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Vancouver, BC, CA

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

- As one of the first engineering managers I defined and evolved the engineering management role in collaboration with the other EM, technical leads, UX, PM, and the Director of Engineering.- Influential contributor in Product & Engineering strategic discussions, shaping team goals and aligning technical roadmaps with evolving business goals.- Partnered.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

- Aligned team and deliverables to current product vision & strategy.- Recruited and hired engineers to achieve vision- Proactively communicated the status of what the team was working on. Collaborated with PM and UX on problem/opportunity discovery and forming work for the team.- Worked fullstack to deliver our marketing planning solution. Technologies.

- Delivered REST level 4 ecommerce solutions by decomposing business requirements, designing, developing and testing solutions to complex technical problems some of which include: - Integrated with 3rd party applications such as Adobe AEM, IDM, Avalara tax api, and the client’s own systems for tracking pricing, inventory, and finance.- Conducted.

- Developed and implemented professional development plans for a team of 7, fostering career growth and technical skill-building.- Conducted one on ones with all direct reports to ensure they regularly assessed their personal goals, got feedback and voiced any impediments to their work.- Supported department strategy, especially during times of change..

- Work on time sensitive, high impact customer support issues within an agile environment developing fixes for customer reported issues in current code repository, as well as, providing patches for older releases to the customer.

- Worked primarily on Crystal Reporting (CR) software in conjunction with team members and a product owner. Development, using Java, was split evenly between the back-end engine and the user interface.

- Worked closely with developers and business analysts in an agile environment to decompose the technicalities of a story then developed an appropriate test approach. - Tested the Eclipse RCP client and storefront web application by writing and running automated tests with FIT, Selenium, Froglogic Squish, and SWTBot.