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Canada

Toronto, Ontario, CA

• Managed team of engineers delivering Manulife University, an internal training program; ~500 engineers taught in cohorts and over 300 via workshops
• Hired new team members at all levels, up to Director
• Revived evaluation tool development and accelerated team to bi-weekly releases
• Coordinated product development of internal tool to template new Manulife applications; took the product from ideation to it’s initial launch in December 2023
• Created and implemented our first coding assessments for new grad hiring as part of the new START/rotational program, hiring for offices across Canada and the US
• Led numerous transformation initiatives including: education program creation and delivery, migration of cloud assets, and internal events

Waterloo, Ontario, CA

• Founded Canada’s first beginner-focused hackathon.
• Organized flagship events over the past 4 years, the latest of which had over 1000 participants.
• Created a growing community of 100+ alumni organizers and 100s of mentors.
• Expanded organization beyond the flagship event, now working in consulting and technology for events.
• Awarded membership into YC's Startup School and Communitech's Strategic Growth Program.
• Led development of initial StarterHacks software, allowing for workshop check-ins and peer connections. More products to be announced mid 2020.

• Collected resources for youth with special needs, transitioning into adulthood.
• Built out website to meaningfully display and recommend resources, including a survey to simplify the process of finding impactful resources.

San Francisco, CA, US

• Led Feature Development and Oncall for Faire Winter Market, world’s largest online wholesale market; actively managed multiple fixed-deadline projects ahead of the 5- day event and recorded record sales (> $70M) while.
• Selected to be overall Engineering lead for upcoming Faire Summer Market, prior to departure

Toronto, Ontario, CA

• Develop software for both client-facing and inner-source products.
• Primary developer for Customer Preferences, managing >50K customers' data.
• Presented a Chaos Engineering PoT (Proof of Technology) to President & CEO, Roy Gori. Now working with a team of lead developers to turn the PoT into an inner-sourced product to enhance Manulife's company-wide approach.
• Attended a 4-week training program in November, Manulife University, to hone technical skills. Returning in April as a coach/instructor.
• Pitched Manulife at the Communitech Tech Jam on March 4, 2020.
• Had 5 full-time and 6 coop direct-report developers over the two years.

Kitchener, Ontario, CA

• Oversaw the development of all technologies within HealthIM.
• Hired and led a team of 5 developers.
• Pitched company to senior police, health care, and community mental health agency staff across Canada.
• Led implementation of software in multiple communities, including the United Chiefs and Council of Manitoulin Island.
• Grew company from 4 members to 11 with an ARR of ~$750,000.

Kitchener, Ontario, CA

Waterloo, Ontario, CA

• Developed the user-facing portion of Magnet's AXIOM product, Examine.
• Coded with a variety of languages over the four months, including C#, Javascript, and wpf.

Waterloo, Ontario, CA

• Worked with 58 students in the 2016 academic year, 52 in 2017.
• Role model to students, encouraging residence activities and ensuring that residence policy is being followed.
• Helped to develop a community that is supportive of the academic and personal goals of students.

Kitchener, Ontario, CA

• Member of a 2-person developer team, working on multiple contracts from Health and Police services across Canada.
• Created an analytics platform to make collected data comprehensive and accessible for a variety of audiences.

Toronto, Ontario, CA

• Worked as the first Quality Assurance employee in the company.
• Created my own QA processes and developed enough value that a full time Quality Assurance Engineer was later found, to expand the role.
• Collaborated between the Engineering team and the Client Success team, coordinating deadlines and working with multiple projects simultaneously.

Leysin, Vaud, CH

• Ran IT support across campus, including deploying laptops to all students and staff.
• Provided input for the "itinfo.las.ch" website.
• Aided in organizing various trips and activities for students.

Toronto, Ontario, CA

• Guided and worked on the organization's digital projects.
• Synthesized content from prior ideation sessions.
• Designed and packaged initiatives to be meaningfully applied at schools across Canada.
• Provided input to the further development of Jack.org's student mental healthcollaborative platform.
• Lead development of a motivational, call-to-action website.

• Assisted Senior Developer in the expanding of their website, as well as ongoing maintenance and updates.

Toronto, ON, CA

Working with one other to create the front-end of an Android application, planning to be sold to an international company client. Our pairing was part of a larger team of about 10-15 working on the software (not just Android) for the client company. The team included a design team that I worked with to create the look and feel of the app.

Ottawa, Ontario, CA

• Worked with database management, cold-call marketing and general entry-level office work.
• Operated as a part of the Sales team.

• Assisted Obbe Vermeij by play-testing an indie game he had developed.

Honours Bachelor Of Computer Science, Computer Science

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