Privately held technology consulting services company. Specializing in web and mobile application development.

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Make critical contributions in the development of new cloud native software products for a major telecom business. Also provide software development advice / mentorship to other team members.

As a contract software developer, my responsibility was to provide support and develop new features for specific client projects.Clients included major companies in the automotive manufacturing industry as well as a major Canadian bank.My responsibilities include:1. Developing web-based java application that leverages spring-boot, MongoDB, angular JS and is hosted on the Azure cloud.2. Developing Android application features that leverages RxJava and Kotlin.3. Identifying areas to improve with existing client application and recommending solutions to improve overall code quality.4. Ensure the use of fundamental best practices in object orient programming (SOLID principles) for all client projects.

Focused on developing fin-tech and travel-tech solutions for the rapidly changing vacation rental industry.Managed a cross functional team of software developers, testers and application designers. Team members were made up of a combination of remote and co-located team members.

We developed a cutting edge chat bot application that helps people find their perfect homes. We integrated the MLS data with Facebook's messenger capability. Our chat-bot application searches the MLS for a home that perfectly matches your needs and delivers results to you via Facebook's messenger platform.

Went through the accelerator program as the CTO of Chargeautomation.com. A great experience working with the support of several successful entrepreneur mentors. Mentors advised us on what we could do to continue to accelerate our growth.

Went through the a validator program as the CTO of Chargeautomation.com. Worked with the support of several successful entrepreneur mentors. Mentors advised us on what we could do to continue to improve our product-market-ft. A concept that we did not fully understand until we went through this program.

Manage the development and maintenance of software for the automotive industry. I was responsible for the "Seller Portal" technology, which was used by all car-dealers and auction houses to sell vehicles. I was responsible for providing leadership in developing of new features, working with the business to come up with solution and supporting development teams in order to push out solutions on time.

This is post AT&T acquisition. Continue to build and maintain features for our video transcoding system, which is now delivering 1000s of hours of content for multiple devices/DRMs/CDNs, daily. Continue to add new developers to our team and support existing developers. Work to align our teams with AT&T initiatives.

Continue to build the future of online video transcoding while building and maintaining a team of highly motivated developers.

Develop high quality code with a team of talented developers. We were building the future of highly available/scalable online video transcoding.

Developed solutions for large retailers. Solutions include e-commerce, content management, web publishing, price forecasting, marketing planning and intelligent process automation. Lead a small team of developers in Toronto and India.

Support of Enterprise applications for the insurance businessI was responsible for the development and maintenance of a fiduciary accounting system. Part of my tasks involved: 1. Interface with business to understand functional requirements2. Training of operational support personnel in the United Kingdom and India to perform support tasks that need to be executed on a regular basis3. Trained and worked with offshore resource to complete Software Development work.4. Document requirements, training manuals and solutions to existing and resolved issues.Applications utilized the Websphere application servers with an Oracle 9i database. Application architecture heavily utilized a service oriented approach which resulted in applications utilized SOAP communications.J2EE technology and Hibernate as a persistence API were heavily utilized.

• Responsible for design/development of new features to existing systems and for training of new/junior Java developers.• Development of Enterprise Java Beans (EJBs) and associated J2EE object-oriented patterns on a multi-tiered system using JBOSS application server and various RDBMS.• Actively fine tuned application server and participated in performance tuning of database server to maintain optimal performance during high traffic periods. • Tended to customer support for troubleshooting and optimization of the system according to client feedback. • Successfully created and maintained an efficient working relationship with the client and Crosscap team members