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Halifax Regional Municipality, Ns, Ca

San Francisco, California, Us

- Own multiple critical workstreams for senior leadership, including on-call management, engineering metrics, and testing automation.- Foster a high-performing workforce by providing dedicated coaching and creating individualized growth plans, enabling personal and professional development.- Increase team satisfaction and operational efficiency by identifying inefficiencies and implementing targeted process improvements across distributed teams.- Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure alignment between engineering practices and product development goals.- Championed a collaborative culture with engineering and QA leads to reduce flaky test frequency, improving developer productivity and codebase quality.- Spearheaded end-to-end testing improvements, reducing overall costs, execution times, and improving successful test run rates.- Developed the Incident Communication Management process that treats incidents as opportunities for learning, establishing a blameless root cause analysis.- Introduced DORA metrics reporting, enabling the organization to track Deployment Frequency, Lead Time for Changes, Change Failure Rate, and MTTR, fostering data-driven operational improvements.

Calgary, Alberta, Ca

• Oversee and manage the company’s complex data architecture and infrastructure in accordance with operational data- related directives to create polyglot persistence; key contributions included:• Initiated the establishment of data governance to create an internal structure for data ownership and accountability• Led the team in the modernization of continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) which contributed to quicker andmore stabilized deployments (achieving a decreased deployment time from 5 hours to 5 minutes)• Demonstrated a people-first leadership style during the period of adjustment which promoted engagement and resulted in theretention of high-performing technical team members• Developed accurate budgets for data-related projects and initiatives and researched/ allocated resources (personnel, technology,financial resources, and vendor products)• Defined the overall plan to implement the data architecture and determined how data should be collected, stored, maintained,provisioned, and secured• Ensured that data collected and stored by the company was accurate, complete, and reliable• Collaborated with various departments (IT, operations, finance, and marketing) to ensure that data-related initiatives were aligned withbusiness goals and objectives; led the team to improve performance for certain business-critical transactions which reduced the cost ofdata ownership and substantially reduced mean time to resolution for incidents• Ensured that the company’s data was secure and protected from unauthorized access; under management, organization achieved zerosecurity breaches

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

• As the Manager of Aquaculture Intelligence, implemented radical changes specifically through the application of data, technology, andhardware development to support positive outcomes and automate regulatory report generation• Contributions to rapid innovation solidified the organization’s reputation as a leader in aquaculture• Maintained strong leadership of a high-performing and engaged team (overseeing Product Management, User Experience, DevOps, and Full Stack Developers); effective management recognized for identifying skill gaps, providing mental health support, introducingstandardized performance management KPIs (identification, analysis, and reporting), career development planning, and coaching, coaching, and more coaching• Leadership recognized for effectively providing the ‘why’ and illustrating the impact of the asks and features completed through amacro lens• Effective and consistent communication provided clarity and allowed for the timely and proactive removal of roadblocks• Incorporated consistency in feedback provided to both team and self, resulting in improved employee satisfaction as measuredthrough engagement surveys• Introduced observability which provided real-time analytic data on the viability of the software, allowing the team to make informeddecisions on scalability and performance improvements• Introduced user experience metrics to record user auditing information, allowing the product management and user experience teamsto prioritize parts of the software that required the most attention for performance and new feature creation• Created the Incident Communication Management process (within ITSM): worked with on-call schedules, coordinated with the customersuccess, and introduced a blameless approach to root cause analysis (5 why method)

San Diego, Ca, Us

• Retained to transform the organizational structure into a hybridized matrix model which resulted in significantly more effective cross-functional team management, including personnel management of 16 employees across different teams and vendor management (near and offshore resources including Europe, USA, and Canada)• Contributions to vendor management including sourcing, contract negotiation, license renewal, SLAs, training, and compliance• Defined department culture, values, and principles and promoted alignment by leading by example• Identified, tracked, and managed KPIs, OKRs, and team dynamics; OKRs allowed for alignment across all departments and resulted incohesion in all staff working towards a shared goal as per the operational strategic plan• In partnership with HR, IT, and Senior Leadership, led efforts to improve the onboarding experience which decreased time toeffectiveness and drove retention• Introduced SDLC best practices (infrastructure as code, stakeholder engagement, effective estimates, peer reviews, anddocumentation) to improve product release predictability• Created the Incident Communication Management with PagerDuty Integration; leveraged management of global personnel resources toimplement a follow-the-sun on-call schedule, resulting in improved meantime to incidents while also reducing overhead workforce costs• Supported the governance of the GDPR process; contributions included ensuring data sovereignty and providing the capability ofsoftware to allow users to retrieve and remove data as requested• Managed on-premises to AWS migration (Cloud); led the resources that implemented the changes, managed SLAs (to mitigatedowntime), and ensured all regulatory compliance needs were met

Johns Creek, Georgia, Us

• Managed 3 teams (Quality Engineering Automation, Core Shared Services, and DevOps) in all aspects of the product lifecycle (fromdesign through development); teams synergistic operation accelerated product development through libraries, automation, and testing • Reduced the churn for quality engineers by automating the installation of nightly builds• Recognized for effectively balancing the value of change against the risk of change• Taught team how to fail successfully and how to recover from failure to ensure success• Mentored developers and instilled corporate VBO (Value, Behavior, and Outcome)• Coordinated with application owners on current thinking around application roadmaps and architectures• Achieved a significant refund credit through SR&ED• Founding member of the Culture Committee and Women in Tech CommitteeHighlighted Recognition: Only Engineer in company history to receive the Presidents Club award, recognizing contributions towards driving sales

Johns Creek, Georgia, Us

Responsible for defining the architecture of software. Oversaw IT assignments to improve business and ensure all parts of the project achieved timeline and quality targets.- Delivered host scanner integration project on time, using agile method.- Achieved 10X vulnerability processing improvement, which lead to significant agreements with Fortune 500 companies.- Achieved 50X increase in communication performance while improving reliability.- Achieved 5X performance improvement in user experience as a result of the database maintenance project. - Achieved Presidents Club member, the first and only Engineer to achieve this award.

Cincinnati, Ohio, Us

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Ca

Montreal, Quebec, Ca