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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Winnipeg, Canada Area

• 100% responsible for all hardware, firmware/bios, software on-prem IT infrastructure, and hybrid Azure/AD Cloud IT services (Servers, network, virtualization, Security, Azure/Office365, ADDS) to set up new SQL Server 2019 domain instances on Windows Server 2019, virtualized on VMWare ESXi/vSphere. I am a Full-Stack IT admin from bare metal up to the Cloud.• Responsible for implementing a full 3-2-1 Backup Layer strategy for the new SQL Server deployment for production. On-site backup using Synology NAS devices; Off-site backups using Azure Containers/BLOB storage with geo-redundant cold storage distribution.• Provide guidance, project planning, and execution of migrating a legacy MS Access database back-end schema to a new on-prem SQL Server 2019 instances to allow for enterprise scale out and deployment to multiple static VPN linked offices in Winnipeg/MB, Stockton/CA, Sanford/FL, and Brisbane/Australia.• Devise a Hybrid Microsoft Azure Cloud migration and development/testing strategy for eventual migration or “lift-and-shift” of the on-prem SQL Server instances to my client's Microsoft Azure infrastructure with VDI for the front-end desktops.

Winnipeg, Canada Area

Providing CS2 Level IT Services Support while developing proof of concept workflow prototypes using Power BI Reporting and Power Apps for Microsoft 365 and Dynamics 386. Part of Transport Canada's #TCDigital and #TCFutureReady 2020 and beyond cloud services and big data initiatives. #NoMoreDataSilos

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

• Provide full software development lifecycle services and expertise using C/C++, Qt framework, with BASH and Git scripting on LINUX as a full member of the Test Engineering Team• Team is responsible for full Environmental Stress Screening (ESS) and Environmental Quality Testing (EQT) of custom embedded hardware and firmware for the global locomotive industry by designing automated custom test software and hardware test infrastructure for production teams.• Reverse engineer and document a critical ESS software from the “end-users” point of view in order to assemble a “Test Engineering Hardware Rack” to facilitate higher quality and intermediate software testing before releasing to the manufacturing ESS/EQT assembly line for shipment.• Responsible for the full port, recompile and testing migration of legacy ESS software programs from Ubuntu 14.04/LTS to Ubuntu 18.04/LTS as mandated by the IT department deadlines.

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

• Research, prototype, test, and document custom Informatica Cloud Connector designs while adapting my C++ skills to learning the Java J2EE/Web API and Informatica Cloud Java SDK Frameworks.• Author and publish formal testing and validation procedures, Certified Users Guides and Technical Manuals required by the Informatica Certification Team in India as part of the formal “Connector Certification Process” required to satisfy the Informatica Cloud Connector Marketplace guidelines.• Provide end-to-end IT project support and technical training to our project business analysts during all phases of project milestones.

Winnipeg, Canada Area

• Design, debug and deliver industrial-grade C/C++ code for “Cyber Security and Auditing” features. Code adapted from a legacy embedded QNXv4/RTOS product (LPRO2000) to 3 forked codebases making up the product family. QNX is a hard-real-time embedded OS based on a Micro-kernel architecture that uses efficient message passing as the fundamental software design architecture for stable and deterministic real-time systems performance.• Develop production-quality software meeting 99.999% up-time.• Production release, version management, and quality control conformed to ISO-9001:2008 internal certified processes.

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

• Custom designed automation software that can perform recursive descent statistical analysis of large amounts of raw human performance data files collected from the www.hexoskin.com wearable body metrics devices. The output from software produced CSV files containing summary tables of all the relevant stats of interest for research studies for circus staff/performer health assessments.• Designed from scratch as a 64bit Multi-Platform native software that can be compiled on macOS, Windows, and Linux using C/C++ and the QT Multi-platform Framework library.

