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Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Kitchener, Canada Area

Waterloo, Ontario

• Designed interaction flow and graphical user interface specification for the DriveSync Android phone application• Developed and documented new paradigms for In-Car user interfaces based on the US Department of Transportation guidelines• Created prototypes using Flash, Balsamiq, HTML and Android native developments tools to valiudate and test designs

Waterloo, Ontario

• Rapidly developed feature suggestions into formal functional requirements for prototypes and created several prototypes focusing on mobile devices. • Guided projects from vision into concrete design requirements that deliver customer value• Prototypes developed for Blackberry and iPhone using HTML5.

Ottawa, Ontario

• Developed the framework and API for automating nightly testing on the Mission Data Management System.• Authored and executed test cases using DOORS requirement management software to verify that Department of Defense requirements were correctly implemented in the Marine Helicopter Project.

Brooklyn, New York

• Helped to support Agile Project Management processes acting as Scrum Manager / Project Planner on the 16 member Reporting Platform Team• Worked with stakeholders, including the Product Owner, Team Leads and other teams to ship iterate and deliver customer value through features• Contributed to documentation on successful Agile practices

Toronto, Canada Area

• Contributed to ongoing C++ development on the Algo Scenario Engine, primarily on code related to risk assessment of portfolios and financial products• Authored custom scripts for customer feature requests• Created black box automated tests and reporting system to monitor integrated build health and quality

Toronto, Canada Area

• Created and executed QA testing plans. • Authored Python and Perl scripts to create and maintain the black-box testing harness in order to automate regression testing of daily builds

Montreal, Canada Area

• Executed experiments using training data that resulted in significant improvements in the accuracy of the Bell Canada automated 411 service. • Structured experiments distributively on the Sun Grid Engine, reducing experiment completion times with extremely large data sets.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Authored documentation for Maya, a 3D modelling and animation suite. • Specialized in documenting the scripting language as well as the development kit APIs for plugin developers.