Virtual Gurus leverages proprietary technology to match organizations with highly skilled Canadian and American virtual assistants.

AI-powered technology to automate regulatory compliance workflows

BrightSpot Consulting is now specializing in Flow Through Consulting Services, helping consultants that have found their own contracts or corporations that want to engage a known consultant.

BrightSpot Consulting provides experienced IT consultants guaranteed to deliver value. Serving Calgary since 2004, over 508,000 hours of service have been delivered to date. Our clients are large & small. http://www.brightspotconsulting.com

Co-founded BrightSpot Consulting, a boutique software consulting firm, with revenues exceeding $3M annually in its first year of operation.

GOeVisit provides access to a medical provider for anywhere at any time via a mobile application or a web browser. Over 450 minor illnesses can be treated and prescribed.

Lending Guru is an online financial technology platform that facilitates loans between family and friends (F2F Lending). The platform enables the creation of collaborative loan agreements, automatic handling of loan payments and robust reporting and governance.

Teaching kids financial literacy and entrepreneurship one badge at a time

PrintLogix is an online printing, marketing and branding company designed to take new orestablished industry professionals into the complex world of self branding and promotion at the click of a button.

Teck Resources is Canada's largest diversified mining company.

Contributed to the growth of Cambrian House in as many capacities as time allowed, but was primarily responsible for the company’s investor relations, financial management, accounting and governance. The new firm fostered a large online community on which its crowdsourcing model was based.

The Deal Network was committed to enabling greater access to investment and financing opportunities in Calgary. Deals consisted of anything from real estate ventures and high interest loans to private placements.

• Participated on 3 different teams with varying responsibilities ranging from iteration management, architecture, development, and mentoring.• Brought some maturity and rigor around software development to individual teams and to Bell as a whole.• Provided technical leadership in their shift from a .Net environment to a Java environment.• Learned a new development language and extensive business rules for an existing application and was productive in less than 3 weeks.• Helped staff the growth of Bell’s Solution Development team.

Thoughtworks provides software design and delivery, and tools and consulting services. Thoughtworks is a publicly-traded, global technology company with 49 offices in 18 countries.

Co-founded Servidium Inc, a Canadian-based enterprise-class software development firm. Servidium was acquired by ThoughtWorks Inc. in 2001.

• Member of TransCanada’s Web Tools and Architecture Team.• Constructed and delivered presentations, provided mentoring, support, architectural guidance, and training for over 16 different teams within TransCanada PipeLines.• Y2K project lead – tested and documented the Y2K readiness of TransCanada’s Java components.• Rolled out Java framework – worked one on one with TransCanada’s development teams.• Interviewed prospective Java candidates.• Participated in the JForte beta program.• Conducted TransCanada’s Forte SynerJ evaluation.

• Assisted in the evaluation & development of an architecture & a supporting infrastructure for their emerging distributed applications utilizing Internet technologies.• Key technologies included CORBA, Java applets, servlets, JavaScript, & HTML.• Part of a team to develop a practical implementation plan that allows TCPL to meet its development objectives as listed below:• Utilize web browser based deployment.• Leverage existing investments in technology & vendor partnerships.• Improved development productivity levels.• Provided for “enterprise-wide to the ground” systems interoperability & scalability.• Evaluated & presented recommendations on corporate development tools. • Assisted in providing the means to leverage off TCPL‘s existing Forte services through integration with newer web technologies.• Authored & delivered white papers on object signing, Java servlets, & web based distributed application architectures.

• Co-lead the design, development and deployment of a web-based CRM application.• Recruited and managed the development team. • Implemented a fine-grained security policy within the application.• Configured and maintained deployment servers.

• Co-lead the design, development, and implementation of a Calgary based Internet portal.• Utilized servlets, XML, an object database, and an eCommerce engine to construct the portal.• Recruited and managed the development team.

• Provided technical leadership in the analysis & design of the architecture for Energy Work's proposed pipeline productivity suite.• Researched & developed prototypes to assess the use of Java Beans as visual, reusable software components.• Researched & developed prototypes to assess the use of CORBA for distributed object computing.• Researched & developed prototypes to assess the use of Object Design's object-oriented database.• Documented object models in the Unified Modeling Language (UML) with Rational Rose.• Developed & documented their Java coding st&ards & best practices.• Involved in the development & maintenance of Energy Work’s pipeline simulator.• Created & instituted a build & migration process for their existing system.

• Contracted to develop a Defect Tracking System.• The client/server application was written entirely in Java with connectivity to Sybase Server.• Tasks included the analysis, design, coding, documentation, and management of the project.

• Programmer/Analyst in Valmet's engineering department.• Ported portions of Valmet's SCADA system from V5.2.2 (C) to V6.0 (C++).• Interfaced with Valmet's real time database and historical database via stored procedures, and SQL.• Performed code inspections and fixed software defects.

• Updated and enhanced DBCORP's internal time reporting system.• Utilized SQL to perform relational database tasks (Oracle 7).• Migrated existing forms and reports to Oracle Forms 4.5 and Reports 2.5.• Interacted with the employees of DBCORP to streamline the user interface and provide additional functionality.

• Engineering Internship Program.• Worked within STARMAP, trouble-shooting, developing, and implementing algorithms to extract mapping information from airborne digital synthetic aperture radar.• Implemented algorithms in C.• Performed graphical and numerical analysis with Matlab.• Wrote UNIX scripts to automate routine tasks.• Provided technical support to co-members of STARMAP.