Ted Bouskill Email & Phone Number

North Vancouver, BC, CA

Solving a problem that isn't sexy innovatively for a need that will always exist.

Oslo, NO

Responsible for all data management and architecture for this emerging AI company!

Singapore, SG

As a future CTO I’m ideating with fellow non-technical founders to build the next big thing using AI to increase productivity in fields such as big data, gaming, and media processing.

Berlin, Berlin, DE

Led four squads in the Routing Domain (Dispatching) for the Optimization Tribe in the Logistics group of Delivery Hero. It is the core dispatching services and algorithms for all orders delivered globally with about 5,000,000 orders per day.Key initiatives were creating the charter for an On-Call Chapter to improve incident handling for the tribe..

Seattle, WA, US

Software Development Manager with the Middle-Mile Transportation Technology team leading a two pizza team (8 to 10 developers) to build the services used by Amazon Freight shippers. Hired and promoted engineers. Managed the internal AWS services budget for the entire Amazon Freight group. Reduced active bugs for online services from 80 to 10 or less. Led.

Vancouver, British Columbia, CA

Supported a team of professional developers who wanted to learn and grow. Converted a suite of over 200 applications that were developed directly in production with no process or guidance that has been in chaotic state for over 20 years into a mature development model that uses modern effective software development practices. The systems are all on premise.

Worked with a newly assembled team of developers using React/Redux, Node, Go, Postgres, and Solidity to build effective development practices as part of a sustainable platform for smart contracts on Ethereum and related blockchains.

Vancouver, BC, CA

Assisted with the design and architecture of a new version of internal payment processor API that supported multiple payment processors for current and future needs of the business.

Vancouver, B.C., CA

Helped the company manage technology to grow from a small startup to an established sustainable successful business.

Vancouver, BC, CA

Refactored and extended a legacy ASP.NET web application to benefit from the latest.NET offerings from Microsoft on Azure, for a platform offering web services to 3rd parties and for use in with development within the organization.

Vancouver, B.C., CA

• Helping an already successful software development team and company expand and grow by sharing extensive software development experience.Achievements:
• Implemented process to cull and collate IIS logs for analysis
• Designed new application telemetry database and framework for data capture
• Added fraud detection strategy for anonymous users using browser fingerprinting and tracking

Vancouver, BC, CA

Implemented cloud SaS features and SQL design for the current and next generation version of their successful Room Key PMS (Property Management System) product line.

Redwood City, CA, US

Embedded with one of our most successful franchises FIFA to protect our customers and technology. The role was a hybrid Software Development Manager / Software Architecture / Data Analyst role with two direct reports and multiple dotted line reports.Initially I was in the Intellectual Property and Protection team in the global Security & Risk Management.

Burnaby, British Columbia, CA

• Hired to establish SharePoint Server 2010 as an internal tools platform for line of business applications.Achievements:
• Established Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 to track development and managed projects
• Led the establishment of lightweight project management to improve predictability and productivity
• Installed, configured and documented a production SharePoint 2010 farm
• Implemented an Office 365 online SharePoint 2010 solution for use by external vendors Technology Used: SharePoint 2010, ASP.NET, C#, SQL 2005/2008, AJAX, IIS, HTML, CSS, Visual Studio 2008/2010, Visual Studio Team.

Redwood City, CA, US

• Led a development team composed of local and remote employees (India and UK) as well as contractors. Achievements:
• Internal consultant for multiple groups to analyze and review performance for n-tier, n-layer applications to help design and select appropriate technology
• Provided a technical analysis of the SharePoint 2007 search engine and the Google Search Appliance for the company executives to establish as a global internal search platform
• Architect of an internal electronic build distribution system to deploy game builds to PS3 and Xbox 360 consoles using a combination of web services (REST and SOAP), console executable and web application
• Designed and led the development of multiple web applications used for build and internal technology management by working with other business units and varied groups
• Designed and implemented a 7 server scalable highly available SharePoint (MOSS) 2007 farm used by 15,000+ staff

Melbourne, Victoria, AU

• Led the optimization and conversion of internal line-of-business applications from COBOL to.NET with MS SQL.Achievements:
• Promoted to Development Manager for team of QA and Software Developers within nine months of joining company
• Implemented a logging alert system for both windows client and web applications to reduce support costs
• Reduced support workload from 50% for all developers to less than 10%
• Rebuilt a legacy SQL based invoicing application to increase accuracy and decrease latency including correcting undetected calculation flaws: which increased company revenue by over $10,000 per month
• Decreased run-time duration of key applications. One specific invoicing application feature was reduced from 5+ hours to less than 20 minutes by optimizing the SQL database as well as the data access layerTechnology.

