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Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Contracted to work on microservices and AWS services used within the shipment tracking applications at Purolator.

• Working as an independent consultant on various projects using object oriented design and programming.Technologies Used: Java, Spring Boot, Spring WebFlux, Json, VS Code, Git, CouchbaseSelected Projects:
• Conceived, designed, developed and tested a client based Java tool for capturing and managing software requirements. Tool is available for download or Webstart at http://rocabro.com/home/?page_id=117
• Conceived and designed a property management system for new home builders and property managers to manage problem reports coming from buyers or tenants of homes.

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Contracted to help modernize internal facing insurance applications and services. Working with Java base microservices.Technologies Used: Java 17, Spring Boot, Microservices, REST, JSON, VS Code, Jira, Git, Bitbucket, Maven

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Contracted to help modernize internal facing insurance applications and services. Working with Java base microservices.Technologies Used: Java 17, Spring Boot, Microservices, REST, JSON, VS Code, Jira, Git, Bitbucket, Maven

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Working as part of a team converting older Java EJB micro services to Spring Boot Reactive microservices. Technologies Used: Spring Boot, Spring Webflux, Java 17, VS Code, Git, Couchbase, Docker, Jenkins, Jira

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Contracted to help identify and rectify issues found while performance testing an established Spring Boot web application. Technologies Used: Spring Boot 1.5, Java 8, BitBucket, Jira, GIT, Maven, VS Code, Dynatrace, Microservices, REST, Hazelcast, Jenkins

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Working as a software developer on various projects for customers of YoppWorks, specializing in reactive architecture and microservices. Used object oriented programming throughout.Technologies Used: Java 11, Spring Boot, Camel, Microservices, Kafka, ActiveMQ, Jira, Git

Ottawa, Canada Area

Technical team leader of several projects including:- virtual network service management portal, used by large internet resellers such as Bell, Cogeco etc- maintenance quoting tool used internally within Nokia to generate quotes to Nokia hardware customers for maintenance contractsUtilized object oriented design and programming for all.

Ottawa

Contracted to work on various customer facing and internal Java web projects. Working as a team member, architect, developer and trouble shooter. Used object oriented design and programming for all projects.Technologies Used: Java 8, Eclipse, Tomcat 7, Oracle, Spring Framework 3.2, XML, Hibernate, JSP, Javascript, CSS, HTML

Ottawa, Canada Area

Brought in on contract to work within the server development team. Focused on bug fixes, feature addition and performance testing/improvements. Technologies used: Java 6, JEE 6, Spring 3, Eclipse, xml, Hibernate, Glassfish, maven, subversion

Ottawa, Canada Area

• Contracted to work in a small team to add new features to a knowledge base application that is used by ALU personnel and customers.Technologies Used: Java 1.6, Spring Framework 3.0 – 3.2, jsp, xml, hibernate, Oracle.
• Team leader and lead software developer of a federated search knowledge base application used by employees and customers of Alcatel-Lucent. Leading a team of 4 personnel throughout the whole software project lifecycle.
• Architect and team lead for the first release of a new customer support portal. This portal will eventually replace the existing knowledge base and will encompass support documentation and knowledge for all of.

Ottawa, Canada Area

Working as part of a large team developing new web services used by Canada Post for shipping and mailing applications. Working on a rendering service that will render xml-fo to pdf and png.Technologies used: Java 1.6, Jersey, XStream, Tomcat, Spring 3.0, Eclipse 3.6

• Contracted as a software consultant to add features to a new version of an enterprise communication server.Technologies Used: Java 1.6, Spring Framework 3.0, jsp, xml, hibernate, MySQL database, AWSSelected Projects:
• Developed several new features in the customer facing enterprise communication portal. Involved in the design, development and testing of these features.

