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Calgary, Ab, Ca

Calgary, Ab, Ca

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Calgary, Canada Area

• Enhance and maintain the OASyS SCADA System, a highly resilient and secure enterprise industrial accusation and control system: capable of high availability, scaling up and/or out service-based solutions integrated with proprietary technologies in some cases similar to micro-services• Provide support and direction to the team and cross-functional teams• Implement new customer features: for the Liquid Management System (LMS) – Pipeline Management System; in remote terminal unit (RTU) protocols which control and monitor 1000’s field telemetry devices, using protocols such as Modbus, Eagle, Mercury and others• Resolve internal and customer defects by way of service packs, patch releases and hotfixes• Perform in a fast-paced Agile Scrum development team: 19 team members consisting of developers, testers and documenters – half located offshore; Sprint planning, retrospect, refinement and standup• Engage in advanced design, proof of concept• Build software components with a focus on testabilityTechnologies: OASyS SCADA, Visual Studio, C, C++, C#, SQL Server, TFS, Git, Testing/Mocking

Calgary, Canada Area

Transitioned from consultant to employee – see above

Calgary, Canada Area

• Responsible for leading all aspects of application development in a startup organization• Worked closely with senior management to ensure alignment of application deliverables• Architected and designed application components required for the overall solution• Lead a team of developers to a successful build and implementation of application components• Lead adoption of a new technology stack for more effective use of development resources• Developed credit bureau integration layer to Equifax and TransUnion Technologies: NodeJS, JavaScript, JSON, JSON-Schema, WebStorm, UML

Calgary, Canada Area

• Improved the OASyS SCADA platform, a highly resilient and secure enterprise industrial automation control system• Participated in ISASecure IEC 62443-4-1 (SDLA) and IEC 62443-3-3 (SSA) certification processes towards deploying and managing industrial automation control systems• Preformed tool-assisted Static Code Analyzer (SCA) to identify software security vulnerabilitiesTechnologies: HP Fortify, OASyS SCADA, Visual Studio, C, C++, C#

Calgary, Canada Area

• Re-architected .Net custom application environments providing enhanced resilience and scaling through F5 technology• Defined process and templates to streamline COTS application upgrade project• Delivered COTS technical assessments and solution• Identified solution risks and provide mitigation options• Contributed to operationalizing new solutionsTechnologies: Windows Server, SQL Server, IIS, .Net, BIG-IP (F5)

Calgary, Canada Area

• Collaborated with business analysts, business owners, and stakeholders to determine solution’s architectural and technical requirements• Created solution specifications that align with enterprise constraints• Worked closely with development teams and QA to ensure adherence to technical and architectural specifications, QA coverage and testability• Identified risks and provide mitigation options during the project lifecycle• Solution a financial goal and planning portal providing self-serve investment assistance• Responsible for all architectural and technical aspects for the following solutions: SaaS electronic signing solution – services provided by DocuSign; SaaS compliance monitoring solution to meet regulatory requirements – services provided by Global Relay• Created integration specification for vendor implementation into Wealth Management COTS solution• Built service-based financial calculator for a financial goal and planning portalSuccessful projects you can look at: advice.atb.com and compassportfolios.comTechnologies: DocuSign (electronic signing SaaS - www.docusign.com), Global Relay (compliance monitoring SaaS - www.globalrelay.com), Linux, Apache, MySQL, Python, UML, REST, JSON, XML, XSD, SOAP

Calgary, Canada Area

• Provided architectural support to the Critical Care’s electronic multidisciplinary charting system project: Identified risks and collaborated on mitigative options; Worked with QA team appropriate coverage to minimize risk; Created design documents to communicate the solution to stakeholders• Prepared RFP material for downtime electronic whiteboard solution for the Emergency Departments/Urgent Care CentresTechnologies: MetaVision (iMDsoft), SQL Server

Calgary, Canada Area

• Responsible for solutioning a Wealth Management COTS solution and other smaller initiatives• Worked with business analysts, internal and external stakeholders to determine solution’s technical and architectural requirements• Constructed overall solution specification while collaborating with other subject matter architects• Solicited high-level estimates for solution specification from internal and external partners as required• Socialized high-level solution specification to numerous stakeholders for endorsement• Provided technical and architectural input to business case• Identified risks and provide mitigation options during the business case and project lifecycle• Collaborated on technical aspects on various fronts while in project mode with internal and external partnersTechnologies: AIX, IBM pSeries, DB2, WebSphere, NexJ, SQL Server

Edmonton, Canada Area

• Developed proposal to implement a data warehouse and business intelligence solution• Worked to enable enterprise-level reporting of the company’s financial landscape• Gathered technical and functional requirements from stakeholders • Designed and developed data warehouse and business intelligence solution • Designed and implemented ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) packages• Conducted analysis for reporting requirements • Designed and developed reportsTechnologies: SQL Server Database and Services (SQL Server Reporting Services - SSRS, SQL Server Integration Services - SSRS)

