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Toronto, Canada Area

Lead and participate in the design, execution, and assessment of software development projects both internally for ITSP and for external clients with a focus on quality, accuracy, and adherence to industry best practices. Liaise with customers and internal departments to ensure on-time solution delivery. Manage and provide guidance to junior software development staff.

Architected a custom Ruby on Rails back end with ReactJS front end manufacturing execution system for a major Canadian train manufacturer. Solution allowed all departments to make evidence-based decisions from workforce utilization to inventory management to quality inspections to improve the rate of production. Hosted in AWS using CloudFormation and Elastic Beanstalk to maintain multiple environments delivered to users via the browser and managed ChromeOS touch capable kiosks.Created a data pipeline using the Elastic Stack (Logstash, ElasticSearch, Kibana) to provide business analytics into the train manufacturing data.

Toronto, Canada Area

Continued to oversee development and system administration groups as part of Robinson’s new externalized technology company — Viu Digital — with responsibilities expanded to managing relationships with IT vendors and VARs (value added resellers).Projects include:- Integrated SAP SuccessFactors (human resource management system) with disparate IT systems to enable a smoother and faster on-boarding experience for new hires.- Automated extraction of time and attendance data from Blueforce by EPAY Systems and combination with other auditing and inspection systems to provide a more complete analysis of performance.- Streamlined IT operations through managed service provider SaaS support desk enabling custom portals for both internal employees and external customers while centralizing and automating typical tasks.- Designed an offline-first Android app work order scanning app to enable data capture throughout power generation plant regardless of network conditions.

Toronto, Canada Area

Overseeing the development and system administration groups, coordinated activities to provide a more efficient and stable ecosystem for change management and support by leveraging managed services, automation, and peer review.Implemented a continuous integration/deployment strategy for all custom development projects using Jira, GitLab, Jenkins, and AWS APIs to increase code quality and decrease feature time to market through "one-click" deployments.Modernized corporate cloud infrastructure to utilize Amazon managed services to reduce system administration burden and increase reliability and recoverability. For example, EC2 instances running MySQL were migrated to AWS RDS, application servers were migrated to Elastic Beanstalk platform as a service, and larger use of Cloudformation templates to standardize resource creation.

Toronto, Canada Area

Managed development group focused on delivering custom software solutions to support operations of larger organization. Leveraged web and mobile to enable team members in customer locations to perform without interfering with customer network. Mentored developers and promoted employee professional development.Projects include:- Ruby on Rails web application to schedule preventative maintenance activities at customer sites and track work completion.- Ruby on Rails web application to asynchronously parse mobile form submissions in Amazon S3 to into a relational database for analysis through business analytics.- Ruby on Rails web application to track workplace safety incidents and the implementation of countermeasures to ensure a similar incident would not happen again. Utilized department specific workflows for notifications and approvals and generated PDF documents and reports for distributions throughout the company.- Migration of all on-premise infrastructure to Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Richmond Hill, Ontario

Hired as a full stack developer but quickly rose to a "first among equals" by demonstrating strong technical and leadership capabilities. Actively participated in all aspects of development process including end user training for both internal employees and external clients.Projects include:- Custom Java web-based employee and manager self service for all HR activity with department specific workflows and triggers to overcome limitations with existing HR management system.- Custom Java web-based application to centralize corporate procurement workflow from purchase request to purchase order to receiving the shipment to allow analysis of site buying habits and vendor performance.- Migration of corporate mail, calendars, and directory from Lotus Domino to GSuite Business in under eight weeks.- Lightweight HTML5 web interfaces running locally on Cisco Network Building Mediator devices enabling building control and monitoring of energy consumption for customers such as HSBC and McDonalds.- Java web application allowing tire manufacturers to remotely manage chemical recipes, production, and inventory through a centralized pre-manufacturing plant.

Toronto, Canada Area

Developed customer and employee web interfaces for the online retailer of over 50,000 products including costumes, accessories, and craft supplies to customers across North America.Provided real-time product availability using supplier API or web page scraping.Automated thumbnail creation, watermark addition, and data extraction from supplier data to transform for the site’s existing e-commerce software.

Aomori, Japan

Planned and executed ESL team-teaching lessons targeted toward public school students grades 10-12 in a range of skill levels alongside a Japanese teacher of English.Member of planning committees for cultural/international events.Organized and presented multiple intensive workshops on concepts related to communicative English teaching to groups of 30-150 native and non-native English speakers.

Japan

Managed all of the National AJET related websites and databases and performed various system administrator duties including custom online voting system and migration of website to Xoops Content Management System (CMS).

Kingston, Ontario

Reduced registration turnaround time by replacing manual input with new online registration and approval system using PHP and MySQL.Managed content of internal and external website and developed dynamic web pages.