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Eden Prairie, Minnesota, Us

Eden Prairie, Minnesota, Us

Lead part of a team working on large scale Elasticsearch backed services for security analytics. Exploring Kubernetes based infrastructure, Prometheus along with dabbling with Kafka and other technologies.

Eden Prairie, Minnesota, Us

Kitchener, On, Ca

Part of a new team focused in part on concepts like IoT, Big Data and various efforts focused around developing an Industry 4.0 platform at scale baked into all aspects of our Autonomous Industrial Vehicles and Fleet management systems. Enabling adoption of big data principles and systems to accelerate our internal engineering, SQA, IT and many other workflows. You can't improve what you can't measure, and we aim to measure everything, everywhere!

Kitchener, On, Ca

Responsible for a growing team and effort to expand and extend our big data, analytic, build, release, simulation, cloud and telemetry efforts related to software engineering and our growing global fleet of industrial robotic systems. -Working to transform and expand our practices to include software defined data centers and hyper-convergence technology stacks-Extending and ramping elasticsearch based clusters for large scale data analytic and deep learning initiatives to gain deeper insights into processes, products and problems-Working to build multi-tennat analytic and visualization services for customers and end users -Deeper integration with existing build, release and simulation systems to extend performance regression efforts-Further extension of real-time crash analytics via Sentry and elasticsearch integration -Realtime IoT field data collection and telemetry efforts with our growing fleet of field robotics systems feeding our big data efforts-Streamline and further automate our internal developer efforts where possible to increase efficiency and software quality

Kitchener, On, Ca

* Responsible for growing team charged with validation, testing, simulation, profiling and root cause failure analysis of all existing and future products * Designed large scale Virtual Machine server farm / SAN for engineering / simulation and automated testing infrastructure utilization* Automated regression handling, crash reporting and regression detection solutions custom built around Sentry and other tooling* Championing Remote data telemetry and analytic systems for production including Elasticsearch, Kibana, Jupyter and other big data / analyics platforms* Team lead focus on continuous Integration and Delivery, Infrastructure, build systems, pipeline and integrated simulation systems to further validate and maintain quality and deliverable software for our customers and partners* Finding better ways to accelerate engineering, improve workflows and compliment product portfolios* Building an entirely new form of testing and software engineering workflow enhancements, for an entirely new and exciting industry - Autonomous ground vehicle robotics systems!* Fostering better customer experiences using many of the above systems externally facing where possible - key focus on value add customer telemetry and support wofklows* Modern best practices including agile sprints, ticket management, project planning and execution

Kitchener, On, Ca

* Developing and executing automated and attended testing and ground truth validation for autonomous robot vehicle systems* Use of vision based motion tracking and recording systems* Site commissioning and support including site and vendor integration testing and validation* Test Plan design and execution* Technology and component stacks including Linux, ROS (Robot Operating System), LIDAR, CAN, Ethernet, Python etc* Keeping the robots from uprising against their meat masters

Waterloo, Ontario, Ca

Ongoing deveopment of next-generation automated event, crash and exception stack processing solutions with collaborative closed loop workflow integration with developers and teams company wide. Extending and enhancing Python Sentry and Django frameworks, leveraging Big Data and event sourcing. Experimentation with machine learning data mining technologies to further hone automated workflows and closed loop practises to accelerate product research and development performance.

Waterloo, Ontario, Ca

Developer and architect of on device and distributed plugin based desktop tools used with QNX embedded BlackBerry products in all phases of design, development, carrier acceptance and in field support.Supports, designs and develops QNX, Unix, Linux, Mac and Windows based cross platform tooling, software, and installers. Developed a real-time distributed tooling system, which uses Github Enterprise API integration to distribute, update and sync code changes between end users stations and decentralized plugin modules and their source control repositories. Development focused on cross platform Python technologies. Extensive use of real time usage and issue capturing technologies with Sentry monitoring. Responsible for nearly 10,000 active global users on a day to day basis, focused on Agile development practices, transparency and Social source code geared work focused on Github/Gitlab integration.

Waterloo, Ontario, Ca

Expertise in IP Voice Telecommunication systems, and Voice 802.11 network systems in enterprise environments. Responsible for working with large profile customers, and inter-building campus networks and systems within the BlackBerry ecosystem. Support and custom software support tools development, along with Tier 5 customer support role.Designs and develops custom software solutions for analysis of proprietary device firmware debugging data, as well as signal and networking analysis tools. 802.11 Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and embeded radio driver support activities performed for high profile customers. Developer of QNX based support tooling for next generation RIM products.Expertise with Cisco CUCM, and other vendor PBX IP phone systems as well as extensive working experience with SIP, IAX, H323, MGCP, 802.11, EAP authentication protocols, as well as 802.11 management frame and protocol analysis, including RF and spectrum troubleshooting experience and hands on expertise.

Kitchener, Ontario, Ca

Technical Project Lead, Control systems designer for Blast Furnaces, Oxygen Lance, Hoist and Elevator applications, SCADA, PAC, PLC, HMI, electrical, controls and drives solutions

Ca

Lead software systems integrator working in Food, Beverage, Heavy Industry, Semiconductor and other industries. Embedded, PAC, PLC, Electrical, Drives and systems integration including wide variety of networking solutions. Prototyped embedded controls based on ATMEL CPU's and assisted with small scale industrial electronic products including signal multiplexers and embedded controls for high efficiency DC power systems for water treatment applications Responsible for various large scale solutions utilizing distributed large scale SCADA plant wide control interfaces and data historian systems.

Control Systems Designer.Designed and developed industrial control systems in various industries utilizing SCADA, DCS, PLC and VFD drive controls along with industrial networking solutions. Responsible for several large projects focused on a major manufacturers in the food / drug and plastics related industries. Pioneered early use of VPN and other secure internet remote access technologies for live remote site support.

Kitchener, Ontario, Ca

Cisco, SGI Irix, Sun Solaris, Linux and Windows/Mac network administration duties. including custom Oracle database applications for clients, host web and WAN connections for clients. Managed a 50+ client base as a business Internet access provider with dial up and WAN managed links. Designed, implemented and managed secure networking solutions for businesses and remote access hosted services.