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

• Implemented, debugged, and tested the design of a custom LINUX kernel serial port device driver in C for a 32bit ARM SoC device to facilitate a POTS MODEM.• Refactored and improved the C/C++ software design of a CANBUS protocol-based ARM 32bit SoC embedded multi-controller for an Autonomous Hydraulic Jack Levelling System for Parker Hannifin Oildyne Division.• Designed the C++ GUI framework and display UI/UX logic for an ISOBUS Virtual-Terminal Row Crop Seeding control system for Parker Hannifin.• Diagnosed, debugged, and advanced the C++ system control logic code that integrated a CANBUS based BOSCH 3-Point Hitch controller for a control-by-wire tractor design at Buhler Versatile.• Ported legacy C code from a 16bit Motorola HC11 bare metal controller to a new 32bit ARM STM32F1xx SoC design using NuttX/POSIX/RTOS and GNU ANSI-C99 toolchain on Linux.• Designed custom Windows App software using C++, QT, and other 3rd party STM32 chip libraries for flashing release code and configuration data to a wireless embedded gateway device.• Develop, implement, and maintained new features for the www.eyeontheice.com Windows C++/QT framework application used to monitor ice sports surfaces and conditions.• Prototyped an iPhone app using XCode/Objective-C on macOS to test a WEB-API for JSON data exchange to/from a Ruby-On-Rails web service.• Deployed NGINX Web Servers on AWS/EC2/Linux VMs for a Ruby-on-Rails web service/IoT based moisture detection/alarm device.• Developed the Ruby scripted back end web-service deployment.

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

• Collaborated with a 10-member team to develop the PSCAD/EMTDC simulation platform using C, C++/CLR, C#.NET, and Fortran90/95 using a mix of Microsoft, Intel, and GNU/GCC Fortran compilers and toolchains.• Improved the EMTDC simulation run-time performance by reducing the 32bit virtual memory requirements for sub-system matrix splitting by refactoring and optimizing older Fortran77 matrix allocation code using Fortran95 dynamic pointer memory allocations.• Developed GUI/UX based data plotting controls in C++ for PSCAD.

Stony Mountain, Manitoba, Canada

• Provide leadership, development and support for commercial software for the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) industry that includes (i) Development of graphical GPS based software products, (ii) Software Development Kit (SDK) API for 3rd party ISVs and OEMs, (iii) Embedded firmware for the MicroPilot embedded controllers.• Mentor a team of software developers by making critical design decisions in the areas of software architecture, 3rd party software libraries, SDK C-API design and overall feature design.• Designed the API pattern used to implement the MicroPilot XTENDER SDK; a public C/C++ API that can be licensed to 3rd party OEMs to develop custom software for the MicroPilot Platform.• Designed and maintained the MicroPilot HORIZON UAV Ground Control Software product for Windows in VB6 and C/C++ SDK• Maintain embedded autopilot controller code using the GCC M68332 cross-compiler toolchain.• Developed Win32 multi-threaded serial port and TCP/IP communications protocol code.• Provided on-site developer training in Israel for the MicroPilot SDK.

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

• Design financial planning algorithms for Asset Allocation as part of the Windows Desktop Suite of NaviPlan Application Family. Report Generation. SQL database interfaces.• Design, implement, test, and maintain the asset allocation and SQL database interface of NaviPlan financial planning and reporting software.• Optimized the virtual memory performance of NaviPlan on Windows with low memory constraints.• NaviPlan developed using Microsoft Visual C++ using COM, ATL, and ODBC.

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

• Lead developer of mission/time-critical commercial software for the radio broadcast automation industry using MPEG1/Layer2 and Dolby-AC3 CODEC libraries and DSP hardware.• Improved the design and quality of existing audio playback software by removing many legacy bugs in first 9 months which increased system uptime and reliability.• Designed GUI controls for DSP based audio devices using an API SDK.

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

• Developed ISOMAP; a software tool for graphical and statistical analysis of isometric dynamometry data used for human strength measurement.• Presented ISOMAP to manufacturers of clinical rehab and sports medicine devices in New York, NY.• Licensed the ISOMAP software technology to BIODEX Medical Systems Inc.• Ported the ISOMAP data algorithm from 16Bit Borland C++ app to MS Visual C++ 32bit DLL• Teamed up with developers in San Jose, CA to integrated ISOMAP library into the BIODEX System 3 Software and assist with the technology transfer process.

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

• Software Developer (While Studying Computer Engineering @ UofM Full Time)• Designed and implement custom graphics programs for numerical and heuristic algorithms and statistical analysis software using Borland C/C++/OOP on Microsoft DOS and 16bit/32bit Windows v3.x for automating the rapid analysis of medical research data for the study of:o DEXA X-Ray Image Analysis for Bone Density Losso Human Motion Video Capture and Balance Analysiso Neuromuscular Activity of the Human Eye