of popular board games.· 7 full-featured board games developed and published between 2010 and 2013. Managed a small development team (3-5 members) including programmers and artists. Completely responsible for all product and marketing decisions, budget and schedule planning, and all other aspects of operations, finance, and technology

· Responsible for developing consumer digital image manipulation software for Windows, Mac, iPad and iPhone

· Contracts with Stochasto, Idealab / Snap, Idealab / X1(see other position listings for details)

· Developed back end virtual currency and purchasing system using PHP and MySQL.· Integrated with PayPal and TrialPay APIs.

· Worked with a team building translation and localization services written in Java and JavaScript and using MySQL· Added support for right-to-left language display· Added mechanism for submitting string files to be translated via a web interface

· Contracts with Herbaceous Software and SpeakLike

· Enhanced and maintained lighting control and modelling software written in Objective C++ for Mac OS X and using Quartz Composer and QuickTime APIs· Added support for receiving and interpreting packets from an external Make Controller· Added support for video input via QTKit· Improved and optimized pixel manipulation and lighting device mapping code

· Developed an iPhone application using OpenGL ES· Participated in the complete design process· Wrote cross-platform code to allow porting to Mac or Windows· Extensive use of UIKit and other iPhone features

· Worked remotely with a team building a mobile location based service· Played integral role in design of the entire service· Responsible for all aspects of SMS service using mBlox API and Java· Developed wireless device applications using Java ME and BREW· Wrote and modified Javascript and PHP for web interface· Wrote various Perl scripts for data mining, data admin, etc.

· Worked remotely with a team building an application built on the Gamebryo rendering engine· Responsible for investigating options for next-generation UI and recommending a third-party solution· Developed engine-side integration with Anark Gameface; facilitated artist/designer use of Anark Studio to build UI· Performed various additional development tasks (special effects, utility code, etc.)

· Worked remotely with a team inventing web search enhancements (rapid prototyping)· Modified and enhanced existing prototype using JavaScript, PHP, AJAX· Wrote prototype WinInet applications to process search engine results, perform remote searches of DMOZ (Open Directory), and access Amazon Web Services

· Worked remotely with a team of developers building an enterprise software solution· Designed, developed, and maintained a Windows indexing and search application, written in Delphi and using Win32, WinInet, COM, MAPI, Office Automation · Designed, developed, and maintained Outlook COM Add-ins, written in C++/Delphi and using MAPI, COM, Office Automation, and ActiveX · Encouraged and helped design various process improvements · Provided technical expertise and other support at a trade show (FOSE)

· Worked remotely with a team of developers building an enterprise software solution· Designed, developed, and maintained an Exchange Extension plug-in for Outlook, written in C++ and using MAPI, COM, Office Automation, and STL· Designed, developed, and maintained a Software Development Kit written in C++, using COM, .NET Web services, WinInet, Blowfish, Crypto API, and XML· Prototyped an ActiveX component for rendering encrypted data· Enhanced and maintained Blackberry Enterprise Server plug-in written in C++· Enhanced and maintained a stand-alone encrypted file viewer written in C++

Worked remotely with a team of developers building an enterprise software solution· Designed, developed, and maintained an Exchange Extension plug-in for Outlook, written in C++ and using MAPI, COM, Office Automation, and STL· Designed, developed, and maintained a Software Development Kit written in C++, using COM, .NET Web services, WinInet, Blowfish, Crypto API, and XML· Prototyped an ActiveX component for rendering encrypted data· Enhanced and maintained a stand-alone encrypted file viewer written in C++

· Played key role in and worked remotely with a small group of programmers creating Nintendo 64 games, working in conjunction with artists and designers· Wrote Artificial Intelligence, game engine, and general game code in C/C++· Wrote C/C++ programs using DirectX to test game code

· Enhanced, maintained, and provided technical support for Software Development Kit and Driver Development Kit written in C/C++ and Intel assembly· Enhanced and maintained demonstration program written in C/C++ using DirectX· Wrote and maintained support software written in C/C++

· Tested, demonstrated, and maintained Windows software written in C/C++· Wrote, tested, and maintained support software written in C/C++· Enhanced and maintained company website