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After retiring from my 37 year career, with the last 20 or so being the top tech executive in various growing Toronto-area software companies, I am now sharing my knowledge and experience by means of a website (https://www.modsoftman.com) and a YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@modsoftman).I am also available for limited.

Toronto, Ontario, CA

At BlueCat I was in charge of the Technology team that builds and operates our products. BlueCat products help organizations manage their DHCP and DNS, both on-prem and in the cloud.BlueCat successfully changed hands to Audax Group, a large PE firm.

Toronto, ON, CA

Ethoca is a Fintech company in the payment processing space. I was responsible for technology within Ethoca including software development, cloud operations, enterprise data, and internal IT systems. Evolving the product platform towards a micro-services based, big data architecture centered around Kafka as the messaging bus; and evolving the.

Armonk, New York, NY, US

Lead an international team of software development professionals delivering enterprise risk management software products. Teams in Toronto, Boston, Philadelphia, London, Bangalore, and Xi'an China. Promoted a concerted move towards agile processes and continuous delivery enabled via DevOps for on-prem software, managed services software, and on-cloud.

Toronto, Ontario, CA

Managed communications and collaboration services for large corporations based around Microsoft Exchange. Controlled by our unique "Cloud Control" SaaS offering.Lead the technology end of the company (architecture, delivery, implementation, operations, software development, support).Successful sale of the company to Dimension Data

CA

Shrink-wrapped Windows apps for electronics circuit design and board layout.I lead Software Development.Successful sale of the company to National Instruments.

Research and teaching on software engineering.I developed from scratch (against much internal resistance!) the course CSC309, "Programming on the Web" as I noticed that we had no such course anywhere in the curriculum.I also developed the course CSC407, "Software Design and Architecture". I centered much of the course around "Design Patterns" by the gang.

Engaged by several Toronto-area software businesses to assist them in improving their software development management practices. Continued this work while a professor at UofT.

Enterprise risk management software for large trading banks focused on simulation-based Value-at-Risk analysis for complex derivative products.I was in charge of software development through the early years of the company, leading the team that developed RiskWatch, the premiere product for middle office enterprise risk management.Successful sale of the.

Armonk, New York, NY, US

The main project I worked on was "PowerTools" in the compiler team's programing tools department. This was a combined build/browse/debug environment for IBM's C++ on AIX. We used an Object-Oriented database at the heart, pulling semantic information out from the compiler as it ran and expressing it as an object model. The technical project was completed.

Toronto, Ontario, CA

Taught and developed new courses for the Department of Computer Science while completing my Ph.D.Completely revamped the course CSC209 to become a challenging course on systems programming in the Unix environment. Revamped the Operating Systems course to make extensive use of the Mini Tunis operating system for class assignments.

Toronto, Ontario, CA

As a graduate student in the operating systems, compilers, and software engineering field, I worked on and lead various large-scale software projects including Numerical Turing high-precision matrix library, a PUMA robot arm controller, the Mini Tunis teaching operating system, the Object-Oriented Turing programming environment, the Polyx 4.3 BSD.