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St. John'S, Nl, Ca

St John’S, Newfoundland And Labrador, Canada

St John’S, Newfoundland And Labrador, Canada

St. John'S, Nl

♦ Served on a variety of teams as senior application/full-stack developer, as well as technical and team lead roles.♦ Helped establish process and quality gates for code/risk reviews under a weekly release cadence.♦ Designed best practice guidelines for development within application tech stack (predominantly Backbone+Marionette), and served as UI Onboarding Instructor for dozens of new hires.♦ Migrated legacy RequireJS application build system to Webpack to improve dev iteration time, load time, and backwards compatibility.♦ Built several RESTful microservices for things like feature management and geolocation.

St. John'S, Nl

♦ Worked as part of a small Agile development team building a web application for browsing, registering, and enrolling in online courses. Was a key developer in bringing the product from its infancy to a full commercial release.♦ Contributed significantly to all aspects of product development such as planning, architecture, design, optimization, globalization, and layout (aesthetics, mobile responsiveness, and accessibility).♦ Operated closely with product designers to deliver highly usable and accessible user interfaces, employing modern design principles and WAI-ARIA standards.♦ Served as development lead on several large initiatives, including eCommerce support via integration and partnership with PayPal and Avalara AvaTax.

St. John'S, Nl

♦ Designed and implemented server logic and gameplay features for online multiplayer action game Second Chance Heroes, released on multiple platforms including Windows, Mac OSX, iOS, and PS4.♦ Built much of the game's scripting tools, artificial intelligence, and pathing systems.♦ Worked on internal web-based tools for account management using Apache Wicket and Couchbase.♦ Created Python-based analytics system for generating reports on public beta events for game production and balance.

St. John'S, Nl

♦ Lead the object oriented redesign of a desktop deployable version of the company's marine simulation software suite including the integration of a real-time physics engine, networked controller modules, and loosely coupled render systems.♦ Designed and implemented many features for the simulator’s visuals application including software for collision detection and resolution, adapting custom wave models to ocean mesh geometry, distributed rendering and cluster management, and improving the realism of precipitation and other environmental effects.♦ Created networked interface layer to VMT's web-based electronic navigation trainer NetSim to render a real-time 3d perspective of remote training sessions.♦ Frequently presented simulator to numerous industry executives and research partners at demonstrations, conferences, and trade shows.

♦ Lead development of an XMPP (Jabber)-based mobile network layer for Kik’s BlackBerry chat application.♦ Designed and implemented a media streaming and caching system for the company’s on-demand music service.♦ Wrote specifications for multi-point library management and synchronization, and implemented the BlackBerry interface to this cloud-stored media library.♦ Integrated an open-source XML pull parser, and wrote numerous parsers and serializers for chat and music events.

♦ Scripted and reviewed a wide variety of test cases using Python and Visual Basic.♦ Trained groups of Protocol Testers in procedure and use of test equipment such as radio band simulators. Frequently clarified test procedures as consulted.

♦ Loaded BlackBerry devices with internal software builds and performed protocol stack and UI tests.♦ Wrote extensive documentation on many test cases to help reduce ramp-up time for future co-ops.♦ Was responsible for creating test plan and results form for internally developed application.

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.Eng.), Computer Engineering

Activities and Societies: IEEE Student Branch (President), MUN Engineering Student Society B (VP Communications), Computer Eng Class.

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.Eng.), Computer Engineering