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Vancouver, British Columbia, Ca

• Trail-blazed cloud adoption in the organization by architecting a province-wide business intelligence solution for cardiac-related procedures and leading the development of a data collection and analysis platform in Azure.• Designed, prototyped and lead development of a template-driven web application in React.• Leveraged GraphQL and Apollo to build and consume a FHIR-based API. • Lead BI developers in the design of semantic model and visualizations in Power BI.• Designed Power BI solutions leveraging on premise and Azure SQL Server databases using Azure Data Factory and on premise data gateways.• Ensured reliable deployments and standardized development processes through Azure DevOps pipelines, database migrations and source code repository policies.• Adopted FHIR as a basis for modeling and exchanging healthcare data.• Screened, interviewed and lead the development team; acted as Scrum Master.

Gatineau, Quebec, Ca

• Won several contracts through the preparation and presentation of detailed technical proposals and statements of work for custom software solutions.• Facilitated COVID variant research by designing and delivering a web-based dashboard that allows researchers to search across multiple study databases for samples matching their specific criteria. Performed requirements analysis, system design, ELT data integration using Azure Data Factory, Postgres, and a Metabase dashboard as well as custom API components using Nest.js, GraphQL and Prisma.io. • Helped researchers understand individual vaccination choices by performing technical platform evaluation, selection, and delivery of a live chat and chatbot solution to engage patients and caregivers.• Leveraged healthcare interface standards knowledge in the design of custom modules for prescriptions, problems, and allergies for a diabetes-focused electronic medical record system.• Enabled heath plan members to find family doctors matching their preferences by designing and leading the development of a web application in Vue.js.• Ensured reliable automated deployment of several software solutions by leveraging Kubernetes, Helm, Azure DevOps pipelines, and Azure Bicep Infrastructure-as-Code.

• Launched pre-surgical screening application at St. Paul's Hospital.• Lead the team of junior developers in the early stages of the startup.• Created FHIR API server and message-based microservices in Node.js and Postgres.• Designed cloud-based architecture to meet healthcare privacy and security requirements.• Adopted AWS as a platform, evaluating it for a serverless API, using Lambda.• Facilitated company growth through resource planning, interviewing and hiring technical team members.

• Enabled new functionality for a SMTP server by implementing a RESTful API in ServiceStack.• Improved the manageability and deployment of a Message Transfer Agent (MTA) by connecting it to a web API and using Azure Mobile Services to add offline sync features.• Developed new features and improved the quality of an Outlook Add-in that handles encrypted e-mail messages and attachments.• Coded UI Automation to improve the user experience and reliability of the ClickOnce installation and upgrade process for an Outlook Add-in.

Houston, Tx, Us

• Designed and built web service interfaces that integrate with a CygNet SCADA system to retrieve information about natural gas pipeline operations.• Improved safety by helping gas controllers better communicate critical information between shifts by developing a shift log application using Silverlight 5.0 and the MVVM pattern.• Enabled operators and business users to visualize SCADA pipeline data via SSRS reports.• Designed disaster recovery for web applications running on SQL Server 2008 over a WAN.

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

• Helped the company launch MortgageMatch.com and expand into a new market by planning, estimating, architecting and leading a team in the development of new features.• Key contributor to corporate process improvement initiatives. Evaluated a number of process templates for Team Foundation Server 2010 as well as many other agile tools. Designed and used an agile development workflow implemented with TestTrack Pro.

Vancouver, Bc, Ca

• Helped VCHA launch a regional system for auditing appropriate access to patient records across 7 different hospital and lab source systems. Designed and delivered the solution using SQL Server Integration Services and Reporting Services to import, analyze and report on over ten million patient record access events each month.• Helped enable care providers to view lab results and reports from the Provincial Lab Information System (PLIS) via the CareConnect Electronic Health Record (EHR) application by generating and processing HL7 v3 messages.• Technical support and deployment of Chronic Disease Management (CDM) EMR System.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Ca

Enabling the company to participate in the redesign of the California energy market by designing and developing a energy trading system using .NET 2.0, Web Services, Visual Studio Tools for Office, Oracle and BizTalk 2006.

