Dawson Kroeker Email & Phone Number

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Winnipeg, Canada Area

• Works as a software consultant to bring valuable solutions to each client's unique environment. Has led software teams through the entire software life cycle to deliver quality products that effectively meets the.
• Led a team to design and build a new reporting service using the Azure Service Bus to receive reporting data
• Gathered requirements, designed and implemented a standalone windows service using F# to proxy UDP traffic
• Led the development team through the creation of new features in an EFT financial product using ASP.NET MVC, Entity Framework, WCF, and AngularJS

Winnipeg, Canada Area

• Implemented various solutions for NaviPlan financial planning software using C++, C#, and HTML. Created internal tools to aid automated testing and enforce quality code. Refactored and repaired legacy code to prevent.
• Improved performance when generating select client reports by 54%, in collaboration with senior developers
• Developed an extension to the Google Test framework to fail unit tests when they encounter memory leaks
• Reduced downtime for developers by creating tools in C# and Python to search RTF content in parallel and normalize RTF style data for easier comparison

Winnipeg, Canada Area

• Supported NaviPlan's reporting features in C++. Used Adobe Flex and ActionScript to add features to a retirement calculator application. Worked on the Code Quality team to enforce development-wide code standards and.
• Achieved a task failure rate of only 1.87%, among the best in the department and well below the department goal of 4%
• Introduced the Google Mock testing framework to the department, allowing developers to easily use dependency injection in their unit tests
• Solved an HTML table sizing problem after two senior developers spent significant time on the problem without success

Winnipeg, Canada Area

• Supported NaviPlan report generation to PDF, RTF, and HTML using C++. Created internal tools to increase developer productivity when testing report styles. Fixed bugs in a massive code base.Key Accomplishments:
• Updated NaviPlan's HTML and CSS output to meet current standards while making the code more understandable
• Improved developer efficiency by developing a testing tool to reload report styles on the fly, a task previously thought to be impossible, or at least impractical

Winnipeg, Canada Area

Programmed a graphical tool in C# to control the NaviPlan engine pooler via HTTP, making testing and debugging of the pooler easier and more efficient.

Winnipeg, Canada Area

Monitored and addressed security threats on the Government of Manitoba's internal network.