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Markham, On, Ca

San Jose, California, Us

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Responsible for leading high performing Agile delivery teams, applying broad-base technical, client-facing and industry experience to create practical and innovative solutions. Providing direction in the application of Scrum in order to create extraordinary team outcomes.Operations and Management -• Led and directed daily operations of multiple projects, ranging of 10-15 Agile team members• Managed multi million dollar projects against business requirements and delivery metrics• Partnered with Telecommunications and Government Transportation clients to understand their business needs, identify and prioritize their project requirements to develop and manage a project backlog• Accountable to identify, manage and mitigate project and team risks; track projects against delivery metrics and prepare client reports, client communications and deliver presentations, while managing product scope and controlling scope creep during the development sprints• Facilitated effective Agile team meetings: stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives and demos while successfully managing the sprint backlog and key project elements - risks, scope, budgets and schedules• Liaised between the client and the Project team to ensure user stories/acceptance criteria were clearly defined, understood, and implemented successfully• Engaged the teams’ passion for delivering value to customers through Agile project delivery• Worked closely with a team of Agile Project Managers to define and refine tools and templates that tracked, monitored and forecasted delivery metricsMajor Accomplishments -• Contributed to the successful deployment of a multi-platform mobile and web application for a major Telecommunications company using the Scrum delivery methodology and cross platform technology• Management of enterprise level projects with a multi million dollar budget

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Operations and Management -Managed and directed daily operations of a 25 person Research & Development organization with full accountability for team performance, goals and best practices• Led, developed and retained a top performing team of developers, architects and quality analysts• Executed and maintained a resource plan, effectively allocating resources (people, time, processes, systems) to deliver on multiple enterprise level customization and implementation projects• Worked hand in hand with some very intelligent individuals to change, implement and continually evolve and improve the Agile and software development processes to deliver leading technologies and applications to meet future business, technology and customer needsMajor Accomplishments• Established a growth-oriented culture, career path and performance management process and successfully scaled the team from 12 to 25 in less than a year to support the release of the next generation version of a re-architected SaaS productSoftware Development -Set and drove the technical direction for the team, collaborating and communicating development strategy and technical design/specs., new builds, feature enhancements and integrated testing• Core technologies: .NET (3.0-4.5), RESTFul Services, SQL Server (2000-2012 R2), N-Tier Architecture, Business Objects, Mobile Web Development Frameworks (Javascript, JSON, HTML5, KnockOut, JQuery, Kendo, RhoMobile) for Android, Windows Mobile and iOSMajor Accomplishments• Led and managed the replacement of an enterprise-level legacy operations system of the largest same day Courier Company in the USA• Improved productivity and reduced overall costs while increasing certainty by orchestrating the automation of a new build and deployment process using Microsoft Technologies• Saved time and reduced cost by managing change in roll out of source controlled databases projects, enabling seamless deployment and upgrade of databases without manual intervention

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Introduced, spearheaded and incorporated the Agile Development methodologies across the department, including all training/development and process improvement initiatives• Led, trained, coached and inspired a team of 10 to create innovative products• Built a lean and highly effective cross functional team with common work ethics and values, encouraging team members to be accountable to each other which drove application quality, improvements, productivity and moraleLed SCRUM activities such as:• Sprint Planning• Stand-ups• Retrospectives• Risk Analysis• Team Charters• Product Backlog• Story Grooming Sessions• Pair Programming

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Key player of the development team responsible for each subsequent version release of the company’s flagship product to market within a customer base of 3,000+Key technologies used:• SaaS Architecture• .NET (VB/C#)• OOP/OOD• CSLA• Microsoft SQL Server (2000-2008)• Mapping Tools (SQL Server Spatial, BING API, FME, ArcGIS, Melissa Data)• DevExpress UI Frameworks

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Joined this entrepreneurial technology company to help evolve its flagship product into an ERP solution• Managed multifaceted enhancements to client implementation through the SDLC processSkills acquired -• Requirements Gathering and Analysis• Design• Development• Deployment• Testing• Training• SupportMajor Accomplishments -• Successfully salvaged a large scale implementation with a leading company• Played a key role in company growth and in the delivery of innovative business solutions, solving development issues and ensuring the successful implementation of application enhancements

Coordinated and led multiple web based application development projectsSkills acquired -• Requirements Gathering• Design• Development• Deployment• Testing

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

Ca

Bachelor Of Applied Science (Basc), Computer Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Biology/Biological Sciences, General

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Biochemistry