Hired to design and develop a federated search knowledge base application used by employees and customers of Alcatel-Lucent. Lead a team of 4 personnel throughout the whole project life cycle.Key technologies used: Java 1.6, Spring Framework 3.0, jsp, xml, Oracle database, Solr search engine

Contracted as a software developer to update an internal tool used in tracking Alcatel-Lucent certifications.Technologies Used: Java (1.5), J2EE, XML, Eclipse 3.3, Spring, Hibernate, Windows XP, Tomcat, SQL, Ant, Subversion, Velocity

• Contracted as a senior developer for a new VOIP mobility project. Working on the mobility server requirements definition, project scoping, work estimates, design, implementation and testing. The server component is.
• Designing, implementing, testing and integrating several web services; primarily working on the client side which is Java based while the server side is in Microsoft WCF.
• Designing, implementing, and testing call components that enable the various call flows the system will support
• Server team leader and key contact person for liaison with the partner company on the above projects.

• Brought onboard to supplement the server development team and aid in the development of a J2EE based server deployed on BEA Weblogic 8.1. This server is the communication platform for a mobile workforce targeted.
• Implemented, tested and integrated several new features for the TrueContext communication server.
• Team leader for a minor release of the TrueContext communication server, in charge of 2 other developers.
• Developer & integration leader for large new self service offering of the TrueContext communication server.

• Recruited initially as part of a 'Special Projects Group' to conceive, design, develop and test demonstration and proof of concept applications to run on the Ubiquity SIP Application Server. Technologies Used: Java.
• Team leader for large new product offering in the VOIP market. Successfully delivered a 1.0 version of the product which will be customized in the future for large telecom carriers.
• Designed, developed, tested, and delivered various telecommunication software components for Bell Canada.
• Implemented a training plan and delivery website to enable the on-line education of new employees to the professional services department of the company.
• Conceived, designed, developed and tested a web based help desk simulator, allowing an end user to obtain help from the first available help agent with the needed skills.

• Worked in a team environment on several projects as a designer, Java developer, and tester. Produced documentation that was compliant with XWave's ISO certification requirements. Technologies Used: Java (J2EE), XML.
• Designed, developed and tested the presentation tier for a 'soft real-time' satellite communications tracking system. Primary technologies used were JSPs, html, and javascript.
• Developed and tested the data tier for a questionnaire generation system to be used by Statistics Canada. The questionnaire generation system provided the ability to generate paper questionnaires or web representations.

• At Industry Canada, worked as a systems analyst to design and document web-based systems that were part of the 'Government On Line' initiative. All projects were delivered to customers internal to Industry Canada, or.
• Designed and documented a dynamic web portal for a sub-department within Industry Canada. The website may be viewed at http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/app/sitt/portal/LoadMain.do?lang=eng and was designed for J2EE.

• In a team environment worked on several projects using the Session Initiation Protocol and Java.Technologies Used: Java (J2EE, J2SE), XML, Struts, JSP, Eclipse, Swing, SIP, Oracle, Tomcat, Solaris, Linux, Windows.
• Designed, developed and tested a web-based multi-media enterprise communications system which included instant messaging, file sharing, and telecommunications aspects. Java, J2EE, JSPs, JDBC, Oracle, Linux, and Unix.

• Worked on several projects relating to the customization of OpenText's work flow software. Technologies Used: Java (J2SE, J2EE), Python, XML, JBuilderSelected Projects:
• Part of a team of developers contracted to deliver a work flow management system for Health Canada. Worked in the areas of system security, reporting, and file submission. Integrated Java using applets and servlets to.

• Primarily worked in the area web development using ASPs, visual basic and SQL server.Technologies Used: Java (J2SE), XML, Swing, Visual Basic 6, SQL Server 7, AccessSelected Projects:
• Team leader of a team that designed, developed, and tested a contact and organization database and user interface. Involved with all steps of the software lifecycle while working on this project. Worked on requirements.

Attended the Royal Military College for the Airforce, obtaining a bachelors of computer engineering. Worked as a teaching assistant after graduation in the electrical engineering department.

Marine engineer responsible for propulsion and auxiliary equipment aboard naval destroyers. While at sea, was in charge of the boiler room and 5 personnel. Boarding party specialist for hostile vessel boarding. Trainer, department head, firefighter.

B. Engineering, Software

Marine Eng. Tech., Marine Engineering