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Elora, ON, CA

Guelph, Ontario, CA

Leading the launch of a new spin-off from RWDI Ventures, delivering rapid insights to the engineers and architects that are designing the world's most advanced high-performance buildings.

Calgary, Alberta, CA

• Meticulon is an Alberta based IT consulting company inspired by Specialisterne, the Danish social enterprise that employs people on the autism spectrum as IT consultants within software testing and data conversion
• Worked on the advisory board to perform the feasibility study, prepare the business plan, and found the company
• Ongoing board membership

Kitchener, ON, CA

• Product lead, growing a new team within Miovision responsible for computer vision, machine learning and other core technologies of the business
• Worked with CEO and leadership to refine strategy for the company’s long term vision
• Built relationships with engineering firms and technology partners to establish new channels to market
• Built roadmaps and set direction for computer vision, machine learning, traffic engineering, and UX practices
• Provisional patent for “Blockchain Data Exchange Network and Methods and Systems for Submitting Data To and Transacting Data on Such a Network”

Kitchener, ON, CA

• Managed the development and successful release of the industry’s foremost traffic analytics system for Traffic Performance Measures and Travel Time statistics
• Managed the ongoing development of the company’s Intelligent Traffic Systems solutions, including remote hardware and cloud-based big data solutions
• Managed the development of new products, including origin destination tools, video detection, and connected vehicle solutions

Fremont, CA, US

• Managing the overall SW integration effort for a rack-scale storage appliance based on a brand new parallel file system technology, high density drive enclosures, clustered server topology, and integrated high speed.
• Coordinating this work across 8 development teams in 7 countries spread over 10 time zones
• Established various Scrum of Scrum efforts, to facilitate the flow of information.
• Drove the minimization of inter-team dependencies and blockers
• Established and ramped up several internationally distributed teams
• Managed the development of and helped design a proof of concept for an integrated, Hadoop-based big data appliance for the ClusterStor product line, targeted at the high performance computing market

Mississauga, ON, CA

• Worked with founder to define product vision for solutions in microgrid management and control
• Hired and led a small team for the initial prototyping and development
• Business development – worked with founder to articulate and promote company vision
• Project management – acted as key contact with partner, Toronto Hydro, for project definition and planning
• Patent application for Distributed Microgrid ControllerTechnologies: Distributed systems, NI LabView

Aarhus C, DK, DK

• Reported to the CEO and worked closely with the Director of Business Development and Sales
• Established and managed product roadmaps for the distributed grid management and AMR product lines
• Involved in design and specification for these same products
• Supported business development efforts through product positioning and pricing strategy, sales support, and technical discussions with established and potential partners
• Provided overall conceptual design and management of project bids

Aarhus C, DK, DK

• Established requirements and generated product specifications for a low voltage grid management system
• Established and promoted the architectural vision for the next generation of the company’s platform; a generically configurable version of their distributed management and control system, designed to scale to thousands.
• Coordinated technical tasks across a pool of 20 developers (JEE server and HMI, ARM9 distributed Linux, and embedded systems)
• Initiated scrum with the development team
• Responsible for outsourcing of an iPhone and Windows Mobile application for mobile configuration and management
• Coordination of design for substation control system and communications in a project with ADWEA (Abu Dhabi, UAE) low voltage substationsTechnologies: JavaEE, Hibernate, Oracle, embedded distributed systems, UML, Scrum.

• Member of 8 person executive team, reporting to the president of $60 million/year company
• Setting corporate IT direction and $300,000 /year capital budget
• Initiated and lead a company wide strategic planning process
• Responsible for hiring, management and technical direction of six staff and various contractors (including developers (4), GIS, network admin, data warehousing)
• Achieved highest employee engagement score across all departments of company
• Department responsibilities include: three large custom software systems, JD Edwards Accounting and various customizations, a very diverse WAN infrastructure, Exchange Server, Citrix Server, SQL Server, user support.

• Technical lead for ongoing software projects within the company
• Management of short term contractor and coop students
• Ongoing development and maintenance of Reservations System, Snow Science System, corporate network and data infrastructure
• Conversion of reservation system from SQL Base to MS SQL Server
• Involved in planning and strategy for corporate information systemsTechnologies: Gupta SQL Windows, ActiveX, Windows API, SQL Server, Perforce

• Developed initial architecture for an XML interchange of snow and avalanche data for avalanche industry (the foundations of which are still present in current CAAML)
• Initial architecture for server and web applet for data entry, sharing, and viewing
• Ongoing architecture advise for modular snow science systemTechnologies: Java, XML,.NET

• Developed Java based management software for a USB based FPGA device.Technologies: Java 1.5 (J2SE), NetBeans, Opal Kelly Hardware

• Consulted on architecture, framework, and design of both a Java based and.NET based medical billing system for PC and hand-held devices

• Technical evaluation and software design on a project to bring risk analysis and decision support tools to non-technical audiences, using expert systems and the web
• Design and implementation of a prototype intelligent web based data-mining engineTechnologies: Java, JSP, Tomcat, SQL Server, Exsys Corvid Expert System Software

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