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Canada

El Segundo, Ca, Us

SAAS business that specializes in building software for HR and Public Safety entities.• Technical Project Manager overseeing the development of new features for 7 SAAS products, including 8 scrum teams, and 4 company initiatives totalling an annual budget of $25MM.• Brought an accreditation lifecycle MVP into production ahead of schedule and under budget by optimizing sprint processes, resulting in landing an RFP with a large US government agency.• Managed a team of 3 project managers, teaching them to focus on forecasting roadmap completion, while balancing annual company initiatives and live customer issues leading to an increase in roadmap completion by 17% QOQ.• Implemented an Agile Release Train to bring a company initiative to build a unified platform across 3 suites of products back on track and on budget. • Designed EazyBI dashboards to track project metrics and find inefficiencies, thus reducing sprint variance by 30% and improving roadmap readiness across the portfolio.• Created an integration linking Salesforce and Jira, facilitating the swift escalation of customer cases and real-time updates between customer support and the development team, resulting in a 20% reduction in cycle time. • Conducted a gap analysis on new customer implementation time, finding the need for a bulk action feature, resulting in a reduction in implementation time of 2 weeks per enterprise customer and drop in churn during implementation by 15%.• Mitigated potential security risks by temporarily implementing KANBAN for product teams to complete a backlog of issues found through security scanning, thus completing the issues 3 weeks ahead of the scrum forecast.• Managed the company organization in Atlassian, reducing licenses, automation runs, and add-on costs for Confluence, Jira, and Jira Service Management, saving the company $30,000 in tooling costs per year.

North Canton, Ohio, Us

Banking Innovation company building software for ATMs and POS devices. • Sr. Software Engineer on the M&S team supporting major financial institutions through bug fixes for the transaction middleware issues.• Led a global team of 5 engineers diagnosing issues and resolving support escalations.• Deployed REST-APIs using Python Flask to transfer data quickly between virtual machine test environments and server infrastructure, reducing setup time for testing environments by 2 hours. • Optimized SQL queries for a major financial institution, reducing monthly server-side support cases from 10 to 3.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Digital Transformation consulting firm working with Fortune 100 clients• Management Consultant focused on providing data driven solutions to clients, including developing software and cloud-based applications. • Directed a Fortune 10 company on a large-scale expansion campaign to select locations of distribution centers, hire 400,000+ new employees, and position themselves for increased demand during the COVID-19 Pandemic. • Developed a Python web scraping suite to collect daily sales data for 18,000 SKUs, aiding alcohol industry clients.• Engineered an AWS-based database connecting automated data collection, client data, websites, and BI tools, enabling streamlined data analysis and near-real-time client dashboards for clients.

Hamilton, Ontario, Ca

The MacPherson Institute is a center of excellence focused on providing leadership and innovation in teaching to the McMaster community. • Educational Developer working with new educational technologies and emerging technologies to create accessible and equitable education spaces for students. • Presented a keynote at Amazon on the benefits of using technology in classrooms to design more accessible and equitable learning spaces to over 500 stakeholders. • Coded a machine learning algorithm using a naïve bayes classifier to conduct research on a historical database of over 200,000 criminal cases.• Created a neural network using TensorFlow workflows in Python to analyse a collection of 3000 gulag tattoos and determine the language they made.

Hamilton, Ontario, Ca

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Us

Railroad equipment manufacturer producing equipment, systems, and digital solutions. • Software Engineer developing software for automated testing fixtures designed to test motherboards on black boxes and locomotive components.• Architected a program using Python and natural language processing to read technical flowcharts and create software scripts based on the input, the project saved the company $250,000 in software development expenses per year. • Programmed functions using computer vision in Python to identify components on schematic drawings and match them to images of motherboards to a 97% success rate.

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