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Guelph, On, Ca

Guelph, On, Ca

Canada

Canada

Ensuring the CFL's mission to deliver on the promise of more compelling sports content, in more meaningful and innovative ways, to more fans. To drive attendance, expand audiences and grow the CFL football community through committed relationships with our fans, partners, teams and players.I support that through technology systems and ongoing software development.

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

During this period Athena was being acquired by Social Solutions and I was the key person in the Athena team proving the value of the product, technology, and platform during the due diligence process. My participation in this ensured that the maximum corporate value was realized. Meanwhile in the VP of Product role, I defined the product roadmap priorities and continued the roadmap initiatives while putting into place new philosophies and processes that greatly increased… Show more During this period Athena was being acquired by Social Solutions and I was the key person in the Athena team proving the value of the product, technology, and platform during the due diligence process. My participation in this ensured that the maximum corporate value was realized. Meanwhile in the VP of Product role, I defined the product roadmap priorities and continued the roadmap initiatives while putting into place new philosophies and processes that greatly increased transparency of Product Management to staff and customers. Show less

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

This role was a cross functional leadership role during a very dynamic phase of Athena's growth. To deliver on corporate strategic goals across the company I worked through partnership, influence, and collaboration with every group. My role included responsibility for platform reliability, project management, product development, hosting environment, and security compliance and response. I ensured that these outputs matched up with the commercial and risk management goals of the… Show more This role was a cross functional leadership role during a very dynamic phase of Athena's growth. To deliver on corporate strategic goals across the company I worked through partnership, influence, and collaboration with every group. My role included responsibility for platform reliability, project management, product development, hosting environment, and security compliance and response. I ensured that these outputs matched up with the commercial and risk management goals of the company.* Move platform from on-premise stack to AWS/cloud based paradigm* Plan and execute getting all customers though multi-stage platform deployments* Changed customer upgrade time from 18.75 minutes/customer to 0.61 minutes/customer* Operational ticket resolution time reduced from 7 days to 3 days* Disaster recovery maximum time reduced from 4 hours to 15 minutes* Increased root cause analysis and repair capabilities by deploying instrumentation throughout application* Reduced incident response time through developing monitoring, logging, and alerting tools and processes* Removed root access to machines for cloud engineersKey Technologies:* AWS: EC2, S3, IAM, DynamoDB, ECS * Docker* DataDog, statsD* Java and Resin* Redis Show less

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Responsible for the whole product development lifecycle with regards to user experience, stability, security, capacity, maintenance, and troubleshooting. Managed 25 staff directly covering all of the development, product, and tailored services staff.* Refactored interface to work with iOS and tablets* Designed a new report engine that brought a key report processing time from 22 to 3 minutes* Grew team from 6 to 20* Introduced practices for defect handling, release… Show more Responsible for the whole product development lifecycle with regards to user experience, stability, security, capacity, maintenance, and troubleshooting. Managed 25 staff directly covering all of the development, product, and tailored services staff.* Refactored interface to work with iOS and tablets* Designed a new report engine that brought a key report processing time from 22 to 3 minutes* Grew team from 6 to 20* Introduced practices for defect handling, release management, code review* Rewrote authentication to allow for SSO and MFAKey Technologies* Java* PostgreSQL* JavaScript Show less

Guelph, Ontario, Canada

InGamer provided live event broadcasters a platform to greatly diminish audience fragmentation and early disengagement through a fantasy sport game. * Secured seed financing* Closed deals with CBC and Rogers* Responsible for legal, accounting, and HR areas: managed service providers for these duties* Acquired government funding and tax credits* Changed cost per game played from $0.25 / user to $0.007 / user (97% reduction in CPU usage)* Determined approaches to have… Show more InGamer provided live event broadcasters a platform to greatly diminish audience fragmentation and early disengagement through a fantasy sport game. * Secured seed financing* Closed deals with CBC and Rogers* Responsible for legal, accounting, and HR areas: managed service providers for these duties* Acquired government funding and tax credits* Changed cost per game played from $0.25 / user to $0.007 / user (97% reduction in CPU usage)* Determined approaches to have recognizable teams and athlete art without needing a licenseKey Technologies:* Ruby on Rails* Erlang* Redis* AWS: EC2, S3, SQS* CouchDB Show less

Guelph, On

Consultancy for website application development. Particularly delivery of complex projects that had gone over time or out budget.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

My role here was a continuation of the Snap Media work below. In addition I designed the video ingestion stream from multiple providers to convert all videos to a specific set of formats for distribution across all carriers.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

* Won 4 Gemini awards for website (https://degrassi.tv): creative, execution* Secured government, Bell, and/or Telefilm funding for 18 projects: proposal, budgeting, execution, and reconciliation* Managed product, project, design, engineering staff and contractors: recruiting, training, hiring, termination, performance* Security compliance: PIPEDA, COPPA, Australian Privacy Act* Created own website development frameworkKey Technologies:* Java* PostgreSQL… Show more * Won 4 Gemini awards for website (https://degrassi.tv): creative, execution* Secured government, Bell, and/or Telefilm funding for 18 projects: proposal, budgeting, execution, and reconciliation* Managed product, project, design, engineering staff and contractors: recruiting, training, hiring, termination, performance* Security compliance: PIPEDA, COPPA, Australian Privacy Act* Created own website development frameworkKey Technologies:* Java* PostgreSQL, Oracle* JavaScript* Flash Show less

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Learned to LOVE version control systems. Did lots of training of others about CVS. Then began the company transition to SVN.

Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Server side PHP was a lot of fun at this point!