Dave Thomson Email & Phone Number

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

• Responsibilities
• Understand and vet the project requirements
• Using Engineering best practices, design, customise, and implement solutions that fulfil requirements
• Review and/or generate technical documents
• Review and compare customers’ existing system and recommend design improvements
• Verify that the solution is built to design

Edmonton, Canada Area

• Responsibilities
• Design systems, software, hardware, and processes to meet or exceed project requirements
• Manage Software Quality Assurance team
• Manage IT departmentTechnical Environment
• Linux Server, Windows Server, Java, JavaScript, XML, HTML, JSON, Rest, PHP,.NET, WSDL, SQL Server, Sybase, C, C++, C#, DNP3, CIP, BACNet, Modbus, FactoryTalk, VSphere, SIL

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

• Responsibilities
• Advise on corporate strategy and governance
• Manage engineering department and engineering projects
• Architect, deploy, administer multi-redundant/clustered systems
• Front-End and Back-End system software development
• Web services design, development, QA, and deployment

St Albert, Alberta, Canada

• Responsibilities
• Manage, schedule, mentor an implementation team for an Engineer to Order labor and materials tracking/scheduling software package
• Gather customer requirements and develop Scope of Work documents/subcontracts
• Analyze and improve client business processes
• Change order management
• Custom software development and third-party application integration

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

• Responsibilities
• Provide software/hardware engineering expertise to corporate clients
• Gather system/operational requirements and prepare specification documents for the development of new commercial products
• Co-ordinate with client stakeholders and subject matter experts to architect targeted solutions
• Negotiate and deliver on contracts
• Corporate strategic planning

Messaging Direct Division, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

• Responsibilities
• Supervise and coordinate the work of internationally located development, support, documentation, and training departments
• Drive project scoping and design efforts
• Negotiate product feature sets and set delivery schedules
• Project management – coordination of all departments to meet product release schedules
• Act as development liaison to our strategic partners (Sendmail, BSDi, SGI)Accomplishments

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

• Responsibilities
• Act as client’s main contact during and after project(s)
• Quote, plan, schedule, and manage engineering projects which include Software, Hardware, and Manufacturing components. Project size ranged from $10K to $4 million – many international and all requiring custom hardware.
• Create and implement hardware and software solutions
• Manage accounts. Customers include Esso, Gulf, Enbridge, the Cities of Edmonton and Calgary, Civil Aviation Authority (UK), Manila Water, Taiwan Water, Alberta Energy
• Provide training and after deployment supportAccomplishments

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

• Responsibilities:
• Design and develop real-time multi-tasking software – often for custom designed hardware
• Support all code developed
• Prove new hardware designsAccomplishments:
• Developed the first Modbus PLC protocol for our host systems. It became the defacto solution for 70% of our third-party device interface problems.
• Created a proprietary RTU radio communications protocol designed to keep the power budget for transmission < 0.05%. Special attributes: automatic time synchronization to < 50ms of all devices every minute and automatic.

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

• Responsibilities
• Provide face to face and telephone customer support for University mainframe (servicing 18,000 people)
• Provide customer support for PC applications.Accomplishments
• Within 6 months was able to successfully answer 85% of incoming questions without forwarding on to tier-2 support.Technical Environment
• Michigan Terminal System, IBM370 Assembler, Textform, COBOL, Fortran, Fortran Math Libraries, Pascal, Algol, C, APL, Ada, Basic, DOS, MacOS.