Vancouver, Bc, Ca

• Established iterative development practices and peer reviews to help atroubled project team to work together and begin to produce deliverables.• Analyzed, designed and planned the integration of a complex set of a databetween a community healthcare management system and an electronicmedical record (EMR) documentation system.

• Helped the company to make informed decisions about their integration strategy by evaluating and analyzing several HL7 integration technologies.• Designed and created a proof-of-concept HL7 integration solution based on BizTalk Server 2006 and the HL7 Accelerator.

• Designed and implemented modules to integrate HL7 V2.x messages (ADT, ORU and ORM) with a lab order processing system for the Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA).• Helped launch a pilot project at the Vancouver Island Health Authority (VIHA) for electronic medical summary (e-MS) referrals between physicians that used the HL7 V3 Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) by resolving technical and design issues with EMR vendors.• Enabled the sharing of clinical documents between doctors’ offices and emergency room physicians within the Interior Health Authority (IHA) by designing and implementing an integration system based on the provincial e-MS protocol.• Enabled management and developers at the Alderwoods Group to understand, maintain and enhance an interface between an accounts receivable system and a collections system by analyzing and documenting the design of their BizTalk implementation.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Ca

• Automated the online arbitration application process for the Residential Tenancy Office of the Government of British Columbia by developing a website in C# and ASP.NET using a scalable service-oriented architecture and a SQL Server 2000 database.

Tucson, Az, Us

• Facilitated a strategic technology decision by advising on the capabilities and future direction of .NET. Co-authored a comprehensive report comparing .NET with Java/J2EE.• Created a technical proof-of-concept application simulating and displaying the movement of mining equipment using the following Microsoft technologies: .NET Remoting, Messaging (MSMQ), COM+ Events, Windows Clustering, Managed Extensions for C++, Threading, Multicast Sockets and SQL Server.

• Designed, built and tested a secure, scalable web-based train car tracking system in ASP.NET using Visual Basic.NET. Implemented client-side validation and optimizations in JavaScript. Created database views and stored procedures to form a logical abstraction of business entities in the application. Optimized query performance of complex searches.• Addressed security needs using Windows integrated authentication and role-based authorization in .NET, COM+ and SQL Server, as well as web forms-based authentication.• Setup automated software build and smoke test using NUnit for .NET and NUnitASP for web pages, as well as creating a custom, web browser testing framework.

Birmingham, Al, Us

• Led a team in the design and development of the company's largest software project: a physical therapy documentation application that processes over 40,000 visits a day in over 1000 clinics and saves tens of millions of dollars each year.• Played a primary role in establishing the company’s “next generation architecture”, their application framework for all future product releases, based on the .NET. Framework 1.0. • Created components for database access, object-relational mapping, security, exception handling, and reporting using C#, ASP.NET, SQL Server 2000, ADO.NET and XML.• Helped to improve software development processes by introducing best practices from the Rational Unified Process (RUP), Feature-Driven Development (FDD) and Scrum, such as iterative development, time-boxing, peer reviews (of code and other deliverables), staged delivery, signing-up, automated builds and smoke tests, and more.• Advocated visual modeling practices, by introducing UML modeling standards to teams of developers and business analysts as well as evaluating and recommending modeling tools.• Proved the technical and performance viability of critical technologies and core designs using VB, ASP, XML RPC Web Services, SQL Server, XSL, XML, schemas and complex DHTML and JavaScript (similar to, and prior to, AJAX).• Facilitated the company’s rapid growth by contributing to planning and hiring decisions as part of the management team.• Performed an independent assessment of another office’s major failing software project and delivered a project recovery strategy.

• Demonstrated versatility by developing, installing, training and supporting a GPS-based automated wireless dispatching system for the courier and taxi industries.

• Co-authored computer-based training on Windows 3.1 Programming in C and programmed tools to assist in the authoring of computer-based training courses.

Bachelor Of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Computer Science

B. Sc., Computer Science And Biology