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Toronto, Ontario, Canada

VTS is a technology platform for the commercial real estate industry which provides data insights and solutions in order to assist with investment and asset strategy, leasing and marketing automation, property operations, and tenant experience. It is the largest first-party data source in the industry, making data engineering for the company a very interesting and challenging role.As a data engineer at VTS my primary responsibilities are to maintain ETL pipelines, manage services and data in AWS, and to use machine learning to create insights. I am also responsible for helping push technology initiatives that will help the company transition from a "Data as a Service" to a "Data as a Product" sales model.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Compass Digital Labs is the digital arm of Compass Group - a global hospitality company and one of the world's largest employers. In my role at CDL, I was responsible for developing a large number of disparate services that are related to the smooth operation of the restaurant industry, such as APIs managing orders and menus.One of my main responsibilities was updating and maintaining a service used by large, brand-name restaurant clients to holistically manage their locations across Canada and the United States. I left Compass in order to return to school to study artificial intelligence, but it was a wonderful employer that I would highly recommend.

Seattle, Wa

Zulily is a large, Seattle-based online retailer that is primarily geared toward filling the home needs of mothers and their families. As a backend developer there, I primarily worked on an API for our mobile applications that enabled them to receive and display dynamic content and achieve Zulily's goal of being special, new, and different every single day. This position involved working closely with engineers who specialize in infrastructure, databases, iOS, and Android development to coordinate on an interface that's flexible, efficient, and future-proof.A significant role I played was introducing tools to ensure data integrity in the services I worked. On top of developing our platform, the small team I worked on introduced API validation as a standard across the company, and was involved in rolling out the company's first major unit testing effort.During my time at Zulily, I also contributed to other parts of the company including the website, the iOS application, some of the company's core services, our server configurations, and of course, the documentation.Unfortunately I had to leave the position in order to return from Seattle to Toronto, but loved my time with the company and would highly recommend the Zulily team to any potential employees!

Toronto, Canada Area

X Movement helps youth build healthy mental and physical life habits through in-school and online mindfulness and movement experiences. The curriculum, impacting 1,000,000 people in the 2018-19 school year, is evidence-based and built using the world-class pedagogies of whole-child education, edutainment, 21st-century learning, character education, inquiry-based learning, physical literacy and mental wellbeing strategies. At the company I led an internal team in the development and marketing of the digital platform X Movement Online. X Movement Online is a service for elementary school teachers that aims to build and connect healthy global citizens through real-world movement and mindfulness challenges in their classrooms. The platform has been launched into over 400 schools in Ontario, Canada.My role on the team involved software engineering, server administration, team coordination and management, running Scrum, marketing, and customer segment research.

The Digital Media Zone At Ryerson University

Voovo was a service where users could crowdsource quotes for the printing and shipping of 3D printed models. it was born out of a passion for the emerging technology of 3D printing and its potential positive social impact. I co-founded Voovo, then called Materialyze, as the company's technical lead. We operated out of Ryerson’s startup incubator, the Digital Media Zone, and I led a small team of developers through rapid development using Scrum. Quickly navigating shifting customer interests and a service-changing pivot was a challenging but amazing experience.

Toronto, Canada Area

Thumble is Instagram meets Reddit. Users can post photos which are sorted into albums by topic. Photos can be upvoted, downvoted or 'bumped' by other users, a bump being a more powerful upvote that transfers points. Users who post great photos end up with a lot of bumps, and subsequently bump other great photos, creating a natural flow for high-power users to curate great content. Users are ranked by points and awarded achievements for participation.I helped develop Thumble on a small team of myself and three other coders until the company's dissolution. As well, we worked closely with a graphic designer and business managers. I played many development roles in this company. I began by working on back-end code and test cases, and moved on to work on the app itself. As well as developing, I also participated in guerilla marketing campaigns.

Ryerson University runs one of the world's leading business incubators, the Ryerson DMZ (previously the Digital Media Zone). UBI Global 2015 named it the best incubator in North America, and a world leader in fostering startups. I worked for the Digital Media Zone developing in-house software to make sure that operations ran smoothly. The staff used a web-based management platform to find and change information about the people, teams, equipment, rooms and other things that ran out of the incubator. I had to keep it running smoothly and create new functionality. As well, to design other applications for the web, I had to learn frameworks in Java and Actionscript 3.0. An important part of the job was coding independently but working closely with a graphic designer to ensure that nothing was off-brand.

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

Activities and Societies: Computer programming team, game maker's union, Musicians@RyersonI studied at Ryerson University in Toronto.

Postgraduate Certificate, Applied A.I. Solutions Development, 4.0

The Applied A.I. Solutions Development program at George Brown is tailored toward creating data scientists with not only the technical.