AirMap is the world’s leading airspace services platform for unmanned aircraft. Developed by experts in technology, aviation, and policy, AirMap’s family of APIs and SDKs are used by nearly 90% of the world’s drones to exchange dynamic information, creating a safe and efficient environment in low-altitude airspace.- Inc.'s 25 Most Disruptive Companies of 2017: http://on.inc.com/2rndY5J- Entrepreneur's 9 Disruptive Companies to Watch: http://bit.ly/2mpSDSB- CNBC's 29 Most… Show more AirMap is the world’s leading airspace services platform for unmanned aircraft. Developed by experts in technology, aviation, and policy, AirMap’s family of APIs and SDKs are used by nearly 90% of the world’s drones to exchange dynamic information, creating a safe and efficient environment in low-altitude airspace.- Inc.'s 25 Most Disruptive Companies of 2017: http://on.inc.com/2rndY5J- Entrepreneur's 9 Disruptive Companies to Watch: http://bit.ly/2mpSDSB- CNBC's 29 Most Innovative Early-Stage Start-Ups : http://cnb.cx/2iWqX7j Show less

Skyward is enterprise software for UAV fleet and operations management, enabling safe, compliant, and insured drone/UAV/RPAS operations.Responsible for sourcing, translating and interpreting drone regulations for USA, Canada, Mexico, Australia, United Kingdom plus most of the Western European countries and incorporating regulatory changes. Responsible applying the technical regulation knowledge and sourcing worldwide data for use as appropriate to drone/UAV/RPAS operations. This… Show more Skyward is enterprise software for UAV fleet and operations management, enabling safe, compliant, and insured drone/UAV/RPAS operations.Responsible for sourcing, translating and interpreting drone regulations for USA, Canada, Mexico, Australia, United Kingdom plus most of the Western European countries and incorporating regulatory changes. Responsible applying the technical regulation knowledge and sourcing worldwide data for use as appropriate to drone/UAV/RPAS operations. This included civil aeronautical data (airspace, aerodromes, runways, approach paths, etc), military aeronautical data (airspace, base and training area boundaries, MTRs) as well as other data required to fulfil national, state/provincial or civic regulations (park boundaries, hospital locations, etc). Once the data was sourced, was responsible for documenting all processes (retrieval, transformation, ingest) to get the data such that it could be used within the Skyward environment.During Skyward's early period was instrumental in enabling Skyward to leapfrog the competition by adapting technology from World Flight Planner for use within Skyward. Stewarded this technology, which became the geospatial core of the company, until the data science and engineering groups grew to the point where the technology could be replaced with newer processes and wider coverage.Technologies: PostgreSQL, PostGIS, eXistdb, XQuery, Ruby, Rails, AWS (EC2, RDS), Java, OrientDB Show less

World Flight Planner was a web-based flight planning system for general aviation pilots to satisfy the legal requirements for navigation, weather, fuel and weight/balance planning prior to a flight and to ensure the safest flying possible. Sold to Skyward in 2015.Architected the system as a whole. Designed and built the planning system which pulls data from an internal REST-based API. Responsible for design and testing of the systems which correlate the aeronautical information and then… Show more World Flight Planner was a web-based flight planning system for general aviation pilots to satisfy the legal requirements for navigation, weather, fuel and weight/balance planning prior to a flight and to ensure the safest flying possible. Sold to Skyward in 2015.Architected the system as a whole. Designed and built the planning system which pulls data from an internal REST-based API. Responsible for design and testing of the systems which correlate the aeronautical information and then calculate the various aspects of a flight plan, including navigation and fuel logs, weight and balance and proper generation of an ICAO standard document for filing the plan with ATC. Also responsible for all corporate administration.Technologies: Ruby/Rails, PostgreSQL, PostGIS, Phusion Passenger, Apache HTTP Server, CentOS Show less

BlackSquare Inc. is powering an ecommerce revolution for the global wine and spirits industry, combining deep wine industry expertise with advanced cloud-based technology to produce Blackboxx, the most powerful ecommerce platform available on the market.Technologies: Ruby/Rails, PostgreSQL, Ubuntu Linux, Apache HTTP Server, Phusion Passenger, AWS

