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Québec, Québec, Ca

• Coached devs of various experience and backgrounds that aspire to become Dev Leads• Contributed to the Continuous Learning initiative

Montréal, Québec, Ca

• Developped an Assistant using OpenAI API, allowing us to have a conversation with our data & content• Integrated OpenAI Assistant in Slack as a chatbot, giving us fast and integrated access with less friction • Integrated OpenAI Assistant in our website, supporting us in the creation of our Toolbox for Teachers

Montreal, Quebec, Ca

Montréal, Quebec, Ca

• Worked on structing the coaching approach of our Enabling team of Technical Coaches and Mentors• Coached teams and individuals on technical best practices, agility, DevOps and test automation• Coached managers to shift their mindset to support the IT transformation• Created a dozen interactive workshops (team topo, small batch, test auto factorization, testable code, Splitting User Stories, BDD, TDD, Understanding Technical Debt, Feature Flagging)• Involved in structuring and implementing a transition from Project to Product• Defined KPI's to bring visibility on the IT transformation evolution and impact of technical coaching• Created and facilitated a few Community of Practices (IT Transformation, QAs, Developers)

Saint-Mandé, Île-De-France, Fr

• Conducted an assessment of their DevOps culture adoption• Worked on exposing metrics on their Development Process to help data driven decision making• Facilitated workshops (Agile, Lean, Value Stream Mapping, TDD)• Provided one on one coaching on various topics• Mentoring on Test Automation and TDD

To be better contextualized in my coaching with Ubisoft, I decided to start learning the basics of game development through Unity.This led to exploring opportunities to merge education (mostly primary school level) and games to tap into the kids motivation and crave for video game and turn that into a positive force for their academic path. A few experiments are undergoing to tests a few ideas in that field.

Lévis, Québec, Ca

• Coached and mentored teams to help them reach their full potential (Agility and DevOps)• Performed team assessments pertaining to Agile and DevOps practices and behaviors• Created a "roadmap to DevOps" to support Desjardin's Digital Transformation• Created a webapp to display the roadmap, allowing teams to visually follow their transformation• Taught TDD and BDD practices through hands-on workshops• Wrote bi-monthly blog posts on many subjects (agility, DevOps, technical excellency, quality, etc)• Launched and facilitated community of practices (agile, DevOps)

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

• Leveraged SCRUM and Agile methodologies to coach our Development team and Product Owner • Used powerful questions and mind maps to unveil and work on common team dysfunctions• Promoted agile practices and values with our coaches to the management team• Acted as technical advisor to scrum masters and management, popularizing technical concepts

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

• Supported agile coaches in implementing SCRUM and Agile methodologies • Provided technical mentorship• Test automation and testable code advocate• Founder of Lunch & Learn and frequent speaker

• Created a startup that aims to offer a new way to enjoy online shopping and advertisement• Defined the vision for short, middle and long terms based on market and competition analysis• Prioritized requirements and releases using Agile development processes and principles• Designed UI with Mobile First and Responsive principles• Conceived a lightweight RESTfull SOA enabling components to communicate together efficiently• Implemented administrative tools to ease massive data aggregation processing• NoSQL DBA • Dev Ops (Ubuntu 14, Node JS, Mongo DB)• R & D to enable innovative solutions and toolsTechnical Environment: Javascript (ES5), AngularJS, Lodash, Bootstrap, Node JS, Express, Cheerio, Mongo, PassportJS, Gulp (livereload, nodemon, ...), Git, Bower, NPM, Winston, CasperJS, SpookyJS, Karma, Protractor, Ubuntu 14

Lévis, Québec, Ca

• Lead developer and functional architect developing various online services for AccèsD• Implemented automated unit testing and TDD practices• Shared TDD expertise through tech talks and project involvement• Active member of a strategic innovation committee• Involved in Desjardins first Mobile application

