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Victoria, BC, CA

Founded software company to simply and securely connect enterprise systems using industry best practices, SOA patterns and the Avato hybrid integration platform. Designed and developed initially for use at one of Canada’s largest credit unions to eliminate integration issues, the solution produced an immediate dramatic reduction in risk and project costs.

Surrey, BC, CA

With over $15B in assets, Coast Capital Savings is Canada’s largest credit union by membership, servicing the needs of over 500,000 members. Working closely with Coast Capital Savings since 2010, most recently architected and implemented integration systems between the Temenos T24 core banking system and the Aspect UIP system as part of a massive contact.

BCPRA provides critical patient, physician, data, statistical, analysis and decision support systems for all patients in British Columbia with renal, kidney, dialysis, heart, lung and other organ transplant needs. For the BC Provincial Renal Agency and indirectly, the BC Transplant Agency, through a contract with Sierra Systems, lead a dozen developers.

Surrey, BC, CA

For a major core banking conversion project at one of Canada's largest credit unions, designed and developed the Avato Hybrid integration Platform that simplified and accelerated connectivity, resulting in a significantly positive effect on the project schedule while reducing cost, risk and scope. Invented leading edge systems leveraging Java EE, SOAP.

Founded technology start-up company to create new-to-the-world security, monitoring and visualization software products for corporations, governments and consumers. Designed and developed secure, scalable web applications using Java EE and client-side software products using C++. Designed cloud architectures for Sun/Oracle Solaris clusters. Created.

Burnaby, British Columbia, CA

For BC's largest health insurance provider, led teams with technical implementation of the ACES project to automate health and dental insurance administration and replace legacy mainframe systems. Provided training and mentoring to development staff and contractors. Designed and implemented development processes, release processes, product lifecycle and CM.

Burnaby, British Columbia, CA

Designed and documented enterprise architectures and system integration for one of BC’s leading providers of health and dental insurance. As system architect and developer team lead, empowered PBC’s employees and contractors to deliver under budget and ahead of schedule on critical phase of a multi-million dollar project. Work included code review.

Vancouver, BC, CA

Strangeloop’s AppScaler won Best of Tech-Ed 2007 – see www.strangeloopnetworks.com/news_newsrelease_0608_techedwin.html.Designed and developed management and analytics user interfaces and supporting cross-platform C++ network facilities for Strangeloop’s ASP.NET / AJAX AppScaler network accelerator appliance. Designed to make ASP.NET web sites scale.

MMSI, a Komatsu company, has 80% of the world market share for mining systems. Developed and implemented Java 5 / J2EE 2.0 training course for Modular's engineering teams. Acted as mentor to company's architects. Captured requirements and use cases and defined architecture for Next Generation products under CMM/RUP guidelines. Reverse engineered legacy C++.

Founded software and consulting company in 1990. Engaged in design, coding, packaging, marketing and distribution of real-time Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) software products (see MIDImouse below) until roughly 1993, when a shift to contract development was made. MIND over MIDI later became an incubator for Virtual Perception Systems in 2005.

BLive competes with WebEx, GotoAssist, and Microsoft Live Meeting. Empowered and guided the product development group at BLive Networks. Designed the flagship product BLive, a hosted sales and support tool featuring online conferencing, desktop sharing and instant messaging. Implemented host software in C++, back end in J2EE and client software using the.

NCS Pearson is the leading provider of school administration and education systems in the US. Working with Discovery Software under CMM/RUP guidelines, designed and developed key portions of NCS’s flagship product, the Concert Online Education Community. The product, then code-named NCS4School, was designed to be the center point for the education of over.

Designed migration of MarketMAX's high-volume retail decision support system from a 2-tier C++ MFC/Windows NT architecture to a cross-platform multi-user NT/UNIX 3-tier web/ASP model. Played key role in facilitating the sale of technology to Amazon by defining the scalable Solaris J2EE implementation that was required by Amazon. Worked with MarketMAX's.

Roseland, New Jersey, US

Working with ADP's development group, designed and developed the foundations for Sales Alliance. Designed and coded functionality to manage vehicle sales, customer management, inventory management, data catalogue management, finance and insurance calculations, taxation, reporting, and automated forms printing using C++, COM, Visual Basic and Sybase SQL..

Developed numerous systems on numerous contracts including Vancouver Port's PortView project (which won the 1996 Windows World Open), Provincial Judiciary (Office of the Chief Judge), and front-end teller systems and back-end GEAC to SQL Server integration for Surrey Metro Savings (now Coast Capital Savings).

Designed and implemented embedded automated parking and credit card processing systems in C++ using DOS windows under OS/2. Design and C++/Visual Basic implementation of Windows host software to control parking system and download credit card transactions via modem. Achieved certification of parking systems developed for Vancouver International Airport.

Developed GFX digital tourism kiosk applications for AT&T. Designed interactive client/server multimedia systems that operated over ISDN. Programmed and designed geographical menuing/mapping systems, evaluated authoring systems, reviewed designs and produced various graphics and database utilities.

Boston, MA, US

Designed user interface, functional specification, high level C++ design, interface protocol and detailed development schedule for the 386/VGA Display module for Creation's 24 track digital audio system, RADAR.

As an independent software developer, created UltraMIDI, a real-time MIDI mapping, routing and transformation application for live music performance on the Atari ST. Originally published through MIDImouse Music, UltraMIDI was later renamed Slave Driver and sold through my own company, MIND over MIDI Productions (see 1990 Electronic Musician review at.