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Canada

Victoria, Bc, Ca

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Victoria, British Colombia, Ca

* Managed an engineering team of 13 mechanical, electrical, embedded software and cloud professionals to deliver on product and projects simultaneously* Owned and maintained technical roadmap to ensure progression of technology through project delivery and solid prioritization for all teams* Provided product guidance and oversight to ensure best in class UX experiences as well as end to end functionality optimized for customer experience being mindful of engineering maintenance efforts.* Worked to define new processes for SR&ED, ECOs, and software releases to increase traceability of new hardware and software features* Maintained tight-link to manufacturing to ensure new designs simplified manufacturing processes* Wrote SR&ED technical documentation for government grants. Added technical details to customer status updates and project reports, and wrote technical documentation to aid internal understanding of software* Owned and delivered on engineering estimates for upcoming projects to ensure profitability and deliverable results

Victoria, Bc, Ca

* Stepped in as acting Director since April 2020 to maintain business and development flow* Managed and maintained R&D department budget and expenses to keep department fiscally responsible* Communicated R&D functions and tasks within senior management team and broadly cross company* Managed cross-business-unit Engineering council to align seven business units within AEM.* Managed hardware team to handle critical projects for gap in leadership, keeping tasks on track and unblocked* Wrote technical documentation for SR&ED (Scientific Research & Experimental Development) funding and managed time tracking utilities to ensure government funding for development.

Victoria, Bc, Ca

* Managed a team of software engineers focused on delivering a variety of products including an IoT network, multi-tenant SaaS product, iOS & Android applications, as well as software layers of environmental monitoring hardware.* Doubled efficiency of Product Validation (QA) team by adjusting ISO processes to increase reliability in products and saving company time and money.* Expanded on extremely well received MVP to quickly meet the needs of existing customers to aid the sales team in expanding sales of new product.* Redefined JIRA based workflows and infrastructure to increase predictability and quality of products.* Brought in modern communication and development tools and procedures to enable a more flexible and fast paced workplace.* Managed and worked with external vendors to ensure on-time delivery of both modern and legacy applications.* Wrote and defined SR&ED technical documentation

Victoria, Bc, Ca

• Specified high-level UX and functionality, as well as detailed feature requirements of minimal viable product for an Industrial Internet of Things SaaS offering that configures and collects data from remote environmental measurement hardware for data visualization• Rapidly ramped up on MQTT and IoT protocols to aid in design of system, and communication to less technical audiences• Brought in, negotiated and managed external vendors to aid in expedited delivery of end-to-end system in time for functional demonstrations at a conference to launch multiple products• Championed internal evangelism to ensure key employees at FTS were onboard with new product direction• Advised on SaaS best practices for architecture, security and user experience• Implemented agile methodologies by defining and streamlining processes such as Jira workflows and communication software• Project managed delivery timeline to deliver key scenarios required for launch conference and drove ISO compliance for initial phases of product development lifecycle

Victoria, Bc, Ca

• Provided minimal viable product (MVP) or incremental product definition and specifying the overall foundation of a product to the design and development teams for deeper detail• Met initially with potential clients to estimate project cost and built out initial project delivery to ensure projects ended on time and budget• Oversaw engineering and design teams of up to 60 people to provide stretch opportunities and mentorship and increased employee engagement• Onboarded new project managers, engineers and designers regarding company process and policies and mentored them to become key members of the team• Handled resource allocation and negotiations with external vendors• Managed up to 1 million dollar projects in various stages, from MVP to complete productsImplemented many of the original engineering processes to grow company from 15 to 60 engineers• Maintained a positive team culture through growth by encouraging cross-project communication, implementing internal knowledge sharing sessions and hack days and ensured employees were heard

Redmond, Washington, Us

• Facilitated deployment of Microsoft Commerce platform in China to support a billion dollar investment in Azure, Office365, XBOX and Windows Phone marketplaces• Coordinated 15 product teams and over 1000 people, customizing their eCommerce services to meet Chinese legal requirements, and build out software development lifecycle infrastructures which supported these customizations• Facilitated development efforts with a cross-cultural, multi-timezone set of development teams ensuring clear communications between teams for minimizing downtime• Collaborated with chief architect to design new account structure for all of Microsoft eCommerce that provided scalability and flexibility in complex user scenarios• Drove modernization of performance and synthetic testing in production, ensuring eCommerce scalability to 10 times the current service load• Leveraged modernization to prepare 15 product teams to plan and scale their services to maintain 100% uptime during holiday shopping seasons

Redmond, Washington, Us

• Designed security infrastructure, including OAuth configuration, as well as app and user profiles for original “Apps for Office” developer submission portal• Worked with marketplace counsel at Microsoft, implementing review and takedown procedures to handle malicious sellers• Coordinated a development team to design and implement a complex authorization requirement defined by a cross-product working group involving more than 20 groups• Managed security compliance and built threat models to discover security attack vectors and drove review with the Secure Windows Initiative team, ensuring the marketplace was secure from known security threats• Managed marketplace administration for Microsoft Pinpoint marketplace to enable vetting and approvals of customer profiles and services

Redmond, Washington, Us

• Conceived and built an Internet domain name marketplace which involved collaborating on a standardized protocol for Internet domain configuration and coordinating 3rd party development teams to meet specifications• Increased usability of Home and Small Business servers by designing simplified server networking such as automatic configuration of networking services and UPnP configuration of routers, enabling the product to be used by less technical users• Simplified configuration of remote access to Home and Small Business servers to enable customers to set up a private cloud out of the box• Conceived a robust and simplified backup process that non-technical users could adopt to know the data they stored on their mission critical server was safe• Inherited and improved, based on customer feedback, a custom software data mirroring service which increased sales on low-end hardware• Wrote technical specifications for above features consumed by engineering, marketing and leadership to serve as the master feature plan• Drove customer needs for the leadership planning cycles to ensure customer requirements were met• Completed extensive competitive analysis on more than 10 competing products, and drove competitive features into the product• Managed server and client security compliance driving 8 feature teams to complete threat models and review with the Secure Windows Initiative team to ensure known security vulnerabilities were addressed• Supported outbound marketing teams with technical education and evangelism by providing documentation, attending conferences and site visits as an engineer

Redmond, Washington, Us

• Designed Windows BackOffice Deployment Wizard capable of deploying multiple servers across many sites by generating answer-files.• Coordinated supporting development efforts across many Microsoft divisions and teams• Developed initial product plan for Small Business Server 2003 by understanding existing and upcoming software across Microsoft. Presented this plan to Director and VP leadership.• Received outstanding achievement grade on internships.

Ca

• Responsible for converting IBM AS400 service code written in Cobol to C.• Learned Cobol on the job.• Received outstanding achievement grade on internship.

Santa Clara, California, Us

• Responsible for tier 1 UNIX (Solaris) help desk support for engineering department.• Responsible for ensuring UNIX file servers were backed (BackupExec) up and testing restores.• Responsible for new UNIX workstation installation.• Responsible for creating simple UNIX shell scripts.• Received outstanding achievement grade on internship.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

• SQL Junior Database Admin responsible for maintaining database and aiding the SQL DBA• Filemaker Pro Database Admin, responsible for creating new databases for legal cases• Filemaker Pro UI Designer, responsible for creating easy to use UI for data entry for legal• NT4 Desktop deployment team lead for after hours Mac to NT4 migration• Tier 3 Desktop support, supporting help desk prior to Tier 4 (final tier)• Desktop deployment optimization via scripting• Received outstanding achievement grade on internship.

Bachelor Of Math, Mathematics And Computer Science / Minor In Business Administration

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