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Vancouver, Bc, Ca

Highway 99 Technology Solutions Inc. delivers responsive and reliable IT solutions and support to small businesses throughout Metro Vancouver.* Provide strategic IT consulting and vCIO services to clients.* Designed, installed and configured full corporate IT infrastructure including firewall/router, managed switch, access points, virtualization (stand-alone hypervisors and high availability clusters), proper "3-2-1" backups, domain controller, application server, network storage, VPN services.* Configure and manage Microsoft 365 cloud services including Entra ID and Intune.* Deploy and manage full remote management and monitoring solution.

Montréal, Quebec, Ca

IT Responsibilities: Member, Technical Committee* Resolved technical support issues for local branch.* Managed Active Directory domain controller and file server.* Recommend software and services to meet business requirements.* Managed IT inventory including lifecycle replacement.* Transitioned phone system from on-premises PBX to hosted VoIP.Primary Responsibilities: Helping clients in the construction industry navigate complex issues.* Independent expert opinions on matters under mediation.* Commercial contract and risk reviews for major infrastructure projects.* Construction claim preparation and analysis including: project controls and forensic schedule analysis, cause and effect determination, labour and productivity loss calculation and damage quantification.

IT Responsibilities: Responsible for all IT infrastructure, consulting on IT infrastructure where it intersects with data management.* Developed deployment scripts for a mail/web/calendaring server and deploy to cloud.* Advised a local charity on data storage and analysis, discovered a security issue with their hosted CRM and advised the transition to a more robust system.* Prototyped a jobs portal to communicate results of a job market study.Primary Responsibilities: Established a project controls and construction claims management consulting firm serving clients in the construction industry.* Analysis and recommendations to a project owner regarding multiple construction claims including delays, disruption, differing site conditions and insurance claims.* Recommendations to a project owner on a code interpretation dispute.* Forensic schedule analysis to defend an owner's application of liquidated damages.The firm was originally established to provide general data science consulting services. Projects included:* Analysis of a youth program's enrollment data to identify opportunities for growth.* Unique visualization of budgeted government expenditures.* Prototype jobs portal to communicate results of a job market study.

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Ca

Primarily responsible for components of a major electrical infrastructure project.* Led vendor procurement and contract negotiations.* Coordinated multiple stakeholders' input to develop complex technical specifications.* Managed the specification of internet and television infrastructure for a modern 600-person camp and two smaller interim camps, each located in northern Manitoba.* Developed various software tools to automate business processes.* Developed a high-performance, portable and configurable desktop search application / information retrieval system (personal project with application to then-current role).

* Installed and configured ISP firewalls and gateways.* Installed and configured email services.* Set up web, email and domain hosting services.* Installed and configured a full revenue-generating wireless hotspot solution consisting of a centralized hotspot accounting server and hotspot access points.* Assisted with on-site configuration and debugging of wireless backhauls, wireless access points and wireless hotspots.* Answered and resolved technical support calls from customers.

Led development of the controller/interface card, pyrotechnic/propulsion switch card, and solar array interface card for Bristol’s spacecraft Power Control Unit.

Winnipeg, Mb, Ca

Demonstrated laboratories, graded assignments and quizzes, and assisted students with course material. Courses include Linear Algebra, Calculus, Electromagnetic Theory, Microwave Engineering and Engineering Economics.

Bsc(Ee), Electrical Engineering

Strategic Leadership Program, Management Accounting