• Led the refactoring and rebuild of a online currency trading platform.Achievements:
• Rebuilt an ASP.NET 1.0, SQL 6.5 and AJAX prototype currency trading application using ASP.NET 1.1 and SQL 2000.
• Increased performance by decrease latency for currency changes from one minute to milliseconds.Technology Used: Visual Studio, SQL 2000, C#, ASP.NET, AJAX, VB.NET, HTML, IIS, CSS, JavaScript, XML

Worked on a variety of multi-year.NET web applications projects primarily for startup companies as well as many short term contract positions.Was always hired or designated as the assigned lead or manager for multi-developer n-Tier multi-layer projects.Major projects:CyBux: Online payment systemEnvoy Trading: Online currency trading/brokerage.

Vancouver, British Columbia, CA

• Managed 20+ developers for the release of v2.5 of the now discontinued product ‘Entice!’Achievements:
• Based on feedback from staff and executive management led the design of a new pre-Agile development process to resolve multiple development cycle issues that eliminated overtime and increased quality
• Full cycle product release of Entice! 2.5 with no overtime, on time with substantial product quality improvements using new system that included fixing issues as they were found
• Acted as technical mentor to the Development Leads and Senior DevelopersTechnology Used: Microsoft Project, Pervasive SQL, SQL, Oracle, Win32, C/C++, ASP, ASP.NET, InstallShield

• Hired to lead the evaluation and rebuilding of a five-person team of C and VB developers (mostly contractors) on a cosmetic dental imaging application that was behind schedule and of poor quality.Achievements:
• Stabilized the core C/C++ and VB code modules, which led to the release of the first product version
• Reshaped the team with dismissals, termination of contracts then new hires for a balanced skill set that eliminated knowledge gaps and provided choices for the company to achieve new goals
• Led prototyping of the product to use more a more reliable scalable design by converting the Microsoft Access database to MySQL or Microsoft SQL as required by the clients
• Established relationships with new vendors to acquire more appropriate talent to achieve corporate goalsTechnology Used: VB, ASP, IIS, Wise Installer, InstallShield, C, C++, SQL 2000, MS Access

Redmond, Washington, US

Joined the Vizact 2000 team late in the Beta cycle to complete the product (now discontinued)Technology Used: Visual Studio, Java, Win32

• Hired to finish the development of an awarding winning 3D Photoshop plug-in HotText to act as the lead Windows C/C++ developer on all projects.Achievements:
• Promoted to Software Development Manager within six months of start date
• Designed and led the development of platform independent C++ libraries used to decrease development time, increase quality and allow the company to rapidly develop new product prototypes
• Led the development of an additional product now integrated into Photoshop as well other product point releases by acting as the Software Architect, Product Manager and Project Manager
• Established new business relationships with Microsoft, Intel and AMD to create new opportunities for selling core technologyTechnology Used: C++, QuickDraw, OpenGL, DirectX, Adobe SDK, Win32, IRIX (Sun UNIX), Windows

Hired to develop graphic tools, plug-ins and bi-directional scene convertors for 3DSMax, Softimage, AutoCAD and Multigen primarily on UNIX and occasionally Windows.Technology Used: C, C++, Win32

Houston, TX, US

Joined PBK as a AutoCAD programmer and CAD manager. Provided backup network support for a local Novell network.Eventually worked as a C/C++ UI designer using Factory Link on a real-time control system for a fibreglass resin producer near Kelowna.Technology Used: C, C++, Lisp, AutoCAD, Novell, Windows

Markham, Ontario, CA

Lead design and development of CAD process and procedures using AutoCAD in the engineering environment as well as executed custom software development to improve productivity.

Hired as the first employee of a company to build a team and technology to automate conversation of legal survey drawings to a digital platform for the government of Saskatchewan. This included writing C/C++ and LISP extensions or command line tools for automating the process as a Software Developer.