Theresa Deering Email & Phone Number

Nanaimo, BC, CA

Remote

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

• Proud member of the Brave team, whose overdose detection technology has helped save 150+ lives thus far
• Primarily responsible for the development, testing, deployment, maintenance, and support of two IoT (Internet-of-Things) devices, including their firmware, internal web dashboard, API, Twilio SMS chatbot, third-party.
• Scaled from three to 59 active client sites, including significant hardware, firmware, and data model changes
• Migrated the Brave Buttons project from Bluetooth to LoRaWAN to increase reliability, ease of client set-up, and range
• Designed and implemented Appium2 (JS) UI testing framework for a React Native app
• Developed a React Native chatbot app for communicating potential overdose events to clients

Vancouver, Canada Area

• Ecotagious was acquired by Uplight.
• Established and led a company-wide Quality Guild to promote quality, learning, and sharing across the organization
• Organized an external penetration test that involved complex inter-team communication, coordination, and cooperation
• Contributed heavily in three months of intense knowledge transfer to successfully move the maintenance and future development of a mature product from another team to ours
• Spearheaded an attack on our overload of error e mails, successfully reducing them down to a manageable and understandable number per day. This allowed the team to institute a bug triage process that ensures we work on.
• Vocal supporter of diversity, inclusion, equity, and belonging efforts, particularly in the hiring processProgramming languages: Python, JavaScriptCloud infrastructure: AWSTesting: PyTestSource control.

Vancouver, Canada Area

• Established a pragmatic company-wide testing strategy with two focuses: use automation to increase the speed of manual data verification and use unit tests to reduce the number of errors that appear in production
• Designed and delivered a series of Quality Workshops to promote the quality mindset with everyone in this 30-person company
• Developed tSQLt test infrastructure for "unit" testing Microsoft SQL stored procedures and provided training to our developers
• Created and maintained Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines for database creation and testing
• Provided technical leadership and worked closely with the production team in their use of Quadient infrastructure and workflows
• Performed manual and automated data verification, stored procedure testing, and website testing

Vancouver, Canada Area

• Led and participated in analysis meetings with developers, designers, and project managers to help ensure shared understanding using behaviour-driven development (BDD) practices
• Automated and maintained UI and API test suites for four projects
• Facilitated root cause analysis meetings for other teams
• Participated in architecture and risk identification meetings
• Performed risk-based manual (exploratory) testing
• Monitored, troubleshooted, and fixed problems in our Go CD continuous integration pipeine

Montpellier Area, France

• Architected and developed the front-end of Rakuten Manga, a collaborative translation website for comic books
• Communicated with, designed, and documented various REST web services
• Delivered weekly beta releases
• Collaborated effectively in French with a team spread across France, USA, Singapore, and Thailand in an Agile environment
• Presented internal demos every two weeksProgramming languages: JavaScript (AngularJS), HTML, CSS, LESSTesting: Jasmine, PhantomJSSource control: gitDatabases: PostgreSQLDeployment tools: NPM, Bower, Grunt, nginxProject.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

• Supported and enhanced more than 10 existing websites and REST web services for the tourist board of Scotland, including http://www.visitscotland.com
• Conceptualized and implemented the basis for a new responsive website for the Business Tourism Unit expanding upon our current stack and introducing website responsiveness
• Created, used, and modified data in the Alterian CME content management system
• Resolved merge conflicts and repository code that did not match production code
• Trained 5 new team membersProgramming languages: Java, JSP, JavaScript (jQuery), HTML, CSSTesting: jUnit, Jasmine, PhantomJSSource control: SVN, CVSDatabases: MySQLDeployment tools: Jenkins, Maven, Ant, TomcatProject.

Montreal, Canada Area

• Provided technical insight and an extra set of hands on the webview part of a proprietary Android appProgramming languages: Java, JavaScript (AngularJS), HTML, CSSSource control: gitDatabases: CouchDB (NoSQL)Deployment.

Montreal, Canada Area

• Designed and implemented LingSync, an open-source offline Chrome Extension and Android app for field linguists
• Configured a Jenkins continuous integration server
• Self-taught and then trained others in the use of Backbone.JSProgramming languages: Java (AndroidSDK), JavaScript (Backbone.js, require,js), HTML, CSSSource control: git on GitHubDatabases: CouchDB (NoSQL)Deployment.

Montreal, Canada Area

• Took care of an HR document management system, participating in every step of its life cycle (requirements, design, test planning, implementation, testing, documentation, deployment, maintenance, and support)
• Similarly took care of a reporting and management application for internal auditors
• Worked remotely with colleagues in India and USA
• Trained three co-op studentsProgramming languages: Java (Spring, Hibernate), Flex/ActionscriptTesting: jUnitSource control: PerforceDatabases: Sybase, OracleDeployment tools: Ant, Maven, TomcatProject management tools.

Montreal, Canada Area

• Added functionality to an HR document management system
• Presented the new functionality to the clientsProgramming languages: Java (Spring, Hibernate), Flex/ActionscriptTesting: jUnitSource control: PerforceDatabases: SybaseDeployment tools: Ant, Maven, TomcatProject.

Nanaimo, BC

• Modelled fish populations using differential equationsProgramming languages: ROperating systems: WindowsIDE: Tinn-R

Master Of Science (Msc), Computer Science, Gpa: 3.91 / 4.0

Thesis: The Least-Used Direction Pivot Rule on Acyclic Unique Sink Orientations

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Computer Science, Minor In Mathematics, Gpa: 9.80 / 10.00

Recipient of the Governor General's Academic Silver Medal