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Powell River, British Columbia, Canada

Supporting multiple projects for our client by collaborating with design, development, data, and infrastructure teams to onboard new projects and expand existing ones. Anticipating, monitoring, mitigating, and communicating any infrastructure or deployment pipeline challenges to ensure quality and reliability as supported mission-critical services grow.Code in GitHub, Node.js on Docker, deployed via Jenkins/GitOps and Helm to Kubernetes on Anthos, cloud resources managed with Terraform, logs and metrics in New Relic.

Remote

Building out infrastructure, pipelines, and tooling to improve team efficiency and release reliability in a cross-cloud environment (AWS and GCP). Automating all the things.

Remote

Architecting and building a continuous integration and deployment framework on AWS and Google Cloud for a pre-existing virtual machine based software product. Working closely with developers, QA, and management to change the test and build process from "works on my machine" to "just works".

International

Working remotely with different clients as a technical manager or developer to create software and hardware solutions.

Powell River, Bc

Partnering with members of the community including the civic government, educational institutions, and local technology businesses to define and develop a world-class technology innovation center.

Victoria, Bc

Lead a team to expand Perforce's open source software offerings to include all major client software products, with the goal of helping our customers more closely integrate our products to their internal workflow.

Expanded Perforce's community offerings by extending Perforce Swarm to serve as an open source community resource. Created automated test infrastructure, deployed and managed multiple development, test, and production environments. Planned, documented, architected, developed, tested, and deployed features for the Perforce Workshop.

Victoria, Bc

Worked with a development team in a scrum-based process to build a CMS system on top of the Perforce versioning platform.

The Victoria Makerspace is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to sharing knowledge, skills, ideas and networks to promote commercialization of new technologies.

Introduced a new agile-based development process incorporating new QA and Product Manager roles as well as separate but inter-related processes for both emergency changes and for regular releases. Assisted in the architecture and design of a high-availability, horizontally scalable service oriented architecture for e-commerce applications. Drove initiatives to make the development team work and communication more efficient, so that enterprise goals could more easily be accomplished on time.

Designed an accessible high-availability user interface to the BBX platform. Written in PHP 5 using Smarty and jQuery, the UI was designed to be modular, dynamically configurable per user role, and unit-testable.

Responsible for leading a team of 4 developers in ongoing OSS4 maintenance and feature enhancement. Coordinated feature development and time lines with Product Management team. Coordinated implementation details with DB and Java teams. Worked with Quality Assurance team to develop and enhance test cases for web applications including automated test cases.

Developed a custom helpdesk ticketing system, leading to a decrease in call handle time over previous software.Architected the UI framework for the OSS4 product, Parasun's broadband service provisioning and management software.

Bsc, Computing Science

Information Systems Security

Pilot year of the program covered technical topics as well as non-technical subjects such as risk assessment and corporate policy design..