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Toronto, ON, CA

Mountain View, CA, US

Lincoln, NE, US

I led the teams responsible for building, deploying, and supporting PenLink's cloud-first products.

Lincoln, NE, US

Post-acquisition transition role focused on Engineering integration of GeoTime into PenLink. Responsible for the integration of people, processes and product while ensuring uninterrupted product releases.

Working alongside the CEO and COO I played a key role in selling the GeoTime business. I participated in management presentations, ran technical deep dives, waded through the depths of due diligence, and negotiations leading to a successful acquisition of GeoTime by PenLink Inc in Fall 2022.Prior to acquisition I led the product/UX and engineering teams.

Ottawa, ON, CA

Senior manager on Shopify's marketplaces and partners team. Ramped up to be responsible for Shopify's North American-based partner engineering team, including our Facebook partner. I moved on to become GeoTime's CTO after only a short while here.

Toronto, Ontario, CA

At Uncharted I was responsible for leading four talented product teams through the full software development lifecycle. We were small and agile so this had me wearing many hats: customer-facing product vision, software architect and systems design, recruiter, presenter and trainer, pre-sales, operations and deployment, process engineering, and product.

Toronto, Ontario, CA

Responsible for principal technical design and development for Pressly's second generation client-facing web application. The app had to support and be performant on a wide range of mobile devices and browsers during a period where "single page web applications" were mostly confined to the desktop and Android phones shipped with buggy Webkit nightlies. My.

Toronto, Ontario, CA

Web visualization framework technical lead (JavaScript, SVG, HTML5, and RESTful web services)GeoTime (www.geotime.com) project lead (system architecture, lead software development, interface design, product vision, project and team management)

Madison, WI, US

- Led the design and development of a number of features of DVD Architect 1.0 a “pro-sumer” DVD authoring suite, and MovieMaker, a consumer-level non-linear video-editing package. - Quickly earned a high level of responsibility throughout the software development life cycle including specification, design, application architecture, development, and.

Waterloo, Ontario, CA

- Developed test harness hardware and software components for an in-house ASIC processor for a new wireless email device.- Independently created a Sokoban game for the original pager-style BlackBerry device that enjoyed reasonable popularity within the company.VHDL, real-time C, optimization, mobile application development, hardware emulation

Burlington, Ontario, CA

- Lead development responsibility on two real-time SD/HDTV hardware processing modules (a progressive format translator and a frame synchronizer). - Required close consultation with Sr. Engineers and company Sr. management and was an excellent learning opportunity.VHDL, real-time C, digital and analog hardware design, HDTV video standards

CA

- Created two 3D file format translation plug-ins for Polytrans software, involving deep understanding of 3D Geometry, ray-tracing, and animation. - Initiated the addition of non-linear video editing tool to the suite of Okino products that involved ground-up software architecture, interaction design, and video compositing.C++, C, 3d formats and.

Masters Of Applied Science, Systems Design Engineering

Bachelor Of Applied Science, Computer Engineering

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