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• Manage the Growth engineering group consisting of 20+ IC’s and EM’s spread across Acquisition (acquire new users), Onboarding (onboard users), Expansion (increase attach rates to new products) and Retention (prevent.
• Collaborate with Growth team discipline leaders consisting of engineering, product and UX leadership on roadmap construction planning and execution
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• Collaborate with principal IC’s on the creation and execution of a group-level technical strategy
• Collaborate with engineering leadership peers to draft and roll out process improvements to the larger engineering group
• Successfully launched several projects including new pricing plans and self-serve workflows, product-led growth-loops, signup/onboarding workflows, AI-driven data imports and more

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

• Manage geographically diverse project teams responsible for all customer-facing products within the Customer Experience (CX) RnD group. Our primary product is the CX funnel on help.shopify.com - an AI-driven experience.
• Executed several projects resulting in the reduction of 10M+ annual OpEx
• Work with external partners (Meta, Google) on cross-company project… Show more
• Work with external partners (Meta, Google) on cross-company project collaborations
• Collaborate with product, data and UX leadership on roadmap construction, project planning and execution
• Conduct performance and compensation reviews, promotion cases, goal setting and coaching with direct reports

Calgary, Canada Area

• Managed teams working on Absorb’s flagship learning management application, serving training resources to millions of monthly users
• Delivered an incremental, multi-year re-write of the core admin product from a legacy tech stack to a modern React SPA
• Delivered the infrastructure to support a net-new product offering for Absorb partners, opening a new revenue stream to support the selling of course libraries to clients
• Collaborated with product, UX and QA for project… Show more
• Collaborated with product, UX and QA for project scoping and roadmap planning
• Lead a cross-team back-end practice group responsible for establishing development standards and best-practices

Calgary, Canada Area

Calgary, Canada Area

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

• Lead a team of developers working on Value Navigator, a commercially available engineering solution for the energy industry
• Leadership responsibilities included acting as SCRUM master, mentoring team members, development of team standards (code review process, development best-practices)
• Contributed to the design and development of a desktop application written in C#, WPF supporting SQL Server/Oracle/SQLite
• Contributed hands-on development to a RESTful API web service… Show more
• Contributed hands-on development to a RESTful API web service supporting custom integrations
• Contributed to the development of an Azure web app responsible for supporting application licensing

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

• Developed internal desktop-solutions including a customized CRM, HR management tools, project budgeting and cost benchmarking systems. Lead the migration of several legacy applications to C#
• Developed web-solutions including custom controls for corporate internet site, migrated portions of corporate intranet from ASP to ASP.NET, and developed a centralized CMS
• Headed the implementation of several team standards including coding best-practices and unit testing
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• Provided technical support to internal staff and perform periodic preventive hardware and software maintenance on workstation systems and equipment
• Tech stack: C#, VB.NET, SQL Server, ASP.NET, JavaScript, HTML, CSS Show less