BlackSquare Inc. is powering an ecommerce revolution for the global wine and spirits industry, combining deep wine industry expertise with advanced cloud-based technology to produce Blackboxx, the most powerful ecommerce platform available on the market.Led the development of a Ruby on Rails version of a Drupal-based website that could no longer scale as the user base grew. The Rails version of the site was built as a drop in replacement for the existing system, porting all business… Show more BlackSquare Inc. is powering an ecommerce revolution for the global wine and spirits industry, combining deep wine industry expertise with advanced cloud-based technology to produce Blackboxx, the most powerful ecommerce platform available on the market.Led the development of a Ruby on Rails version of a Drupal-based website that could no longer scale as the user base grew. The Rails version of the site was built as a drop in replacement for the existing system, porting all business critical data over and maintain data integrity within the database. Led the conversion of the Rails app from one that could only be used by a single corporate entity (in this case, WineCollective) to one that could be used with a SAAS business model, following a partial pivot by BlackSquare and the rebranding of the SAAS product as the Blackboxx Platform.Led the development team throughout multiple large, internal projects to update or add functionality to the Blackboxx Platform, including updates to the checkout subsystem, third-party integrations and the complete overhaul of the Blackboxx API. Dealt with all PCI compliance issues, internal and external, as they related to the Blackboxx Platform, including coordinating with payment gateway providers such as Payflow Pro, eWAY, Stripe or other payment providers like PayPal or Chargify.Responsible for all server upgrades and maintenance, and was instrumental in seamlessly moving the Blackboxx Platform to AWS.Technologies: Ruby/Rails, PostgreSQL, Ubuntu Linux, Apache HTTP Server, Phusion Passenger, AWS Show less

Oversaw all technology within the company (except Solium's core product, Shareworks) in the Calgary headquarters office as well as other offices across Canada and the US. Responsible for leading team members in charge of office networking (including firewall and security), desktop support, Avaya IP phone systems with blueC call recording/monitoring, Microsoft Exchange, internal support tools (JIRA, Confluence, IM) and all backup and disaster recovery technologies. Responsible for the technology… Show more Oversaw all technology within the company (except Solium's core product, Shareworks) in the Calgary headquarters office as well as other offices across Canada and the US. Responsible for leading team members in charge of office networking (including firewall and security), desktop support, Avaya IP phone systems with blueC call recording/monitoring, Microsoft Exchange, internal support tools (JIRA, Confluence, IM) and all backup and disaster recovery technologies. Responsible for the technology aspects of the company's SAS 70 audits.Designed, programmed and was also responsible for an internal project coded in Ruby/Rails to help the reconciliation team to better automate their work. The project was required to integrate with Solium's Shareworks product and automatically reconcile exported data with data received from external brokers. Automated matching meant that the reconciliation team only need deal with exceptions which resulted in a drastic reduction of errors in the actual reconciliation and allowed errors in the business processes being reconciled to be caught faster.Technologies: Microsoft Exchange, MS SQL Server, Avaya IP phone systems, Barracuda backup/storage devices, WatchGuard firewall devices, Ruby/Rails Show less

Led the team of application developers working on an account for a major hotel chain. Coordinated all work by the app devs with the web developers and designers to ensure scheduled work was done on time and budget. Managed all deploys in coordination with the release engineers and QA team.Technologies: Java, ATG Middleware

Armoured soldiers serve with the Canadian Army. They are employed operating and maintaining armoured fighting vehicles, onboard weapon systems and communication equipment.Ended service with an honourable discharge at the rank of Sergeant.

Zymeta is an entertainment systems company which built a network of closed circuit audio/video music entertainment system in public venues.Brought in to help course correct a technology and team that found itself off track. Successfully recruited replacements and managed the new team as we overhauled the three core pieces of the Zymeta technology stack. Instrumental in the process to secure SR&ED grants from the Canadian federal government.Technologies: Java, Java Servlets, JSP,… Show more Zymeta is an entertainment systems company which built a network of closed circuit audio/video music entertainment system in public venues.Brought in to help course correct a technology and team that found itself off track. Successfully recruited replacements and managed the new team as we overhauled the three core pieces of the Zymeta technology stack. Instrumental in the process to secure SR&ED grants from the Canadian federal government.Technologies: Java, Java Servlets, JSP, PostgreSQL, Apache Tomcat, Gentoo Linux Show less

Technologies: Java, EJB, BEA WebLogic, Oracle RDBMS, RedHat Linux

Technologies: Java, Java Servlets, EJB, JSP, JBoss, Apache, BEA WebLogic, IBM WebSphere, Apache Tomcat, RedHat Linux

Technologies: Java, Java Servlets, JSP

Technologies: Perl, C, Netscape Server