Keith Watson Email & Phone Number

Brampton, ON, CA

Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

• Designed and developed on the mobile changing system performing function and test coding, integration testing, and deployments into production. Assisted and supported other teams including DevOps by developing and.
• Created a system to perform real-time confirmation, analysis, and classification of comparisons between data sets and process flow results.
• Developed a process for teams to work internally or in concert with others resulting in zero idle time waiting for dependencies resulting in increased velocity.
• Created a containerized LDAP server with REST CRUD endpoints to support provisioning of data for automated functional testing and development avoiding conflicting changes from multiple developers or teams.
• Documented process flows, low level designs, and connectivity across multiple services and platforms that can be understood by different teams of different disciplines and technical levels from the same documentation.
• Generated a tool to visually search and monitor service audit records aiding deployments, troubleshooting production issues, and code development allowing for the display of information in seconds verses several minutes.

Brampton

• Designed and developed mobile applications for Android and iOS that utilize micro services to access information from distributed service providers through REST.
• Researched, evaluated, and selected development environment and third party libraries to use for development.
• Performed application design based off provided requirements functional documentation.
• Created reusable components for UI emulating individual different devices from a single source code to maintain material design standards.

Mississauga

• Performed design and development on a catalog and order management system while guiding architectural and coding standards and best practices through code reviews and mentoring junior developers.Worked on server side.
• Prototyped implementation patterns and wire frames for developers to follow.
• Lead Scrum of Scrums meetings, tracking critical status information; updated stakeholders.
• Created directive driven testing framework to accelerate creation of functional tests with minimal coding.
• Monitored CI build and test results coordinating with Build and Development Teams to expedite issue investigation and resolution.
• Refined procedures to prevent breakages and interruptions to other teams when working with dependencies across multiple code repositories.

Mississauga, Ontario

• Designed and developed on BlackBerry Administration Service; specialized in all processes relating to application and policy reconciliation including performance and functionality improvement analysis and.
• Co-invented a patented process that automatically calculates and assigns policy settings.
• Performed as Scrum Master and provided progress updates to senior management.
• Collaborated with product owners during regular grooming sessions to develop user story requirements and provide input for possible improvements to functionality and user experience.
• Created automation tools to allow developers to implement user interface code more rapidly.
• Continued development and enhancement of a programmable rules-based reconciliation and amalgamation engine for deployment of mobile applications, security policies, and user profiles.

Mississauga, Ontario

• Designed and developed a payment processing application for Visa Commerce; created and maintained software and procedure documentation. Completed regression test application releases to confirm stability of previous.
• Designed and developed enterprise reporting system including the front end and integration with Crystal Report Application server.
• Architected reusable object-oriented development environment using Active Server Pages for an on-line debit system.
• Analyzed software upgrades to identify any fixes or compatibility issues.
• Interfaced with software vendors to understand benefits and challenges that may occur with an upgrade and worked out any unexpected issues that were encountered.
• Took ownership of third-party related issues to ensure correct and complete information was provided and problem resolved in a timely manner.

Oakville, Ontario

• Developed web-based applications for wireless and hand-held devices including Palm, Windows CE, BlackBerry, handspring, and phone browsers using HTML and WAP (Wireless Application Protocol).
• Created business-to-consumer and business-to-business e-commerce solutions.
• Upgraded a business-to-business on-line ordering system from Visual Basic CGI to a three-tier Java GUI interface connecting to a back end system using CORBA.
• Implemented distributed application servers using Inprise App Server and Visibroker.
• Implemented corporate Internet connectivity including mail, proxy server, packet filtering for security and virtual private networking to interconnect branches and partners securely.
• Built and administered development and production servers by analyzing customer requirements for load and storage and then installed and configured required database and web services.

Oakville, Ontario

• Headed research and development of Internet based solutions.
• Developed Internet ordering of postal products for Canada post with on-line credit authorization.
• Created Dell Canada’s real-time order and claims tracking site receiving over 8,000 inquires a day.
• Developed secure Internet applications using Entrust 512 bit Private Key Infrastructure.
• Managed development of an Internet/Intranet solution for internal communications and for external customer inquires utilizing MS Access and Oracle.
• Migrated help desk call logs into a web based knowledge base for high-speed document retrieval.