Dave Kelsey Email & Phone Number

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Accountable for the operation of multiple systems across the organization* In addition to other services, supported 27+ Java based applications - Spatial Systems* Contribute to development of a number of systems* Supported numerous OpenShift Namespaces hosting container based services using a variety of tech stacks* Support members of the DevOps chapter.

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Worked on BC Data Catalogue - CKAN* Identified and fixed bugs and features in python, and Javascript.* Managed work for Vendors - software development management.* Provided training to new Data Editors and Data Custodians* Worked closely with Data Architecture Group, the Map Team, and the Data Distribution Group.* Provided training across government on the.

Victoria BC

• Working as part of a team I performed an analysis of the SendWithUs architecture, determined bottleneck[s], defined and initiated a plan for scaling.
• Learned Django and Python in order to identify bottlenecks and ensure continued growth in support of larger clients.
• Reviewed API documentation and identified errors.
• Contributed ideas to product improvement (eg: interface design, regular expressions for template parsing)

Victoria BC

• Defined, managed, and improved test cycles and test quality.
• Improved quality of automated tests by completing and refining existing unfinished python/nosetest scripts and organizing them logically
• Integrated existing tests with jenkins-ci, authored jobs for the automation of test runs and integrated with reporting.
• Managed and improved the build pipeline and got the team on track for continuous delivery
• Learned packaging tools for Debian, RPM, OS X and Windows as part of taking over the entire build.
• Defined and implemented a prototype for an orchestrated, scaling build and packaging system utilizing EC2, Puppet, GitHub, Jenkins, and Vagrant, and worked with a small team to build it.

Victoria, BC

I wore many hats. Windows network admin, Mail Admin, jenkin-ci & TeamCity Admin, Confluence and Jira admin, Net admin for DNS, Firewall, Load balancers, Cloud expert, DBA/MySQL expert. I selected technology, built all components of our server systems (from source), integrated, configured, administered, documented, monitored, and charted performance. I.

Victoria, BC

* select, install, configure, monitor and manage all systems in our Cloud infrastructure. this included: MySQL & MySQL Cluster, HAProxy/wackamole/spread, stingray load balancer, tomat, jetty, php, apache, nginx, memcached, SmartFox, ElasticSearch, Logstash, Redis, Kibana, splunk* DBA: manage health, optimize/tune performance, trouble-shoot/optimize.

Victoria, BC

I worked in a number of roles over my 6 years at Abe: I would learn and fix what ever they threw at me.In the early days Abe hosted all servers themselves in a closet in the back of the office called "the bunker". In the beginning my roles were:* software developer* expert admin in Qmail - the mail server used by Abe at the time -- a critical part of the.

Fort Mcmurray AB

Co-op Position: Maintenance Information Systems (MIS).MIS managed the application that managed maintenance of the large dump trucks Syncrude uses in their large open-pit mines.The software package used was called IMPOWER. One issue with IMPOWER was that it lacked the ability to communicate/interface with any other software system.My roles:* performed.

Computer Systems Technology (Diploma), Computer Programming

Activities and Societies: Student President, Representative at Faculty meetings

Bachelor Of Music (Bmus), String Bass, Electronic Music And Acoustics.

Activities and Societies: President Music Student's Association, Student rep at Faculty meetings, Head of Student Work Study Program for.