Calgary, Canada Area

• Lead requirement gathering sessions with internal stakeholders• Created design documents to communicate the solution to stakeholders• Conducted impact analysis to identify technical implications of changes• Implemented system enhancements using .Net and C# • Documented system changesTechnologies: C#, ASP.Net, NUnit, PL/SQL, Oracle

Calgary, Canada Area

• Provided overarching architectural direction and continuity for the significant migration effort• Assess scalability of numerous core systems in preparation for the migration effort• Solution infrastructure enterprise business intelligence and reporting services Technologies: AIX, IBM pSeries, Cognos, Oracle, SQL Server

Calgary, Canada Area

• Responsible for solutioning a multimillion-dollar Production Accounting System (PAS a product from CGI) • Lead technically aspects of PAS implementation• Provided architectural expertise in the areas of integration, infrastructure and application development• Identified potential technical risks and mitigation options• Collaborated with vendor’s development team• Lead and mentored a junior team of .Net developers• Architected several .Net web applications• Performance tuned numerous systems across all logical tiers• Provided architectural designs and solutions for a variety of projects • Implemented Microsoft Enterprise Library framework to establish reusable pliers for application development• Lead requirement gathering sessions with internal stakeholdersTechnologies: C#, ASP.Net, NUnit, PL/SQL, Oracle, InfoPath, Office Web Components, TIBCO, TeamWorks

Calgary, Canada Area

Quadrus is a Calgary based solutions company that is focused on providing IT solutions.During my term of employment at Quadrus I provided consulting services to the following clients:• Devon Canada Corporation February 2005 – January 2008• Powerex Corporation January 2003 – July 2003• Enmax Energy Corporation September 2002 – January 2003• Microsoft May 2002 – August 2002• Shaw Communications December 2001 – April 2002 • ALI/TeraMedica March 2001 – April 2002 • Javien September 2000 – March 2001• Money Stream April 2000 – January 2001Consulting service details are below.

Calgary, Canada Area

• Lead team of developers to create a high-performance computational software for financial risk analysis• Created architectural application framework for cross-platform computing solution• Architected and designed heterogeneous computational grid processing solution• Planned project sprints by using components of the agile and SCRUM methodologies• Established test plans and unit testing• Performed code reviews with team members • Mentored team members through all phases of the SDLC• Delivered product demonstrations and presentations• Created technical documents and product manualsTechnologies: Visual Studio .Net, .Net Web Services, Windows, Linux, Solaris, Oracle, Visual Source Safe, Sybase, WebSphere MQ (MQ Series), MSMQ, XPCOM (Cross-platform COM), C++, C#, MSCOM, UML, IIS, XML Spy, XML, Sun Studio, Unix GCC, SCRUM

Vancouver, Canada Area

• Develop a straight-through-processing (STP) system to automate the manual process of entering data from real-time power trades• Conducted requirement gathering sessions• Documented high-level assessments of TIBCO, SeeBeyond and BizTalk ROI• Provided recommendation to implement an Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) solution• Architected and designed robust and scalable EAI framework in support of real-time power trades• Coordinated testing, deployment and knowledge transfer strategy across several separate functional IT groups within the organization Technologies: BizTalk 2002, MSMQ, VB6, ZaiNet, COM+, Microsoft Clustering, SQL Server, CORBA

Calgary, Canada Area

• Provided BizTalk expertise to assist with the integration of two legacy systems• Resolved architectural issues in the sustainment of the system• Lead analyst in integrating time tracking, invoicing and contract management processes• Facilitated requirements gathering sessions and directed the development team accordinglyTechnologies: BizTalk 2002, IIS, XML, XSLT, VB 6, COM+, C#, MSMQ, Oracle, SQL Server

Calgary, Canada Area

• Lead technical architecture and design of.Net solution to leverage MS Word and Excel to access enterprise application data stores• Worked closely with the client to gather functional requirements• Architected and designed solution• Facilitated technical design and specification sessions to define implementation tasksTechnologies: C#, XML, .Net Web Services, ADO.Net, VS.Net, IIS

Calgary, Canada Area

• Assisted in the assessment of a corporate work order system• Assisted with architectural designs to re-engineer the corporate work order system• Created the initial framework for a software development process• Architected an internet-based solution for a B2C web application• Utilized Commerce Server and encryption technology to ensure secure internet transactions

Vancouver, Canada Area

• Provided architectural assistance to build a highly available and scalable medical image archival and retrieval system• Performed analysis and design of system iterations• Conducted quality assurance reviews of analysis and design artifacts• Provided mentorship in RUP, UML and OOADTechnologies: JMS, JDBC, JNDI, JSX, Cocobase, Forte, JTS, JTA, JSP, EJB

Vancouver, Canada Area

• Lead a team of junior developers to architecture, design, and implementation a micropayment application• Gathered user requirements and translated them into an architectural design

Calgary, Canada Area

• Performed analysis, design, architecture and implementation of a web-based architecture solution which included a backend for real-time card processing• Designed an Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) system to enable deposits/withdrawals of funds