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Portland, Oregon, US

Airship acquired Apptimize August 2019.Managed transition into Airship and many other projects. Now leading multiple product teams at Airship.

San Francisco, CA, US

San Francisco, CA, US

• Rokudan (Sixth Degree Black Belt) in Isshinryu.
• Traditional Martial Arts instruction focused on Isshinryu Karate, Kobudo (Weapons) and Full Contact Fighting.
• Author of Essential Isshinryu: A Complete Guide to the Karate and Kobudo of the One Heart Way.
• Manage Isshinryu.ca and The Canadian Isshinryu Way Newsletter.
• Host of numerous National and International seminars.
• 2003, 2004 and 2005 Lakehead Open, Martial Arts Council Open Grand Champion

* Developed TV Anywhere applications utilizing the You.i cross platform engine for Android and iOS devices.* Made significant improvements to the architecture and processes within the existing team, quickly taking ownership over problematic areas such as data management, redundancy support and unit testing.* Fully participated in the Agile process and.

Waterloo, Ontario, CA

• Managed a team of 15 developers responsible for the web platform, which powers the majority of apps on the platform including Email, and browser development.
• Delivered the WebKit based BlackBerry browser and web rendering engine for the BlackBerry 10 and QNX's CAR platform.
• Developed many key features of the browser and web platform including overseeing design, user interface, input methods, zooming/scrolling, web accessibility, security audits, and integration with platform and hardware.
• Led many significant cross platform teams to deliver great interaction experiences including Capacitive Keyboard support (Passport) and re-introducing the trackpad (Classic) which involved coordination between user.
• Provided technical leadership for QNX Car, Cascades WebView Applications, Internet of Things, and other Web Technology based initiatives.
• Responsible for defining project direction via product management coordination and release decision-making.

Waterloo, Ontario, CA

• Technical lead for the Playbook browser releases based on QNX OS. Took full accountability for feature development and stability.
• Led in all input interactions for the browser and web platform including text input, touch, mouse, selection and zooming/scrolling for BlackBerry 6.0, 7.0, Playbook 1.0, 2.0, and all BB10 releases.
• Actively participated with upstream WebKit community as committer to understand root issues and upstream the BlackBerry port.

• Developed end to end solutions including design, implementation, customer interactions and testing of both desktop and device based cutting edge software applications.
• Lead Developer – Kst project
• Kst is an open source data modeling software used by the Canadian Space Agency to plot and analyze multiple immense real time datasets concurrently.
• Significant design and implementation of complex architecture, features and UI components in accordance with ongoing customer provided specifications.
• Extensive optimizations and data source handling updates to support massive volumes of real time data while maintain responsiveness of the application.
• Embedded UI Design and Implementation

US

• Previously Skystream Networks
• Responsible for defining, designing, implementing and debugging new features for the zBand Content Delivery Platform, a multiplatform, multithreaded, client/server application utilizing unicast, multicast, and.
• C/C++ Object Oriented Development using STL and Trolltech’s Qt toolkit.
• Aided in evolution of development methodology, transitioning from waterfall process to an agile unified process for both design and project management resulting in a significantly improved achievement of design goals.
• Responsible for the life cycle of a vast array of components including both core functionality and GUI designs while working in a small team meeting stringent deadlines.
• Mentored Co-Op students providing technical support and leadership allowing them to contribute meaningful additions to the product.

• Developed Text to Speech applications in C/C++, VBScript for Office and C/ C++ embedded development for Windows CE and PocketPC.
• Managed full life cycle of product including project management, providing vision for new products and 2nd Tier support to customers.
• Researched new methods of TTS synthesis

Master Of Science (Msc), Computer Science

Honours Bachelor Of Science, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Mathematics