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Vancouver, Bc, Ca

Vancouver, Bc, Ca

Vancouver, British Columbia, Ca

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

- Defined the process for hiring developers- Defined the development culture guidance- Defined the job roles and expectations for developers- Mentored the development team via weekly team learning sessions- Produced training and reference material for the development team- Worked with the Product Team to define the development and product process based on lean principles (small teams, large ownership, no developer estimates, no artificial deadlines, no overtime, no fixed iterations, minimal meetings, very limited work-in-progress, and a focus on quality over quantity)- The resulting development process and culture resulted in an efficient team that shipped to production daily (via automated CI/CD) with happy employees (voluntary attrition was less than one developer a year) and a low severity 1 defect rate (less than 1/year).- Championed the use of manager-tools.com core management practices of 1:1, feedback, coaching, and delegation

- Over 6500 members, join at http://vandev.org/- Organizing and hosting monthly meetings- Arranged speakers for meetings- Helped speakers develop presentations for the meetings- Presented several talks; topics include: The failure of OOP, Go (the language), The Benefits of Managed Languages, Estimates are Waste, Agile (I do not think that word means what you think it means), Maintainable Software Development, Principles of Product Development Flow (Parts 1-9), and Writing Reusable Software.

- Built a leaderboard system that could handle millions of entries with a less than 100us query time.- Built a RPC clustering system that supports hot-addition and hot-removal of workers doing 1000+ requests/second/worker- Built a the distributed data caching layer for the cluster- Built a data storage abstraction for sharding data across data stores and supporting hot-migration of data while the system was running- Mentored other developers- Reviewed technical architecture proposals for new systems and changes to existing systems

- Responsible for the technical direction and management of two teams building an identity verification system.- Interviewing technical candidates

- Worked on the Relational Database Service (aka RDS) back end as a member of the Oracle team- Responsible for investigating and implementing new features of EC2 in RDS

Vancouver, Bc, Ca

- Development Leader directly responsible for my team and advising other teams on development process and architecture- Architected and implemented the API used by the mobile application to access real estate property data- Created a software development process for my team that greatly increased the quality and speed of development by focusing on: automation (test, build, release), end-to-end ownership, team member development and cross training, rapid and frequent releases, and ego-less development.- Internal advocate for change, speaking at various internal summits about how we can improve of software development processes- Directly working with senior management and the CTO to define higher level development process and guidance.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

- Developed a windows service to track and execute long running C# jobs using WCF to schedule the jobs.- Negotiated a cross organization solution to greatly reduce the complexity of new tenant provisioning.- Negotiated a cross team solution for generalizing the auditing and reporting of actions taken in the Sparq2 product.- Redesigned the automated build, test, package, and deploy process for the Sparq2 product to reduce complexity.

Redwood City, Ca, Us

- Responsible for the architectural design and implementation of EA's concurrency solution for the Xenon and PS3 consoles- Gathered customer requirements, planned releases, coordinated testing, and supported teams using the library- Researched new approached to concurrency in software, and incorporated them into the library; increasing performance by move than 10 while maintaining API compatibility- Languages Used: C/C++, C#, SPU ASM, PPU ASM, X86 ASM, X64 ASM

Abingdon, Oxfordshire, Gb

- Owned the Anti-Spam engine- XP Coach/Scrum Master for a team of 6 people- Planned releases- Designed and implemented features and unit tests- Mentored junior developers- Coordinated test planning with QA- Increased email throughput, accuracy, and stability while lowering memory usage- Languages Used: C/C++, Perl

* Co-owned the architecture and development of the a 2D game engine, built from the ground up, running on Windows, Linux, MacOS9, and OSX* Developed four games using the engine* Designed and implemented a web site framework for schools* Languages Used: mod_perl, C/C++

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

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