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Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Ottawa, Canada Area

• Managed over 50 developers among eleven global agile scrum teams across five locations, responsible for developing and maintaining product functionality for the group Payment Network, supporting end to end payment.
• Successfully planned and executed the transfer of development ownership of over 30 applications to different campuses before the closure of two campuses as part of a global campus restructuring program. Identified and.
• Identified, prioritized and assembled a list of stabilization, modernization and technical debt projects into an overall program to be executed by the IT organization.
• Delivered new Alternate Payments Method processing application into production with support for eight different payment methods to enable payment capabilities across different geographies. Developed as a set of.
• Evaluated development and release processes, proposed tactical and strategic process and organizational changes, influenced and collaborated with peers to implement changes. Examples include migration from CVS to GIT.
• Championed grassroots code quality program supported with workshops and regular “lunch and learns” to improve teams’ understanding and implementation of best code practices, test driven development and agile.

Ottawa, Canada Area

• Managed up to 18 developers and quality assurance individuals responsible for developing and maintaining product functionality for the Netbanx suite of payment processing applications in a high paced development.
• Organized individuals into agile scrum teams. Coached and empowered newly formed agile scrum teams through the Tuckman model to become performing, self-organized teams.
• Evaluated resource allocation and provided business justification to hire 20+ employees for the development organization. Recruited, hired and onboarded new hires.
• Delivered new features and applications into production, including ApplePay support, new payment processing REST APIs, a new web notification application, and additional third party integrations.
• Reacted to urgent business requests and successfully delivered projects within aggressive timelines to provide business value.
• Oversaw small innovation team tasked to deliver a new group service platform, supported by a new CI/CD framework and proofed with an initial set of microservices.

Ottawa, Canada Area

• Managed teams of up to 10 developers responsible for developing and maintaining product functionality for the Rational Software Architect (RSA) family of products. Planned product releases for team, prioritized.
• Chosen by senior management to manage Rational Software Architect RealTime Edition (RSA-RTE), a customer facing role with major customer on project tracked at executive level. Developed close relationship while.
• Delivered Model Driven Development (MDD) solutions for variety of different domains (JPA, EJB 3.0, XSD, WSDL, SOA, BPEL, OpenSCA, SoaML), providing integrations with other IBM products and opening up different market.
• Managed RSA Design Manager Development team and was primary development contact for a customer, identifying and raising visibility of customer issues to development team.
• Identified and drove innovative ideas from developers, resulting in new high value features added to product, including the Scoped Code Fly-Out Editor for Domain Languages feature.
• Encouraged team to develop skills and provided opportunities to developers, allowing growth and cross-training of skills.

Ottawa, Canada Area

• Developed software for RSA family of products with responsibility for developing and maintaining Java based software for Eclipse based products.
• Designed model-to-model transformation framework, providing users ability to implement custom transformations. Introduced and designed enhancements to framework, including transformation extensibility framework.
• Created and implemented Java-to-UML transformation, the first implementation of a reverse transformation, enabling round-trip engineering support for Java and providing reference implementation for future reverse.
• Provided training on transformation framework to customers and internal development teams. Developed 3-day seminar on transformation authoring, establishing good customer relationship.
• Designed and implemented UML-to-EJB transformation, validating framework and providing a reference implementation for future transformation development.
• Triaged product defects ensuring defects were prioritized appropriately.

Ottawa, Canada Area

• Led team of 6 people in development of Application Integration Kit, a tool kit written in Java to facilitate integration of hosted applications into MASP product.
• Defined Application Integration Process and provided content Application Integration Guide, giving customers ability to integrate with product.
• Drove architecture of MASP and APIs, facilitating integration of hosted applications.
• Served as member of Architecture Review Team for Clarify product, ensuring architectural integrity across projects.

Ottawa, Canada Area

• Led team in development of provisioning functionality for the Open Programmability Environment (OPE), a Java based application for developing and executing telephony services.
• Designed and developed data abstraction model, providing common data model and used by other OPE components.
• Created DataHandler to store and retrieve common data model from different data storage formats including flat file, Oracle and LDAP, enabling efficient unit testing with minimal infrastructure.
• Conceived XML based API to give 3rd party applications the ability to provision service data.
• Constructed Stream Management, Compile and Packaging processes and toolsets providing traceability of code changes across toolsets.

Ottawa, Canada Area

• Developed software tools to support the development environment and development processes of the ServiceBuilder product development teams. Highlights and achievements include:
• Designed and developed Distributed Software Manager. DSM is a Java based toolset used to package, manage, patch and deploy software. It is a three-tier application using CORBA.
• Designed and developed Stream Management and Update Manager, Perl based toolsets, that group logical changes within ClearCase, integrate with the corporate problem tracking software. These toolsets were cloned and used.
• Developed Software Management processes, defining how ServiceBuilder managed its code in ClearCase. Process in use for over 4 years and successfully managed over 150 streams with over 400 users across five mutisites.
• Influenced ServiceBuilder architecture, and ClearCase, packaging, and deployment strategies.
• Customized and introduced corporate Problem Tracking system into ServiceBuilder, including the bringing up to speed of 200+ users.

Ottawa, Canada Area