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Calgary, AB, CA

Plano, Texas, US

Generative AI (GenAI) accelerator to provide chat over various data sources/knowledge bases through a web application that can be hosted on Azure or AWS and consume models from many providers hosted in Azure, AWS, GCP or Groq.Designed and developed a Large Language Model (LLM) reasoning application that currently supports and allows users to ask questions.

Plano, Texas, US

Consulting in a variety of roles and engagements for Improving and Quadrus as outlined below.Honoured to be in Improving top 100 for 2022.Participated in hiring events and interviews.Created practicums, code review samples and interview screening questions to help assess candidates.Created onboarding workshop for new hires to help ramp up skills needed for.

Chief Architect and mentor for a startup company that eases co-ordination of golf rounds leveraging a users self managed golfing network.Collaborated with the company to help identify the value of the product applying lean start-up principles. Designed the architecture of the system. Selected the technology stacks and platforms. Established the development.

AI Proof of Value to surface ad hoc analytics to internal stakeholders through a MS Teams Bot. Investigated, designed and developed an AI agent that generates and executes appropriate SQL statements for a question-and-answer chat with stakeholders. Technologies used: Python, LangChain, LangGraph, LangSmith, Terraform, Azure AI Search, Azure OpenAI, Azure.

Columbus, Ohio, US

Brought on to uplift a team responsible for a mobile application that has been recently developed to allow customers to return online purchases at merchant stores. Interviewed team members to get an understanding of current challenges, background, skillsets and goals. Reviewed the mobile application to understand patterns and practices used to date. Based.

Abbott Park, Illinois, US

Consulting as cloud architect to help evaluate an existing MVP solution with the future goal of surfacing disparate data sources to various stakeholders such as physicians, hospital administration and researchers.Reviewed design of existing solution focusing on the flow of data through the system, possible scaling concerns, data architecture, structure of.

Consulting as architect, team lead, mentor and senior developer, led a distributed team to design and build a real time iOS and Android application that will augment the client’s next generation oil & gas trading platform.Collaborated with the stakeholders to help define and prioritize the backlog. Designed the architecture of the API’s and the native.

Calgary, AB, CA

Consulting as architect, team lead, BA, mentor and advisor, led various teams toward the next generation of the ParkPlus parking management solution.Facilitated and guided stakeholders in discovery sessions of the existing Park Plus system. Facilitated numerous sessions with stakeholders to help understand the challenges of the existing Park Plus product.

Calgary, AB, CA

Consulting as technical lead, led a team consisting of Graham and Quadrus developers in the design and build of an intuitive and responsive web-based portal which enables users to navigate project hierarchies and to contextually access commonly used web and desktop applications. Worked closely with project sponsor, product owner and IT management to flush.

Calgary, AB, CA

Consulting as technical director, provided holistic assessment of Boardwalk’s IT ecosystem to assess current challenges in the existing architecture, software development practices and team skillsets.Led and mentored a 16-person development team in delivery of numerous software initiatives to support various lines of Boardwalk’s business on web, mobile.

Louisville, KY, US

Consulting as team lead and scrum master in the design and implementation of a solution module to enable mode switching within a SCADA system.Worked closely with head architects / product owner to ensure deliverables met required specifications within Schneider’s enterprise-scale, complex SCADA product suite.Through active mentor-ship, improved the.

Calgary, Alberta, CA

Consulting as an instructor, designed and presented a two-day custom course on JavaScript version 6 (ES6) based on WestJet specified learning objectives.Course content included lecture material and lab exercises designed to fit with development scenarios pertinent to WestJet.Content scope included working with JavaScript asset pipelines using Webpack.

Calgary, Alberta, CA

Consulting as architect, technical lead project manager and scrum master, created an iOS mobile application with best practices in mind such as single responsibilities, dependency injection & separation of concerns to allow for cleaner, maintainable and testable code.Worked as Architect, Technical Lead, and Business Analyst on the sales, estimation.

Calgary, Alberta, CA

Consulting as solution architect, team lead, senior developer and mentor for WestJet’s employee Standby and Confirmed Booking system.The system was targeted to eliminate call centre costs to the WestJet employee and to design a robust architecture to enable mobile delivery of travel benefits to the application user.Conducted requirements gathering sessions.

Calgary, Alberta, T2P2M5, CA

Consulting as solution architect and team lead for the Staff Commuter Challenge, an internal website for The City employees to track how they commute to work with the goal to increase environmentally conscious commuter options.Managed system expectations and designed a development process to work within timeframe and resource constraints.Mentored the team.

Calgary, Alberta, CA

Consulting as development team manager, solution architect, senior developer and mentor, managed development team on eSDK system which allows Cenovus users to collaboratively work on projects and centrally track activities prior to construction.Led analysis, estimation, architecture, development, documentation and deployment.Mentored Cenovus resources on.

Calgary, Alberta, CA

Calgary, Alberta, CA

• Led and implemented many software solutions from enterprise wide web systems to smart client / click once applications to stand alone applications.Responsibilities included:
• implementing all aspects of projects, including architecture, design, estimating, data modeling, and development of interface, service, domain and data source layers;
• serving on the business planning team to determine overall functionality and direction of the projects;
• analyzing the needs of stakeholders to identify business problems and propose solutions;
• determining project costs;
• setting-up the development environment and infrastructure;

• Led the design and implementation of the Tymeworks service, which became one of the first commercial tools available to the newly-deregulated Alberta power market. It used real-time push technology to supply a.
• managing all aspects of the project;
• creating stand-alone systems from full-scale data modeling to concise, user-friendly, front-end interfaces;
• working with end users to determine business requirements.

Calgary, Alberta, CA

Calgary, Alberta, CA

Computer Technology

Bachelor Commerce, Accounting