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Vancouver, BC, CA

Vancouver, British Columbia, CA

VP of Engineering and Information Technology at a startup company providing a SaaS platform for creating and navigating graph-based decision systems, focused on mental health. Responsible for all aspects of technology - software development, cloud infrastructure (AWS), security, and data infrastructure.

VP of Software Engineering and Technology for a startup in the banking industry. Led teams of developers in Canada and the US for projects providing digital transformation of banking operations to flexible, modern, omni-channel technology.

Responsible for Commercialization Strategy, Information Technology Infrastructure, and Software Development.

Directed information technology strategy to solve company goals - Goal: Create a commercialization pathway for research-based innovations to reach the market. Demonstrate translation of research via commercialization. (2017)Action: Partnered with Creative Destruction Lab to support their BioMedTech stream for pre-seed stage business mentoring.Guest Mentor.

US

Managed daily operations of the Applications Development group. Duties include: planning and assigning work, communicating with other areas of the company, hiring, team mentoring, performance appraisals, career development planning. Major issues include balancing priorities between new development projects and ongoing maintenance tasks, facilitating.

Richmond, British Columbia, CA

Development manager / senior software architect / project engineer on a ground-breaking research and development project for Boeing’s Commercial Aircraft Services division. Managed a team of nine developers (hiring, performance appraisals, mentoring), designed the application architecture, and lead the development of a multi-technology software product..

GB

Technical manager and software architect for PWC’s e-Business Advisory Services group in Vancouver. Worked on a team consultants on project analysis, technical sales, and business development. Directed a team of five software developers based in Toronto.

Vancouver, British Columbia, CA

Created design and architecture, then lead and managed the development of version 2.0 of RewardStream’s SaaS customer loyalty product. Managed a team of six developers. Management duties included participation in hiring/firing, managing team dynamics and workflow, technical mentoring, performance appraisals, and project management. Development involved.

Provided consulting services in Internet software architecture and development, software integration, and general information technology decisions. Software development projects were database-driven Internet/Intranet business applications for corporate clients, some international.

• Founder of a start-up company to develop point of sale software for the retail jewellery industry.
• Designed and created multimedia touchscreen system to display and sell diamond jewellery.
• Wrote and directed and edited digital video segments for product demonstrations

Redmond, Washington, US

Tested and recommended design changes for Microsoft Mail family of products. Also coordinated development of the Mail Remote Wireless Communications Extensions for prototype cellular modems. Received the top performance review in group for 6 months ending Sept 93.

CA

Worked in a number of areas including: systems integration specialist in the airport automation group for the Toronto International Airport Terminal 3 project, on the Qik-Res reservations system team which rolled out in 4 cities across Canada, authored a multimedia touchscreen kiosk system for self serve airport check-in, and worked as a mainframe.