Mark Leyden Email & Phone Number

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Merged with Discovery to become Warner Bros. Discovery.

Ottawa, Canada Area

Acquired by WarnerMedia in January 2021- Provide project leadership for key deliverables- Provide general sanity check of outbound deliverables- Lead technical execution of Agile software development projects, guiding technical planning and research:- Identify and manage technical issues and risks - Facilitate Agile Processes and coach delivery teams as required- Be the key point of contact for technical communications with clients- Lead support of production systems, coordinating issue resolution- Review significant releases prior to release to the customer- Contribute to creating statements of work and other supporting project documents as required- Attend project kick-off and stand-ups for all projects- Contribute to advancement of engineering practices

Ottawa, Canada Area

Responsible for developing and maintaining the Automation Test System run against builds of both the CaseWare Monitor and CaseWare IDEA products, and tools and applications that provide support for both our team and others. Established, maintained several process improvements, maintained the Automation System, running tests developed with C++, COM, C#, including MSTest and Coded UI. Lead for up to 9 team members.• Established a process for organizing and scheduling work within the team, using many of the aspects of scrum, including daily scrum meetings, planning, breaking work into smaller, manageable tasks• Defined a process for how tests should be created, and helped redefine (refine) the process for distributing test results to the QA Core team for investigation• Worked with Automation architect, identifying some the short falls of the Automation System and how it could be improved, providing input on the design of an improved version of the Automation System• Developed Automation System using C#; tests were created in C# for MSTest and Coded UI• Removed old functionality from IDEA Automation Client, including bug fixing and improvements (C++)• Cleaned up test collateral, as well as established a process for how to store collateral (backup)• Created a tool that read a given BLD and extracted all the relevant test information, created a cleaner more useable XML output (C#)• Created a tool for verifying installed file existence, version accuracy (C#)• Created, debugged and maintained Automation scripts (VBA, IDEAScript)• Helped maintain Automation system when scripts failed or system needed to some manual intervention• Reported on overall status of Automation results to manager and QA team• Development and designed a web application (MVC) that provided the ability for the QA Manager, and team, to view historical test runs

Ottawa, Ontario

Acted as technical lead for multiple releases, service packs and customer critical quick fixes of LiveCycle Designer, which included defining, establishing and maintaining various processes. Tracked and managed team bug threshold, which included load balancing, as well as halting feature development when the team exceeded the threshold. Scrum Master for up to 12 team members (4 years).• Maintained high quality metrics; low bug counts, code review for every code change, high unit test coverage• Interviewed talented developers; many becoming technical leaders on the team• Updated headcount expectations and requirements on a quarterly basis• Forecasted capital purchases for the year, broken down by quarter, such as new desktop/laptop and other significant purchases, and approved all peripheral purchases (smaller cost items)• Performed annual reviews; soliciting feedback from peers, writing the review, salary recommendations, one-on- one follow up• Provided guidance to the team when establishing career development goals and self-directed technical development, which allowed them to grow their skills without being focused solely on the technology of the current project• Provided estimates for feature development and project completion; project and feature planning• Authored functional specifications and feature proposals• Feature development, debugging and bug fixing in C++, using Visual Studio• Championed the introduction of SmartBear Code Collaborator to the organization• Detailed and maintained an automated build system for quality control that helped catch compile issues and bugs before code changes were integrated into release build• Defined and presented a new product idea, unrelated to the current project, to several higher levels of management

Ottawa, Ontario

Helped define and establish a new XML form layout tool primarily built using C++ and MFC. Designed and developed several key features for the most current product release.

Ottawa, Ontario

Note JetForm was renamed to Accelio from 2001 to 2002.Helped define and establish a new project that included forms that could be filled out within an Internet Browser using COM. Worked on high profile customer enhancements that were to establishing a strong relationship with those customers. Designed and developed a suite of ActiveX controls that were used for form layout. Developed several import filters for opening form files from older products into the new products, which helped establish existing customer adoption of the new product.

Ottawa, Ontario

Worked on several government projects, primarily developed using Visual Basic. Designed and developed a Remote Access Server (RAS) Dialer that communicated between a server component, written in C, and the client software, written in Visual Basic. Wrote a "thunk" for the RAS Dialer to support Remote Access Server on 32-bit Windows (Windows NT) machines.