Jake Brand Email & Phone Number

Edmonton, Canada Area

As a Programmer Analyst with the E.P.S.B. I have the opportunity to aid in the shaping of tomorrow's leaders, exercising my full stack programming experience as part of a mature development team.TLDR; In this position I have experienced the full extent of my title "Programmer Analyst".Full stack software development, large & small scale application maintenance, legacy application modernization, greenfield application development, database design and implementation, 3rd party application integration, REST API integration, UI/UX design, user requirements collection, project estimation and management, second level and end user support, developer and user documentation, and more.The majority of my time is dedicated to maintenance, enhancement, and modernization of one of (if not actually) the largest software applications at the E.P.S.B. This application has been developed by many hands over many years, resulting in a greater than 1 million SLOC application with hundreds of thousands of user accounts backed by hundreds of database tables over many schemas in multiple RDBMSs. What really makes it special though is its integration with a handful of other applications; internally developed applications via shared DB access and embedded content, customized 3rd party software via a RESTful API, and off the shelf 3rd party applications via SFTP and API data management.Additionally, I have been responsible for the modernization, maintenance, and enhancement of roughly half a dozen smaller applications and a few greenfield development applications, building from the lessons learned on other apps.Finally, my experience and support has helped enhance the development practices on many of the Programming Services Team's projects. Since being hired, most of our software projects have transitioned to uniform use of version control systems, local development environments, automated CI/CD deployment pipelines, ticket management systems, and web-accessible documentation.

Leduc, Alberta

Through Kymera System's partnership with Nexoforge Inc. I had the pleasure of being a Project Lead and Head of Sales within Nexoforge Inc.This unique position utilized my direct Ignition and integration experience, as well as my wide network of skilled IIoT professionals, to help direct the needs of Nexoforge product development and maintenance ensuring all Nexoforge products truly serve its Integration and IIoT needs.

Leduc, Alberta

My role at Kymera Systems is more than just the title.I spend a portion of my time writing and maintaining third party modules that extend and enhance Inductive Automation's Ignition framework. This role exercised my Java programming skills as I strived to provide new effective and efficient solutions as well as support and maintain existing code.Additionally, as a certified Ignition Integrator I spend some of my time developing and maintaining a script-heavy, database driven, Ignition application for more accurate monitoring and management of gas utilities. As such I had the opportunity to constantly cultivate my Ignition HMI, SQL, and Python skills.I also spent a large portion of my time as the lead of a multi-company project developing an industrial grade automation hardware utility. This project was truly from the ground up starting with custom designed hardware, its own extra-lean Linux distro, implementation and customization of a web-based configuration interface, and the addition of many usability features.As a project lead I have been the main point of contact and a significant decision maker. This includes organizing and prioritizing all aspects of its creation, licensing and certification, marketing and sales, customer relations, and support.

Alongside my job as a leader in the Science Summer Camps I completed some contract work with the team at Amplomedia. My projects here were primarily web dev. focusing on JavaScript / HTML / CSS.

University Of Alberta

Following my recently discovered passion for video games in education I spent my first summer as a graduate teaching. Utilizing a series of week long lesson plans, I was fortunate enough to use Minecraft as a tool for teaching and reinforcing science concepts in camps of 20 students aged 10 - 14.When we do it well, learning really can be fun!

Edmonton

The majority of my programming work was for web / mobile while interning at Microquest.I started developing in the cross-platform PhoneGap framework, writing in JavaScript / HTML / CSS for a web app with a mobile feel. I finished my internship designing and implementing a RESTful API using the Node.js platform and MongoDB NoSQL database. During and between these projects I touched on a number of other technologies; too many to list here.

4 month student summer position as a technician and a trainer on 3 stations.Wrap and Strap StationMainline Stick StationSorter Top Station