• Developed Cart and addon pages• Implemented Bazaarvoice Rate and Reviews• Rework part of the Fulfilment system to allow more flexibility while validating checkout information

• Designed a SOA, scaling a legacy FTP server to serve files from various remote locations • Implementation of a FTPlet to intercept FTP requests, allowing custom file serving handling• Designed a Web Service communicating with a remote system to generate files dynamically • Integration to a remote SAP back-end using JCO to interface the BAPIS

• Design new features for an inter company billing system using Struts 2 and Spring 2.• Creation of new Excel reports using Apache POI.Environnement: Java 5, Weblogic 10, Spring 2, Struts 2, Tiles, Apache POI

Montreal, Quebec, Ca

• Investigation of a database migration moving from an Object Database to a Relational Database• Evaluation of available functionalities in Hibernate to replace Versant• Designed of relational mappings, queries, session and transaction management• Elaboration of a migration plan and implementation strategy• Estimation of development effort (approx 2000 men days)Environnement: Java 5, Jonas, Hibernate 3, MySQL 5, Versant, XML, XSLT, SCRUM

• Implements new business flow end to end.• Elaborated an asynchronous JMS Queues solution allowing better response time for the users• Installation, configuration, management and performance improvement lead of ATG Search• Involved in application evolutions in design and architectural areas.• Developed complex fat-client like UI using jQuery and ATG Droplets• Elaboration and creation of DEV, Test, UAT and pre-prod environmentsEnvironnement: Java 1.4, Weblogic 8.1.2, ATG (Commerce, Search), JMS, jQuery, SCRUM

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Mandat - Liferay Portal 4.2• Investigating security frameworks, JSF and JBoss Seam portlet creation• Configuring artifactory for dependencies caching using Maven 2• Responsible for creating a development environment for the team• Creation of technical documentations favoring knowledge transmissionEnvironnement: Java 5, Liferay Portal 4.2, Maven 2, Artifactory, JSF, JBoss Seam, SCRUMMandat - Traceability RFID• Elaborated a traceablity system based on a generic traceability home made framework• Involved in the following layers: Web, Service, Model, Persistence and ESB• Participation in the architectural reviews of the generic traceability framework• Development of an asynchronous service for reading RFID tags from a USB tag readerEnvironnement: Java 5, Tomcat 5.x, Hibernate 3, Spring 2, JSF, Facelets, Ajax4JSF, JUnit, RichFaces Components, Scriptaculous, Maven 2, CSS, SCRUM

Montreal, Quebec, Ca

• Responsible of the front-end architecture and design• Elaborated complex fat client like screens using JSF, Facelets and Ajax4JSF• Reverse engineering of Struts applications into JSF and definition of best practices• Delevoped back-end services and inter-system messaging using MDB (EJB).• Redesign the persistence layer using Hibernate• Restructured the project to use Maven.Environment : Java, Weblogic 8.1.2, JSF 1.2, Facelets, Ajax4JSF, ADF, Struts, Tiles, Hibernate 2, EJB 2, JSTL, HTML, DHTML, Ant, Maven 1, SCRUM

• Developed a management system that serialize its data into an XML database• Developed a tool to help manage and maintain i18n (internationalization) files.Environment : Java, XML, SAP Mobile Engine, Xerces, Perforce

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

• Developed an application that provides an access to sensitive documents to affiliated brokers through the company's extranet• Developed a generic and configurable help assistant used by all applications in the enterprise portal• Refactored and redesign an application such that its quality and performance levels comply with production standardsEnvironment : Tomcat 4.x, Java 1.4, Servlet, JSP, EJB (Session), XML, Xerces, dom4j, HTML, DHTML, Javascript, RUP

• Evaluate and bring to year 2000 compliance various systems• Assisted the Police department migrating their database• Optimized a system managing the availabilities of the city's vehicles• Developed a crisis management system to better use the city premises Environment : Access 98, VAX-VMS, Basic, Oracle forms, Oracle Report, RUP