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Ottawa, On, Ca

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Department Head and Manager for all Canadian Verification and Validation (Testing) teams.➢ Direct Manager for all Test Managers and leads across all Thales Canada projects, in multiple locations and time zones (Nova Scotia, Ontario, Alberta, and British Columbia).➢ Responsible for all V&V resources within Thales Canada.➢ Own and developed the strategic testing roadmap.➢ Managing and evaluate conformity to V&V processes across the company. Managing information pipelines, modernizing processes, lean process improvement.➢ Researching, examining, and keeping up to date with advances in the discipline to keep the company operating at the latest standards, ensuring the highest levels of quality and execution.➢ Collecting, tracking, monitoring, and presenting metrics for work completed and forecasted. Identifying bottlenecks and slow-downs, test coverage and execution.➢ Managing and forecasting V&V resourcing needs for Thales Canada. Coordinating existing and upcoming work, allocating resources and personnel as company needs fluctuate.➢ Managing career goals, performance reviews, and performance improvement as needed.➢ Ensuring conformity to V&V processes across the company. Waterfall, Agile, Scrum, Kanban boards, test-driven development (TDD). Managing information pipelines, modernizing processes, lean process improvement.➢ Coordinating and planning with directors, project managers, and other department heads to manage staffing levels, resource allocations, managing for expected upcoming work increases and mitigating for anticipated work down-times. ➢ Project budgeting and scheduling, ensuring staffing levels are where they need to be for upcoming projects and expected workloads.➢ Ensuring cross training and succession plans to avoid loss of knowledge or capabilities/

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

System Engineering Manager for a large software project creating a real-time maritime situational awareness exchange system for Navy and Coast Guard interdepartmental communications.➢ Systems and software.➢ Overall responsible for maintaining deadlines and adherence to the budget. ➢ Leading product development and delivery through its development cycle.➢ Managing resource planning and scheduling to maintain an OTAD of over 90%.➢ Constant direct interaction with customer to maintain updates and schedule deliveries as well as on-site work.➢ Coordinating with Management and resource heads to ensure deadlines and budgets were met.➢ Collaborating with IT, Operations, Tech, Admin, Procurement, QA and other disciplines.➢ Delivering estimates and guiding the systems development to meet the estimates.➢ Managing product deployment & installation on dozens of vessels throughout Canada.➢ Creating and authorizing multiple project plans and documents for delivery to customer. ➢ Dictated process and methodology for all new and additional work to the project. Project Design Authority for a large software project creating a real-time maritime situational awareness exchange system for Navy and Coast Guard interdepartmental communications.➢ Responsible for all technical aspects and decisions on the project, including requirements, changes, technical goals, and new features. ➢ Ensured that all changes and work met the technical requirements of the project, as required by customer.➢ Constant coordination with customer to ensure that additional goals were met while maintaining the technical integrity of the project.

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

IVVQM for several large projects. ➢ Software, systems, and hardware testing; for air, naval, and land systems➢ Satellite and radio communication systems, radar and navigation systems, internal communication systems, and mission systems.➢ Managing all V&V task assignments, work, deadlines, and personnel coverage: Ensuring work is finished on time and done correctly, assigning personnel to varioustasks. Directing testing and ensure plan and path is being followed.➢ Working with management and other project managers to ensure project timelinesand quality. Coordinating with other engineering disciplines to manage program deadlines and objectives. Provide V&V insight and influence to programs.➢ Driving and directing feature, unit, and system testing, ensuring quality is achieved.➢ Establishing proper V&V processes and making certain they are being followed. Implementing improvements to increase efficacy, efficiency, lower costs, reduce risk.➢ Planning project life-cycle test strategies, test plans, processes and guiding these to completion through the project’s lifespan. Updating and improving as necessary.➢ IVV estimating for budget and scheduling for short term & long term on programs.➢ Coordinating with IT, Operations, Tech, Admin, Procurement, QA and other disciplines.➢ Customer and vendor interaction. Ensuring on-site testing is performed correctly, organizing witnessed events, witnessing of vendor testing. Managing travel and meetings (virtual and in-person) while adhering to ever-shifting worldwide COVID regulations. Negotiating test coverage and strategies.➢ Overseeing test development and results: Ensuring processes are followed, supporting IVV personnel when issues are identified, working with developers to address and resolve issues to protect both the customer and the company.

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

➢ Systems and software testing.➢ Satellite communications, radar systems, communication systems, and target acquisition and display.

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Test Lead for mission data recording system➢ Created software testing suite for automated factory acceptance testing of product.➢ In charge of environmental testing of the various components of the system.➢ Oversaw several other engineers in the testing phase of the project.➢ Directly involved in the project’s estimation and work planning

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

➢ Developed an extended Kalman filter algorithm in to implement bearings-only tracking.➢ Implemented an application that processes and displays sonar data.

Various, Canada

Various engineering positions at Bruce Power Inc. (nuclear power plant), Cognos Inc.(software), Nortel Networks (telecommunications), Gallium Software Inc. (software), and Computing Devices Canada (defence).