- Established a new innovation hub office for iS5 in the Region of Waterloo- Responsible for defining and developing early stage product ideas through to successful deployments- Building up a development team internally as well as managing external vendors to contribute to projects- Help establish high quality development processes and tools within the entire company

- Responsible for all product development in the ESCRYPT Waterloo location- Strong focus on people leadership, ensuring teams are highly motivated, performing well, continuously improving and delivering quality software- Collaborate across departments to help define and execute on company strategy- Continually challenge the status-quo to find areas for improvement

- Successfully built up and led the engineering side of the company through a successful acquisition- Worked closely with the CEO during the acquisition process being responsible for all engineering aspects of the business- Fostered a continuous improvement culture within the engineering team leading to highly motivated and engaged employees while improving software quality- Worked closely with the CEO and Product Management to define and execute on company strategy

- Developed management experience starting with a small team and growing it over time- Contributed to development tasks while managing the team when the team was still smaller- Conducted regular 1:1s with team members to evaluate performance and help guide careers

- Managed and led the development of multiple products from start to finish- Assisted with developing a patent using NFC technology to protect against counterfeiting- Frequently interacted with customers and clients- Managed and mentored co-op students

- Technical lead for the Content Server web services API- Made major contributions on many different projects for OpenText Content Server- Promoted best practices and standards within my team and the company- Continually received superb performance evaluations on annual reviews by exceeding expectations- Member of the OpenText hockey and baseball teams

- Created a plug-in framework to add analysis engines to an existing data collection system- Implemented a performance summary page that aggregated data collected over the past month- Added a core service to an event tracking system heavily used in the digital technologies space- Used past knowledge and experience to improve the user interface of the event tracking system- Led a project to expand the content offering for the Amazon Kindle- Shared new ideas during code/design reviews with other senior engineers- Worked both independently and in a team environment producing dependable results

- Worked as a member of the Livelink Search Application Team- Built a stress test framework for the Livelink search and indexing processes that could be easily deployed on a variety of hardware configurations- Helped in the creation of productivity tools for blind software developers- Performed regular maintenance and bug fixes to Livelink search features- Used past experiences and knowledge to quickly adapt to the Livelink architecture and OScript language to be able to contribute almost immediately

- Implemented a multimedia database with an easy to use administrator interface using ASP, HTML, CSS, SQL Server, JavaScript, and AJAX- Created and implemented a new department website design integrating it with the new multimedia database- Worked with a small team to put together and conduct a departmental safety meeting- Helped develop, update and maintain online eLearning courses- Assisted with other various tasks including technical support, troubleshooting, and video shoots

- Developed and implemented a web based survey application to collect and analyze data from a survey using PHP, HTML, CSS, MySQL, JavaScript, and AJAX- Taught multiple seminars on HTML and CSS to students, staff, and faculty members- Demonstrated leadership abilities by training two first year co-op students- Developed a web application that automated the process of creating a University of Waterloo style sheet, opening up creative possibilities to non–programmers- Assisted in the renovation of two new computer labs by rewiring and setting up the computers to the network

- Modified the persistence of a C++ database object layer from MFC binary serialization to a new XML format which can be consumed from Java- Created a CPPUnit framework for testing the changes- Modified a test framework to test against live databases