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Winnipeg, Mb, Ca

Winnipeg, Mb, Ca

Escape Social is an escape room business run by siblings. We co-create the puzzles and rooms. I do the electronics and software and my sister concentrates on the physical builds and runs the business on a day-to-day basis. We opened to the public in December 2019 and have three escape rooms currently operating. We also have a party/game room - it's a great setup for teambuilding and escape room parties for all ages. There are also hosted Blood on the Clocktower games and a board games/escape room package. Open to collaboration for puzzle development - Raspberry Pi (Zero, 3A+, 3B+, 4), SAMD21, ESP32, etc.Come see us! https://escapesocial.ca/

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Ca

Managing a team of engineers and designers who develop and support a line of embedded products with a focus on commercial HVAC controllers. Products include IoT capabilities and cloud based configuration tools.Projects vary in scope from "specials" taking a few days to new products and features spanning months. Close collaboration with other Price Business Units to establish product scope, budgets, and timelines.

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Ca

Lead team to create first freeRTOS embedded product with Angular-Electron based configuration tool.Achievements: - Creation and implementation of lightweight Engineering Change Process - Use of agile management practices improved project estimates - Introduction of continuous integration and automated regression tests to improve rate of releases to production

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Ca

Achievements: - Introduction of unit test framework - Introduction of build pipeline

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Ca

Development of software roadmap for feature deliveries including budgetary estimates. Design, development, and delivery of C++ cross-platform multi-process desktop application for an emerging market preclinical medical device that acquires data at 152 MBytes/s, reconstructs the data into DICOM image files, and provides user control through a Qt interface. Working with the team to develop algorithms to handle the data more efficiently and improve image quality. Customer workflow development and remote support. Responsible for the software architecture and process support to allow the team to deliver. Achievements:- Development of software product architecture and related documentation- Algorithm development and implementation with a focus on image reconstruction- Performance optimization including threading, Intel intrinsics, exploring cloud based solutions, and GPU options- Introduction of agile project management practices- Introduction of improved code and design review practices

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Ca

Software team lead for embedded systems development. Responsible for the management of projects from technical concept through new product introduction and ongoing support including budgetary and resource estimates. Development of requirements and specifications for new products. Technology leadership within the product development team. Participation in long term product roadmap planning.Achievements:- Delivery of Norscan’s first Internet of Things product; design and development of both the gateway (embedded) and server backend (RESTful web services and support) distributed system portions of the product offering including AWS deployment- Introduction of automated testing and TDD principles for new and legacy products to reduce bugs and development effort of new features- Introduction of agile project management practices- Introduction of improved code and design review practices- Development of Qt software and Linux drivers for a touchscreen based CAN bus controller- Embedded development in C and C++ for various ARM microcontrollers (Cortex-M3/M4, iMx53)

Responsible for project management of introduction of new products from project planning through the execution, monitor & control, and closure phases. Development and maintenance of integrated project plans, reporting project status to internal management and to customers using milestone charts and other metrics, and risk and opportunity management.Achievements:- Project management through delivery to customer of ship set 7 787-8 parts- Development of project management best practices for use at Boeing Winnipeg

Software consulting business specializing in bringing prototypes to products through systematization of automated testing, continuous integration, and source control with a focus on embedded systems.

Responsible for project planning and integration of multimedia audio and video codecs into mobile phone multimedia system. Support for customer field issues. Customer handset underwent field trials in multiple countries and was released in Korea. Worked remotely from August to December 2006.Achievements:- Delivery of video encoder and decoder for video telephony- Coordination of project schedule based on changing customer requirements- Delivery of application upgrades to bring multimedia system to customer release level

Ca

Design lead of Connection Manager and carrier grade software on Signalling Processing Module. Object oriented design and implementation using C and C++ in vxWorks embedded systems. Development targets include MPC860, IBM405, IBM750, and PowerQUICC3.Achievements:- Led a team of six people from design through to sustaining. Application has been field deployed to multiple customers- Design lead for feature delivery into software release streams- Software design and implementation for hitless software migration and high availability code system- Carrier Grade Project: Design lead of a team of six software engineers to deliver carrier grade support for a VoIP and VoATM media gateway. Responsible for team project planning, coordination of deliverables with other teams, and design and test documentation produced to Nortel Networks standards

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Electrical Engineering

Bachelor'S Degree, International Development Studies