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Ottawa, On, Ca

Toronto, On, Ca

Responsible for overseeing the technical direction of the application and the underlying architecture.

Toronto, On, Ca

Overseeing a team of diverse skill sets to deliver projects focused on core business functionality.Responsible for both designing and the coding of technical projects.

Toronto, On, Ca

Responsible for both designing and the coding of technical projects.Provide insight and relevant data to better inform teams within the organization.

Toronto, On, Ca

- Worked to design, and implement a highly fault tolerant file replication and workflow system written in Erlang.- Improved the full text search capability of the product.- Implemented a wide range of security improvements and related fixes.- Designed, implemented and was responsible for a HTML5 viewer that rendered Office and PDF documents on demand to customers.- Lead on numerous projects to improve the features of the product.

Acumen Design & Development is a small consultancy offering software systems design and implementation. As well, branding and industrial design services. The business was founded in 2009 and currently is under contract for software development, corporate branding, and marketing.My role is to deliver the technical solution and manage the projects to ensure that it meets the client's needs.- Client consultations and estimates- Technology research for cost effective solutions- Collaboration with Design Lead to develop UI solutions- Typical project is a simple Ruby on Rails backend with most of the work focused on the UI.

Demonstrated high adaptability and quick learning to work with a wide scope of front-end technologies, back-end server components, and server configurations. Over the course of the job, I was responsible for client estimates, solution architecture, deliverables, and occasionally testing.Overview of the major projects:- Primary developer of a food and recipe website based mainly on Drupal, and used the classic LAMP stack.- Took over a J2EE back-end developed to harvest, curate, normalize, and rank musical instruments obtained from numerous sources (XML, HTML scraping, APIs). The product had a Drupal front-end that communicated with a JBoss server, that included Hibernate, Spring, and Lucene. My focus was reducing the amount of time necessary to process the data, improving the stability of the processing and scaling the application using Amazon EC2. My responsibilities also included making changes to the front end's HTML/CSS/JS to better display results, and improve the product overall.- Took over and completed an mobile application, targeting iOS, that had similar functionality to the service Dropbox.- Lead a small team developing an offline mobile app, using HTML5 technologies, to keep track of in-field reporting that synchronizes with a Ruby on Rails back-end.- Came up with, and helped implement an idea for an internal project that combined location based check-in provider's APIs, Ruby on Rails and HTML5 technologies.- Multiple smaller projects that involved J2EE, PHP, .NET, ASP.NET,SQL Server, MySQL, Video DRM, Alfresco, SEO analysis and implementation.

Ottawa, Ontario, Ca

- Development scope increased to include developing fixes and new features throughout the software code base.- Maintained high product knowledge for debugging issues that arose in all products and in all releases of the software.- Worked within the complete software life cycle

Ottawa, Ontario, Ca

- Part of a team to provide support and customized solutions to customers.- Primary Responsibilities Included: - Front line support for the COM SDK - Customizing retail and banking data processing solutions for combining video with transaction information - Direct client support, including site visits throughout North AmericaDevelopment was done in a proprietary language built in C++, similar to Javascript/Python; targeting devices running a customized embedded Linux kernel.

Ottawa, Ontario, Ca

- One of the primary developers on a Visual Basic Application that was used to predict concrete failure. - Required self motivation and the ability to complete the work quickly under an ever changing set of requirements and feature changes.- Was expected to work independently, and adhere to the schedule.- Significant effort was put into re-factoring the existing code base in addition to the existing schedule.